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Don't Give Us That Old Time Religion, or "Christian" Fundamentalism, Constant Lying, and Other Aspects of Black Magic

Now this cosmic wisdom, which was intrinsically not evil but held holy secrets hidden within it, was carefully concealed by the initiates of Taotl. It was communicated to no one who had not been initiated correctly by the Taotl method. When a candidate had been initiated in the correct way, the teaching concerning the secrets of the cosmos was then imparted to him. NOW, IT WAS NECESSARY FOR HIM TO RECEIVE THESE SECRETS THROUGH INITIATION IN A QUITE DEFINITE MOOD OF SOUL. HE HAD TO FEEL IN HIMSELF THE INCLINATION AND DESIRE TO APPLY THEM ON EARTH IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY WOULD SET UP THAT MECHANISTIC RIGID REALM OF DEATH. It was thus that he had to receive the secrets. Nor were they communicated except on one special condition. THE WISDOM WAS IMPARTED TO NO ONE  WHO HAD NO PREVIOUSLY COMMITTED A MURDER IN A PARTICULAR MANNER.  (prêtres babyloniens devaient avoir deux identités) Moreover, only certain secrets were communicated to the candidate after the first murder, but further and higher secrets were imparted to him after he had committed others.

These murders, however, had to be committed under quite definite conditions. The one to be murdered was laid out on a structure that was reached by one or two steps running along each side. This scaffold-like structure, a kind of catafalque, was rounded off above and when the victim was laid upon it, he was bent strongly back. This special way of being bound to the scaffold forced his stomach outward so that with one cut, which the initiate had been prepared to perform, it could be cut out.

THIS KIND OF MURDER ENGENDERED DEFINITE FEELINGS IN THE INITIATE.
SENSATIONS WERE AROUSED THAT MADE HIM CAPABLE OF USING THE WISDOM
LATER IMPARTED TO HIM IN THE WAY THAT HAS BEEN INTIMATED ABOVE. When the stomach had been excised, it was offered to the god Taotl, again with special ceremonies. The fact that the initiates of these mysteries lived for the quite specific purpose that I have indicated to you, imparted a definite direction to their feelings. When the candidates to be initiated had matured on this path and had come to experience its inner meaning, they then learned the nature of the mutual interaction between the one who had been murdered and the one who had been initiated. THROUGH THE MURDER, THE VICTIM WAS TO BE PREPARED IN HIS SOUL TO STRIVE UPWARD TO THE LUCIFERIC REALM, WHEREAS THE CANDIDATE FOR INITIATION WAS TO OBTAIN THE WISDOM TO MOULD THIS EARTHLY WORLD IN SUCH A WAY THAT SOULS WOULD BE DRIVEN OUT OF IT. Through the fact that a connection was formed between the murdered and the initiated  one cannot say "murderer," but "initiated"  IT WAS MADE POSSIBLE FOR THE INITIATED TO BE TAKEN WITH THE OTHER SOUL; THAT IS, THE INITIATED COULD HIMSELF FORSAKE THE EARTH AT THE RIGHT MOMENT [a sort of "Rapture," to escape hellish machine-like society he helped to create - perhaps what Pink Floyd meant by The Machine].

These mysteries, as you will readily admit, are of the most revolting kind. Indeed, they are only in accord with a conception that can be called ahrimanic in the fullest sense. [1]

The Nature and Goals of Black Magic

To explain the goals of black magic, it is necessary to introduce the ultimate projects of Satan (more properly known as "Ahriman") and Lucifer.  This goal is an Earth ruled by Ahriman, devoid of the higher souls of humans, and an "extra" planet known as the Eighth Sphere, ruled by Lucifer, to which the souls have escaped.  Ultimately, this is intended to prevent mankind from becoming what God hopes we will become.  This diabolical duo cooperates with each other so intricately to achieve their separate ends that they are almost always confused with each others, and there are few if any purely Luciferian or Satanic groups.

Le Beast

Another being known as the Beast, Sorath, and "666" (the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew spelling of "Sorath") has exerted its influence on mankind at intervals of 666 years, although there have been exceptions, such as WWII, during which the Beast played Hitler, so to speak. Anthroposophical writer Terry Boardman, in his article entitled Aspects of  the Occult Significance of the Year 1998 [2], provides an excellent description of this being, which includes the following:

It is important to understand that Sorath is not Ahriman, the spiritual inspirer of modern materialism. Rudolf Steiner spoke of Sorath before Ahriman:  Sorath on  27 April 1907 (GA96 untranslated) and 21 Oct 1907 (GA101 typescript Z306) (3) and Ahriman for the first time on 1 Jan 1909. SORATH STANDS BEHIND AHRIMAN AND LUCIFER AS CHRIST'S SHADOW, INSPIRING THEM.

In a lecture of 27.4.1907 (6) the power of the Lamb, the Sun Intelligence, is said to call forth life from out of the earth and works in plants, animals, and Man, whereas  the opposing power, called in that lecture the Sun Demon,  is said "to work in the evil forces of Man".

Rudolf Steiner indicated 1933 as the  rise of the Beast. Immediately before the approach of  the Etheric Christ in 1933-5, humanity would have to face the  appearance of the Beast from the abyss (20.9.24 GA346). There followed 12 years of hellish destruction greater than ever before or since. These years were dominated by the motif of the false Sun motif.  [2][emphasis added]

This seems to imply that Sorath is a very high-ranking being, higher than Lucifer, Ahriman, or the Asuras.

Michael Kalisch, in his introduction to a book entitled Evil (a selection of lectures by Steiner), also provides important insights into the nature of the Beast:

[T]he threefold adversarial influences [Lucifer, Ahriman, and a group of beings known as the Asuras] WILL UNITE [in what is] described as the "Beast with Two Horns," whose occult number is "666."  THE EFFECT OF THIS BEING IS ONE OF HARDENING EGOTISM; NOT OF LOVING THE WORLD BUT OF SQUEEZING IT TO THE VERY LAST DROP TO GAIN AS MUCH ADVANTAGE AND ENJOYMENT FROM IT AS POSSIBLE.  THAT IS ALSO THE PATH OF BLACK MAGIC WHICH IS THE ONE THIS "BEAST" WISHES TO LEAD US DOWN. [emphasis added] [3]

[Rev A] Who epitomizes this egotism and "squeezing," but the oligarchy?  This and numerous other bits of circumstantial evidence indicate that it is among the oligarchy where one would find the highest concentration of black magicians. [end of revision]

[In recent times] ... polar opposite tendencies ["ice cold logic" and "passions and drives"] in the human being are melting down and becoming fused together without any mediating, central realm [the heart, the realm of Christ]....  We can see ... on the one hand an intensifying, self-realizing egohood, and on the other its reverse, the intensified evil which surrounds us on all sides (and which we also create ourselves).   Our increasing consciousness of self is not by itself evil; it all depends on how the ego handles the forces available to it....  We can continue to go down the road of separation ... or ... we can be begin to broaden our separated consciousness....   The first path ... will unleash forces of hatred and destruction to an increasing extent.... The beings who are active in such a conflict ... [are] called Asuras.... [They are] AN INTENSIFICATION AND PERMEATION OF THE LUCIFERIC-AHRIMANIC POLARITY.  THERE IS, THEN, ALSO A TRINITY OF EVIL.... [emphasis added] [4]

The Asuras: The Beast's Third Wave

Rudolf Steiner mentioned another perspective on the Asuras in another lecture:

In certain occult teachings the hosts of Ahriman are also called the Asuras. These are of course, the evil Asuras who at a certain time fell away from the evolutionary path of the Asuras who endowed man with personality. It has already been indicated that these are spiritual Beings who detached themselves from the evolution of the earth before the separation of the sun. [5]

In the aforementioned article, Terry Boardman  writes that Sorath is "related to Sura and Asura, Ahura."  Considering that his effect is on the ego, and that, as Steiner relates in the following excerpt, the class of beings known as Asuras also works on the ego, there is a good case for classifying the Asuras as a yet another subsidiary of Sorath, along with Lucifer and Ahriman.  The Advent of Ahriman suggests that he could be their leader, which conflicts with the above quotation from Steiner, indicating the Beast's paradoxical nature.  He was at least the chronological leader of the forces which attack the ego, since he first influenced mankind in the year 666, and as indicated by the following  excerpt, the Asuras had just begun their assault in Steiner's time:

