"Spiritual materialism", zeitgeist of the 20th century.

For the descending arc of evolution, materialism has necessarily been the dominant trend. It has produced important developments in philosophy, science, religious expression, and technology throughout history, reaching a culmination point in the 19th century. 

The heliocentric model

Since then, all cultural developments should have then been spiritual; those that are not — the vast majority — have gone against the evolutionary current.

The culmination of the materialistic world view lies in the middle or in the last third of the nineteenth century. [1]

The time when human progress was made possible through the constant refinement of the physical forces is already over. In the future, too, humankind will progress, but only through spiritual development, through development on a higher level than that of the processes of the physical plane. [2]

The common denominator of many of the “visionary” movements and ideologies that have appeared within the 20th and 21st centuries, has been that they sought to accomplish a spiritual aim, but through material means, owing to the retrogressive action of materialism. 

Islam and the Christian West

The divide between the Christian and Islamic world has always been complex to navigate. Islam is a religion that appears so austere and so severe to many, especially in the Christian West; it is not immediately obvious what purpose this serves.

From an esoteric and historical lens, there are threads linking the two religions. The work of Master Jesus has been present across many world religions, notably Christianity, but also Islam. 

Please also see: The White Lodge, an organization for the spiritual guidance of mankind. 

The Mahommedan faith will be found to be linked to the Christian faith because it embodies the work of the Master Jesus as He overshadowed one of His senior disciples, a very advanced initiate, Mahomet. [1]

Master Jesus

There has always been an intrinsic relationship of checks and balances between Islam and Christianity. The centuries of conflict between them can be described in summary as: the Father aspect of the Trinity is more pronounced in Islam, whereas the Son aspect is more pronounced in Christianity.

What we see in a holy war, is the accentuation of these two counterpoles. I have described the Islamic impulse further here.

We hear and we obey. Qur’an 2:285

Geopolitics in the spiritual age

By the future sixth epoch, the spiritual world will be much more visible, which necessitates that humanity move past any belief systems based on materialism alone, whether on an individual or state level. 

Our fifth epoch will be followed by another, the sixth. This sixth epoch will see the development of brotherhood among men, clairvoyance and creative power. [1]

The time when human progress was made possible through the constant refinement of the physical forces is already over. In the future, too, humankind will progress, but only through spiritual development, through development on a higher level than that of the processes of the physical plane. [2] 

A futile agenda in the East

The push for regime change in Iran to bring about secularization, or by subverting the integrity of the Iranian state in an attempt to balkanize the region into smaller ethnic states, indicates motives contrary to the evolutionary current. 

It is not a matter of being "pro theocracy"; Secularism as we know it will soon become obsolete, simply because the spiritual will become an active and visible principle in human existence. However, the complete personal freedom conceived of in Western society may also be challenged in this way.

This significant change will be heralded by a geopolitical shift of power from the West to the East, hence why it has never been possible to export Western liberalism there— it would impede the future development and tasks of people in this region. 

The Iran war: a divide in Western occultism (updated)

The role occultism has played within the technocratic movement is obvious to many people, with the rise of AI heralding a major evolutionary change for humanity.

However, we cannot properly understand this war without seeing how occult forces have worked through previous movements to accomplish altogether different aims, that are now in opposition to the present forces.

The shift in American conservatism

The American Neoconservative movement was once very prominent, reaching its apex in the 1990s and 2000s, with its pundits advocating for "American world leadership" and foreign intervention, utilizing state propaganda and censorship of opposition to achieve their goals. 

PNAC: Project for the New American Century was a neoconservative think tank based in Washington D.C., that was highly influential in US foreign policy and a key proponent of the Iraq war.

Since then, there has been a significant shift away from interventionist foreign policy in the conservative movement, and more towards populism. 

Alongside the rise in populism in the West, there was also a parallel rise in the integration of the Internet and social media into every area of life, cryptocurrencies, and the introduction of less overt means of control, such as algorithms.

The technocracy movement remained as an undercurrent throughout the 20th century, only becoming evident in the past decade and announcing its objective for a completely digitized society, such as cashless payments and an internet-of-things.

Unlike Neoconservatism, it is a trans-national movement that can integrate itself into different political environments and parties, such as the populist current in the West. Some forms of technocracy have already been achieved in the East, like the digital surveillance systems in China.

Our Atlantean ancestors

A distant civilization, millions of years ago, evokes an inexplicable sense of remembrance for many people. Much of what we experience today is a re-telling of the story of Atlantis. 

Today I want to share the interesting connection between the abilities of the Atlanteans, and what is supposed to emerge as a new human faculty in the present and near-future. 

All the souls that are present today had already been incarnated in Atlantis

Some ruins of Atlantis are said to be at the floor of the Atlantic Ocean

Free will in light of the Fall of Man

The story of the Fall of Man from Paradise is relevant to humanity's complicated existence today. Over the course of millions of years of human evolution, from the time of ancient Lemuria, man became independent of the divine spiritual powers that once guided him, symbolized by Lucifer's temptation of Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

See: Fall and redemption - original sin and grace

We see that human consciousness posits a fall of man at the beginning of the historical development of mankind on earth. He would have been incapable of falling into sin if he had remained in his old state, in a state of instinctive guidance by divine spiritual powers. 

...Whereas he would then have remained sinless, incapable of sinning, like a mere creature of nature, he now became capable of sinning through this independence from the divine spiritual powers.  

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

This was a necessary part of the Divine Plan. If we had always remained perfectly wise and moral, we would have never become free. We would always know how to act, and there would never be a deliberation of choice between two options. 

If we did not have this possibility of choosing, we would still be unconscious in Paradise, among "little angels with pink gowns playing lyres, what a boredom!"...Thus, Evil was a necessity!

As Mephistopheles answers to Faust, when asked who he was: "I am a part of that force who always craves for evil but always ends up doing good".  

Building with the atom: the new masonry. The frontier of spiritual knowledge in the modern age. Collected quotes by Steiner.

What is the atom? 

The atom of physics is nothing else but frozen electricity...It stands in the same relationship to electricity as ice does to water out of which it has been frozen. The physical atom is condensed electricity.

The developments in electricity in recent centuries heralds a new era in which human knowledge of the atom will be used for spiritual purposes. 

New electrical theory...is something of enormous importance...[it] hints at the critical turning point in the development of man's thinking...Before the end of the fifth epoch of culture, science will have reached the stage where man will be able to penetrate into the atom itself. 

It is true that only now...human thinking has turned to tracing natural forces as far as the atom, and indeed, he who would understand this precisely must follow the latest phase of the various developments in electricity.  

Thinking...must be carried right into the atom. When man has learned to think right into the mineral atom, when he has an understanding of how to make use of what lives in the atom and place it in the service of the whole.