We are now perhaps far enough away from the 1960s to be able to look back on that decade – and many of us are still alive who can remember what it was like to be young at that time – and realise that it was a time that is extraordinarily pregnant with meaning and vividly illustrative of the contemporary spiritual struggles going on then, which in many ways prepared and seeded the ground for much, though of course not all, of what is occurring today. After all, 63 years ago, in 1961, when the Berlin Wall went up, was a time when Cold War tensions began to peak – just as they are doing today. That decade began in the year that JFK arrived in the White House, the “winds of change” began to blow in Africa, the Vatican II Council was underway, the war in Vietnam worsened, the Berlin Wall went up and Europe was definitively split in two.

But then, despite those tensions, the 1960s were also a threshold moment when, as it were, in just a very few years, a new young generation responded to those tensions by brusquely pulling back a curtain, and a different world – of freedom, equality, brotherhood, love and peace – was suddenly glimpsed by many, whether with or without the use of ‘stimulants’. Many reached out to grasp or realise that vision of a different world, but it soon slipped between their fingers; the curtain closed again and the vision blurred over. By 1973 certainly, it was no more. Perhaps not since the spring of 1848, that year of liberal revolutions across Europe, had so many people, especially in the younger generation, in many countries, suddenly and dramatically sensed the possibility that the world might so unexpectedly change for the better, in a way that was similar to what happened in the mid-late 1960s. Of the atmosphere of 1848 the German historian Karl Heyer wrote: “A wonderful atmosphere must have prevailed, especially in Germany, beginning with those splendid spring days in March 1848. A breath of liberation passed throughout society, emanations of the strongest feelings, borne by a tremendous enthusiasm, of the will to sacrifice and devote oneself to an ideal of life, permeated by rapturous feelings, and the hope, indeed, the subjective conviction: now everything must get better! ‘My heart feels warm whenever I recall those days’, wrote Carl Schurz (1829-1906) later in his memoirs; he had taken part in the events of the year of revolution, then went to America, where he became a significant American statesman. He especially emphasised the willingness for sacrifice which had then gripped countless people of all kinds. Friedrich Payer, born in 1847, who still strongly felt the afterglow of the year of ’48 in his youth, thought in his old age that the expression ‘the Peoples’ Spring’ most resembled what the German people were experiencing at the time, namely, that it was like a proliferation of the feeling which young people felt awaken in themselves when the oppression and night of winter gives way to the bright, warm spring sunshine. ‘There must be something glad and victorious in the air’, a feeling that in a miraculous way renewed itself for months on end…”¹ There had also been a comparable upsurge in enthusiasm in America in the mid-1770s and in France in 1789-90, but those upsurges had only occurred in two countries. In the 1960s, the feeling of tremendous change in the air was more worldwide, from Japan and China, across Europe and right across N. America as far as California.

The forces demanding cultural and political freedom in Europe in 1848-49 were harshly suppressed by the powers of Old Reaction – monarchy, aristocracy and the Church – in most cases supported by the power of the banks. Liberalism failed in the second half of the 19th century, and new, poisonous forms of politics arose to challenge the old conservative forces that would not and could not yield: radical nationalism, fascism and communism. These challenges shattered Europe in the first half of the 20th century, but even after the world wars, and despite all the guff about the movement for European unity, 100 years on from 1848, forces opposed to real change in Europe had not shifted; they had only put on new authoritarian masks: monarchy, aristocracy and the Church may no longer have had the power they exercised in 1848, but in their place, or alongside them now in 1948 were Big Business, Big Finance, Big Science, Academia, the Establishment-buttressing mass media, and the new, sinister intelligence agencies of the centralised, modern Big State.

Rudolf Steiner had said in 1919: “if the teaching at our universities goes on as it does now for another 30 years, and if people continue to think about social matters in the same way for another 30 years, then, by the middle of this century, Europe will be a desert…everything will be in vain if there is not a fundamental transformation in human souls in the way they think about the relationship between this world and the spiritual world. If nothing is learnt anew in this sense, if people do not reshape their thinking, then a moral deluge will engulf Europe!…[the] middle point of our century coincides with the end of the period in which the forces from before the middle of the 15th century – still atavistically with us to some extent – reach their ultimate decadence. By the middle of our present century [1950s] mankind must have taken the decision to turn towards the spirit… new forces must be drawn up from the depths of human souls…”.² The decadent “forces from before the middle of the 15th century” that Steiner was referring to were the forces of the previous Greco-Roman epoch, its politics, legalism, and academic intellectual thought, as well as the forces of Old Testament Hebraic culture carried by church dogmatism, and also ancient pagan sentiments and values from pre-Christian times. But teaching had not essentially changed by 1950, nor had social thinking, nor had there been any fundamental transformation or turn towards the spirit before the beginning of the 1950s, and the result had been that Europe had indeed become a physical ‘desert’ in many areas in the 1940s. For many younger souls who had been born during the war or in the postwar years it remained a psychological desert in the 1950s.

The three waves of the 1960s

But then came the great shift of the 1960s as those born into the chaos of the war years reached adulthood. The shift occurred in 3 discernible phases that bore some resemblance to what happened in France (and to an extent elsewhere in Europe) from 1780-1815 as the classical Enlightenment era gave way or was overlapped by the newer, Romantic sensibility.

First, there was a wave of enthusiasm for all things in areas of scientific and technological knowledge; this was driven by the Establishment and its media instruments to a large extent, as it depended greatly on high finance. Something similar had happened in the 1780s, when Europeans were fascinated by new scientific ideas and technological fads and developments, including: hot air balloons, steam cars, electricity, mesmerism.

The elegant ‘modernist’ look of the early 1960s

In the early 1960s high employment, consumer goods such as TVs, transistor radios, and motor cars and improved transport links such as motorways generated great enthusiasm that was boosted by the new satellites and rockets to ‘outer space’, the new shiny skyscrapers going up around the world with their abstract, scientific, Modernist designs that were soon echoed in the sleek lines of young people’s fashions and hair styles. Politicians indulged in rhetoric about changing society in “the white heat of the technological revolution”. But all this was not yet a protest, an effort to transform fundamentals, let alone those of a spiritual nature. It was more a consequence of the confluence of growing prosperity plus the percolated effects of the first Modernist wave in art and design that had begun around the time of the First World War some 50 years earlier and had been ‘held up’, as it were, for a generation by the two world wars.

However, this first, rather ‘top-down’ level of knowledge and science-based cosmetic change which saw the sleek style of the early 1960s already looking very different from the dowdy early 1950s, was followed by a ‘bottom-up’ movement of social imagination and feeling as millions of the new baby-boomers became involved in campaigning activism, first against the horrors of nuclear weapons and then inspired by the civil rights movement in the USA and the worsening Vietnam war situation, confused and disturbed by the assassination of US President Kennedy in November 1963 and the feeling that perhaps, somehow, the Establishment had killed one of its own, who had yet seemed to be the ‘people’s tribune’. After the killing of Kennedy (followed by other assassinations of prominent popular leaders such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and President Kennedy’s brother Bobby), the USA soon began to slide into psychological disequilibrium and growing tension and trouble between the generations, the races, and within families. France had been the stoker of protest in the period 1770-1870, but the USA has largely filled that role since 1945 and certainly did in the 1960s. In the 1950s there had been no great youth movement in the West in support of the Vietminh struggle against French armies, but by 1960 the ‘baby-boomer’ generation³ had come of age in consumerist America; it had not previously needed to fight in wars or hustle for its economic survival like previous generations; it was ‘literate’ and its students had time on their hands and money in their pockets. Born into the terrible strife of world war and the social problems that followed, the indignation of this generation over the racist civil rights abuses in their own country still going on 100 years after the US Civil War was combined with what they saw as yet another imperialist American war overseas, in Vietnam and the stultifying consumerism and materialism of 1950s America. By the mid-60s, political activism and campaigning among both black and white youth was becoming a matter of serious concern to the Establishment.

Civil Rights march mid-60s USA – Martin Luther King and Coretta King

This second aspect of the 1960s, that of a social and political activism that owed much to older traditions of collective social action over the previous 100 years, lasted until approximately the middle of the decade, by which time it was being overlapped and increasingly infiltrated and ultimately weakened by the decade’s third wave or aspect: a very new, individualistic, hedonistic and also more anarchic, self-conscious cultural movement that was concerned above all with personal development but in a ‘new’, ‘tribal’, collective context, which came to be called “flower power” and from 1965, was centred on LSD and other hallucinogenic substances. Scott Mackenzie (1939-2012, b. Philip Wallach Blondheim III) – one of the instant troubadours of this cultural new wave that was soon recognisable by its oriental and tribal fashion statements, its long hair for both men and women, its headbands, flowers, bells and sandals – sang the song which in May 1967 became the anthem for the hippie ‘movement’: “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)”: “All across the nation, such a strange vibration, people in motion. There’s a whole generation with a new explanation….people in motion.”

The Summer of Love 1967, USA

Many people have written⁴ about how the second, ‘political action’ wave was either partly or substantially subverted by government agents behind the scenes in order to weaken and undermine the political activism of the second wave. These agents seeded young people’s communities with mind-altering substances such as LSD and the ideas of Pied Piper Establishment scientists such as ‘acid prophet’ Timothy Leary and his colleague Richard Alpert (aka Baba Ram Dass), A turning point here was the much-hyped first “Human Be-In – a Gathering of the Tribes” at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on 14 January 1967, which began with the words: “Welcome to the first manifestation of the Brave New World”. The main speaker at the “Be-In” was the self-appointed guru of the new psychedelic movement, Timothy Leary, who urged the assembled 25,000 young people to “turn on, tune in and drop out”. What those in the park did not know was that the event was the brainchild of veteran American occultist John Starr Cooke,⁵ who lived in wheelchair-bound seclusion in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and of his artist disciple Michael Bowen, who had moved to the ‘hippie central’ Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco at Cooke’s request in order to stimulate the ‘Brave New World’ by organising the “Human Be-In”.

This is not to say that the whole of the 60s or the whole ‘flower power’ hippie movement, which looked so much to Asia and to other non-western cultures for inspiration and spiritual guidance, was a mind control operation run by the CIA or other ‘occult’ (i.e. forces hidden behind the scenes), as has often been argued online over the past 20 years or so. It’s not difficult to trace the many orientalising influences present in the western states of the USA, notably California, that had been growing there especially since the first World’s Parliament of Religions in Chicago, held 11-16 Sept. 1893. These influences permeated a not insignificant part of the ‘baby boomer’ generation. “There was a fantastic universal sense”, wrote Hunter S. Thompson⁶, “that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning …And that, I think, was the handle – that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting – on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.” This optimism and confidence were similar to the mood of the “Peoples’ Spring” in 1848.

However, by the end of 1969, after the Woodstock festival and the Manson murders in the summer of that year (both in August), the mass murder of over 400 students in Mexico City in October, the murder at the Altamont rock festival in December, and the worsening hard drugs situation in San Francisco, the hippie dreams of 1967 had already darkened. Many sensed that the dream was already dying, or even dead.

Music reflected this darkening and turning inwards; although musical creativity in the pop, rock and jazz scene was truly remarkable between 1963 and 1973, and affords real insights into the very wide spectrum of ‘spiritual’ and cultural influences at work⁷ in popular consciousness in those 10 years, rock music in general got heavier, louder and darker, more ‘Gothic’ in the Romantic sense, driven both by technological ‘advances’ and ever-increasing indulgence in drugs and alcohol. One can compare a gentle idealistic song like San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair) by Scott McKenzie in 1967 with a hard rock number about a heroin dealer, The Pusher, by Steppenwolf in 1969, just two years later. One saw more and more people at festivals and rock music gigs who, either ‘high’ or ‘heavy’, were obviously out of their minds in one way or another. Indulgence in sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll had become the unholy trinity for all too many in this generation; its children would often have to pay the price in the coming years in terms of the broken minds and relationships of their young parents. It was as though an entire generation had embarked on a spiritual quest without fully realising it – and the ‘initiation’ had failed.

A failed initiation?

One of the first late 60s British rock bands I saw play live, Jethro Tull (see pic below) , had a hit song called Living in the Past in 1969. The lyrics speak of a hedonistic love affair between two people who choose to ignore those around them who are concerned about wars, disasters and revolution: “We’ll go walking out while others shout of wars, disasters… . Once I used to join in, every boy and girl was my friend. Now there’s revolution, but they don’t know what they’re fighting. Let us close our eyes. Outside, their lies go on much faster. We won’t give in, let’s go living in the past”. Jethro Tull’s visual image was also of a Pied Piperish nature, with Ian Anderson, their seemingly half-crazed flame-haired singer and flautist stalking around the stage dressed in a motley jacket with tails.

The band and the song very much evoke a harlequinesque Romantic sensibility that spoke to many of the later baby-boomers who preferred not to commit to social activism on a mass scale but at most, tried to set up small-scale communities of friends who had all more or less “dropped out” of conventional society, rejecting the conventional mores of the first half of the 20th century altogether. Inspired by the Beatles’ odysseys to India or contemporaries’ trips to the Himalayas or Latin America or any non-western culture, these young people, encouraged by the likes of older ‘wayfarers’ such as the Americans Timothy Leary (1920-1996) and Baba Ram Dass (aka Richard Alpert, 1931-2019), and the English ‘Zen’ philosopher Alan Watts (1915-1973), imagined they wanted to turn their backs on the West and on its religion and culture completely, seeking either to create their own from scratch, or to emulate, to a greater or lesser degree, some non-western village or tribal society. Such efforts had nearly all failed by the early 70s, like the manic ‘Family’ project of the multi-murderer Charles Manson, which ended in ghastly scenes like something out of Goya’s more nightmarish paintings, and those ‘communes’ that managed to continue, did so because, like the communities of gurus such as the Indian Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh (later known as Osho) and James Edward Baker (Father Yod) they were held together by the ‘iron butterfly’ discipline of a more or less authoritarian guru figure to whom all looked up and on whom they had become psychologically dependent to a greater or lesser extent.