And in the age now approaching, those spiritual Beings known as the Asuras (see Note 1) will creep into the consciousness soul and therewith into the human 'I' or ego  for the 'I' lights up in the consciousness soul. The Asuras will generate evil with a far mightier force than was wielded by the Satanic powers in the Atlantean epoch or by the Luciferic Spirits in the Lemurian epoch....
  [T]hese Asuric Spirits WILL PROMPT WHAT HAS BEEN SEIZED HOLD OF BY THEM - NAMELY THE VERY CORE OF MAN'S BEING, THE CONSCIOUSNESS SOUL TOGETHER WITH THE 'I' - TO UNITE WITH EARTHLY MATERIALITY. Fragment after fragment will be torn out of the 'I', and in the same measure in which the Asuric Spirits establish themselves in the consciousness soul, man must leave parts of his existence behind on the earth. What thus becomes the prey of the Asuric powers will be irretrievably lost. Not that the whole man need become their victim  but parts of his spirit will be torn away by the Asuric powers. These Asuric powers are heralded to-day by the prevailing tendency to live wholly in the material world and to be oblivious of the reality of spiritual beings and spiritual worlds. True, the Asuric powers corrupt man to-day in a way that is more theoretical than actual. To-day they deceive him by various means into thinking that his 'I' is a product of the physical world only; they hue him to a kind of theoretic materialism. But as time goes on  and the premonitory signs of this are the dissolute, sensuous passions that are becoming increasingly prevalent on earth  they will blind man's vision of the spiritual Beings and spiritual Powers. Man will know nothing nor desire to know anything of a spiritual world. More and more he will not only teach that the highest moral ideals of humanity are merely sublimations of animal impulses, that human  « thinking is but a transformation of a faculty also possessed by the animals  », that man is akin to the animal in respect of his form and moreover in his whole being descends from the animal  but he will take this view in all earnestness and order his life in accordance with it.
  Man does not as yet entirely base his life on the principle that his true being descends from the animal. But this view of existence will inevitably arise, with the result that men will also live like animals, will sink into animal impulses, animal passions. AND IN MANY THINGS THAT NEED NOT BE FURTHER CHARACTERIZED HERE, MANY THINGS THAT IN THE GREAT CITIES COME TO EXPRESSION IN ORGIES OF DISSOLUTE SENSUALITY, WE CAN ALREADY PERCEIVE THE LURID, HELLISH GLARE OF THE SPIRITS WE CALL THE ASURAS. [6] [7] [8]

A Hint of Satan's Fake Apocalypse?

Intriguingly, Boardman also indicates that we live in time which "prefigures" the true Apocalypse, which is thousands of years in the future:

"Rudolf Steiner also shows that the events of the Apocalypse of St. John refer not exclusively to the present time, as many believe, but rather, to the last period of the seven great stages of earth evolution, which lies far in the future. However, there is a sense in which our own time is a kind of prefiguring of that distant epoch. A  resonance of that time occurs, when humanity is faced with  the choice between the two-horned beast and the Lamb." [10]

I suspect that this "prefiguring" corresponds to what I have called "Satan's fake apocalypse." Boardman's article even states that Ahriman's incarnation is "imminent."

Additional Characteristics of Black Magic

The following are excerpts from Inner Impulses of Evolution by Rudolf Steiner which in my opinion would help most people to understand the true nature of black magic, and to recognize its influences around them.  Some of the following overlaps with the material in my "Deep Background" section, but it pertains more to the goals and activities of black magic rather than its historical metamorphosis.  In them, Steiner refers to the Mexican Mysteries which were formed by a group of former Atlanteans:

When the Atlantean spoke of his "Great Spirit," he expressed it, as we have seen, in a word that sounded something like the word "Tao," which is still preserved in China. AN AHRIMANIC, CARICATURED COUNTERPART APPEARED IN THE WEST AS OPPONENT OF THE "GREAT SPIRIT TAO" BUT HE WAS STILL CONNECTED WITH HIM. He worked in such a way that he could only be made visible through atavistic, visionary perception but WHENEVER THEY DESIRED HIS PRESENCE, HE ALWAYS SHOWED HIMSELF TO THOSE PERSONS CONNECTED WITH THE WIDESPREAD MYSTERIES OF THIS CULT SO THEY COULD RECEIVE HIS INSTRUCTIONS AND COMMANDS. [This distinguishes black magician from the typical satanist, who, if part of an organized movement, is directed by black magicians, and not directly, at least consciously, from the spirit world.] THIS SPIRIT WAS CALLED BY A NAME THAT SOUNDED SOMETHING LIKE TAOTL. Taotl was thus AN AHRIMANIC DISTORTION OF THE "GREAT SPIRIT"  a mighty being and one who DID NOT DESCEND TO PHYSICAL INCARNATION. A great many men were initiated into the mysteries of Taotl but the initiation was of a completely ahrimanic character. IT HAD A QUITE DEFINITE PURPOSE AND GOAL, WHICH WAS TO RIGIDIFY AND MECHANIZE ALL EARTHLY LIFE, INCLUDING THAT OF HUMANS, TO SUCH A DEGREE THAT A SPECIAL LUCIFERIC PLANET, WHICH HAS ALREADY BEEN REFERRED TO IN THESE STUDIES, COULD BE FOUNDED ABOVE EARTHLY LIFE. THE SOULS OF MEN COULD THEN BE DRAWN OUT TO IT, BY FORCE AND PRESSURE. [For example, to escape the possibility of having to hear Rap "music" ever again or drive our ego-mobiles through rush hour traffic.]

The goal they aimed to achieve was TO MAKE THE WHOLE EARTH A REALM OF DEATH, IN WHICH EVERYTHING POSSIBLE WOULD BE DONE TO KILL OUT INDEPENDENCE AND EVERY INNER IMPULSE OF THE SOUL. In the mysteries of Taotl the forces were to be acquired that would enable men to set up a completely mechanized earthly realm.

TO THIS END, ONE HAD, ABOVE ALL, TO KNOW THE GREAT COSMIC SECRETS THAT RELATE TO WHAT WORKS AND LIVES IN THE UNIVERSE AND REVEALS ITS ACTIVITIES IN EARTHLY EXISTENCE. You see, this wisdom of the cosmos is fundamentally in its wording, always the same, BECAUSE TRUTH IS ALWAYS THE SAME. THE POINT IS, HOWEVER, WHETHER OR NOT IT IS RECEIVED IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT IS EMPLOYED RIGHTLY. [11]

On a related note, Steiner, in The Influences of Lucifer and Ahriman, indicates that Luciferic beings were the source of the ancient secret wisdom of the mysteries, but that because those who received it used it for good:

"In olden times the wisdom needed for the advancement of humanity could be obtained only from a luciferic source; hence the initiates [such as the seven Holy Rishis] were obliged to receive it from that source and at the same time to take it upon themselves the obligation not to yield to the aspirations of the luciferic beings." [12]

The Atlantean Connection

In my essay on the Eight Sphere, I go into greater detail on the nature of human consciousness during early and middle Atlantean times.  This form of consciousness is similar to that which Lucifer wishes to evoke in us.  The following excerpts from lectures by Steiner show that this has been the goal of Lucifer and Satan ever since their servants destroyed Atlantis, and that they've failed so far, which makes them almost as desperate as Alan Dreamspin (the Fed Chairman who disappeared just as it became impossible to hide the implosion of his vast financial bubbles, precisely as LaRouche predicted he would):

BUT IN THIS SAME EPOCH HUMAN BEINGS WILL HAVE TO BATTLE AGAINST ATTACKS OF THE LUCIFERIC AND AHRIMANIC POWERS THAT WILL BE STRONGER THAN THOSE LAUNCHED IN THE DAYS OF GREEK AND ROMAN CULTURE. Again in this later epoch the aim of the luciferic and ahrimanic powers is to alienate the souls of men from earthly life on the one hand, and on the other so to mechanize earthly life itself, TO MAKE ITS OUTER FORM SO ENTIRELY MECHANISTIC, THAT IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE EGO OF MAN TO LIVE IN THE SOCIAL ORDER OF THE EARTH. He would therefore take leave of it to enter a life apart from the earth upon a separate planet.

Lucifer and Ahriman wish, during the post-Atlantean period, TO INTERPOSE THE OLD ATLANTEAN CULTURE EVERYWHERE SO THAT THE FACULTIES IMPARTED BY THE PROGRESSIVE POWERS ARE RENDERED PRIMITIVE [i.e. reason "dumbed down" and free will frustrated] FOR THE FIFTH POST-ATLANTEAN EPOCH AND HUMAN BEINGS WILL DESIRE TO DEPART. The attempt, therefore, consisted in placing everything that developed into a service of a world beyond the earth, as I have indicated. Thus, from two sides, from that of Lucifer and that of Ahriman, the spirit reigning in ancient Atlantean life was to be revived in order that the impulses connected with that ancient life might enter into the evolution of the fifth post-Atlantean epoch.

In order to execute the ahrimanic part of this task, it was necessary for the priests of those ahrimanic Atlantean mysteries to acquire faculties possessing the highest degrees of control and mastery over all the forces of death in earthly working. These forces would have made the earth; together with physical man  for the souls were to depart  into a purely mechanistic realm, a great dead realm in which no ego could have a place.

These faculties would have had to be connected also with mastery of the mechanistic element in everything living, of the mechanistic elements in all life. FOR THIS REASON THESE MYSTERIES HAD TO BE INSTITUTED IN A TRULY DEVILISH FORM BECAUSE SUCH FORCES AS WOULD HAVE BEEN NEEDED FOR THE POWERFUL AIMS OF AHRIMAN CAN ONLY ARISE WHEN INITIATIONS OF A SPECIAL KIND ARE ATTAINED. Such were these initiations of the ahrimanic post-Atlantean era in America.

This cult was dedicated to the successor, the son of the Great Spirit, in the form he had assumed in America, and who was designated by a sound that approximates Taotl. TAOTL IS AN AHRIMANIC DISTORTION OF THE SUCCESSOR OF TAO. This being, Taotl did not appear in a physical body but only in an etheric form. His arts, which were essentially impulses for the mechanization of earthly culture and of all earthly life, were acquired through these initiations I have described to you. 
Now these initiations had a definite purpose. As has been said, the initiate acquired ACTUAL POWERS OF BLACK MAGIC, THE APPLICATION OF WHICH WOULD HAVE LED TO THE MECHANIZATION OF THE CULTURE OF THE EARTH AND TO THE EXPULSION OF ALL EGOS, SO THAT THE BODIES BORN WOULD NO LONGER HAVE BEEN CAPABLE OF BEARING AN EGO.

