Is the human race under spiritual attack? Did the esoteric philosopher and clairvoyant Rudolf Steiner warn of this over a century ago when he said that a “vaccine” would be the device of humanity’s defeat?
For many, the overly authoritarian response of governments around the world to COVID-19 has revealed a deeper and more sinister driving force. But it has not just been governments that seemed to be acting strangely. Over the past two years, we have witnessed people across a broad spectrum of society meekly submit to draconian attacks on their freedoms, many even fiercely defending the assault. Similarly, we have seen politicians and parties that once ran on platforms of personal freedom and economic autonomy turn almost overnight into control freaks, determined to micromanage every aspect of our lives. How has this happened?
Recently, the term “mass formation psychosis” has been on everyone’s lips. It is defined as a psychological phenomenon whereby a mass of people voluntarily go through a process of deindividuation and a herd mentality is formed. Due to its contagious nature, the ways of thinking that affect these deindividualized people, catalyzed by the positive feedback loops of news programs, social media and peer-to-peer interaction, spread like wildfire throughout the population. In the past, this used to be called mass psychology or, more simply, the madness of crowds.
Someone for whom the events of the last two years would not have been so surprising was the Austrian esoteric philosopher and mystic Rudolf Steiner, who died almost a century ago. Throughout his life, Steiner wrote numerous books and delivered thousands of lectures on his theories, contributing greatly in a variety of fields, from architecture to education and from agriculture to beekeeping. His unique and sometimes controversial ideas and methods led to the founding of the spiritual movement known as anthroposophy, which emphasizes the existence of unlimited potential for human beings.
Unlike some esoteric thinkers, Steiner recognized the great importance of materialistic science, but argued that it was vital to consider it only one aspect of reality, which, ideally, should be combined with what he called “spiritual science”-obtained through mystical experience-to present the whole picture. After all, breakthroughs often occur when scientists receive insights that go beyond the material realm, as in the famous case of James Watson, who is credited with the discovery of the double helix form of DNA, which came to him in a dream in which two intertwined snakes appeared. Similarly, Dmitri Mendeleev created the periodic table after dreaming of “… a table in which all the elements fitted into place as required”. These cases demonstrate that not all scientific discoveries are the result of logical deduction and experimentation.
In fact, Steiner, who was the subject of mystical intuitions from childhood, honed his clairvoyant skills to such an extent that the information he received from unconventional sources became more than an occasional flash of intuition. His quest became the establishment of methods for obtaining objective extrasensory perception, a task he considered of paramount importance, as he believed that an epic battle was being waged in the spiritual realm that would have disastrous consequences for humanity unless addressed head-on.
His clearest warnings about the future destiny of humanity came in a series of lectures delivered towards the end of his life in Dornach, Switzerland; these lectures are reproduced in the book “The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness.” Although Steiner’s detractors say that his prose can be leaden, his lectures meandering and his concepts difficult to understand, he is remarkably clear and direct about the fate that awaits humanity if our obsession with scientific materialism is allowed to reign free without being brought back into balance by the countervailing forces of spirituality.
This is most clearly illustrated in the last two lectures of the series, lectures 13 and 14, entitled respectively “The Influence of Fallen Spirits on the World and Toward the Future.” Steiner argues that at the beginning of the 19th century an invisible battle took place which certain “spirits of darkness” lost. These spirits were expelled from their heavenly realms and cast down to a more material plane of existence, i.e. here. The date is very precise: autumn 1879.
These newly arrived spirits joined those already here – those who have been existing alongside and influencing humanity since the mythological times associated with the Fall. Since these evil spirits are slow to make their way into human societies, it was not until 1914 that their evil influence manifested itself in human society in the form of World War I, a disastrous event whose cause continues to perplex secular historians.
The spirits Ahriman and Lucifer have been hacking at humanity for thousands of years, Steiner says, with Lucifer being the “light bearer” attempting to make us more spiritual and grant us more free will, and Ahriman doing the opposite and making us more materialistic and easier to control. In simple terms, Lucifer is an ascending influence, while Ahriman is a descending influence.
Why would they want to do this? Well, we don’t know; it is difficult for our human minds to understand what moves angels and demons. But every time one of these periodic battles occurs in the spirit world, Steiner says, it tends to result in a new batch of reinforcements being thrown into the material realm to join forces with those already here.
Steiner told us that Ahriman – a demon first identified by the Zoroastrians in ancient Persia – is currently in control. He had a personal problem with Ahriman and had seen his face in a vision; in fact, at the time of his death he was still carving an image of him out of wood. Ahriman’s main objective seems to be to drag humanity into a purely materialistic state devoid of any form of spirituality, eliminating even the urge to connect with our souls. The method of attack would be through science and technology, and by taking possession of the minds of powerful and influential people in order to further this agenda. These controlled people could be scientists, politicians, religious leaders, or anyone with any influence. Thus, demonic forces would work through these people, and the people themselves, blinded by all-too-human flaws such as greed or lust for power, would lack the basic awareness to recognize what was happening.