The arrest of Charles Manson (kneeling) and his “Family”

Just as the Romantic generation of the period 1790-1840 looked to Ossian’s⁸ Celtic stories of ancient times or to Rousseau’s evocation of the non-European ‘noble savage’ living in harmony with nature far from the urbanised intellectual artificiality of European salons, palaces and gardens, many baby-boomers sought what Terence McKenna (1946-2000) later dubbed ‘the archaic revival’. McKenna was one of the more deep-thinking among them.

A psychedelic explorer and ‘philosopher’ and the man who Timothy Leary, with characteristic ‘modesty’ called “the Timothy Leary of the 1990s”, McKenna felt western culture was deeply sick and was trying to heal itself by returning to ‘neolithic values’, among which he included: “surrealism, abstract expressionism, body piercing and tattooing, psychedelic drug use, sexual permissiveness, jazz, experimental dance, rave culture, rock and roll and catastrophe theory”⁹, in other words, anything which inclines towards the breakdown of concepts and forms of space and time -

a kind of cleaning of the cultural slate, “getting back” to an imagined ‘Year Zero’, regarding everything in the evolution of the West over the past 5000 years as a mere bubble or an error in comparison with the wonder of a butterfly or a single psilocybin mushroom. Critical of the New Age movement of the 1980s, which he saw as a sham, McKenna wrote: “The New Age is essentially humanistic psychology ’80s-style, with the addition of neo-shamanism, channelling, crystal and herbal healing. The archaic revival is a much larger, more global phenomenon that assumes that we are recovering the social forms of the late neolithic, and reaches far back in the 20th century to Freud, to surrealism, to abstract expressionism, even to a phenomenon like National Socialism which is a negative force. But the stress on ritual, on organized activity, on race/ancestor-consciousness – these are themes that have been worked out throughout the entire 20th century, and the archaic revival is an expression of that.” 10

Many in this Romantic third wave of the 1960s, the ‘flower power’ ‘love and peace’ hippy sub-generation and its adherents and fellow-travellers, did indeed try to ‘turn to the spirit’ and seek to transform their souls by ‘drawing up new forces’ but all too often they did so not by ‘reshaping their thinking’ as Steiner would have urged, by morphing their modern intellectual thinking into what he saw as three higher, developmental forms of consciousness – Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition¹¹ – that would eventually, if pursued diligently and patiently, enable them to perceive in the spiritual world. Instead, and usually not knowing about his ideas, they chose not so much to transform themselves as to trance-form themselves by not thinking at all – by becoming en-tranced, deliberately losing their heads, by giving their bodies and their heads over to modern synthesised drugs or ancient organic mushrooms or other hallucinogens and by using the massive force of technology via hugely amplified music, to overwhelm their thinking minds and push their bodies into movement. Change agent Timothy Leary said of himself and his fellow ‘turned-on’ academics: “we saw ourselves as unwitting agents of a social process that was far too powerful for us to control or to more than dimly understand.”¹² The young generation in the 1960s had become, as modern people, so alienated from their own organisms that they were prepared to subject them to any mis-or maltreatment for the sake of ‘getting high’, ‘far out’ or ‘out there’. And certainly, many of them did so, a number were indeed psychic explorers in this sense who came back changed for the better, but others were lucky to survive and lost friends and loved ones who did not. Many had their sense of themselves shattered by the experience and in many cases, never recovered, or else they moved on to harder drugs, addiction to which eventually destroyed them. Steiner had commented 120 years earlier that those who sought to cross the threshold of the spiritual world, to “break on through to the other side” (as Jim Morrison put it in one of The Doors’ famous songs, Break On Through, 1967) under the impact of drugs or mystical spiritual exercises that did not work with clear thinking, actually ‘broke on through’ not to the objective spiritual world but to the inner world of their own organism, their own body, which was of course deeply conditioned by their own karma, the state of their own minds, which is why so many had such different experiences on drugs.

They took such risks with their bodies because they were so distrustful of western intellectual thinking, the thinking they’d been educated in, the thinking their culture was permeated with, and because – despite two world wars and the deaths of millions – the culture had failed to make the change referred to earlier by Steiner in 1919 – the need to draw new forces from the depths of human souls. They therefore opted to throw out the baby of thinking together with what they regarded as the dirty bathwater of intellect. They opted to go “living in the past”, trying to return to ancient modes of thought and life, whether those of their own culture (e.g. ancient Celtic or Scandinvian, Slavic) or of completely alien cultures in McKenna’s sense of ‘archaic revival’. Alien, that is, in this lifetime. It is always possible, after all, that some of these people were in fact reincarnated tribal people from non-western cultures or else a pre-Roman European tribal culture, trying, in a modern context, to ‘get back to where (they had) once belonged’, as “Get Back”, the famous Beatles song of 1969, puts it.

Will, Wisdom, Love

The young people of the 60s did this in one of two ways, depending on their personal karmic history: the outer path of union with the gods of outer nature (which Steiner called the northern or Apollonian path) or the inner path of union with the gods of the soul’s inner depths (the southern or Dionysian path). Some of them tested themselves on both paths. Ancient India, Steiner tells us, was a culture in which both paths were in balance, while ancient Persian culture with its worship of Ahura Mazdao was of the macrocosmic, northern path and ancient Egypt looked to find Osiris and Isis on the microcosmic, southern path.¹³ It is fascinating to see how in the 1960s some young western people sought the spirit by testing themselves in outer nature, by outer travel in dangerous and unfamiliar conditions, experiencing mineral, plant and animal life, mountains, deserts, ice floes and glaciers, jungles, while others tested themselves not in nature but through intense inner meditation, whether through drugs, through guided or self-taught meditative praxis or through artistic exploration.

Another polarity which they explored was that of Will versus Wisdom. The path of Will is that of the will of God as revealed in the world outside the human being, whether in the forces of Nature or through the outer commandments of a human leader. Young western people in the 1960s were aware of this path through what they could see in film recordings or movies of the mass movements of the 1930s – the Nazis and the Communists and also their contemporaries in Communist China waving their Litte Red Books with the thoughts of Chairman Mao Ze Dong – or else they obediently followed guru-like figures in their own societies, such as Malcolm X, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (of the Hare Krishna movement), Anne Hamilton-Byrne (The Family, Australia). The inner path of Wisdom in the 1960s was either that of inner exploration of one’s own organism through drugs, or else through guided meditation in the context of an oriental spiritual discipline such as Zen, Tibetan, or Theravada Buddhism. Steiner, in his 1914 lectures on Christ and the Human Soul (Collected Works GA 155) contrasted these two paths of Will and Wisdom with the path of Love, which is that followed by deepening one’s relationship to Christ within one’s heart. Steiner describes how the Hebrews experienced Will through the burning thorn bush and through the Ten Commandments given to Moses and the 613 rules for life given in the Hebrew Bible. Pre-Christian pagan cultures experienced Wisdom through the ritual processes of the Mysteries in which the soul was separated from the body in an initiatic sleep. “But Love was given when God became man in Christ Jesus. And the assurance that we can love beyond death, that by means of the powers won back for our souls a community of Love can be founded between God and man and all human beings among one another – the guarantee for that proceeds from the Mystery of Golgotha. In the Mystery of Golgotha the human soul has found what it had lost from the primal beginning of the Earth, in that its forces had become ever weaker and weaker. Three forces in three members of the soul: Will, Wisdom, Love! In this Love the soul experiences its relation to Christ”. ¹⁴

In the life experiences of so many musicians, artists, film stars and others one could witness how the young generation tried to find their way among these three soul forces, and in those who found their way to Love, even if they didn’t regard themselves as ‘church Christians’, one could feel something of Christian love in those people. On 25 June 1967, on the eve of the hippies’ ‘Summer of Love’ in California, in London The Beatles performed their song All You Need Is Love for the world’s first international satellite TV link broadcast which was seen by 400 million people in 14 countries around the world. The song began with a brass phrase from the Marsaillaise, the martial French national anthem. The first words of that anthem are: “Let’s go children, of the fatherland, the day of glory has come…” meaning ‘let’s go and kill the invading enemies of France’, but after that initial phrase from the brass, The Beatles morphed it immediately into a sung chorus of “Love, love, love”… .

The Beatles “All You Need Is Love” 25 June 1967

The turbulence of the 1960s threw up so many stark contrasts – between, for example, the collectivism of the ‘love-in’, the ‘be-in’, the ‘happening’ and the creative individualism of a John Lennon or a Jimi Hendrix, artists who very much went their own way. Hendrix (1942-1970), a unique genius of the new instrument, the massively amplified electric guitar, trod a path that passed from a flamboyant, libertarian, ‘luciferic’ or Dionysian individualism in early songs like “Stone Free”, “If 6 was 9” and “Are you Experienced?” to an affirmation of the collective values of his generation and his people in his last year of playing and recording (with songs such as “Message to Love”, “Angel”, “Power of Soul”, “Earth Blues”). In his last year, he was stretching out in various new creative directions, playing with a wider span of musicians, notably in the jazz field. It was tragic that his early death from apparent accidental barbiturate poisoning (too many sleeping pills) in 1970 at the age of only 27 cut short the great promise of his burgeoning career, which can be surmised from, for example, the great creativity shown in his Electric Ladyland double album (late 1968). Fans of his music and his musical peers were in awe of Hendrix’s dynamic live performances and his innovative creativity in the recording studio. He seemed to be on a different level altogether from all other rock musicians, although certainly, his generation did produce numerous extremely talented and creative musicians, many of whom shared the ideal of freedom and going beyond boundaries.

“Supermen”

On 13 May 1921 Steiner gave a lecture in which he said something he never repeated, most likely because, unfortunately, no-one ever asked him about it again: “…a time is beginning when beings who are not human are coming down to earth from cosmic regions beyond. These beings are not human but depend for the further development of their existence on coming to earth and on entering here into relationships with human beings.” This has been happening, he said, since the 1880s, and “it is thanks to the fact that beings from beyond the earth are bringing messages down into this earthly existence that it is possible at all to have a comprehensive spiritual science today.” He called these beings Übermenschen, which can be translated as “supermen” or beings who are “beyond human”. It is noteworthy that he does not call them ‘angels’ or ‘archangels’, but notes that the first to arrive were “beings dwelling in the sphere between moon and Mercury and associates others with (the presumably spiritual dimensions of) the planetary spheres of our solar system: Moon, Mercury, Sun, Jupiter, and Vulcan (a higher octave of Saturn). But, he said, humanity is ignoring them and shows no interest in having anything to do with them. This was of course truer in the 1920s than it is today, when countless Hollywood movies are concerned with aliens and UFOs, usually in an antipathetic sense. “It is this [ignoring of these beings] that will lead the earth into increasingly tragic conditions. For in the course of the next few centuries, more and more spirit beings will move among us whose language we ought to understand. We shall understand it only if we seek to comprehend what comes from them, namely, the contents of spiritual science. This is what they wish to bestow on us. They want us to act according to spiritual science; they want this spiritual science to be translated into social action and the conduct of earthly life… Upheaval upon upheaval will ensue, and earth existence will at length arrive at social chaos if these beings descended and human existence were to consist only of opposition against them… The beings I have spoken about will descend gradually to the earth. Vulcan beings, Vulcan supermen, Venus supermen, Mercury supermen, Sun supermen, and so on will unite themselves with earth existence. Yet, if human beings persist in their opposition to them, this earth existence will pass over into chaos in the course of the next few thousand years. People will indeed be capable of developing their intellect in an automatic way; it can develop even in the midst of barbaric conditions. The fullness of human potential, however, will not be included in this intellect and people will have no relationship to the beings who wish graciously to come down to them into earthly life.”

These beings are, therefore, apparently above human beings yet are not angels or archangels. If instead of welcoming them and their message of spiritual science, humanity continues with its intellectual way of thinking, it will create a plane of reality in the future that will cover the earth with what Steiner calls “spidery machine-animals”, “a horrible brood of beings… in between the mineral and plant kingdoms… beings resembling automatons, with an over-abundant intellect of great intensity, … a network or web of ghastly spiders possessing tremendous wisdom… In their outward movements they will imitate everything human beings have thought up with their shadowy intellect, which did not allow itself to be stimulated by what is to come through new Imagination and through spiritual science in general.” The movie trilogy The Matrix (1999-2003) showed a nightmarish picture of such a future dystopian world in which humans lived in an underground city called ZION, trying to shelter from the ‘machine-animals’ that dominated the ruined surface of the world. Meanwhile, human intellect had also created a computer simulation of the entire world into which human beings were drawn and made to live as programmes that did not challenge the machines’ control of the real world.

Steiner suggested in that lecture of May 1921 that such a ghastly future may well come about if humanity continues on its current intellectual course and does not turn towards the spirit, drawing new forces from the depths of human souls¹⁵, by paying attention to what the planetary ‘supermen’ wish to share with us. His picture, however, is not that of a Hollywood alien invasion by ‘greys’ or little green men in giant interstellar space ships. This is precisely a product of materialist, intellectual thinking. The beings Steiner had in mind evidently do not seek to interfere with our human freedom and do not impose themselves. It’s up to us to open ourselves to spiritual contact with them, for they are spiritual beings approaching us since the time, about 130 years ago, when the threshold between the spiritual and material worlds has been ‘thinning’ and humanity has been crossing the threshold unconsciously. Some human beings, especially in artistic fields, have evidently been more open to positive inspiration from such beings, while others, notably those in science and technology, have been inspired by beings at the threshold who are of a much less beneficent nature and which seek to push us into a dystopian future well before we are ready to cope.  Acceleration is the leitmotif in this case which we need to be wary of, as well as the drives for ever more power and convenience. Once again, the 1960s offer many instructive examples of both positive and negative inspiration by beings at the threshold.