Vitz-li-putz-li [an ally of Jehovah] fought against [the greatest-ever black magician] and  as already said, this can only be discovered by occult means  in the year 33 A.D. succeeded in causing this mightiest black magician to be crucified. Thus, in the other hemisphere of the earth, an event parallel to the Mystery of Golgotha took place, inasmuch as the greatest black magician of all was crucified by the action of Vitzliputzli who had appeared on the earth for this purpose. As a result, the power of these mysteries was thereby broken so far as the fourth post-Atlantean epoch was concerned. It was subsequently revived [in a weaker form]....

By these means the ahrimanic impulse was inculcated into the etheric nature of the Western world. As I have said, this impulse in the fourth epoch was broken as a result of the crucifixion of the great initiated black magician by the deed of Vitzliputzli. NEVERTHELESS, SO MUCH FORCE REMAINED THAT A FURTHER ATTACK COULD HAVE BEEN MADE UPON THE FIFTH EPOCH, HAVING AS ITS AIM SO TO MECHANIZE THE EARTH THAT THE RESULTING CULTURE WOULD NOT ONLY HAVE CULMINATED IN A MASS OF PURELY MECHANICAL CONTRIVANCES BUT WOULD HAVE MADE HUMAN BEINGS THEMSELVES INTO SUCH PURE HOMUNCULI [a sort of animal-man, or as the oligarchy likes to think of us, a talking animal] THAT THEIR EGOS WOULD HAVE DEPARTED.

Whereas on the one side the campaigns of Genghis Khan [which were facilitated by Venetian Intelligence] and his successors were to have executed as it were a divine justice, on the other side, THERE WAS PREPARED AN ATMOSPHERE OF WILD, AHRIMANIC, ELEMENTAL FORCES INTO WHICH THE EUROPEANS WERE TO ENTER [referring to the discovery of America]. In such matters complete cooperation takes place between Ahriman and Lucifer. [Read the lecture for further details on Khan's luciferic role.]

In the post-Atlantean era, Ahriman strives by direct means to institute a culture of MERE prosperity. This would mean pressing out the lemon [ego], the doing away with it! Egos would no longer be able to live IF PROSPERITY [crass materialism] WERE THE ONLY AIM PURSUED BY CULTURE. In short, prosperity and the good, prosperity and virtue are not concepts that can be substituted for one another. [In other words, materialism must not be an end in itself; it must serve to free us up for higher pursuits.]

We are gazing here into profound secrets of life. A  JUSTIFIED ELEMENT IN THE FOUNDING OF CULTURE, AN ELEMENT THAT INEVITABLY LEADS TO A CERTAIN FORM OF PROSPERITY AMONG MEN, IS SO DISTORTED THAT PROSPERITY PER SE IS SET UP AS THE GOAL.[13]

Boardman describes in greater detail just how Lucifer's and Ahriman's pipe-dream would interfere with our evolution:

!What is black magic ultimately? It is the effort to work against the plan of the good Gods for humanity and the Earth, to prevent the Earth from reuniting with the Sun, thus preventing the future respiritualisation of the Earth. BLACK MAGIC IS THEREFORE THE VERY INVERSE OF LOVE; it is the process of involution taken to an extreme of contraction in matter. One of its manifestations is a delight in causing physical pain and suffering.... [14]  » 

Summary

The preceding shows that Lucifer and Ahriman are intricatedly working together for separate ends: an Earth without higher souls for Ahriman to rule, and a new planet (the Eighth Sphere) for the souls, ruled by Lucifer.  Ahriman's artificial apocalypse is actually just a step toward achieving this ultimate agenda, and understanding it will help you to see the influence of black magic in modern society, even behind seemingly Christian organizations.

References and Notes

[1] Rudolf Steiner, Inner Impulses of Evolution, Lecture 3
http://wn.elib.com/Steiner/Lectures/InnerImpul/1916091
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[2] Terry Boardman, Aspects of  the Occult Significance of the Year 1998 http://www.monju.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/OccSig1998.ht
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[3] Rudolf Steiner, Evil, p 12
[4] ibid.  p9
[5] Rudolf Steiner, The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers: Mephistopheles and Earthquakes
http://wn.elib.com/Steiner/Lectures/19090101p01.html
[6] [from notes added to lecture] The Asuras are retarded Beings of the Hierarchy of the Archai (Spirits of Personality). They are Beings who instead of furthering man's progress to independence, lure him into gross egoism [like Sorath]. In the negative sense they now bear the name originally pertaining to the entire Hierarchy.
[7] Rudolf Steiner, The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers
http://wn.elib.com/Steiner/Lectures/DeedChrist/190903
22p01.html
[9] By "orgies of dissolute sensuality," might Steiner have been hinting at sex-magic orgies of black magic (the "path" which Sorath tempts us to take), such as those depicted in Eyes Wide Shut?
[10]  Terry Boardman, Aspects of  the Occult Significance of the Year 1998 http://www.monju.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/OccSig1998.ht
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[11] Rudolf Steiner, Inner Impulses of Evolution, Lecture 3
http://wn.elib.com/Steiner/Lectures/InnerImpul/1916091
8p01.html
[12] Rudolf Steiner, The Influences of Lucifer and Ahriman, p 61
[13] Rudolf Steiner, Inner Impulses of Evolution, Lecture 5
http://wn.elib.com/Steiner/Lectures/InnerImpul/1916092
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[14]  Terry Boardman, Aspects of  the Occult Significance of the Year 1998 http://www.monju.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/OccSig1998.htm

Rudolf Steiner on "natural" demonic possession

"The other beings, the demons created out of immoral actions, also have an astral body, an etheric body and a physical body, at the watery stage, of course, but they do not have the basis for developing an ego. They are born headless, as it were. Instead of taking up the basis for progressing along a regular evolutionary path to the Jupiter existence, they reject this basis. By doing so they condemn themselves to the fate of dropping out of evolution. But this only increases the hordes of luciferic beings, for they fall under their power. As they cannot progress in a regular way they have to become parasites. This is what happens to all the beings who reject a normal evolution; they have to attach themselves to others in order to move on. Beings who arise through immoral actions have the particular inclination to be parasites in human evolution on earth under Lucifer's leadership - to which they have succumbed - and to seize hold of the evolution of human beings before they make their physical entry into the world. They attack human beings during the embryonic stage and share their existence between conception and birth. Some of these beings, if they are strong enough, can continue to accompany the human being after birth, as seen in the phenomena of some children who are possessed.

"What is brought about by the criminal demons attached as parasites to unborn children is the cause of a deterioration in the succession of the generations; it gnaws at human beings, making them less able to develop than they would be if these demons did not exist. There are various reasons for the decline of families, tribes, peoples and nations, but one of them is the existence of these criminal demon parasites during the period mentioned.

"These things play an important part in Earth evolution as a whole, and they bring us into contact with deep secrets of human existence. This is often the cause of people acquiring certain prejudices and points of view even before they are born. So people are tormented by doubts and uncertainties in life, and all kinds of other things, because of these demonic parasites.

"These beings cannot do very much with what human beings develop once their ego makes itself felt, but they prey on them all the more before they are born or during their earliest years. Thus we see that evil actions, too, have a significant effect in the cosmos and work creatively, but their creativity tends in the direction of the Old Moon existence. For what human beings pass through in the embryonic period, when these demonic beings can prey on them, is basically the heritage of the Old Moon evolution, which makes its appearance in all kinds of subconscious, instinctive behaviour. Something stemming from the older and better days of physical science is the instinct it preserves about the human embryonic period not being calculated according to ordinary months but lunar months; science still speaks of ten lunar months, and knows certain other things, too, concerning the connection of embryonic development with the phases of the moon.

"So we see that our Earth evolution contains two tendencies. There are good deeds that contain the impulse to work creatively on Earth in preparation for Jupiter, so that man's successor on the human level can come into being. But evil deeds have also brought into our evolution the tendency to drag Earth back again to the Old Moon evolution and make it dependent on everything to do with subconscious impulses; in fact there are far more of these subconscious impulses in materialistic humanity of modern times than there were in bygone ages when people were less materialistic." (134, pp. 140-142)

from
http://wn.elib.com/Steiner/RelArtic/BobbetteRSW/stein
eraz_1915.html

page 171 of Rudolf  Steiner's Occult Movement in the Nineteenth  Century (OM19):
"More and more it will behove men to be alert to  such moments [when Satan attempts to  appropriate their intelligence].  For Ahriman takes  full advantage of moments when, in full waking  life, a man falls into a state of vertigo or dizziness,  into a kind of twilight consciousness, when he  feels not quite securely anchored in the physical  world and begins to yield himself to the whirl of  the universe, when he does not stand firmly and  steadily on his own feet as an individuality.    These are the moments when it behoves him to  be on guard, for it is then that Ahriman easily gets  the upper hand."