The background to this takeover was the rise of atheism and the cult of science and progress. Now, we find ourselves in a situation where a purely materialistic perspective is presented as the only explanation of all creation. Atheism has become a de facto religion for some, while the rich traditions of indigenous spirituality have been cornered and crushed under its heels. People, animals and all life are viewed in the same cold way; mere receptacles of protein and genetic code that can be exploited. The end of this play is presented as a bleak, monochromatic world, stripped of spirit and light, where human beings – with their broken minds and spirits – are overcrowded and guarded like laboratory animals.
We can see this scenario accelerating. CEOs of technology companies are seen almost as saints or Bodhisattvas, with the eternal carrot (alludes to the myth of the carrot and the stick) forever downloading the “data” contained in our brains onto microchips. At the same time, politicians, corporate scientists, civil servants and economists are considered technocratic engineers in charge of ensuring the smooth functioning of the giant material economy. Free will? The implicit assumption is that it will be unnecessary once AI-driven algorithms – which know us better than we do – reach escape velocity. At that point, human life would be intrinsically worthless, and the shells of our former selves would be occupied by the demonic army that Steiner warned us was biding its time.
Some say that Rudolf Steiner predicted that a vaccine would appear that would be the delivery system for the final defeat of humanity. In light of the clandestine efforts over the past two years to inject nearly everyone on the planet with a gene-editing treatment, his prescience seems exceptional, but how true is it?
Surprisingly, Steiner was remarkably clear (by his own standards) about the physical process by which this takeover would occur. In his last lecture of The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness, he states that the spiritual world where entities such as angels, demons and archangels dwell is within human blood. He said literally:
“Both Archangels and Angels had their abode in the blood, so to speak. Truly, blood is not something merely for chemists to analyze; it is also the abode of entities from higher worlds.”
To that end, he speculated that the mechanism of administration would be in the form of a vaccine injected directly into our bodies.
“Today [in 1917] bodies are vaccinated against one thing and another; in the future, children will be vaccinated with a substance which it will certainly be possible to produce, and this will make them immune so that they will not develop senseless inclinations connected with the spiritual life – ‘senseless’ here, of course, in the eyes of the materialists.”
This “vaccine,” he goes on to say, would block any communication from the spiritual world, which would mean that no messages or impulses could come from the “spirits of light” whose aim is always to help humanity progress and fulfill our destiny. The vaccine would permanently block the positive impulses that used to be transmitted to us, and instead, the hapless victims would only be able to receive the impulses coming to them from disturbing sources, among which today we can imagine the media, the educational system and even established religion. He says that there would be great confusion, and that ahrimanic forces would turn people’s thoughts upside down and inside out. Everything that was once good and sensible will seem evil and crazy, while everything that was once considered crazy and evil will be presented as sensible and good.
Listening to a recent Legalise Freedom podcast entitled “COVID-19. War on Humanity,” Emma Farrell, a plant healer who uses shamanic techniques to access the inner realms, observed that she and others in the same field had seen a veritable horde of spiritual parasitic entities attached to people in the last two years, as if a floodgate had been opened and they had flooded in. According to her, these entities come in all shapes and sizes, but there are two very common and recognizable ones, one of which is in the shape of a squid. According to her, these squid-like beings attach themselves to unprotected people and harvest their spiritual energy causing division and discord among us.
I found this interesting, as in recent years we have seen how this squid archetype has been creeping into human consciousness, especially through popular culture. Many people have claimed to have dreamed of octopus or squid-like creatures, and artists such as Peter Yankowski have painted images of these visions. Indeed, the evil machines that control humans and harvest their energies in the Matrix movies look like robotic squids, while one of the most popular Netflix series of 2021 was Squid Game, a grim and violent survival thriller that posits human nature as inherently barbaric. In addition, the resurgence in popularity of H.P. Lovecraft’s supernatural tales of the horrors of the deep adds another tantalizing layer to this rugged pie.
And let’s not forget when Goldman Sachs, one of the world’s largest investment banks, was memorably described by Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi as a “great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly embedding its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” The description is apt; after all, what is the purpose of an investment bank other than to turn every aspect of the sacred world into a monetized asset to be traded, exploited and leveraged?
Could this manifestation of a squid/octopus archetype in human consciousness be what Steiner warned us about? Are there really spiritual entities in our blood that explain the obsession of billionaire technocrats to inject us with substances said to contain nanoparticles we know very little about? And how does this fit with the psycho-spiritual disease of wetiko described by Paul Levy and the concept of “mass-forming psychosis” being discussed in the alternative media?
Perhaps the truth lies somewhere in the nexus of these concepts, with the implicit suggestion that we should not rest in our deep inquiry into the form of the affliction that is currently so widespread throughout the world. Only then will we be able to find the tools and weapons necessary to combat it.
Or perhaps the ahrimanic demons that Steiner warned us about, the wetiko mental parasites that Paul Levy writes about, and the tentacled entities that have been introduced into our collective consciousness through popular culture, are all playing on the same team. If so, what does our team look like, and how can we win this game? Perhaps the struggle is necessary at this juncture in human development, and by defeating these “spirits of darkness” we can progress to a higher level.
In any case, back to the old adage alluded to earlier…it is said that people can go crazy in crowds, but the road back to sanity is traveled one person at a time.
Jason Heppenstall
https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/steiner-the-blood-demons
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