Conclusion

In anthroposophical terms, the 1960s began in an ahrimanic atmosphere of geopolitical fear and tension as well as one of a technological and Modernist optimism rooted in a materialist philosophy of life both in the capitalist and the communist blocs. The historic Vatican II Council was under way in Rome which would ‘reform’ various traditional aspects of the Roman Catholic Church, but the official Christianity of the churches was increasingly seen as failing throughout the West. However, by the middle of the decade, there had been a huge luciferic counterwave against the ahrimanic mood of the early 1960s, a great rebellious rejection by many young people of the conventional intellectual systems thinking of 20th century urban civilisation and a turning away from it back to the past and to non-western cultures, an inchoate seeking for a spiritual path or at least for personal freedom. This rebellion included empathy for and solidarity with oppressed peoples as well as the beginnings of the environmental movement and care for the Earth. In the midst of all this confusing miasma, in the year 1967, a theme broke through for a short time, which in its essence was Christian but was usually not identified as such at the time – the theme of Love, in the West at least, if not in the East, where the generational solidarity of the young Chinese Red Guards in the Cultural revolution (1966-76) was directed towards fanatical violence and hatred against older people and against traditional culture. That breakthrough of Love in the West was brief but it planted many seeds for the future, which have since grown vigorously.

What we can learn from our culture’s ‘failed initiation’ in the 1960s is to understand the evolution of consciousness and how things came to be how they are now, how they were in earlier times and how they need to move forward. Through a spiritual scientific understanding of cultural history, young westerners can begin to make more holistic sense of their culture’s complex story instead of the intellectual construct they are given at school and in the media. We can also learn that the unholy trinity of drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, and sexual license was and is but an unholy inversion of the eternal verities of the ‘holy trinity’ of the true, the beautiful and the good.

Endnotes

1.  Karl Heyer, Kaspar Hauser und das Schicksal Mitteleuropas im 19. Jahrhundert, 4th ed. 1999, p.218.

2.  Lecture of 14.12.1919, Collected Works, GA 194.

3.  The term “Baby boomer” is something of a misnomer. They are the generation who were born during and in the aftermath of the Second World War, with Neptune in Libra, 1942-1956.

4.  E.g. Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain, Acid Dreams – The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond (1985).

5.  See Lee & Shlain pp.157-160.

6.  See Lee & Shlain , p. 163.

7.  From an anthroposophical perspective, one can easily discern the whole gamut from ‘luciferic’ influences (in dreamy neo-folk and neo-tribal music) to ‘ahrimanic’ influences (in hard rock and the first manifestations of occultic, even satanic, heavy metal and proto-punk) in these years – and all things in between, as the searching human soul tried to find its way between the two compulsive poles of the luciferic and the ahrimanic. Indeed, one could say that between 1963 and 1973 almost all the subsequent musical developments of the next 40 years and more can be found in seed form in those 10 years.

8.  Epic poems published in 1761-65 purported to be by the ancient bard Ossian but were actually by the Scottish poet James Macpherson (1736-1796).

9.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna

10.  See n. 9.

11.  See R. Steiner, Anthroposophy – An Introduction (Rudolf Steiner Press, 1983).

12.  See Lee & Schlain, p. 89.

13.  See R. Steiner, The East In the Light of the West (1922).

14.  R. Steiner, Christ and the Human Soul, 12 July 1914. GA 155.

15.  R. Steiner, lecture of 14.12.1919, GA 194.

CHRIST IN

ANSBACH

The Working of the Logos

                                                                       Or

                                                                       The Beginning of the 5th Creation

                                                                         through Kaspar Hauser

Vienna November 2015

by Johann

on the PATH

(24.10.1959 – 25.3.2016)

Prologue

The Beginning is the LOGOS

And the I-Man is this beginning.

So the beginning is in Man.

In the first Creation, human beings

Spanned space, chiselled atoms.

In the second Creation, human beings

Time space, life, the world of plants.

In the third Creation, human beings

Ensouled nature with forms, colours, movements.

The present human being, Anthropos, is to

Reveal the Logos, individual and original.

This brings the birth of freedom.

Yes, the creative cosmic Word wants

To become Man; we are allowed to determine that.

But the daily I is not the true I.

The I that is attention and empathy,

Free of preconceptions and limits.

So seek the PATH to true being …

*The Logos depends on us

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I) Do you believe in God? People ask today,

Without thinking that the image of God and his name

Have been lost. His golden head

Was radiant in India; his silver heart in

Persia, his bronze will in Israel.

Buddha provided the soul foundation.

Genesis speaks of the Elohim. They are

Seven Sun spirits. JeHoVaH is their leader.

Actually, his name is: IEOUA, and Ieshua,

His son was originally named IEOSHUA. Through Ieshua

Was implanted in all I-hearts the Logos on the Cross.

Since 1998 this has sought to awaken.

Since Agrippa von Nettesheim people have forgotten

The names of the nine realms of gods above us.

God is not dead. He has become Man! All is spirit:

Around us, the world, in us attention and presence.

Where are we actually?

The atheist is lazy, the believer cowardly.

The I in our core is the seed of God.

*God’s name is simply: the Good

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It is no longer the time to believe in God.

We must unfold spirit, life, creative powers.

If something is not right in the world,

We must put it in order ourselves!

Through war, misery, and sickness God asks: help me!

There is no good and evil, only what is good

And what is comfortable. One who wishes

To be served, declares himself a creature and finally

Ends on the compost. One who takes on

Responsibility without pushing himself forward,

Unfolds ever more godly powers. In doing so,

We must learn to be free, creative thinkers:

No more babbling after the fact.

What is the motif of my destiny? Each one of us

Is a living word. Let us distinguish between

Rigid, dead concepts and living thinking that comes from

Perception. One who seeks to do this sees that

The All is the body of God, evolution his destiny,

Human beings his sons and daughters …

*His oldest name: the ONE without a second

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II) We must learn to think of Ieshua in two ways:

There are two places in the New Testament,

Which are completely unlike each other:

In Matthew, Mary of the Temple and

Joseph of the royal line live

In the house of David in Bethlehem.

The line of heredity passes through the Babylonian Captivity.

The Child is visited by the three Magi from the East.

They bring gold, incense and myrrh.

The parents soon flee away to Egypt.

The birth is about six years ‘before Christ’

At a Saturn-Jupiter conjunction in the Virgin.

In 2 BC the cosmic Mary and the carpenter from Nazareth

Journey to Bethlehem for the census.

They do not flee and they are visited by shepherds.

The line of heredity through Galilee

Is almost twice as long.

Priesthood and royalty, wisdom and love become

United in 12 years in one body.

*Life is a living contradiction

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Science does not grasp the Creation,

Because it only accepts the painting of existence.

Churches do not grasp relationships

Because they only want to hold fast to their rigid dogmas.

The Luke Ieshua is the Son born of the Oneness.

He has borne the Earth for 3½ eternities.

From Him has come all that is in the Earth’s atmosphere.

The Matthew Ieshua is the most-developed individuality on earth.

He was the pupil of Zarathustra and could be mistaken for him.

He has appeared since the division of the sexes

In the middle of Lemuria and throughout the Earth epoch.

The highest being and the highest consciousness.

His full incarnation was as Isaac. The Luke Ieshua

Had never before been incarnated. The wisdom-filled one

Therefore passed over into the bearer of love

In order to build up his body.

They were together for 18⅔ years before the royal one

Left the other at the Baptism in the Jordan.

Working to understand this is a challenge …

*Knowledge and religion are not contradictory

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III) Mary wants to be experienced anew.

For this we need the power to discriminate.

In the third Creation JHWH accomplished

The division of the sexes, which became physical

In the recapitulation in Lemuria. Woman arose.

She had magic. She was the leader of the cosmic Mysteries.

She had no share in original sin.

There was as yet no sexuality.

She became Mary of the Temple of cosmic wisdom.

Eve came later, below the Cross as Magdalena.

The Luke Mary had never before been incarnated.

Michelangelo painted the woman who had remained in the heavens

On the left of the creation of Adam

This was unnoticed by most people.

She died at the age of 26

And had given birth only to the Son of God.

In the 4th century the Testament was altered by “correctores”.

Angels encouraged Mary and Joseph to embrace! Then they did so.

Mary, Johannes and Lazarus were all immaculate.

*Mary lives amongst us compassionately.

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God does not intervene arbitrarily, magically. No!

We must all learn to bring immaculate children into the world.

In doing so, we must speak with the child

BEFORE it is conceived! In the will to conceive.

The goddess was forgotten, the Holy Spirit.

She is the woman of the Moon, the Sun, the stars

In the ancient churches. One could name her in three revelations:

Luna (white), Philia (red), Astrid (black).

Then would the Trinity at last be again complete.

Genesis was written down in Babylon.

But everywhere where today Elohim or JHWH is written

Originally was written: the goddess. At that time it was right.

JHWH received his task as Folk Spirit.

Today female spirituality must again be freed.

Priestesses are urgently needed.

It is the woman who is prominent in the heavens.

The heavenly Mary gives her blessing from the spiritual world.

The earthly woman has been with us through all stages of incarnation,

Inspiring and leading …

*Celibacy leads to degeneration

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IV) We live in Four Worlds:

The body in space, touch –

Life in time, hearing –

Light in the ground of the soul, seeing –

With an I in the centre of our being, thinking.

The materialistic worldview by itself

Kills human beings and destroys the earth.

For too long have children been forced into matter

And old people maimed in living corpses.

We have been through four Creations and

There are four stages of Adam:

The warmth-Adam, Man in the image of God:

Cosmos, space, mineral, form-being (divine).

The sun-air Adam, the Man of breath and earth:

Sun, time, plant, strength-sound (hermaphrodite).

The watery, divided, feminine Man (erotic):

Planets, order, primal animal images, primal soul images – image.

The physical Man of separation (sexual):

Earth, ego, human being, word as concept …

*4 worlds declare the open secret

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This is researched in all realms, for example:

In health, in pedagogy, in art,

In agriculture, in the course of destiny. There is:

Body, life, soul, the Logos-kernel as the I.

The I-Man therefore needs 28-35 years

To find himself and place himself into life.

Three worlds were forgotten and were lost.

We therefore grope around, unknowing.

Even when we wanted to love, everything went wrong.

Since 700 AD the life forces have been lost.

We urgently need  a rhythm and pauses.

Everything now ends in burnout. We have to

Intervene and put things in order. Therefore

We bear four kinds of consciousness in and with us:

Logos-being (the child) – sound (the pupil) – archetypal image

(the youth) – concept (the adult).

The child moves from being to understanding.

The adult must win back the four worlds.

He can ripen in freedom to childlikeness …

*Life wants to open itself to us anew

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V) Is there reincarnation?

When someone holds only to the physical, then

There is not. For the situation does not repeat itself and

The connections cannot express themselves.

Nevertheless, one grows after death and realises:

I still am. One can then lead only a shadow-existence

And remains the plaything of alien powers.

Every third citizen today is possessed.

This powerfully disturbs the balance of the soul.

If there were really no reincarnation,

Creation would be improper and meaningless, evil.

In the course of time, all balances out.

What you don’t want to do, what is done to you,

No-one else does to you. And: to give is better than

To receive. In the First Creation we were

Led through the mineral realm. In the Second, through the

Plant realm, in the Third we wandered through

The Zodiac, without ourselves ever becoming animals.

Therefore, we were always present!

*All suffering will become love

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 Physical incarnation began around 15000 BC.

At first, it was a metempsychosis, a wandering

Of the soul. The Old Testament is a document

About how we slowly descended from the spiritual world.

We stem from the angels, who for almost 1000 years

Have the mission of constituting epochs of memory, not the

Ages of bodies. From the Flood until Abraham Man still

Had almost 350 years of memory.

Only since Jacob has Man arrived on earth.

It’s wrong to claim I was this person and that person.

That lacks the long periods in between lives.

Only with the pouring out of the Logos-I

Did reincarnation actually begin.

But this true I we first have to work out.

Normally, we are drowned in daily life.

I must learn to place myself every day into the Logos being.

Otherwise, I only live in ideas. They are blown away

After death. Therefore: here is eternity. Presence is now!

Reincarnation begins with one life:

The present one. I accept it gratefully …

*Attention! Your deeds will follow you.

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 VI) Man and woman are the two sides of the Logos.

Like point and periphery, like No and Yes!

The feminine lives in the periphery, accepts all things.

It consists of unconditional devotion.

First, it exists and seeks to connect everything with

Everything else. That is the power of a will, pure being.

This kind of devotion was lost 5000 years ago.

The masculine strives towards to the point; it pushes Everything back. It consists of undivided attention.

It penetrates everything in the search for depth of knowledge.

The feminine protects life, existence.

The masculine seeks the experience of death.

The feminine accepts the body in the present.

The masculine lives in the soul, in the eternal Ideal.

Both should support, complement and serve each other.

It is about harmony in contradiction. The woman

Is inwardly masculine, the man inwardly feminine.

He helps her to the I – she helps him to the You.

Today this is no longer affirmed nor practised.

*We learn to distinguish: creative – destructive

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 It is about the emancipation of both sexes.

Let us therefore begin from the beginning. For we

Can say neither Yes nor No. It is chaos.

We practise the archetypal feminine gesture in the evening,

After our daily work: we accept the periphery in that

We bless it, so that it becomes good. This blessing

Can be accomplished in singing and dancing.

The archetypal masculine gesture we practise in the morning,

Before sunrise: we gather ourselves into our heart

In the unborn. We let go, relaxing the body:

I am! Away with all thoughts, back to

Undivided attention, for a new beginning.

Feminine devotion, surrender, primal trust –

Masculine attention, concentration, penetration.

When that is practised, assured, the I am practising in time

The complementarity: a man full of devotion, a woman

With clear self-knowledge. Man/woman are half

Creatures. Ultimately, we will be Logos beings. This means:

Attention and compassion at the same time, now …

*Logos is feminine and masculine at the same time

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 VII) Who is the All-Christ? The Word Christ

Is not in the New Testament. It speaks of

The Messiah, the One who is sent, the healer.