  Those familiar with Steiner's teachings realize  that Lucifer is not the same being as  Ahriman/Satan, but that they have  complementary influences and work together so  closely that it's easy to confuse them as one.  He  finds a different kind of situation most conducive  to gaining control over people, and that is, from  what I gather, a type of situation where people in  a large group setting allows themselves to  become overly influenced by certain impulses  from the lower levels of the soul, to the point  where  they develop a feeling of being part and  parcel of the group.  At that point, their willpower  is weakened, and Lucifer can grab it.  (OM19, p  172)
  A passage from page 147 of the same book  indicates that people who open themselves to the  influence of Ahrimanic beings become very astute,  very cunning, and very subtle thinkers (which in  many cases is a dramatic transformation).  But  there's a catch:  these beings are "inimical in the  highest degree to man and animal" (note that  Satanists sometimes begin their bloody career by  sacrificing animals).
  On page 180, Steiner adds that the proper  function of the aforementioned Ahrimanic beings  is to destroy the human organism after it dies,  that people with spiritual understanding keep  them at bay, and that they especially afflict  people with a materialstic outlook.  So, a person  who opens himself to their influence essentially   becomes a tool of beings of destruction, and thus  an enemy of our physical life.  I suspect that some  terrorists - and the assassins of Princess Diana -  belong in this category. 
  Steiner goes into considerable detail about the  process by which Satan gains control over souls  on page 157 of OM19.  He states that the type of  forces found in the lowest levels of our souls,  which corresponds to to our "sensuous urges"  (the heightening of which is apparently the goal  of much of the popular culture, including video  games which certain experts claim are designed  to desensitize people to killing) is similar to the  type of force found in the highest levels of these  extremely intelligent Ahrimanic elementary  beings, which corresponds to their thinking.   (These "sensuous urges," by the way, are not the  same thing as the aforementioned impulses which  Lucifer uses to seize human willpower.)
  If a person opens himself up to these beings,  they seize control of him by merging their highest  levels with the aforementioned lower levels of the  human's soul, and apparently by stimulating these  urges to the point where the person cannot resist  them.  Thus, Steiner claims, it is inevitable in such  cases for the person's nature to become  debased, and for him to obtain "instincts of  destruction or hatred, or the like."  Note well that  he says "instincts," which conforms to what he  says on page 187, that people who come into  contact with these beings without the necessary  preparation, and become agents of them, are not  aware of what has happened, although their  bodies will feel different because they can feel  these beings at work in them.  The result might  look, walk, and talk like a human, but it's not - it's  a sort of hand-puppet of subphysical beings, one  of whose primary functions is the destruction of  human bodies.  By gaining control of people, they  insert their influence into the sphere of the living.   

