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

The role Ahriman has played within the technocratic movement is obvious to many people, with the rise of AI signaling his coming approach. However, we cannot properly understand this war without seeing how Ahriman has worked through previous movements to accomplish different aims. 

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 wars, 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 many areas of life, and the introduction of less overt means of control, such as algorithms.

The fact that the abuses by the elite class could be openly revealed and discussed signaled that a shift in power had already taken place in favor of the technocrats; it no longer mattered what anyone knew, as it would not threaten the emerging political order.

The technocracy movement, unlike Neoconservatism, is a trans-national movement that can integrate itself into different political environments and parties, such as the populist current in the West. 

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. 

Clairvoyance: a vision of our destiny

In continuation of my other posts: Memory and etheric vision and Destiny and the Christ.

In the Daoist parable of the horse, one fortune leads to misfortune which leads to another fortune. Because of life's infinite complexity, we cannot identify the chain of effects that originate from a course of action from rational thought alone. From there, we can begin to understand the nature of etheric vision.  

The butterfly effect. One action can have many unintended consequences

We must have a way of estimating future conditions by a form of thinking that is not sense-bound nor linear. This highly developed form of foresight will be our faculty of etheric vision. Also known as clairvoyance, which stands for "clear vision". 

Etheric vision is distinct from atavistic (old) clairvoyance or mediumship, which does not arise from intellectual or moral development on the part of one's volition. 

Memory and etheric vision

Memory is usually thought of as information stored in the physical brain. Consider this: when we are remembering something, it means that it is not immediately present. The moment has already passed, but it stays with us in our soul. 

The physical senses are not responding to anything in front of it, but subtler senses coming from the etheric body are making us aware of something that has passed. From that aspect, the etheric body acts as a bridge between the physical and non-physical realm, the body and the soul. It is part of what is known as the human aura.