Ieshua the World Soul, the Soul,

Who bears the Earth. In the Beginning there was only Him.

Er separated the Earth, Nature, human beings from Himself.

In Germanic cultures he was called Ymir and In India

He was Atma. The concept Christ

Comes from the Tarot, the Hebrew ABC.

There the Creation is described in 22 stages of initiation.

I/Yod stands for the human being,

CHRSHT for the highest stages.

Ieshua is everything within the atmosphere of the Earth.

Christ stands for all that is cosmic. Translated, it is:

CH       Giver of the Logos power of the I

R          Master of the worlds of soul

Sh        Source of all life and of all that is alive

T          Lord of the elements  and of the Earth

I           for the growth of the I of the free human being …

*What is “I” (ICH) actually?

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 At every level there is a Christ bearer.

For human beings the Father: Ieshua Christ.

For the angels the lion-headed one : Ra-El-Christ.

For the planetary archangels: Michael Christ.

And for the Archai of the First Creation: Vidar Christ.

The Luke Ieshua protects the Spirit-Body

And no longer incarnates on Earth.

The Matthew Ieshua incarnates every 100 years

And leads us to the Fifth Creation.

When people speak of Christ, they mostly mean

Their deeper I, which lights up at the age of

14⅓, 23⅓, 30⅓. Today, we must work to understand:

Not Christ in me, Christ in the other!

More angels are dying because we are not going

Our WAY and the Folk Spirits have to become angry.

The All-Christ is the union of Ieshua, Rael, Michael, Vidar

Today. For matter and the senses are to be fully christened:

From the existence of the body to the body of existence …

*There has been Christ since the touch of Thomas

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VIII) Death becomes the transition

The grandfather is a convinced materialist. He believes

That after death there is nothing else. He dies.

Then his granddaughter wakes every midnight with

Foam around her mouth and speaks in a deep voice.

She is in danger of being put in a madhouse …

After death our passage runs as follows:

The physical body sinks down into space.

Within three days pictures and life forces are released.

There is a panoramic review of the life that has passed.

This is best done with friends who maintain a vigil in familiar Surroundings. For ⅓ of the past life we work through

That experience in the dream world.

The life forces have long since been inscribed

Into the widths of space. The soul journeys

Through the spheres: Moon – letting go, Mercury – healing,

All attachments are now to cease. Venus –

One enters into the Other and experiences what one has

Done to others, in one’s own body! Compensation.

*Death is like a wedding.

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A model of the next life is sculpted

Ahead of time by the Other.

One passes through the Sun Sphere

And experiences the meaning of Creation.

One is allowed to grasp the world with the eyes of God.

That ripens one’s decision for one’s next life.

One turns about and clothes oneself anew, beholds

One’s coming karma and accepts it, seeks out

One’s parents and is reborn. A period of incarnation

After 300-350 years if one dies after the age of 35.

Material life is held in arrest. Ever more forces

Can no longer be released after death.

One comes back into the world, having “slept inadequately”.

Our angel puts on dark clothes.

One who does not nurture the spiritual in life

Cannot work creatively at the Earth after death.

An ocean of people remain weak in death.

They fall into a hole. This has consequences

For the whole of Earth evolution. Standstill ….

*One who lives rightly can also die rightly.

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 IX) The problem is the intellect

We are spiritual beings in four worlds.

As small children we are at one with everything. Intuition.

We practise such magic as standing up, speaking, thinking.

And we live in a kind of trance, beyond gender.

As young pupils at school we are open to the world. Inspiration.

We can place ourselves in other beings, even in trees.

Often we are awake in dreamland, open to Nature.

We act out of a kind of deep sleep.

We are still bisexual, hermaphrodite.

As adolescents we are interested in the world.

Puberty is also a maturing of the world. And we

Live wholly in the periphery, in the realm of the folk spirit.

Visions, dreams, images are determined for us.

As adults we become physical, in the intellect.

The ego condition establishes itself. Three worlds:

Spirit (word), soul (sound), life (image) are forgotten.

Knowing and doing remain: dead concepts, power.

This is the condition of the sickness of sin.

*How stupid actually can intelligence be?

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Intellect appears to give security, a grip on things.

It bestows clear contours, memory, boundaries.

We do not see through the death process within it.

Concepts are end-products and resemble shit.

No-one eats again what he has already eaten.

But in the intellect we chew on it over and over.

This is why we live in a civilisation of death.

Let us look once more into the eyes of the sickness of sin:

All day long we live within fixed, rigid thoughts.

We are thus constantly focused on the ‘person’.

But our knowledge has long since passed that by!

We gradually come to pass life by, the Now.

And the worst is that we no longer feel.

Three higher worlds are forgotten at the same time.

Unless we practise image  – sound – essence

We lose the connection to the soul’s depths, to the

Processes of life, to the body, that is, to health.

We must turn around and win back

The 3 gifts of the Magi from the East and ripen to the childlike …

*Knowledge is, in truth, ignorance

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X) The daily self is not the true I.

Our senses serve us conveniently.

And we live in dead concepts, in an inner dialogue.

It has no foundation and always gets lost.

Perception is reality:

Remain in perception and you are in the I!

And: we are UNABLE to think at all.

We constantly recall what we have heard.

Our ideas are therefore all untested.

What is the original motif of my destiny?

I find my way to thinking through questioning and writing.

Let us learn to think freely and creatively!

The child descends from being, to sound, image,

And concept. That is incarnation. We adults

Should rise from concept to archetypal image (adolescence),

To archetypal sound (childhood), to being (infancy).

The true human being goes through seven stages of the I.

The true I is undivided attention

And unconditional devotion: we are truthfulness!

*We cannot think, because we want too much.

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Let us distinguish firmly between ideas and

Perception. Behind ideas is hidden

Fear. We must learn to let go, many times a day.

Behind the clinging is hidden pain, displeasure.

We must accept suffering, as a life counsellor.

How does suffering speak, what is its message?

Half of mankind clings to reality.

That is too deep, it leads to addiction.

The other half is drawn out by ideals.

That is too high and leads to escapism.

Friedrich Schiller worked this out in his notion of play,

Which he sent as aesthetic letters to Philipp v. Augustenberg.

That is the social midpoint which is also there

In the blessings of the Sermon on the Mount: POVERTY:

Let go of ideas, I Am attention! Within that

I am always, livingly, at the beginning, unassured.

SUFFERING: accept and release suppressed suffering.

MEEKNESS:   act without feeling of self. What wants

To become, in the sense of what is good for the world? …

*The concept is a dead mirroring without being

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XI) The Mystery of Golgotha has almost been forgotten.

People think: first, Jesus never lived. Second,

If he had, his grave would have been found. Third, He

Would have been married to Mary Magdalene

And would have had two sons. So, no Christmas,

No Easter, no Whitsun or Holy Spirit.

The churches have completely distorted His original Image.

What did actually happen? The Warmth-Adam hung on the Cross. His body permeated by the Water-Adam,

The 7 Elohim, the power of the FATHER. On His left stood

The woman, Mary of the Temple, her body permeated by the Heavenly Mary, Ra-El, the Holy Sophia. On His right stood Lazarus, the Sun-Adam, his body permeated

By the Separating-Earth-Adam, St. Michael,

The power of the SON. The Lamb, Vidar, goes as witness

Through death and resurrection. The Trinity has

Since then become human. Human beings received

From the Cross the creative Logos-I. Why has nothing Changed since then? This is what people ask …

*The primal fathers became the 12 Apostles

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The church is not the Body of Christ, the Earth is.

Heaven is not the Beyond. The Earth is to become heaven.

We should not become brave believers, but

Enlighten our souls, spiritualise our lives,

Christen our senses. Become gods ourselves!

Ieshua Christ does not come from outside. He wants

To become a free original human being in us.

We already have a human self, the person.

Each for himself individually and different.

We must take hold of our common cosmic I

Which now, after 2000 years, wants to be born.

The whole truth is shattering: through the

Coming of materialism Ieshua Christ died

In the 19th century. He was torn from His fifth dimension

And fell. It seemed as though mankind was lost

The Earth wants to be obliterated. No-one has noticed.

Satan prepares to incarnate in order to enslave

The human I’s. What is the answer of St. Michael?

How can the Resurrection be continued?

*The unexperienced Good becomes Evil.

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XII) Logos reveals Itself in rhythm.

The Logos does not intervene in consciousness.

It does not Itself in ideals and fine conversations.

That is the realm of the intellect, which blocks It.

That would also deeply injure freedom.

The Logos does not appear physically.

That would be material and forceful.

The reality of deeds tends ever more towards hardening.

Logos can touch consciousness and

It was visible in the concentration camps.

But that is an exception, and most people

Can not cope with such experiences.

Logos shows Itself in swings and loops,

In rhythm. It shows Itself and liberates.

Through it, free decisions remain guaranteed.

And life, in becoming, can develop.

Mass movements are no longer valid.

It’s about small groups of up to 15.

Then out of the being of the I, community can emerge.

*I was, you are, we will grow from you.

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We meet in small groups, for example, monthly.

The archetypal images of the year want to be reflected:

Michaelmas, Martinmas, Advent, Christmas, Three Kings,

Shrovetide for the elementals, the Spring Equinox,

Easter, Ascension, Whitsun and newly:

The Eleusinians, the Feast of the Holy Sophia c.15-18 Sept.

Besides these, the 12 senses are to be deepened: e.g.:

July – touch, August – the sense of life, Sept – movement,

Oct – balance, – Nov – smell, Dec – taste,

Jan – sight, Feb – sense of warmth, March – hearing,

Apr – the sense of the word, May – thought,

June – the sense of the I in you. In daily life

We only use 1½ sense qualities.

We can purify the senses: 40 h of water and salted bread,

In the dark, without speaking, from 6 pm Fri to 10 am Sun.

And the senses want to be deepened and extended.

Otherwise, intellect rules and that is the death of the soul.

Leading thought: what is my destiny question? When and How do I practise attention, compassion and real trust?

What are we?  – The mystery of encounter?

*Can I place myself in another’s shoes?

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XIII) Kaspar Hauser, the Child of Europe

Kaspar’s father was as a Zähringer the actual

King of Germany. He was done away with.

His grandfather** Napoleon was the Emperor of Europe.

His mother, Stephanie de Beauharnais, came from

Martinique, and so Hauser had Atlantic,

Indian roots. He was exchanged with

A servant’s sick child  who Stephanie

Was not allowed to see. The exchanged child

Was made to die in a documented list of soldiers.

Hauser was brought to Beuggen Castle on the Rhine.

When he had learned to speak and ask questions, he came

To Salem Castle and from there to Pilsach Castle in Bavaria.

There he was unable to stand, speak or think,

Kept in a dungeon that was always at the same temperature.

To this dynastic crime, an occult crime was added.

The highest-ranking Freemasons were involved,

And also the leaders of England, Prussia,

Austria, France, Bavaria and Baden.

*Napoleon ended the age of Mars, Hauser opened the age of Mercury

** Napoleon was Hauser’s adoptive grandfather. Hauser’s mother, Stephanie de Beauharnais, was adopted by Napoleon.

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Lord Stanhope, a secret agent, had no other task

Than to find the princely child. 7 years before Hauser

Appeared in Unschlitt Square, Stanhope knew all about him.

He made himself Hauser’s adoptive father, and he used

The alibi of travel abroad when Kaspar was killed in Ansbach.

Appeal Court Judge Feuerbach, who had abolished torture, Was poisoned in Frankfurt. Stanhope was in the area.

Kaspar Hauser was a pure human being

From BEFORE the fall of Man. The speech of his body

Was clear: I will rule over no-one!

He was kept in darkness for over 12 years,

Which no human being can withstand. The words: “If Kaspar

Hauser had been able to rule, Europe today would have

Developed much further” is fundamentally false.

It implies a spiritual leader, but Man is to liberate himself.

But Hauser – only after his death – gave the strength for this

From above. An angel dwelt within him, so that we can Become angels. He had wanted the exchange and his death.

He was fully the human being of the Sermon on the Mount…

*Kaspar Hauser is a brother of Ieshua

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XIV) Pedagogy is the fulcrum point.

We live in dead intellect, which is the actual problem.

The resurrected one died. Evil is strengthened.

How can Man become   creative?

Christianity is no religion, but a stream of life,

(Said Rudolf Steiner). The starting point lies in

Pedagogy. In the Waldorf school the life sequence

Of growth – being-sound-image-concept – must be followed.

But there are no more teachers who are

Grounded in Logos. We can hardly still clearly distinguish

The four worlds, let alone actually see them. Sweet images

Of Jesus and Christian dogmas – the time for these is over.

Intellect wants to be addressed only after the 12th year,

And then every pupil needs training in the senses:

In art, handwork, science. Teachers become mediators.

They are the ones who learn. Pupils should choose

Their own area of study in the senses: no more Pisa studies

And the curriculum. No more learning by heart.

Now they must learn through interest.

*Education is oppression today.

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Today it is often recognised that the children who start

School are 95% genial. Those who leave school

Are only 5% genial. No more of this!

Are we to live in an economic fascism and taught to be

Functionally virtuous little cogs in the machine? No!

The goal is the creative human being. The child is the meaning,

Not money. There are three Christian tasks here:

-        Brotherly economy with the human being at the centre.

-        Equality before the law, free of arbitrariness and finally,

-        Freedom in spirit, also in schools.

In communism, politics determines the economy.

In capitalism, the economy determines social life.

Both are fundamentally wrong. A general threefolding

Is needed: of economy – law – spiritual life.

These three are our social thinking – feeling – willing

No more pastors. The teacher shapes the future.

We must beware of and avoid totalitarian systems.

So Hauser comes to us like a child.

As an adult, he has the consciousness of a five year-old.

*Adults should mature into children.

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XV) Ownership and accommodation are the next task.