Druid

http://www.celtoslavica.de/bibliothek/electricity.html
Excellent article about electricity in its interaction with consciousness.
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FREEMASONRY  AND  THE  ROMAN SPIRIT
Freemasonry or The irony about how Gnosticism fell into the same Roman imperialist ideology of its arch-ennemy Romanism.
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www.anth.org.uk/Science/sgnl300.htm
"The Victory of the Human Spirit over the Computer"
held at the AnthroTech Institute at Les Sciernes-d’Albeuve, Switzerland from 29 to 31 October 1999 in the English language and led by Paul Emberson.
There were 14 participants – 6 from England, 5 from Switzerland and one each from America, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Besides the excellent five lectures given by Paul Emberson, each illustrated by exact demonstrations with fine apparatus there were rich conversations, a workshop and three choral sessions where the participants were accompanied by orchestral instruments so that the scientific work was balanced by most enjoyable artistic experience.
In the Friday evening lecture Paul spoke of the greatest battle for the future, that concerning intelligence technology – which is not known to the Hierarchies. Computer designers are often afraid of what they have brought into being. Even Marvin Minsky, a father of it all, feels this but rightly adds, "there is no way of going back." Professor Warwick (Reading University cyberneticist) in his recent book asks if it is justifiable to defend ourselves against these machines, but asserts that the "survival of the fittest" also applies to machines and argues that it is right for human intelligence to be superceded by machine intelligence on ecological grounds, since less energy is needed. His further argument that if computers decided to wipe us out, we would be in the same position as if we had to face a nuclear weapon attack waged by chimpanzees seemed to us science fiction at its most absurd.
Can machines think ? Behind or indwelling all things are conscious beings, so a quick dismissive "No" courts great dangers. Before going deeper into the weekend’s main theme,"Thinking, artificial intelligence and electricity" we focussed upon "electricity in nature", asking if lightning, the Aurora Borealis and electric fishes manifest the same kind of electricity as is used in a computer or an electric motor. The first has been described as a downward radiation of the Seraphim, the second as an upward radiation of earth to heaven and the third which produces narcosis in prey or predator all lack the purely physical-mechanical generation of electricity witnessed in computer and motor. We cannot just assume that the same beings or kinds of being are active in the two cases.
It was in early Greek times that through Thales human thinking first distinguished beween "I" and "world". At the same time he and others became aware of the attractive powers in iron (magnetic) and in amber (electrical). In the great catastrophe of Atlantis huge coniferous forests were quickly destroyed and the buried, compressed resin gave rise to very large quantities of amber. Not until the 15th century were explanations and ramifications of attractions and repulsions investigated, e.g. in William Gilbert’s "De Magnete".
At this point many well-known experiments were carried out in the conference room, using ebonite, glass, magnets, etc showing the usual polarities and their applications in simple machines, including the Wimshurst machine invented in 1883.
The presence of sparks in electric machines, both of frictional and magnetic motivation, demonstrates the continual interruption of electric flow in them. This is similar in character to the series of neurons in our nervous systems; without such interruption sense perception would not be possible. After amputation of a leg for example (a complete interruption) the person continues to feel his lost foot resting on the floor. (I have a clear memory as a boy of this happening to my grandfather - R.A.J.)
In the early years of the present century physicists felt that they had finally understood what matter is, but Max Planck disabused them of this feeling by stating that matter does not exist – only levels of (electrical) energy exist, related by intervals not dissimilar to musical ones or changeable from one to another as one uses a gear lever in a car. Rudolf Steiner was excited by these remarks, hoping that "humanity will now know that behind physical appearance there lies something else." This hope was not realised. The evening closed with contemplation of the statements
(i) atoms are nothing else than electricity,
(ii) human thoughts are made of the same substance as electricity - but which kind of electricity?
Recollections of Lemuria was the theme chosen for the Saturday morning session, during which the lemniscatory nature of time was alluded to. The division of the sexes in ancient Lemuria (which is connected with the separation of moon from earth) and the contrast between sun-like and moon-like human characteristics as shown between Cain and Abel has given rise to certain thematic repetition in the nineteenth century. In the past sexual intercourse was still largely an unconsciously motivated activity, as was the acceptance of hierarchy in human social relationships. At the end of the eighteenth century Count St. Germain had tried to prevent the carnage of the French Revolution whilst recognising the need for new sociality. In science the need arose to recognise the presence of electricity in animal and human bodies (e.g. Galvani). Consciousness of electrical resistance (Ohm) of various metallic substances developed – from lead’s high to copper and silver’s low resistance. Several experiments were carried out at this point of the morning using simple voltage producing cells, beginning with water, copper and zinc plates. The electricity was seen to have differences from the "surface" type in the static electricity experiments. The electricity arising through chemical action could be described as "inside metals" electricity.
The polarity of the sexes reminds us of electrical attraction. It was from Lucifer that we received freedom to be attracted to the opposite sex not only in the spring time. Just as immorality can arise from misuse of Lucifer’s gift, so can it arise from misuse of electromagnetism, which may be seen as a gift coming through Ahriman. Such a strong spiritual force as the latter contains cannot be led directly through the Gods into matter. They have to ask (otherwise) hostile beings to do this. Only in this manner can such spirit either enter or leave matter.
On Saturday afternoon we had a Workshop on Artificial Intelligence. This involved setting up circuits , two–way switches for electric lighting, simple arrangements for "and" and "or" operations. Moving magnetised elements about on a metal blackboard enabled everyone to see clearly how various participants attempted to solve the intelligence problems which were posed.
The evening lecture – demonstration was entitled The power of Mars and Venus. Reference was again made to Count St. Germain, who appeared not only at the beginning of the nineteenth century but again towards its end. In between there lived and worked one of the greatest individualities in the field of science – Michael Faraday. A very humane person, his researches, especially in magnetism and electricity, were carried out to the highest scientific standards. His methods and conclusions remain a shining example to this day. Rudolf Steiner has said only little about magnetism. It is instructive to compare magnetic with electric fields. The former have permanence (e.g. the Earth’s magnetic field). They require iron above all, iron compounded with other elements such as carbon (steel) and tungsten. Magnetism has a Mars quality in so many ways. Electric fields on the other hand are variable and collapsing. They require copper; miles of copper wire is used in generators for example. It is the best of conductors (apart from silver, which would be too expensive). Copper is a Venus metal.
The problem of assessing the spiritual significances of magnetism and electricity can thus be tackled by comparing the two with Mars and Venus, the first having its orbit outside the Earth’s orbit and the second inside the Earth’s orbit. The first we can associate with Ahriman and the second with Lucifer. When working together (electromagnetism) they provide the strongest motive power in factories, land transport and so on.
Christian Rosenkreutz understands technology more than anyone else. It was he who gave humanity the Temple Legend. In it we see how Cain, an older soul than Adam and offspring of a different Eloha, appears again in Hieram and the story of "The Molten Sea". He appears again as Lazarus-John. Then again he appears as Christian Rosenkreutz and finally as Count St. Germain. It was this being who helped royal families to transform base metals into gold and in England he inspired the development of the steam engine.
The battle of the future – the destiny of the further use of magnetism and electricity and above all of intelligence technology, which uses these forces in its hardware and software – will require all the cosmic wisdom we can obtain through individualities like Faraday, Steiner and Rosenkreutz. The theme for the lecture-demonstration on the Sunday morning was The deeper nature of electricity.
Paul Emberson preceded his talk with a description of the aim of AnthroTech. It is not to make use of computers and electricity, but to develop etheric forces to drive machines. This requires selfless love. Such machines will not operate like contemporary ones using electrical, magnetic, fossil fuel, steam or atomic energy power sources, where the operator simply has to press a button or move a lever. It will depend upon the moral quality of the individual controlling the machine.
The machines we have in the world today are there because we have projected them out of our intelligence into that world. We need to know the answers to the questions, "What is intelligence? What is electricity?" There is a great danger in thinking of ourselves as machines, needing hospital repairs from time to time or in the case of people with criminal tendencies brain surgery and implants. If we regard the brain as the mechanical decider of our actions, that leaves no room for a moral decider within us. We become "manipulated by our symbols". But this means that we allow another being to usurp the divine right of our own individuality to determine the actions our organism shall carry out.
Reference was made here to the lecture given on 28th July 1924 by Rudolf Steiner printed in the 3rd volume of the Karma lectures. Steiner spoke there of the new age of Michael, which began in 1879. Prior to this in the first third of the 15th century the first hierarchy carried over the Cosmic Intelligence into the human head organisation. Formerly the human being had been a heart-man, now he became a head-man; the Intelligence could become his own. In the 450 years between these two events Michael and Ahriman have waged battle on the issue – shall human beings make the aquisition of Cosmic Intelligence their own in true individual freedom or shall Ahriman appropriate it and make it altogether earthly, governed solely by the forces of reproduction and inheritance ? It is those who are able to receive Anthroposophy with true and deep devotion in their hearts who can unite with Michael in this battle, for the heart’s enthusiasm is essential if we are to make Cosmic Intelligence our own. Although we have today become head-men, we must not lose what we developed as heart-men. The inspiration and enthusiasm of the human heart pouring into the individual thinking head-man is what will help Michael defeat Ahriman.
Blacking out the conference room cum laboratory, we then applied our enthusiasm to investigating the nature of electricity at a deeper level. A high voltage was applied to terminals at the ends of a horizontal glass tube from which the air was exhausted to form an increasing vacuum. The less "matter" the tube contained, the more the tube glowed with colour. Polaric colour differences became more pronounced. Were we now actually "seeing" electricity? Electricity and matter always seem to exist together, but with the elimination of matter, electricity seems to reveal itself as coloured light. Yet this colour and light is quite different from what we normally experience in the natural world. They lack the vitality of the latter. So to refer to electricity as "fallen" light or "fallen" light ether has justification.
In the final session on Sunday afternoon the title of the final lecture was The victory of the human spirit. A recapitulation of the main themes and experiments concerning electricity and magnetism led on to viewing matter as a compounding of Luciferic electrical forces coming down from above and Ahrimanic crystallising forces coming up from below. The oscillating rhythm in electromagnetism between the iron-Mars and copper-Venus elements services this compounding.
The discovery in 1948 of solid state semi-conductors revolutionised information technology. Silicon, a dull grey metal whose compounds are well known in biodynamic agriculture (it enables the cosmic influences to penetrate the soil), was melted. Adding a tiny crystal of it to the liquid brought about a lengthening of this crystal. It was then "doped" by introducing impurities (other metals) and the original non-conductor (silicon) became a semiconductor, i.e. able to transmit electric current in one direction only. The discovery of this "chip" was actually foreseen by Rudolf Steiner. He proposed a counter discovery and indicated it in the "Strader" machine; in his instructions to Schmiedel he asked for a hemisphere of copper facing a hemisphere of silicon, the latter to have a blue colour. Then he put forward the following Imagination:
Go in soul below the crystal rocks in the Alps, which is a holy place for the Gods. The stars are mirrored there; all the silicon-quartz transparent rocks are eyes for the cosmos.
Whereas computer design depends upon the Gemini-Saggitarius axis of the zodiac and serves a good purpose in the reduction of human labour, it is the axis at right angles to it – the Pisces-Virgo axis, on which will depend the success of the new etheric technology. Electromagnetism is governed by the Gemini line, the midday-midnight line, whereas the etheric machines depend upon the Pisces line, the dawn-sunset line.
Continuing the Imagination . . . At Midsummer we see in soul how the Cosmic Intelligence with yellow light radiance carried by hosts of many beings all operating within each other and overseen by the serious countenance of Uriel shines down towards the earth and meets the upward moving blue Cosmic Will full of elemental beings. With them comes silver to be united with gold from the cosmos.
Even in the experience of the light-glowing vacuum tube in the morning session we could also see a polarity between the violet streams at the cathode (negative pole end) and the rose-red colour at the anode which finally took shape. The violet could only emerge as matter became rarified, but the rose-red bears a link to Uriel.
When we contemplate the great dangers of modern inventions, especially in information technology, we can see how easily their positive features can be outweighed by their negative ones and eventually see how the monster could eat up our humanity. What shall be our answer ? Only with the help of courage and sacrifice can this monster be overcome. The attempt may even be made to introduce the souls of the dead to machines working from the Gemini line, so the need to develop the morning and evening impulses succouring the Pisces-Virgo axis and etheric technology is of paramount importance.
Here is a task for highly developed knights having a Michaelic Christian devotion to enter the machine world. We must change machines from inside. It is the only way to transform the dragon. The dragon no longer exists in the thought world. He operates in the physical.The task is one for the spiritual scientists of the West. AnthroTech wants to support such efforts in this direction. But it does not regard its main field of work to be that of developing Strader or Keely machines. Rather does it want to conduct researches into moral technology – etheric forces which can drive such machines – which have to be non-electrical and non-magnetic. It feels it has a kinship with biodynamic agriculture.
Following a short break the participants were invited to visit the machine shop in the basement below the conference room, where the apparatus for AnthroTech Research is fashioned. It contains a set of highly efficient lathes, milling machines, drilling and planing machines,etc. of very modern design and high monetary value. These are the gifts made by wealthy supporters from many countries to the work of AnthroTech. Among the research being carried out are projects with colour and sound, projects studying the whole field of vibrations of many kinds, machinery for stimulating gravity-free and gyroscope-free movements whereby liquids containing high dilutions of mineral salts and plant saps may be subject to earth-freed cosmic forces. One machine being designed was for field spraying on biodynamic farms. It should be realised that the AnthroTech Institute relies solely upon gifts of money and equipment to further its work. This includes income from conferences and lectures and from annual subscriptions and although the small number of workers helping Paul Emberson both in Switzerland and on the island of Mull is increasing, they mostly give their time and effort free. Courage and sacrifice are fully in evidence.One has to fervently hope that more people of wealthy means will come forward to support this well grounded scientific impulse, whose value for humanity in the future could be of inestimable worth.
Ron Jarman, November 1999.
HAARP
Supplement to a lecture given by Imre Boejtes at the Goetheanum on 18-3-1999 on the work of AnthroTech. In the discussion following the lecture the question of HAARP was raised. Translated by Barbara Saunders Davies.
The HAARP installation (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project) occupies an area of 20 hectares near Gakora, 320 km. north-east of Anchorage in Alaska. It consists of a forest of antennae with 360 masts, 24m. high.
In February 1995 the American army first used this establishment as a testing ground. Since 1998, after its installation, they have been radiating an output of at least 10 Mrd watts into the ionosphere. This means that in every working hour the energy of an Hiroshama atom bomb is radiated into the atmosphere!
No scientist can really know how such experiments affect the equilibrium of the Earth nor how the reaction will appear. Though HAARP is considered a civil project of research into the Northern Lights (aurora), one of the largest armament firms in the world (Raytheon) possesses the basic patents of HAARP technology (they go back to N. Tesla's discoveries). Thus it can be assumed that what is presented to the public as a harmless scientific project, is actually the most powerful military construction ever built. It can be taken for granted that such invasions of the ionosphere produce holes in the ozone layer!
Further it can be very alarming to know that HAARP technology can be adapted for global manipulation of consciousness. Whenever desired, radiating ELF (Extreme Low Frequency) waves can, when targeted, influence the brain currents of humans (and animals).
In view of the terrible possibilities connected with this radiation technique, critical scientists and some lay initiatives have sounded the alarm. In spite of these protests however, HAARP has been built.
Recommended literature J. Manning and N. Begich: "Locher im Himmel. Der geheime Okokrieg mit dem Ionosphärenheizer HAARP". (Holes in the sky. The secret ecological war with the ionosphere heating apparatus HAARP). Publisher:- Verlag 2001, 1996. The original american publication of 1995 bears the title "Angels don't play this HAARP. Advances in Tesla technology".

