A going up and up higher, though a part of the total necessary movement, does not by itself have any effect on the outer being [...] the descent must first take place in the inner being. When the higher consciousness is settled in the inner being, then it can change the outer.
Will a time come when the hostile forces will be there no longer?
When their presence in the world is no more of any use, they will disappear. Their action is used as a testing process, so that nothing may be forgotten, nothing left out in the work of transformation.