Many want to live in community. But when they are not

Grounded in Logos, it always ends in suffering and power.

We are standing only at the beginning of the birth of the

True I. How the individual goes about owning something is

Original. Groups of 12 to 15 people develop: who learn,

Lend, exchange, gift, share. Some of them buy houses

Which then belong to no-one. Soon people speak of

Basic security, so that all can have accommodation and food.

But work on Logos must go on as well, otherwise

There will be only abuse. Everyone takes what he really

Needs. He gives up the rest, to create more free space,

So not caritas but philia is the solution today.

Only when many communal groups pulsate with life

Is an upper limit on income required. No-one needs

To possess a billion Euros. So what do we do about this?

The most difficult question is marriage: possession

Is forbidden; permissiveness ultimately destroys

The clarity of the soul.

*It is not Christian to hoard wealth.

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The intellect can juggle internationally.

The Logos-I needs perception, relationship.

It is no longer about profit but about social bonding.

Workers should work together to serve the Whole.

But there is still no I in sight.

Dairy farmers still don’t receive their due, because

In East Asia bad milk comes onto the market.

What is organic, living? A village should again

Become a comm-unity, with a baker, school, and park.

Now the country is stuffed with supermarkets,

Large central hospitals and large central schools.

Everyone feels he must have a car. The model for this

Is the body, the organ, the cell. Work and money

Must be available for people, not people for

Banks and companies. Development aid has led

Always to exploitation. Christian groups build

Houses instead of slums and bore springs in dry regions.

Every revolution until now has turned into oppression.

From the Logos-I works a gentle will and world benevolence.

*From the Logos-I flows moral imagination.

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XVI) We know little about the angel of the Buddha.

When Buddha became enlightened under the Bodhi tree,

He knew that the Logos sleeps in the stone,

He breathes in the plant, and dreams and calls in the animal.

All is spirit. Gautauma wanted to go his way in silence.

Then his angel touched him: tell of your enlightenment!

There is no point, answered the Buddha,

For I have found no ears to hear it, let alone

A heart that is open for it. You are right, replied

The angel, but think about your own participation!

What do you mean by that? asked Buddha.

If YOU tell of your spiritual experience clearly today,

In 3000 years spiritual seekers could still awaken through it!

Now I admit you are right, said the Tathagata, bowing,

And began to turn the Wheel of the Law of the overcoming

Of suffering. This angel of the Buddha became,

As a follower of St. Michael, the Folk Spirit of Middle Europe.

The Folk Spirit St. Michael rose to become a Time Spirit.

And the Time Spirit became our new Folk Spirit from 1879.

*Buddha was involved in preparing the birth of Jesus.

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There is now a Buddhist, Christian stream in Europe.

This means an inner training of the soul

Plus outer social brotherhood in the economy.

Buddha called forth another personality for Europe:

Before he died, he had already achieved Transfiguration.

He said: Ananda! If you had asked me whether I would help

Mankind in the struggle against Mara, the evil one,

I would have said no. All were shocked and listened carefully.

Buddha repeated his words a second time.

What did he mean? And then he let the cat out of the bag.

Ananda! If you had asked me a third time whether I would

Help mankind, standing by its side in the struggle against Mara, the evil one, I would have said yes! Ananda was Astonished. He was to transform evil. He is the new Bodhisattva Maitreya. And he took up within himself

As Dmitrii, the “False” Czar, the worst human being.

Maitreya is to waken Logos in the I of the people in Russia

Until c. 3500 so that the spirit itself can become free in us.

*The Eightfold Path is recommended for all today.

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XVII) The name of the angel is Vidar. Buddha and

Odin were the same individuality, according to R. Steiner.

And Vidar, the son of Odin becomes the angel of Buddha.

He works as a kind of angel of humanity: he helped

Abraham at the sacrifice of the lamb, Ahkenaten in his

Vision of Christ, Jason with the Golden Fleece.

Vidar took the 5 year-old Ieshua’s magic from him

So that he could become a human being. And at Gethsemani

Vidar gave the magic back at the third prayer so that

Ieshua  could survive the scourging. Vidar was given

These tasks by the Holy Spirit Sophia. After She had created

Human beings with a piece from each angel, and all of them Bowed before her new creation, she asked: we have guided The Logos into warmth, air, water. Who will help me

To guide it into what is solid and to spiritualise what is solid

For the salvation of the Father? Then all became quiet

And the small angels hid themselves behind the large ones,

Who also made themselves very small. I shall help you,

Piped up the brand-new human being

And stepped before the Goddess.

*Vidar is the I of all I’s, of the first Creation.

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She said: but you will lose everything and even

Forget me, your mother. Ask the others: who will help him

So that he does not go under? Again a deep silence.

Then Vidar stepped forward. I want to serve him,

As he once served me at the beginning of the Creation!

She said: you too would have to fail pitifully at the task.

Therefore, I give you my Son, the Lamb of God.

Then the heavens opened and the eternal Lamb

Descended to Vidar. From now on, your name is “Vidar”.

Protect mankind, the new member of the spiritual world,

For me. Vidar’s mother was Grid, a giantess, and Odin,

The prince of the sky, was his father. He went wandering

Like his father and looked for pity in the form of

The remains of leather shoes. From these, he made

For himself a giant fighting boot. While his brothers

Were boasting about their heroic deeds, he served

Silently at table. He knew that soon Ragnarök would

Break out  – the war between the gods about mankind.

He had to defeat the Fenris Wolf and raise

The new human I’s  – Lif and Liftrasir – into life for the Logos.

*Vidar is one with the earth (Grid) and the sky (Odin)

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XVIII) We shall outline the Mystery of Pilsach as

Unthought-out, unfamiliar ideas as follows:

Around 1805 the world soul Ieshua died supernaturally.

In 1812 Lazarus was born in Hauser as a human bearer.

Until 1819 Vidar descended into the child.

He brought darkness, temperament, loneliness

As foundations of life. In 1821 the Son-Body of the

Lazarus-Vidar became free. At the same time  Ieshua Christ

Fell from etheric heights. Holy Michael protected

The Spirit-Man of Vidar. Holy Rael distributed the shattered Soul among I-men. Holy Vidar collected the destroyed Life Body and, bestowing his healthy ether body upon Ieshua,

He maintained Ieshua’s life in an intermediate condition.

From Vidar’s body of being, Holy Michael

Opened the Apocalypse. From the sacrificed soul Rael

Awakened depth psychology. Rudolf Steiner called

The whole process the repetition of the Mystery of Golgotha

In the Etheric. Only this concept. Nothing more.

No-one asked him about it. There was no resurrection!

*Vidar needed a human bearer: Lazarus

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Hauser’s suffering after death was infinitely greater:

The Christ Power is now in the earth, with us. We must

Christianise our souls, then resurrection will be  -

Through us! As long as Ieshua Christ’s blessing was external,

We developed only self-seeking, arrogance, stupidity.

First we must learn to think freely and creatively.

Then, we should practise sense experiences with one another:

Celebrate festivals. The human law for becoming an I is:

Persist, examine, start again. By oneself and with others.

The Sermon on the Mount shows the sequence of steps

For this: poverty – we are nothing yet. We are attention and

Devotion. Suffering – we take the suffering upon ourselves;

What is its meaning for us? The wrong actions of ourselves and Of others. Meekness – acting without feeling of self.

The 3 opponents that have to be worked on are:

Fear of poverty-fear/knowledge, displeasure at suffering/Moulding and meekness-indolence: transformed

Into surrender, deep trust. We dive down into our I Am …

Into unbornness. Evil fears unbornness above all.

*Ieshua dies 300 million times a day!

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XIX) The Fifth Creation began in Ansbach.

Ansbach appears like a higher octave of Jerusalem:

⅓ soldiers, ⅓ officials ⅓ church leaders. It is the

Evangelical Rome, even still today. The Mystery

Of Golgotha ended the Fourth Creation.

Everyone received the Logos-I. But what

We call “I” is not the true Logos-I. We call

Our inner dialogue, which consists of ideas

And Memories, “I”. It is the ego, the mortal person.

The Logos-I has been within human beings for 1800 years. Today, the call for freedom and dignity has flared up, even

In Arab lands, where the concept of the I was not known.

The two Mysteries can be compared with one another:

The stab in the heart as the sign of the Lamb,

The apostles and disciples here; at that time there were

120 poets and thinkers, Hauser in their midst.

Ieshua died physically, today etherically. The Adam of Wisdom was concealed behind Steiner who first saw Hauser

Free of the body. 2 thieves on the cross: Lt. Hickel

*All will be renewed: from the being of the I.

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Hennenhofer the murderer. Annas lived again in Amalie

Hessen-Darmstadt. Novalis and Sophie von Kühn lived

Through double incarnations. Novalis, the former Baptist,

Died and was corrupted as Hauser’s father.

What a triumph of Jezebel-Herodias-Geyer von Geyersberg.

The child that was able to flee to Egypt was captured.

Ieshua experienced 3 days lying in the grave,

Hauser 12 years (!). Sophie died when still a child and

As Stephanie de Beauharnais suffered through all the stages

Of Christ’s passion. The World-I Ieshua Christ descended

And idealists only want to look at the loving couple Sophie

And Novalis? The 3 bearers of Christ: Vidar – Holy Michael – Rael are one in the salvation of mankind.

Vidar receives Ieshua in life until people grasp their true I. The Lamb Has opened the Apocalypse.

I’s are not yet conscious of Their responsibility.

The 5th Post-Atlantean Epoch 1413-3573 is one of Confrontation with evil and ends in a war of all against all!

*I Am Bread. I Am Light, I Am Door, I Am Lamb.

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XX) Evil fears the unborn. Let us stop

Identifying ourselves with the body or losing ourselves

In consciousness of the past. Body is a microcosmos,

The image of the universe. We receive

Under the Cross the spirit of the universe. Therefore,

We must hold to: letting go – examining – beginning anew.

If we proceed from our knowledge, we strengthen evil.

Knowing and doing is the primal sin of our time.

Let us struggle for primal image – primal sound – essence!

Then working together as a play group is easier and deeper.

I let go of my dead ideas, grounding myself in the groundless,

In the I AM. Every day I begin anew.

The creative life is insecure. Instead of:

Knowing and doing … I practise attention and empathy.

For I live in you and feel myself open to the world spirit.

What is unformed, attentive, compassionate leads

To the unborn: what I really am is never born.

All that is around me – that is what I AM! And the

Still centre, full of empathy: that is the living Christ!

*One who wants to be humble, develops strong arrogance.

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When I take back my Self, my Self first enters in.

In the renouncing of the knowing-doing ego, my Logos-I

Comes in. What wants to happen?

My fear, my ideas, my attachments, my displeasure  -

All recede. Fear-displeasure-indolence are my real enemies.

Interest-empathy-creativity are the gifts of my I.

He who does not practise the Buddha’s eightfold Path

Loses his soul. He who does not serve in social life,

Does not grasp what creation is. The unborn is free

Of attachment, of knowing and wanting.

The Now is eternity. The spirit world is here. What is positive

In the negative? Here in one’s innermost soul is freedom.

Otherwise, I am only spatial, programmed. Fallen spirits

Want to rule us through technology. 3000 years before Christ, Lucifer forced us into the intellect. Ieshua replied

For us with the Logos-Being. Now Satan is coming

As a human being and wants to rob us of our free Logos-Being. Only the unborn will withstand him …

Creation is much more than that which we know.

Seek what is not thought. Become those who become …

*The 5th Creation flows from that which is not object

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CHRIST IN ANSBACH, Overview, Prologue 0

I)                  God

II)                Twofold

III)              Mary

IV)             4 worlds

V)               Reincarnation

VI)             Man and woman

VII)           All-Christ

VIII)          Death

IX)              Intellect

X)                True I

XI)              Golgotha

XII)            Rhythm

XIII)           Kaspar Hauser

XIV)           Pedagogy

XV)             Ownership and property

XVI)           Buddha

XVII)         Vidar

XVIII)       Pilsach

XIX)          5th Creation

XX)            The Unborn, Epilogue

Epilogue

These words were spoken in:

Ansbach, Nuremberg, Freiburg, and Vienna.

Nowhere was an I-man to be seen.

In the end Johann on the path was no longer able

To rent a space in Ansbach.

The theme “Angel Kaspar Hauser” became the cause of panic.

In Dornach he was blacklisted.

The Kaspar Hauser  – Vidar connection

Was the cause of discrimination against him; he was shunned.

His best friends turned away from him.

As long as he gave his pupils wisdom and humour,

They were apparently all fire and flame.

But when he asked them for practice and decision,

They suddenly all disappeared.

We want to remain just as we are!

The spirit of darkness goes on with his chess moves:

He already has dreamland well under control.

He is now preparing a natural disaster …

*Holy Michael, save us in this peril!

This translation is placed here in remembrance of the writer, whom I was grateful to have met for the first time in 2004 in Ansbach (Germany), and thereafter several times, always around the biannual Kaspar Hauser Festspiele (festivals) in Ansbach  – until his death in 2016. The translation will be followed by others from his works.

- Terry Boardman

Illustration: water colour by Kaspar Hauser

To the majestic heights of summer

The Sun’s brilliant being arises

It draws my human feeling out

And into its vast expanse of space.

Intuitively, within my soul

A sense is stirring that dimly tells me:

In future time you will understand

That you now were perceived by a being divine.

from Rudolf Steiner, The Calendar of the Soul, 10th week 9-15 June

There are two moods in “Summer” from Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” suite which most aptly portray in music the two sides of midsummer when the sun rises to the solstice. First there are the slow, heavy, languid moods that express the noonday heat when little moves and we have to struggle to stay awake and active. We feel the sensual oppressive heat and moisture. It is a time when we can easily fall into error or else into temptation. But the second, dynamic part brings the summer thunderstorm and the lightning strikes; then we can feel as if the weight of heaven comes down like a judgment telling us to “wake up!” and we run for cover. We are all well aware of the two sides of the sun: the giver and sustainer of life, but also the sun that can deal death, especially in the desert. Rudolf Steiner speaks of the sun not as one ‘positive’ thing such as a giant nuclear power plant but as an ‘empty’ or negative space which is the ‘dwelling’ place of numerous spiritual beings – to give them their traditional names in order of ascending spiritual rank: Angels, Archangels (notably Michael), Archai, Exusiai (Elohim), Dynamis, and Kyriotetes. Western esoteric knowledge (e.g. as in the Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486-1535) has also been aware that two other particular beings indwell the sun – the beneficent Nachiel, or ‘Intelligence of the sun’, whose number, Agrippa notes, was 111, and the evil Sorath, or ‘Spirit of the sun’, whose number was 666.