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www.kheper.net/topics/double/Steiner.html
The Doppleganger - The Double according to Steiner
This quote comes from Steiner's lecture at St Gallen (Switzerland) on Nov. 15th 1917. Usually translated into English as "Geographic Medicine".
I have taken my quote from a printed version by 'The Mercury Press', Spring Valley NY 10977 USA. My quote begins on page 6 and runs to page 10. At best the translation is difficult and my rendition may contain further flaws.
... Indeed, my dear friends, the world is complicated, and one must slowly and gradually adapt oneself to its concepts. But one must have the will to do so.
You see the spiritual world extends into our world. Everything is interpenetrated by the spiritual world. Within the sensible there is everywhere a supersensible. That supersensible that has to do with man's own sense nature must be of very special interest to him, now I beg you to note the following very carefully, for it is an exceedingly important concept.
We human beings consist of body, soul and spirit but that is by no means an exhaustive statement. our body, soul and spirit are what first solicit our consciousness, as it were but they are not all that is connected with our existence. By no means, my dear friends, what I am about to say is connected with certain mysteries of human becoming, of human nature which must be known today and become ever better known.
When the human being enters into earthly existence through birth, then because he has his physical body he has the possibility of giving existence to his own soul. I beg you to consider this well, but man by no means knows all about this physical body; many things go on in the physical body of which man knows nothing! He, gradually comes to know what goes on in this physical body. Yet, it is in a very unsuitable way, through anatomy and physiology. If one had to wait for food until one understood the process of digestion, well, one could not even say that people would die of hunger, for it is unthinkable that one must know something about what the organs have to do in order to prepare food for the organism!
So man comes into this world with the organism with which he has clothed himself but without extending down into this organism with his soul. Therefore, the opportunity exists - a short time before we are born, not long before we are born - for another spiritual being besides our soul to take possession of our body, of the unconscious part of our body. It is this way; a short time before we are born we are permeated by another being - in our terminology we would call it an Ahrimanic spirit being.. This is within us in the same way that our own soul is within us.
These beings who spend their life by using human beings, in order to be able to be in the sphere where they want to be. These beings have an extraordinarily high intelligence and a significantly developed will but no warmth of heart at all. Nothing of what we call the human "Gemut". And we go through life, my dear friends, in such a way that we have our souls and a Double of this kind, who is much more clever, very much more clever than we are, who is very intelligent, but has a Mephistophelian intelligence, and an Ahrimanic intelligence, and also an Ahrimanic will, a very strong will, a will that is much more akin to the nature forces than is our human will, which is controlled by the mind and the heart. In the nineteenth century natural science discovered that the nervous system is permeated by electrical forces. Natural science is right. But when natural scientists believe that our nerve-force, which is the basis of our conceptual life, is related to electrical streams which go through our nerves, then they are not correct ... for the electrical-streams, which are those forces put into us by that being which I have just mentioned and described, do not belong to our being at all; we carry electrical streams in us, but they are of a purely Ahrimanic nature.
These beings of high intelligence, but of purely Mephistophelian intelligence, and with a will more related to nature than can be said of the human will, these beings once decided out of their own will that they did not want to live in that world in which they were destined to live by the wisdom-filled of the higher hierarchies. They wanted to conquer the earth; they need bodies, for bodies of their own they do not have. They use as much of the human bodies as they can use, because the human soul cannot entirely fill up the human body.
You see, as the human body develops, these beings are able to enter into it at a definite time before the human being is born, and below the threshold of our consciousness they accompany us. They cannot endure one thing in human life, they positively cannot endure it, and that is death. Therefore they must always leave this human body in which they have established themselves before it succumbs to death. They continue to have a very great delusion, for they want to be able to remain in human bodies beyond death. That would be a very great achievement in the kingdom of these beings but that they have not yet achieved.
Had the Mystery of Golgatha not occurred, had the Christ, not passed through the Mystery of Golgatha, conditions on earth would have been such that these beings would long ago have attained the possibility of remaining within the human being when he is karmically predestined for death. Then they would have completely triumphed over human evolution on earth, would have become lords of human evolution on earth.
It is of tremendous significance to perceive the connection between the passing of the Christ through the Mystery of Golgotha and these beings who want to triumph over death in human nature; but they are not yet today able to bear it; they must always avoid experiencing in the human body the hour when man is appointed to die, must avoid maintaining his body beyond the hour of death, of prolonging the life of his body beyond the hour of death.
This matter of which I am now speaking has long been known to certain occult brotherhoods. They know these things well and have withheld them from mankind - again, we do not want to discuss their right to do so. Today conditions are such that it is impossible not to equip people gradually with such concepts as they will need when they shall have passed through the gate of death. For all that a man experiences here, even what he experiences below the threshold of conscious- he needs after death, because he must look back upon his life, and in looking back he must be able to understand this life fully; because it is very bad for him when he is not able to do this. But man has not sufficient comprehension to understand his life in retrospect, unless a being can enlighten him which participates in his life as does this Ahrimanic being, which lays hold of us before our birth and is always there, always cutting a figure before us in our unconsciousness-unless we can ever and again throw light upon it. Then wisdom becomes light after death.
You see, my dear friends, these beings are in general very important for the human life, and knowledge of them must gradually lay hold of man - and will lay hold of men. Only it must lay hold of them in the right way. It must not only be spread abroad among mankind by those occult brotherhoods who make a question of power out of it - intending thereby to increase their own power Above all it must not be further hidden for the sake of increasing the power of certain egotistically minded brotherhoods. Mankind strives for universal knowledge which is disseminated. For in the future it can no longer he wholesome for occult brotherhoods to be able to employ such things for the extension of their power. In the coming centuries mankind must more and more lay hold of knowledge of these beings. In the coming centuries it will have to come to man's knowledge more and more that he bears such a Double within him - such an Ahrimanic - Mephistophelian Double. Man must know it. It is true that today man develops a great many concepts, but they are really blind because man does not yet know how to deal with them in the right way. Man develops concepts today, which can have a proper basis only when they are brought together with the facts which form their foundation.
And here something is disclosed which in the future must really be followed up. If the human race is not to experience endless difficulties, really endless horrors. For you see this Double of which I have spoken is nothing more nor less than the author of all physical illnesses which come forth spontaneously from within; and to know him fully is organic medicine. Illnesses that appear spontaneously not from outer injuries but appear spontaneously from within man - these come not from the human soul, they come from this being, He is the author of all illnesses that come spontaneously from within, he is the author of all organic illnesses. And a brother of his, who not conditioned Ahrimanically but Luciferical is the author of all neurathenic and neurotic illnesses, and so on - all illnesses that are really not illnesses, but only (as they say) nerve illnesses, hysterical illnesses ... and so on and so forth. So that medicine must be spiritual in two directions. And that this is demanded is shown by the breaking in of such views as those of psychoanalysis and the like, where one works with spiritual entities, but with insufficient knowledge, so that one can do nothing at all with the phenomena which will break in more and more into human life. For certain things must necessarily happen, even that which in one direction is harmful must happen, because man must be exposed to what is harmful and there by gain strength to overcome it.
Now in order to understand fully such things as I have just brought forward, that this Double is really the author of all illnesses that have an organic foundation, that are not merely functional - in order to understand this fully - one must know very much more, one must know for example that our entire earth is not that dead product which mineralogy or geology thinks it to be, but a living being. Mineralogy knows as much of the earth as one would know of the human being if he knew only the boney system. Then you would know as much of man as the geologists, and science in general know of the earth. Imagine, you would come in here and of all the respected ladies and gentlemen whom you find here, you would see nothing more than the bones - then you would have as much consciousness of the people present here as science has of the earth. The earth, which is known only as a bony system, is a living organism.
As a living organism, the earth works upon the beings who live on it: namely, on men themselves. And just as man is differentiated with regard to the apportionment of the organs of his body so is the earth also differentiated with regard to that which it livingly develops, and with which it influences the people who walk around on it. I mean, you know that when you think, you are not exerting your right index finger or your left great toe, but your head. You know perfectly will that you do not think with your right great toe, you think with your head.
Thus things are apportioned in the human organism, which is differentiated. So our earth also is differentiated. Our earth is not at all a being which everywhere pours out the same things on its inhabitants; but in the different regions of the earth, something entirely different is rayed out. And there are various forces in it, magnetic, electric, but also much more in the sphere of living. outstreaming forces, which come up out of the earth, and which influence people in the most manifold ways at different points on the earth. That is, they influence man in various ways according to geographical formation.
This is a very important fact, for what man is at first as body soul and spirit has really very little direct relation to the forces that work up out of the earth. But the Double of which I have spoken chooses to be related to these forces that stream up out of the earth. Indirectly man stands in relation to the earth, in body, soul and spirit to that in which rays out at various points, because his Double cherishes a most intimate relation to what streams forth there. These beings, which as an Ahrimanic - Mephistophelian being take possession of man a short time before he is born, have quite a special fancy with regard to nature. There are some such beings that are especially pleased with the eastern hemisphere: Europe, Asia, Africa, they choose to possess the bodies of men born there, others choose bodies born in the western hemisphere, in America. Geography of which we have but a dim image, is to these beings a living principle of their own experience. According to this they choose their dwelling place.
And from this you will see further on that one of the most important tasks of the future will be to foster again what has been broken off: geographical medicine, medical geography. With Paracelsus it was torn away from the ancient atavistic wisdom; since then it has been little nurtured on account of materialistic views. It must again be revived, and many things must first become known, if one is to come to know the connection of the illness producing being in man with geography, with all the fusions, with all the outward traditions which come out of the earth according to the various regions.
Therefore it is important for man to become acquainted with these things for his life depends upon it. In a very definite way he is placed in this earth existence by this Double - and this Double has his dwelling place within himself, within the man.
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look also (nice schemes):
The Double
Adriana Koulias
http://www.eleggua.com/Spirit/The%20Double.html

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http://www.borderlands.com/archives/arch/liteelec.html
Some Observations on the Relationships between light & electricity
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Manecheism, Catharism and Freemasonry.
http://www.eleggua.com/Spirit/Manicheis … sonry.html
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Faith Love and Hope as a Counterforce to Evil
http://www.eleggua.com/Spirit/Faith%20L … 0Evil.html
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The Grail Stream and the Anti Grail Stream
http://www.eleggua.com/Spirit/The%20Gra … eam-1.html
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The Advent of Ahriman:An Essay on the Deep Forces behind the World-Crisis
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Sparta/1105/ahriman.htm
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Have fun reading this, these are among the most comprehensive articles I found concerning  these themes. Joined to montalk material, it kicks ass.  don't pertend that the articles I dent you are better tha montalk, I just point to marvelous articles coming from anthroposophists.

