The current Age of Michael began in 1879 A.D. according to Rudolf Steiner in his book The Archangel Michael: His Mission And Ours (1994) He informs us in this incredible series of 23 lectures that in the English language we pronounce “Michael” with only two syllables, “MY-KUL,” but the final syllable “el,” the name of God, is the last syllable of all the seven Archangels’ names. Saying it with the correct three syllables we say: Mi-cha-el or ME-KA-ELL.

The Christian metaphysician Steiner gives us the following neural linguistic tip in regard to our language patterns when we speak of Michael “We must become aware in the midst of this great Michael Age that what we think and say becomes reality.” Humanity lives in a time when anxiety, fear, and hate can become endangered species with a shift in consciousness from now on, due to this current Age of Michael. As the Perseid meteor showers pass by, Steiner tells us that this shower of meteoric iron can be pictured as the “iron of Michael’s sword” with the effects radiating into our very life’s blood as small minute tiny meteorites into the iron of our hemoglobin.

We serve Michael by overcoming the Dragon that is trying to grow to its full height and strength in today’s ideas, which during the past epoch produced mass consumerism and rampant materialism, and in turn are now so persuasive as to engender a life of their own, living out into our futures unabated. To defeat this dragon means to stand in the service of Mi-cha-el. That is the victory of Michael over the Dragon of world materialism.