On the fifth day of the fifth month this year, 2023, the BBC reported¹ that the World Health Organisation (WHO) had declared that Covid-19 no longer represents “a global health emergency”. Although these two organisations, WHO and BBC, which had played major roles in promoting the damaging lockdowns and the injection programmes from 2020 to 2022 that proved fatal or harmful for so many people, were loath to admit that this meant “the danger was over”, preferring to say that “the emergency status could be reinstated if the situation changed”, the news did in effect signal that the pandemic catastrophe of the past three years was indeed over.  Back in 2020, when the mainstream media informed us that pharmaceutical companies were racing “at unprecedented speed” to develop a “vaccine” against SARS-Covid-19, we were told that it may not be ready for the global population until 2023.² In Britain, the public was assured, for example, that “all three… vaccines [from Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Moderna] have had analysis of safety and efficacy data from phase three trials (involving tens of thousands of participants) published in peer-reviewed articles in medical journals such as The Lancet [UK] and The New England Journal of Medicine [US]. The collection of long-term protection and safety data will continue over the next couple of years, and so the completion dates for the trials are in 2022 and 2023.”³ (emphasis – TMB).  2023 was thus the end date determined for the completion of the trials for the Covid-19 “vaccines”. We now see that it has become the end date for this whole global three-year experiment that was conducted on such a colossal scale, arguably the greatest coercive propaganda experiment in history.

Agenda 2030

We are rapidly approaching another very significant three-year period which begins in seven years’ time, in 2030 – the anniversary (2030-2033) of the three years when, according to Steiner’s spiritual science, 2000 years ago, the Christ was incarnated in Jesus of Nazareth, from His baptism in the River Jordan to His Ascension forty days after His Resurrection. We can also note that various prominent individuals and global organisations such as the UN and the World Economic Forum (WEF) have, for several years now, been focusing the attention of the world’s publics specifically on the year 2030 and the decade of the 2030s. For example, on 13 June 2019, the WEF, a private, non-democratic organisation, and the UN, another non-democratic organisation, signed the portentously named “Memorandum of Understanding between the UN and the WEF on the Strategic Partnership Framework for the 2030 Agenda”. This outlined areas of cooperation to “deepen institutional engagement and jointly accelerate the implementation” of the UN’s “2030 Agenda for ‘Sustainable Development’”, which was itself a further development of the UN’s Agenda 21⁴ that had first been laid out in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the city above which stands the colossal statue of Christ the Redeemer (built 1922-1931) on the 2,300 ft. (700 m.) high Corcovado peak.  On 25 September 2015, the 193 countries of the UN General Assembly – without any permission from their member countries’ citizens – adopted the 2030 Development Agenda titled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”.⁵ In October 2019, the same month in which the “Event 201” “table-top exercise” began at Johns Hopkins University in New York, an event which, three months ahead of time, simulated a coronavirus pandemic and how the world should respond to it, not least by “flooding the zone” of public information (such was the phrase repeatedly used at the event) with a single narrative  –  the WEF published a paper laying out 30 goals to be achieved by the year 2030; it was titled: “What if we get things right? Visions for 2030”.⁶ A further “Strategic Partnership Framework” was signed between the WEF and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on 23 January 2020.

Soon after the alleged Covid pandemic began, in June 2020, Charles Windsor, then Prince Charles (above), and Klaus Schwab jointly launched the much-trumpeted “Great Reset” project, which aimed at nothing less than a proposed total transformation of our entire civilisation as well as human nature itself, all in the name of the “Fourth Post-Industrial Revolution”, the “A.I. Revolution”, the “Zero Carbon” targets of the Climate Change agenda, and the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (i.e. Agenda 2030/Agenda 21). Again, the focus was on the decade beginning in 2030. Clearly, the unelected global elite are very focused on this particular period of time 2000 years after what Steiner called the Mystery of Golgotha – the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. But does Jesus Christ figure anywhere in their grandiose and ambitious projects? He does not.

The Sun Demon

What could be the connection between the three-year “Covid-19 pandemic” and these plans and projects for the 2030s? There are those who may see all these developments since 1992 – in my view, mistakenly – as further examples of the “globalisation” that they believe is an inevitable, cosmopolitan – and therefore positive – concomitant of the Age of Michael, the Archangel of the Sun, in whose era we have been living since the year 18797, according to esoteric knowledge that goes back at least to the late 15th century.  I am of the view that the answer can be found in two words known to those familiar with Anthroposophy: Ahriman and Sorath.

Just as, in most cases, the human physical body has a spiritual being associated with it, which we call our ‘self’ or our ‘I’, so also do the planetary bodies, including the Earth and the Sun, have spiritual beings associated with them. Just as the Earth currently has some 8 billion human spiritual selves associated with it, so are whole communities of spiritual beings associated with the Sun. And just as human beings can have dark spiritual forces that can influence or even possess them for part or most of their lives, so do the heavenly bodies also have dark forces, which can dwell within their spiritual spheres. The Sun is no exception: the dark being that indwells it is called Sorath.⁸

Steiner calls Sorath the “Sun Demon”, a powerful inspirer of materialism⁹ and black magic. Sorath does not incarnate in history as a human being but has made three major interventions into human history in the Christian era thus far – the first around the year 666, the second around the year 1332 (2 x 666) and the third around the year 1998.¹⁰ The first, according to Steiner, came through Sorath’s influence over an important teacher at the Academy of Gondishapur in Sassanid Persia in the mid-7th century AD, approximately the time of the Arab conquest of the Sassanid Persian Empire (see picture of the ruins of the academy below). The centre of that academy was its School of Medicine. Sorath’s goal here was to advance human scientific and technical knowledge prematurely to the point where mankind at that stage of its development, and especially the population of Europe at that time, would not have had the morality to cope with such knowledge (we are dangerously near another such a point today in relation to biotech and A.I., for example). This effort was swamped and largely prevented by the religious enthusiasm of the Islamic conquest in the 7th century AD. However, this premature knowledge was not suppressed totally by Islam; part of it ‘escaped’, as it were, from Gondishapur and, via Baghdad and then Islamic North Africa and Spain, made its way to western Europe, where it eventually laid the basis of modern natural science in the 17th century. One could thus say that a thousand years earlier, around the year 666, a ‘dark Sun’ ‘scientific’ influence was blunted by the crescent Moon ‘religious’ influence of Islam.

The second intervention came 666 years later, around 1332. Steiner associated this with the destruction of the Order of the Knights Templar by the French king Philip IV (the ‘Fair’) (picture below). The Templars ran an international banking operation on a moral basis, i.e. the money they handled belonged to the Order and not to the Knights personally. Philip was greedy for gold and wanted to seize that of the Templars. He also created the beginnings of the first European centralised modern state, in which civil servants were mostly secular and loyal to him; they were not clerics, whose loyalty might first be to the Church. This efficient centralised system is why he was able to arrest all the Templars across France within 24 hours on 13 October 1307. A hallmark of this second Sorathic intervention then, was a powerful centralised political State system.

1332 fell in the middle of what I would call the second ‘Sorathic window’ in the Christian era: 1307-1332-1357. Sorath’s intervention was not only in one year, 1332, but occurred during this window from 1307 (when the Templars in France were arrested) and 1357, by which time the Order of Templars throughout Europe was over: 1307 and 1357 are 25 years on either side of the axis point of 1332. My own research has convinced me that the first window of time in which Sorath intervened was from 641 to 691; 666 fell in the middle of that period. The second Sorathic window of time was 1307-1357, with 1332 in the middle.  The third Sorathic window was from 1973 to 2023, with the central axis year of 1998 (3 x 666). One can see this “window” of time like a lemniscate with the axis point at the centre of the lemniscate:

  641  –   666   –   691

1307  – 1332  –  1357

1973  – 1998  –  2023

Key events in this third period were the end of the Soviet Union and the emergence of China in the global capitalist economy, the development of the Internet, terrorism and the struggle between the West and Islamic states, 9/11, the beginning of the incarnation of Ahriman c.2000¹¹, the beginning of the second Cold War (2014), and the Covid-19 “pandemic” of 2020-2023 with its relation to the UN/WEF plans for a Great Reset to bring about a “new world order” in the 2030s. At root, most of these issues were economic ones, but the period has closed by combining in 2020-2023 aspects of all three Sorathic windows since the 7th century. The Covid years were the years of an engineered ‘health crisis’¹² in which drastic medical and political measures were forced onto populations throughout the world after being voted through in many countries by compliant parliamentarians; this was a coordinated and centralised global action carried out by so-called ‘democratic’ state governments that were driven by the WHO and its main financial funder, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Governments spent billions of their taxpayers’ money to compensate their taxpayers from the effects of the ruthless and completely unnecessary lockdown measures that the governments had imposed upon their populations, and this has had terrible economic (and social) consequences, which are likely to be with us for many years to come. This third ‘Sorath window’, then, which opened around 1973, closes this year in 2023, 7 years before the 2030 anniversary of the three years of the Mystery of Golgotha, which occurred 2000 years ago.

End Times?

Many people have for some decades now been convinced we are living through the biblical “End Times” prophesied by the books of Ezekiel, Daniel and the Revelation of St John (the so-called Apocalypse) and many Green, secular atheists are equally convinced we face extinction due to “climate change” unless we take drastic remedial action, which would require the end of democracy and a new ‘Green’ global authoritarianism – world government, in fact – or “global governance”, as it is euphemistically called. Indeed, what happened in 2020-2023 can be seen as having been a kind of ‘test-run’ for that authoritarianism. I am not convinced by either of these views. Certainly, our times can seem ‘apocalyptic’ in various respects, but they are not the biblical End Times, which, according to spiritual science, are not due for another four millennia at least, when the physical earth as we know it will enter the next phase of its development.¹³

What seems like the End Times today is actually more likely the atmosphere created by the incarnation (in the West – N. America) of Ahriman, one of the two main forces of spiritual evil who, according to Steiner is embodied as a human being only once in human evolution, as was the case with Christ, in Jesus 2000 years ago, and also the case with the other spiritual force of cosmic evil, Lucifer, in China 5000 years ago. In human evolution, Christ holds the balance between the two polar forces, Lucifer and Ahriman. In 1919 Steiner said in a lecture in Switzerland that Ahriman would appear in a physical (fleischliche) human being (his words: “Ahriman in the flesh”) before even a part of the third millennium would elapse.¹⁴ It is very likely that Ahriman’s approaching manifestation as an adult human being in the 2030s¹⁵ has been behind the sense of accelerating oppression and darkness that so many people have been experiencing.  There are sometimes very dark periods in history; the 1930s was one such and we can perhaps imagine how we might have felt to have lived through that era and to have been aware of the darkening shadow that many more sensitive or awake souls perceived at that time.

Philip IV (the Fair)

Ahriman will likely present himself not as a dark tyrant like the Big Brother figure in Orwell’s 1984, but rather as a benevolent positive saviour of humanity from all its woes, a figure of tremendous knowledge, as indeed the great teacher inspired by Sorath would have seemed no doubt to his pupils in the Academy of Gondishapur, and as the French king Philip the Fair (see below), tall, handsome and seemingly religiously moral and orthodox, presented himself to his court and his officials. Philip was autocratic and inflexible, known as the Iron King (le roi de fer); Bishop Saisset of Pamiers said of him: “He is neither man nor beast. He is a statue.” This royal ‘statue’ was the monarch who even dared, after his conflicts with the Papacy, to arrest the Pope and move the Papal institution to France, where Philip could better control it. The “Babylonian Captivity” of the Popes, as it became known, lasted from 1309 to 1376 and resulted in a considerable loss of respect for the Papacy throughout Europe. Julien Théry argues that by his persecution and cruel destruction of the Christian Order of the Knights Templar in order to take their money and set up a new military Order with himself as its head, Philip IV sought to erect a kind of ‘religion of royalty’ in France: “Being the ultimate defender of the Catholic faith, the …king was invested with a Christ-like function that put him above the pope. What was at stake in the Templars’ trial, then, was the establishment of a ‘royal theocracy’.”¹⁶

Here then, in the ‘second Sorath window’ – almost 200 years before Henry VIII of England  – was an attempt to merge and centralise the political and religious spheres in the person of the king.¹⁷ Many of Philip’s troubles came from his economic woes, a lack of money caused by his numerous wars and his attempts to manipulate and devalue the French currency. Within a year of the burning at the stake in Paris near Notre Dame of the Grand Master of the Templars and the Master of the Templar Order in Normandy, both Philip and the Pope, who had unwillingly assisted him in destroying the Templar Order, died. Then, within 14 years of Philip’s death, his three healthy adult sons each succeeded to the throne one after the other but all died without issue. Edward III of England, whose mother was Philip’s daughter Isabella, then insisted that he was the rightful ruler of France; the French nobility objected that the succession to the throne of France did not pass through a woman – and so began the Hundred Years’ War between England and France. Philip’s actions in life would result in disaster for France.

Emperor Go-Daigo

In that same Sorath window, in the 1330s on the other side of the world, there was a parallel situation when another ruler attempted to combine the religious and the political in his own person in order to turn back the tide of history. In the early 14th century, the emperors of Japan had no real power; they had lost it two centuries earlier to the rising samurai (warrior) class whose leading families dominated. The Emperors had become impotent, mere symbolic figures.