Have a nice read.

Druid

Druid
Fantastic stuff, many thanks!

Montalk
“The moon... can't live with it, can't live without it."

You had just discovered that the women are beings from moon!

Other details about atavistic clairvoyance and the eighth sphere, Lucifer and Ahriman.

Atavistic clairvoyance is filled with illusions and can be dangerous: people who become visionaries (second sight, trance, hypnosis, visions, hallucinations, etc.) are going toward the edge of the eighth sphere, where lost souls go and can never come back.

Here are titles about the eighth sphere as kingdom of lucifer (and ahriman) and dark side of the moon:
La reincarnation sans l'esprit: histoire d'une contre-verite (Irene Diet)
Michael and the two-horned beast (Bernard Nesfield-Cookson)
The East in the light of the West (Sergei O. Prokofieff)

You might also like to check "From Jundi Shapur to Silicon Valley", by the anthroposophist Francis Paul Emberson, about the incarnation of Ahriman (Satan) in computers and our future which looks a lot like The Matrix, with big spider webs across the earth, crawling with spiders of artificial intelligence. The use of fallen etheric forces (electricity, magnetism and the mysterious "third force" involving nuclear powers) inspired by/inhabiting ahrimanic elementals (lizzies) wich are also our own shadow-self, doppelganger, the ahrimanic Double, which comes from the inner earth and want to take over or planet enslaving us.

I also strongly suggest that you read about the ways to save these beings in the cosmic order, as pointed by Nicolaas de Jong in his article "Ufos: The search for Truth, Reality and tools for their redemption", available on the internet. Also: "Ufos: preeminent phenomena of our time" by Patrick Steensma.

Steiner does not talk about a "Wave"(2012), but indicates that the Christ is coming back in the etheric world since 1933. It means that more and more people will experience a new form of clairvoyance, for example, thing's and people's aura will be seen. The new way of clairvoyance, though, is not a return to the ancient passive, atavistic, mediumnic and visionary kind of clairvoyance. This new clairvoyance cannot rely on ouija tables because in this way the hand is moved by elemental beings taking their knowledge from the beings on the moon, who once were with us as teachers in Lumeria and Atlantis. When Laura was talking with "Cassiopaeans", she cold only know the given answer by putting the letters  one after the other, making a significant statement. This is still an unconscious way and must be avoided. Elemental beings communicating this way (though mediums) are infinitely more clever that whatever we can grasp nor imagine. They can misguide us into half-truths like "the Christ event is not very significant", "the moon is the eight sphere", and so on.  The new clairvoyance is described by Jesaiah Ben Aharon, in "The new experience of the supersensible", like a renewed "vision of Paul on Damascus". We will have inspiring and moving revelations wide awake. These are not visions in the old sense. The new clairvoyance must be developed by a strengthening of our grounding in clear perception of the outside world, combined to a healthy development in the areas of thinking, feeling and willing.  The michaelic yoga is not inspire-expire but perceive in-think out. This way, imaginations are formed and the refresh our dead knowledge of the world, enabling us to join Christ in a conscious experience of nature and the cycle of year, for example.

The development of the new clairvoyance is hindered by spirits of hindrances such as Lucifer and Ahriman (not to mention the asuras and Sorat, the Beast, which are far superior in evil). Lucifer takes us back into old time religion and ecstatic, subjective mysticism. Ahriman, Mephistopheles or Satan, wants to make us unbelievers in spirit and believers in science, matter and progress. Half-baked oriental mysticism illegitimately joined with modern physics (like Fritjof Capra's works The Tao of Physics) only produces a subtler form of materialism, a super-materialism, in the vein of spiritism and mediumnism.  Lucifer and Ahriman join their effort against a healthy experience of Christ in the etheric world by diverting the new clairvoyant faculties into the old kind of clairvoyance (vision, mediumship, spiritism) or into new techniques of manipulating consciousness by means of material means: drugs, electromagnetism, physical sound waves, etc. Spiritual materialism is one of the traps that must be recognised and avoided by all occultist students. The major stuff that we give to the eighth sphere is exactly that materialistic (or spiritual-materialist) imaginative stuff. These materialist (or spiritual-materialist) thoughts (thought-forms) give form, in the eighth sphere, to all fantasies coming from the imagination-activity, morever the most science-fictionesque or grotesque thought-forms. These become "probable realities". The spiritual worlds must not be confused with the spectre nature of the substance of the eighth sphere, which takes the forms of our materialist (or spiritual-materialist) thought-forms.  All that is linked with our head (where Ahriman dwells) and our bellies (where Lucifer dwells), is a door opening to this dead world of the eighth sphere. We must instead create moral and spiritual thought-forms that will become the spiritual ground, the body of the future earth-man, called Jupiter state by Steiner (the New Jerusalem).

According to Nicolaas de Jong (2001), "lizzies" (reptilians) are fallen elementals of an ahrimanic (satanic) nature; we must change our thinking in order to reconnect in a healthy way to the elemental kingdom, so that when - in the future - elementals attain the stage of humanhood, they will have at their disposition an adequate spiritual body, made up of the imaginative body that we will have created by our thinking, and not a coarse and dead body which they will use to torment us and parasite us (that which they already do and do more and more in the future). Our though forms, in relation to the elemental world (which is used against us by fallen angelic hierarchies), will become living forms in the future - our little "creatures" - and will be on their way to attain human egohood. Right now and forever, he have a great responsibility in their fall and so have a special role, a moral duty, in their spiritualization process - that is their "coming back into the light".
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Steiner also says that future humans from Jupiter are influencing people in "high places" (he says Lenin, Trotski, and others) in their unconsious, in their metabolism, and will. They are ahrimanic beings, not unripe humans in becoming, they are destined to be humans in Jupiter stade of earth's future. Other ahrimanic beings are influencing the intellect of materialists, following Marx and others. Others are imbuing us with nationalistic sentiments and reverting us in our race, the traits that make individuals from the same race look alike and act alike. Other ahrimanic beings are elementals seduced and driven by ahriman. Others are dead human beings used by ahriman as ahrimanic beings. They are forced to obey ahriman fro a while because they were lazy and immoral. A lot of ahrimanic beings are on the moon, along with luciferic beings. OUr super ancient teachers from lemuria, already invisible in atlantis, are also on the moon right now, cohabiting with the worst ahrimanic and luciferic beings, along with quite helpful luciferic ones. 

Consciousness must not be lowered with anithing like drugs, hypnosis, transe, mediums, second sight, or anything like this. When visionaries gain visions, they are elaborating a world that awaits them after death. Them and all those who believed it. an hypnotist and his patient get caught in a tangled web of karma that they will hardly be able to detangle. a false world in created in our head by using drugs. synthetic is ahrimanic. Drifting toward suibnature. this is taken up by lucifer and ahriman to construct the eighth sphere. Read Steienr more carefully and all this will glow on your forehead. There is also a wrong relationsjip established with, the ego, from one side, and elementals, from the others. elementals that have not been redeemed by our conscious striving for truth and beauty in our reltionship to them, will come back in a later life to haunt us. Just like plastic does dissolve in nature, they a still here when we come back to incarnate.

Psychedelics are material means to attain occult knowledge, just like channeling/mediums, spiritism, and phenomenalism (that which Steiner associated with the anglo-saxon habit of thought to weigh and mesure material traces of occult phenomena, being obsessed with not knowing the thing but to mesure it, seal it in space/matter). One should never rely on material means to gain knowledge of the supersensible brcause this is ahrimanic. Real knowledge itself is supersensible.

The other side of this is extatic mysticism. Steiner warned alot about the complacency and the egoism involved in mystic exstacy. They think they are god, that a divine spark burns in themselves. This is just an hallucination of bodily processes (in Polarities in the evolution of mankind, Steiner). This mystic thinks his self-knowledge is better than materialism, thoug what he is knowing is only the knowledge of the matter inside his body, the organic processes. This is all he really learns about, he he does so without knowing it. materialists who are looking for atomic and subatomic particles are running at a rainbow trying to catch its tail. They only learns about themselves looking at the atom: they get the image they constructed in their mind, the rainbow of outside matter, the non-existent atom.

that in ARTS, we need more beauty, more luciferic impulses. The mission of Lucifer is linked with the Holy Spirit. But he can also drive you into the eighth sphere if one is seduced by him. to make a long story short, Lucifer is one of the hierarchies that were commanded by other hierarchies to develop inner life of their own - that is the beginning of lies and error and egoism. They are not bad spirits, yet they temps us in doing wrong, in forgetting christ. Lucifer was a great teacher. Greek-germanic-hindou gods are luciferic. Oriental religion is luciferic. intelligence, abstract knowledge is luciferic in the it kills Isis-sophia the knowledge of Christ and cosmic wisdom. Isis is dead and her grave is the stars. This is the reverse of the death of osiris: osiris was dismembered by Ahriman, Isis in put in a single grave in the blank whiteness of the stars, in space. (Luciferic beings have a role in planetary formation: while sun beings radiate toward the cosmos, luciferic beings come down from the cosmos and make material planets by applying their rounding - egoisitc - forces to matter in planetary "orbits". That is why they can be seen and astronomy can be done. Modern astronomy and abstract mathematical logic has killed Isis, the knowledge of cosmic impulses and above all, Christ.