However, the Emperor Go-Daigo (1318-1339, above) who, like all the emperors of Japan, regarded himself as the direct descendent of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Ōmikami, wanted to regain for the Imperial House the powers Japanese emperors had possessed in the 8th-10th centuries, when the emperors had ruled on the highly centralised and absolutist Chinese model. He organised uprisings in 1331 and 1333 that eventually overthrew the samurai military government of the shoguns in Kamakura, (near modern Tokyo) and returned power to the ancient capital in Kyoto, far to the southwest. But his short-lived Kenmu Restoration (1333-1336), as it was known, failed because Go-Daigo could not recognise how the times had changed¹⁸ nor understand the real power and ambitions of the great samurai families or the realities of the lives of the minor samurai, the townspeople and peasants. His former samurai ally, Ashikaga Takauji, rose against him, and shattered Go-Daigo’s loyalist forces. Takauji set up a new emperor under his own control in Kyoto, while Go-Daigo escaped to the mountainous region south of Kyoto and set up a rival court there. So began the era of the civil wars between the Northern and Southern Courts, which split Japan for most of the 14th century, until 1392, when the Southern Court founded by Go-Daigo surrendered to the Northern Court. Thus Go-Daigo’s attempt around 1332 to return Japan to the ancient days of its solar “royal theocracy” failed disastrously. Japan’s Imperial Family today is descended from the emperors of the Northern Court, not the line of Go-Daigo.

Akhenaten

Some 2600 years before Go-Daigo and Philip IV, another ruler, more famous than both of them, sought to establish himself and his values and desires for his kingdom in a position of absolute power that was a challenge to the existing order. This was the pharaoh Amenhotep IV (see illustration below), who changed his name to Akhenaten (c. 1351 – c.1334 B.C.)¹⁹, and who some have argued was the father of Tutankhamen (whose original formal name was Tutankhaten), though this is disputed. Many people believe that Akhenaten was a “progressive reformer” who sought to change Egypt’s religion and culture for the better, a forerunner of Jewish and Christian monotheism, a pioneer of enlightened marital relationships, and so on. Beginning with Sigmund Freud, some have even seen him as identical with Moses and the biblical Exodus as having occurred during or just after his reign. But these views often look at Akhenaten through modern lenses,²⁰ focusing on Akhenaten himself, and often do not see him in the context of the pharaohs before him. If they did, they would realise that there was not a great difference between the way Akhenaten regarded his god, the Sun-Globe Aten²¹, and the way other Egyptians regarded their gods e.g., Atum, Amen, Ra/Re, Osiris, Horus. Each great city in ancient Egypt, for example, Memphis, Thebes, Edfu, Heliopolis (Iunu/On), Hermopolis (Khemnu) and Akhetaten (Amarna) had its own cult and chief god, which it regarded as the god, superior to all others. There is no great difference, for example, between Akhenaten’s well-known “Hymn to the Aten”, and the “Hymn to Amen-Re” preserved in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.²² What was different about Akhenaten was his fanaticism and lack of tolerance in his exclusion of the traditional gods in favour of his own, first removing funds for their temples and then actually defacing their images and cartouches (their formal names on buildings) so as to banish them from Egyptian memory (which was what later happened to his name too, after his death: he was condemned as a heretic).

His father Amenhotep III had been a more ‘inclusive’ pharaoh, who accepted all the traditional gods even while welcoming and affirming the cult of Aten. The Egyptologist Wallis Budge points out that “To Aten, Amenhotep [IV i.e., Akhenaten] ascribed the attributes of the old gods, Tem [Atum], Ra, Horus, Ptah, and even of Amen, and he proclaimed that Aten was “One” and “Alone”. But this had been proclaimed by all the priesthoods of the old gods… the worshippers of every great god in Egypt from time immemorial declared that their god was “One”. “Oneness” was an attribute… of everything that was worshipped in Egypt… .” Budge also indicates that Akhenaten “possessed a determined will and very definite religious convictions and a fearless nature” but that he “did not lightly brook opposition… with all [his] gifts he lacked a practical knowledge of men and things. He never realised the true nature of the duties which as king he owed to his country and people, and he never understood the realities of life. He never learnt the kingcraft of the Pharaohs, and he failed to see that only a warrior could hold what warriors had won for him… .None but a man half-insane would have been so blind to facts as to attempt to overthrow Amen and his worship, round which the whole of the social [and economic] life of the country centred.”²³ The above characteristics were shared also by Go-Daigo and Philip IV: great willpower and firm religious convictions but a certain fanaticism and an ignorance of the realities of the lands and people they ruled.

Egyptologists are still arguing over whether Tutankhamen, the most famous yet one of the most insignificant pharaohs of ancient Egypt, was the son of Akhenaten, his younger brother, his stepson or no relation at all. But what is clear is that it was this pharaoh Tutankhamen (only 19 when he died c. 1323 BC), whose tomb has remained the greatest Egyptological sensation ever since it was discovered on 4 November 1922 by the British archaeologist Howard Carter (1874-1939, on the left in the photo above). Carter was funded by the archaeological enthusiast, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, the 5th Earl of Carnarvon, (1866 – 1923, on the right in the photo above). The earl was property rich and cash poor, so he married Almina Wombwell, a young lady whose mother, Marie Wombwell, was able to blackmail millionaire banker Alfred de Rothschild, who however, cared much for Almina.²⁴ It was Carnarvon’s wife’s money i.e., Rothschild money, that enabled the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb by Howard Carter, who worked persistently for Carnarvon for 16 years.  Besides the Rothschild connection, the other point of interest about Carnarvon is that he was a descendant of Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648). Steiner speaks about Lord Cherbury in lecture 9 of his Historical Symptomatology course.²⁵ Cherbury was the founder of English Deism, which would become the de facto ‘religion’ of Freemasonry in England. Deism was the rationalistic belief in a supreme being, for which Cherbury put forward five propositions, but in them there is no mention of Christ. Freemasons, whose symbolism and rituals are largely based on the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem and the cultic forms of ancient Egypt, have to affirm, in order to be accepted into the Freemasonry of England (United Grand Lodge, based in London), that they believe in a supreme being; it does not matter which one.  ‘Speculative’ (i.e., symbolic) Freemasonry itself is an example of what Steiner called the resurrection of aspects of the culture of the 3rd Post-Atlantean (Egyptian-Babylonian-Chaldean) epoch (2907-747 BC) within our current 5th Post-Atlantean epoch (1413-3573). It is not unreasonable to sense a certain connection between the abstract transcendent ‘spirit’ of the ‘modern’ god of Deism and Akhenaten’s sun god Aten, which was abstract compared to the very concrete, even sensual nature of the many other Egyptian gods. It may indeed have been no accident that connected Carnarvon with Tutankhamen.  Carnarvon was one of those involved in the excavation who died not long after the tomb was opened (the tomb was discovered in November 1922; he died in Cairo in April 1923).

Many may have wondered: why of all the pharaohs of Egypt, it should have been the insignificant Tutankhamen whose tomb has proved to be the most sensational discovery in Egyptology so far. And why was it discovered just at the time it was? Definitive answers to these questions may never be found, but besides speculation about reincarnation e.g. possible former lives of Carnarvon and Carter at the time of Tutankhamen²⁶, as well as the fact that the discovery came exactly 100 years after the vital decipherment of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic script by Jean-Francois Champollion in 1822, there is also the fact that the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen (reigned c.1332-1323 B.C.) whose original reign name was Tutankhaten) directed attention back to Akhenaten’s era (c.1353-1323 B.C.) and the momentous but short-lived religious change that Akhenaten tried to impose upon his kingdom. Scholars have determined that Tutankhamen reigned for 9 years; he became pharaoh in c.1332 B.C., that is 2 x 666. It is also possible that Akhenaten himself died in 1332 B.C., as the dates of Egyptian chronology are not completely secure. The pharaoh Smenkhkare is supposed to have reigned in the one or two years (1334-1332 B.C.) between Akhenaten and Tutankhamen, but that too is debatable. (Egyptologists are still unsure whether he even existed, was merely Akhenaten’s co-regent in his last years or whether he was Akhenaten’s widow or daughter in disguise.)

The axis of history

The key point in all this, I feel, is that the period of the Atenist religion came to an end in the time (1330s BC) that was as far before Jesus Christ as the 1330s AD were after Jesus Christ, the years of the Christ Event being regarded by Steiner as the focal axis of human evolution. The years on either side of that axis seem mysteriously related to each other. Steiner discussed  this mirroring in history that occurs on either side of the Christ Event in Palestine from another perspective when, in 1910, he spoke of how the 3000 years from the beginning of the Age of Darkness (known in India as Kali Yuga) in 3101 BC, down to the time of Jesus Christ, can be divided in three periods of approximately 1000 years each, the ages of Abraham (c.3000 – c.2000 BC), of Moses (c.2000 – c.1000 BC) and of Solomon (c. 1000 BC to the Christ Event) and that something of the character of these three ages recurs, mirrored as it were, in reverse order in the 3000 years after Christ: the first Christian millennium – the Age of Solomon; the second Christian millennium – the Age of Moses; and the third Christian millennium – the Age of Abraham. In the Age of Abraham before Christ (i.e., 3000-2000 BC) natural clairvoyance faded, humanity became dependent on the physical brain and the concept of One God began to appear; in the Age of Moses BC (2000 – 1000 BC), humanity descended still lower into the material world, and the One God revealed Himself externally through the physical forms of nature (wind, storm, burning bush etc) and through external commands such as the Ten Commandments); in the Age of Solomon BC (1000-1 BC), human beings began to think for themselves; philosophy and politics emerged. However, the Age of Solomon AD (1 AD – 1000 AD) was one of the development both of Christian esoteric wisdom and also of barren and rigid intellectual theology and dogmatism; the Age of Moses AD (1000 AD – 2000 AD) was one of the development of Christian mysticism and inwardness within the soul; the Age of Abraham AD (2000-3000 AD) will be one in which humanity will gradually free itself from the physical brain, and natural clairvoyance will develop, including vision of the Christ, not as a physical presence but in the spiritual biosphere that surrounds the earth. The respective gestures of the three ages are thus related but mirrored in time. Another example of this mirroring around the Christ Event was that Buddhism emerged in the late 6th century BC and Islam in the late 6th century AD. A further example was that in the 6th century BC, between 597 and 538, many Jews were exiled in Babylonia following King Nebuchadnezzar’s destruction of the Kingdom of Judah, while in the 6th cent. AD, the Byzantine Emperor Justinian passed many anti-Jewish laws and restrictions, and the Babylonian Talmud (a central text of Rabbinic Judaism) was completed in the early 6th century. It is of great importance for our understanding of history that we learn to look at and compare historical events before the Christ Event with those that occurred in the same periodicity after it. In the context of this article, for example, this means the 1330s BC and the 1330s AD.

From the 1330s to today

In 1328 AD, King Charles IV of France died after a reign of only six years. He was the last of the three unfortunate sons of Philip IV (“the Fair”) and thus the last of the main branch of the Capetian dynasty, which had ruled France since the 10th century. Like his father, Charles was also known as “the Fair”. In 1328, Philip IV’s daughter Isabella was reigning in England with her lover Roger Mortimer, the couple having overthrown her husband, Edward II, two years earlier. After the death of Charles IV in 1328, the French nobles declined to accept Isabella or her son Edward (Edward III) as ruler of France and instead crowned Philip of Valois king of France. He was the brother of Philip IV (d. 1314) and the head of a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty, henceforth known as the Valois dynasty. So, from the 1330s there was a new dynasty in France after the deaths of the three sons of Philip IV, the king who had tried to create a “royal theocracy” centred on himself as ‘Vicar of God’, rather as Akhenaten, who saw himself as “the Son of Aten”, had tried to do in Egypt, some 2660 years earlier, and, as mentioned above, Emperor Go-Daigo had also tried to do something similar in mediaeval Japan, also in the early 1330s. The ‘gesture’ that all three men had in common was that they saw themselves as ‘sunlike’ in their respective countries, which they wished to make revolve around themselves. Akhenaten, like Sorath in Gondishapur c. 666 AD, tried to push his people too far forward too fast, while Go-Daigo wanted to take his country backwards in time to the 9th or the 7th centuries. Philip IV was not as anachronistic as the other two; he understood his country or at least his nobles and clergy somewhat better, but he nevertheless caused his country and its people great suffering through his headstrong, ill-judged and stubborn decisions.

The discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb came in the 1920s. It was a decade when monolithic, absolutist totalitarianism, which one could call a modern ‘resurrection’ of ancient Egyptian behaviour in our time, was rapidly growing in Europe: the Bolsheviks had come to power in Russia in 1917, and the USSR was formally established in 1922; Stalin took over after Lenin’s death in 1924; Mussolini took power in Italy in 1922, and the Nazi Party was founded in Germany in early 1920; Hitler became its leader a year later. The common point of all these forms of totalitarianism, besides their materialist underpinnings, was that they combined the cultural, political and economic spheres of society under State control – a theme of “Oneness”. All three of them had Egyptian overtones in their use of dictatorship by all-powerful leaders and those leaders’ control of the masses in an almost religious way, often through huge, ritualistic spectacles. In this second Age, the Age of Moses (second millennium AD), these regimes were very much ‘command societies’, absolutist theocracies as the earlier ‘Age of Moses’ (BC) had been. In Germany in particular, the cultic symbolism and style of the new regime was that of an inversion of the motif of the Sun, for example, in the omnipresent swastika.²⁷ Imperial Japan’s symbol was also that of the rising sun disk.

On 26 November 1922, after the arrival of Lord Carnarvon and his daughter Evelyn Herbert in Egypt, Howard Carter, together with Carnarvon and Evelyn, became the first people in millennia briefly to enter the tomb’s burial chamber, 33 centuries after the lives and deaths of Akhenaten and Tutankhamen. Evelyn, being smaller, was actually the first person to enter Tutankhamen’s burial chamber. Work inside the tomb proceeded slowly and carefully in 1923. Lord Carnarvon, who had already been suffering from a serious illness in 1922, died in April 1923, and Carter resumed work at the tomb in autumn that year. But on 12 February 1924 he stopped work in protest against interference by the Egyptian authorities and did not recommence work at the tomb until 25 January 1925. It is worth noting that Steiner had fallen seriously ill at the end of September 1924 and in January 1925 was still ill in his sickbed. It was only in October 1925, almost three years after the initial discovery of the tomb, that Carter and his team removed the now fabled and world-famous golden funerary mask of Tutankhamen from the mummy and finally gazed upon the pharaoh’s face. By that time, Steiner had died six months earlier (30.3.1925) and Adolf Hitler had been out of prison almost a year and had refounded the Nazi Party in February 1925 under his firm command, calling himself “der Führer”.  So much about Hitler (except for his normal speaking voice) and about the National Socialists is an image of rigid hardness. The stern “Man of Destiny” facial image he presented to the world resembled that of an Egyptian pharaoh – apart from the moustache of course! Nazi architecture resembled ancient Egyptian architecture in certain respects. The black swastika (itself an ancient Hindu symbol of the Sun) was set within a white disk in the centre of a blood red ground. Ancient Egypt was known as the Two Lands, black and red. Hitler, who idolised the figure of Parsifal, was represented as though he were the Sun’s representative on earth, and Nazi ideologues spoke of him as such. Akhenaten regarded himself as the Son of the Aten, the son of the Sun. Replacing all the priests of the old gods, he claimed in effect to be the Sun on earth, something which not even Louis XIV would have claimed for himself. Hitler came to power in 1933, (exactly 100 years after the death of Kaspar Hauser in 1833) and 66 years before 1999, which is close to 3 x 666 =1998.

The Beast

Steiner said in 1910 that some human beings would begin to perceive the Christ in the Earth’s etheric field (its spiritual biosphere) beginning in 1933²⁸ and in 1924 he remarked that “before the Etheric Christ can be comprehended in the right way, humanity must first cope with encountering the Beast who will rise up from the abyss. This is what the apocalyptic language tells us…”²⁹ Beasts of another kind did indeed arise, not in the heavens but on Earth, in human souls in 1933, inspired by a spiritual being, the Sun Demon, that made its own major intervention during the third ‘window’ of its activity in the Christian era³⁰, when it struck all three spheres of that period – in economic, political and cultural events – most recently in the area of health and medicine in the Covid crisis.

The German businessman, Klaus Schwab, who founded the WEF, and the WEF’s ‘court philosopher’, the Israeli historian, Yuval Noah Harari, (left) author of ‘modestly’ titled books such as Homo Deus and Unstoppable Us − How Humans Took Over the World, believed that Covid-19 was intimately related to the coming Great Reset; Schwab’s 2020 book was even titled Covid-19: the Great Reset, which almost suggests that Covid 19 was the Great Reset. But for Schwab, the Great Reset means the total transformation of our civilisation to an AI-driven, Transhumanist form of what he calls “stakeholder capitalism”, by which he means a form of global capitalism run in the interests of a few elites. This is what they have scheduled for the 2030s, when Ahriman will likely make his main move in the human realm. But before that momentous event, which will no doubt deeply affect the rest of this century as the two world wars did the last century, ‘the ground’ for the Great Reset by Ahriman was prepared during the last 50 years (1973-2023, the third Sorath ‘window’) by Sorath, the Sun Demon. Those years culminated in the three years of a catastrophe based on deception by the UN/WHO, WEF, Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci, the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the British Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) as well as numerous national governments and media organisations which unquestioningly followed the ‘advice’ and the strictures of these institutions and individuals. It was a scientific (‘medical’), political, and economic catastrophe³¹ in the early years of this crucial 21st century, this new third millennium, and in the last 3 years of the third intervention of Sorath the Sun Demon, (the “two horned beast” of Revelation chapter 13), a pseudo-pandemic was conjured up in order to ‘save us all’ from an allegedly dreadful global disease. Hundreds of millions, from nonagenarians to infants, were injected with a deceptive “vaccination” that was no vaccination at all but a technological bioweapon³² that is steadily killing off considerable numbers of healthy, fit human beings, notably young sportspeople – some drop dead suddenly or fall seriously ill – and is implicit in women’s pregnancies that fail and the increasing excess mortality rates³³ – all of which the mainstream media largely ignore. Those in government, the media and the entertainment industry, who fell under Sorath’s spell and followed the official narrative on Covid and the “vaccinations”, spoke at first with comforting words and all kinds of encouragements and inducements but then finally with threats, insults and vicious propaganda that “spake as a dragon” against those who refused to have the injections, demanding they be locked up, interned, denied their civil rights etc.

Meanwhile, Schwab, the WEF, the media and national governments used the ‘crisis’ to push the new technology of surveillance and control with “Covid passes”, “health passes”, “Green passes”, “vaccine passports”, which were all dependent on smartphone apps and QR codes. We were told we would have to work from home, travel less and get used to a lifestyle within 15 minutes of our homes, where everything would be “within reach”, as it were – all so that we wouldn’t “spread the virus” and would also “reduce our carbon footprint” on the way to the “Zero Carbon” economy and society. Carbon has been turned into a hate object… People seem to forget that our bodies consist mostly of water and carbon. During the window of Sorath’s third intervention (1973-2023) not only have the technologies of microchipping both animals and human beings emerged along with those of smartphones, QR codes, automated payment and social credit surveillance systems, but we have also been pushed from fear of “global cooling” in the late 1970s to fear of “global warming” in the 1990s and fear of “climate change” since the 2010s. All of these fearmongering developments since the early 1970s, culminating in fear of Covid-19, bear the signatures of Ahriman (the “first beast” mentioned in the Book of Revelation Chapter 13) and Sorath the Sun Demon (the second, two-horned beast) who

“….deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the [first] beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the [first] beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

And he [the second beast, Sorath] had power to give life unto the image of the [first] beast, that the image of the [first] beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the [first] beast should be killed.

And he [Sorath] causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast [Sorath], or the number of his name.

Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast [Sorath]: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”³⁴ (The Book of Revelation)

These are dark times indeed, times when, as a civilisation, we have achieved so much materially but fallen so far ethically and spiritually. Nicanor Perlas wrote about our time strikingly and helpfully in his 2018 book Humanity’s Last Stand – The Challenge of Artificial Intelligence, A Spiritual Scientific Response.  I personally feel that “Last Stand” is exaggerated, but nevertheless, it is true that ours is a time when only through the encounter with great darkness are many people waking up to the spiritual reality of what is happening and realising that darkness is followed by dawning light, as is said in the 4th verse of Steiner’s Foundation Stone Meditation, referring to the Mystery of Golgotha 2000 years ago: “Darkness of night had run its course. Day-radiant light now streamed into human hearts…” Christians should never forget that the spiritual forces of darkness were already comprehensively defeated 2000 years ago and that those forces have only conducted a huge and complex rearguard action since then, an action that has also included major offensives on their part, but ultimately all in vain. This 21st century is a momentous time for the future of humanity.  In a mood of equanimity, watching and praying, observing, understanding and acting, we should keep in mind that we have chosen to live in this time and to play our part for the sake of humanity’s future.

Endnotes

1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65499929

2. https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/news/experts-warn-global-covid-vaccine-could-take-until-late-2023/

3. https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccines/

4. “Agenda 2030, also known as the Sustainable Development Goals, was a set of goals decided upon at the UN Sustainable Development Summit in 2015. It takes all of the goals set by Agenda 21 and re-asserts them as the basis for sustainable development, saying, ‘We reaffirm all the principles of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development…’ Adding onto those goals from the original Rio document, a total of 17 goals have been agreed on, revolving around the same concepts of Agenda 21; people, planet, prosperity, peace, and partnership.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_21

5. See a Romanian whistleblower and expert on sustainable development expose the UN, WEF and Agenda 2030: https://www.brighteon.com/a6d160b9-8794-438c-bc09-775534add11e  Interview with Reiner Fuellmich.

6. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/10/future-predictions-what-if-get-things-right-visions-for-2030/

7. Following Steiner’s indications, it will end approximately in the period 2250-2300. Following that of the mediaeval esotericist, Abbot Johannes Trithemius of Sponheim, it will end in exactly the year 2233.

8. See Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy (1533) chapter XXII. Agrippa’s esoteric teacher at the time he wrote the book was Trithemius of Sponheim.

9. See lecture of 12 Sept. 1924 in Steiner’s Collected Works GA 346, and also lecture of 29 June 1908, in Collected Works GA 104.

10. See n. 9 above. See also lectures of 11th and 12th October 1918, in Collected Works GA 184 (published in Rudolf Steiner, Three Streams in Human Evolution, Rudolf Steiner Press 1965, rep. 1985)

11. See my article ‘The Incarnation of Ahriman: When and Where?’ at http://threeman.org/?p=2905

12. See the speech by Dr David Martin to the EU Parliament 28 May 2023 https://rumble.com/v2ncp8w-dr-david-e.-martin-phd-covid-summit-european-union-parliament-may-2023.html

13. See R. Steiner, The Apocalypse of St. John, Collected Works GA 104 (1908), lectures 8,9,10,11,12 and the chart at the back of the book.

14. Steiner lecture of 1 November 1919, Collected Works GA 191.

15. ‘He’ may not appear on the public stage, as it were, but may conceal ‘himself’ and act behind or through a number of human ‘frontmen’. Either way, humanity will notice a tremendous acceleration towards total control of the planet and the human race.

16. Julien Théry, ‘A Heresy of State. Philip the Fair, the Trial of the “Perfidious Templars”, and the Pontificalization of the French Monarchy’, in Journal of Mediaeval Religious Cultures, 2013.

17. In 1534 Henry VIII broke with Rome decisively and set himself up as the Head of the Established  Church in England.

18. This was, after all, the martial Age of the Archangel Samael (late 12th to the early 16th century). The characteristics of this age were war, conflict, fragmentation, but also individuation.

19. His dates, like those of most Egyptian pharaohs, are not exactly certain. Scholarly opinion includes 1353–1336 or 1351–1334 BC.

20. “Before much of the archaeological evidence from Thebes and from Tell el-Amarna became available, wishful thinking sometimes turned Akhenaten into a humane teacher of the true God, a mentor of Moses, a Christlike figure, a philosopher before his time. But these imaginary creatures are now fading away one by one as the historical reality gradually emerges. There is little or no evidence to support the notion that Akhenaten was a progenitor of the full-blown monotheism that we find in the Bible. The monotheism of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament had its own separate development – one that began more than half a millennium after the pharaoh’s death.” – From ‘Aspects of Monotheism’ by Donald B. Redford, Biblical Archaeology Review, 1996.

21. The Aten is often translated as Sun disk, but this is a mistranslation. ‘Globe’ is more accurate.

22. See E.A. Wallis Budge, Tutankhamen – Amenism, Atenism and Egyptian Monotheism (1923, repub. 1991) chaps. 2 and 3.

23.  Wallis Budge, pp. 77-78. Akhenaten’s closure of the temples of the other gods meant great hardship for the common people of Egypt as well as for the priests and scribes.

24. https://lord-carnarvon.blogspot.com/

25. From Symptom to Reality in Modern History, Collected Works GA 185, lecture 9 3 November 1918.

26. Carnarvon and Carter were close for 16 years, from 1907 until Carnarvon’s death in 1923: Lady Burghclere, Carnarvon’s sister, wrote that for 16 years “….the two men worked together with varying fortune, yet ever united not more by their common aim than by their mutual regard and affection” (my emphasis). See n. 24 above.

27. Looking at some other background events to the discovery and opening of Tutankhamen’s tomb, we find that in 1919 serious rebellions broke out in two parts of the British Empire – Egypt and Ireland, and in 1922, the two peoples gained their independence from Britain – Egypt in February and Ireland in December. Then on 31 December 1922, the Goetheanum Building (1913-1922) designed by Rudolf Steiner in Dornach, Switzerland, was destroyed by arson.

28. Steiner lecture of 6.3.1910 Stuttgart, in Collected Works GA 118.

29. Steiner lecture of 20.9.1924 in Collected Works GA 346.

30. During the 49/50 year ‘window’ of 2023-1998-1973 BC (in the 21st/20th centuries BC) that corresponds to the period 1973-1998-2033 AD, the 11th Dynasty (c.2150 BC – c.1991 BC) ended in Egypt and was followed by the 12th Dynasty (1991-1802 BC). In 2023 BC Pharaoh Mentuhotep II (2060–2009 BC) was ruling; he reunited Egypt after the turbulence of the ‘First Intermediate Period’ (2181–2055 BC) and became the first pharaoh of the Middle Kingdom. He was succeeded during that third 666 window BC by Mentuhotep III (c. 2009–1997 BC), Mentuhotep IV (1997–1991 BC), and Amenemhat I (1991-c.1961 BC)

31. Medical, because of the injections which are gradually killing off countless numbers of people across the world and ruining the lives of many others; political, because of the huge extension during Covid-19 crisis and since, of the coercive powers of the national states which obey the will of the UN, WHO and WEF; and economic, because of the terrible economic effects around the world of the unnecessary lockdowns and injections.

32. See Dr. David Martin’s presentation to the “Covid Summit” at the EU Parliament May 2023 https://rumble.com/v2ncp8w-dr-david-e.-martin-phd-covid-summit-european-union-parliament-may-2023.html and also, biotech and patent lawyer Karen Kingston’s analysis of the Covid injections in the documentary Final Days: https://stewpeters.com/final-days-video/

33. Even the British MD, Dr John Campbell on Youtube, one of the most widely watched ‘experts’ who supported the official narrative 2020-2022, changed his tune last year out of his concern over the excess mortality figures.

34. See: The Book of Revelation, ch. 13: verses 14-18.

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