Lucifer has a mission that was linked with the temple legend of freemasonry. Cain is child of Lucifer and eve. He commits fratricide. He is reincarnated in Hiram, Abel is Salomon. Salomon has a role in hiram's death. Hiram makes a prophecy before his trespassing: a member of my decendance shall complete the temple. This points to the future role of freemasonry. This is linked with the mastery of elemental powers through moral technique or mechanical occultism (not the objective occultism that Steiner condemns in The occult movement in the nineteeth century) that will make machines work by themselves magically, through the powers of the elementals. The Cain people has this latent power. They are "The West"... This is also linked with the shining independence and wisdom of lucifer: gnosis that was carried in catharism manicheism and bogomiles is of luciferic origin. Example: Augustine father of catholicism believed in outer authority, while his manichean master (in contra faustum) says he shouldn't rely upon any outer authority. This points toward the "son of the widow" symbol: with secret societies (egyptian gnosis), males and fathers are away from home. Children are alone with mother as an so of a widow. The authority of the father is not there and the being is guided by the self-directive feminine principle. This is luciferic, this taste for independance and freedom (we owe freedom to lucifer and those whose "Vulcans" that incarnated in Atlantis, in denser conditions than Lemuria - thus we have young souls (artistotelians) and old souls (platonicians). This "staying behind while other humans wee incarnating, they were waiting for conditions that would help them to develop their intellect and independence, in arts, architecture, science, etc. In the future, man will have to become a co-creator, and then the metamorphosed luciferic power of self-development will help to master creation, become a creator himself (as the artist or builder). This is linked to the future liberation of Prometheus, chained to the mineral rock-brain by a jealous Zeus. Yahve hated Cain.  Zeus hated Prometheus. Prometheus is a forward, creative thinker, not Epimetheus. Epimetheus is more like Abel.
The tongues of fire, the descent of the holy spirit above the head of disciples in the pentecost (whitsuntide) is luciferic wisdom transformed it its own power of salvation. The realising of our devanic nature (gods hidden in matter) and the god in the making that is ourselves. the serpent nature is the fractioning of this spirit in independent beings. Sophia is linked with the serpent. this is the changing of the astral nature into manas-sophia, the virgin. The Holy Spirit is healing spirit. Lucifer is redeemed in the holy spirit. Relying on religions and the orient, one does not find Christ, one finds Lucifer. Boddisattvas give knowledge of the Christ, though only a reflection, Christ is life itself. Boddisattvas are dispenser of the knowledge of Christ. they gain their value by reflecting Christ to us. Oriental mahatmas can only give boddhisattvas lunar wisdom as an unconscious reflection of the solar Christ. Bouddha-mercury is also a messenger of Christ though it is not written in buddhist written tradition. 

Did you ever notice that no extraterrestrial or medium source ever talks about the event of the Golgotha and the importance of the living forces that Christ poured into the Earth through the Mystery of Golgotha? Either they don’t know about this, or they lie about this.

Like De Jong said, aliens are searching man’s body to find the ‘building blocks’ of their future, with which they shall create their own planet: the eighth sphere, a mechanical planet earth in which humans would be slaves for them. The same way heredity was linked to the moon in order that less substance can be poured into the eighth sphere, aliens want to understand reproduction forces to bypass this limit. They mainly play with our brains and mind and by this more and more brain substance melts with the eighth sphere. They create worlds in our mind.

Sorry if it bothers some that I always refer to anthroposophical research... I fell into it when I was young! 

If you liked the articles about the eighth sphere (which I didn't write actually: it comes from an ex-website that cannot be found anymore), you will surely love those articles.

Nicolaas de Jong (UFO's : the search for truth, reality and tools for their redemption)
http://www.bruisvat.nl/english/ufo2.htm

and Patrick Steensma (UFO's: preeminent phenomena of our times).
http://www.bruisvat.nl/english/ufo1.htm

They are not very long but very dense and immensely useful (according to me). Read them with careful and powerful attention, and it will shine as clear daylight on your understanding of fallen beings like aliens.

He points to a way to interact with them that, I'm sure, will raise some objections. He says we have a responsibility towards fallen elemental beings (aliens) because they don't have an ego and, because we do, we have the power to turn them better by convincing them to go back to into the light and collaborate with us to make a better future (not a future in which they enslave us). They fell prey to Ahriman's seduction. Partly, this is because of our technology, which tear more and more elementals away from the right course of their activity. Thus fallen, they go into the undernature, the inner earth of fallen etheric forces, Hades, Tartarus, and joind Ahriman's army. We cannot defeat Ahriman except in our deeds and souls. If we become white magicians (not anything like in the old time religion though!) we can colaborate with good elementals to somewhat 'redeem' fallen elementals. They need technology where we can do it by our own spiritual power (teleportation for example). Because of their influence on corporations and governments, a total slavery is establishing itself on earth, with microchips and surveillance paranoia. They want to make our future a mess in which we would be forced to flee into the eighth sphere because our world would be intolerable. They inspire new age and atavistic practices which litteraly sucks substance into the eighth sphere. 

I am getting ahead of myself. Read it. I was amazed by its insight.
http://www.bruisvat.nl/english/ufo2.htm
http://www.bruisvat.nl/english/ufo1.htm

Have fun!

Druid

I appreciate your comments.

"All talk and no experience make Druid a fancy cloud-cookoo-lander"

First, I think we have to get the spiritual world clearly mapped out in our minds, using thinking, before trying any sort of mystical or occult training.

Occult training without clear knowledge may lead to harmful disastrous results.

Besides, every occult training makes me suspicious.

Steiner talked about yoga, but stressed that it is not a proper way fro modern men that we are. Luciferic spirits manipulate our consciousness went we dwell in mystical respiratory induced states. Lucifer makes us mystics who want to flee the material world and dwell instead in a world of fancies.

Imagination is a method of developing knwoledge that hasnMt anything to do with imagination as we currently understand it. In Imagination, we have to self-generate a concept or an image and focus on it. Take a rosicruaicn symbol for example: the cross and the garland of seven roses. This is not to be found in sensory experience. that is the portal to "sensefree thinking" or pure thinking. This is applied to thinking in order that it becoms independent of the brain. sensory experience is materialistic and bounds thinking to the brain. Pure thinking liberates thinking from the brain. then it becomes possible to experience the spiritual. Spiritual beings can manifest themselves through these self-generated Imaginations. This is not fanciful fantasy, though.
a way to discriminate this from eighth sphere manipulations is to ask ourselves: have I myself actively generated this image? If it comes like a vision, imposed on us without an active freewilled self-created Imaging, it is surely eighth sphere manipulation (manipulated by demons who have hijacked teh atavistic experiences since long ago - in the past Gods used atavistic clairvoyance legitimately, now demons use what remains of this atavism and use it to induce us a false sense of the spiritual). For example, many "past life experiences" come in hypnosis-induced visions. These must be seen for what they are: atavistic visions, in which ou free will in transmutated in eighth sphere substance (visions). Steiner struggled for a long time just to find the 'real' past lives of an individuality. First, he had to discard 'false images and illusory misleading visions' (coming from the eighth sphere, i.e. maniupated by demons - fallen astral beings), to find the real personality traits of the person whom we wish to know its past lives. In hypnosis induced regressions, people experience images like in a cinema but they also feel the pain and experience as if it was theirs. This is a hint of the eighth sphere's nature of these experiences. Visions, i.e. experiences and imags coming from the eighth sphere and used by demons, impose themselves on us and we are trapped into believing it is our own past lives. But it isn't. Naturally, Steiner believed in past lives, though he was very serious about karma research, so serious about it that he was always on his gard that there could be no eighth sphere interferences in his findings. This is a very serious matter because false beliefs lead into dangerous pathways (i.e. the eighth sphere). (There could be hundreds of other examples, but I 'm out of time...)

I totally agree with you that WE MUST NOT FALL PREY TO SUPERSTITION in any way. Old time religions is made of this and medieval beliefs in elementals is also a superstitious way of thinking because it doesn't understand the phenomenon from a spiritual scientific point of view. However, let's consider this: If belief in spiritual beings is 'positive supersition', we must also consider that UNbelief in spiritual beings is a 'negative superstition': it's always a BELIEF, therefore a superstition. Being 'spiritual scientists'(wannabes), we must not obliterate the fact that when we do not know if something exists or not, we cannot say for sure that it does or does'nt exist. At least, not if we do not have any hint. However, according tomy own experience of struggle to know the spiritual and discriminate it from the eighth sphere, I have hints of direct experience (not proof) that they do exist, but I take that idea as a working hypothesis, not a dogma. One cannot 'proove' anything, one can only 'experience' it.

I try not so much to convince people rather than suggest paths of research that worked for me. I find montalk material extremely useful to put the pieces together, that's why I thought it might interest Montalk's forum.

See ya!   

Druid