Gregory Mannarino

His discussion of the pattern of violence and economics

A-Steiner

Preparing the Way for Ahriman

The relevance of this concept of the Ahrimanic Deception in regard to an ‘occult war’ for world rule, is that:

Now it is characteristic of such things that they are prepared long in advance. Ahrimanic powers prepare the evolution of mankind in such a way that it can fall a prey to Ahriman when he appears in human form within Western civilisation… Ahriman will appear in human form and the only question is, how he will find humanity prepared. Will his preparations have secured for him as followers the whole of mankind that today calls itself civilised, or will he find a humanity that can offer resistance.13

The way in which humanity looks at the cosmos under the Ahrimanic Deception is not with the spiritual awe and sense of place of those of past Civilisations, including, we could add, those of Gothic man in Western Civilisation’s cycle of youth, as the philosopher-historian Oswald Spengler pointed out,14 but as merely part of a mechanical and mathematical process. Steiner said of this:

Today man gazes from his earth up to the star-world and to him it is filled with fixed stars, suns, planets, comets, and so on. But with what means does he examine all that looks down to him out of cosmic space? He examines it with mathematics, with the science of mechanics. What lies around the earth is robbed of spirit, robbed of soul, even of life. It is a great mechanism, in fact, only to be grasped by the aid of mathematical, mechanistic laws.…15

We might state of this Ahrimanic Deception that it motivates Rationalism and Materialism, the dominant ideologies of the Late West.16 Steiner warned that the Ahrimanic Deception aims to imbue Man with “scientific superstition,” an “external illusion,” that while necessary (it was far from Steiner’s intent to repudiate the sciences) has made what we can identify as Rationalism and Materialism into a dogma.

The second method of the Ahrimanic Deception is to split society into contending factions. Steiner aptly identified Marxism, a product of Scientism, as a primary method of the Ahrimanic Deception.

Since the times of the Reformation and the Renaissance the economist has emerged as the new priest into the increasingly materialistic world, while Steiner also pointed out that Christian religion had also become desacralised.

Since that time the economist has been in command. Rulers are in fact merely the handymen, the understrappers of the economists. One must not imagine that the rulers of modern times are anything but the understrappers of the economists.17

Steiner next alludes to a very important matter, the power that the bankers have assumed:

In the nineteenth century the ‘economical’ man is replaced for the first time by the man thinking in terms of banking, and in the nineteenth century there is created for the first time the organisation of finance which swamps every other relationship. One must only be able to look into these things and follow them up empirically and practically.18

This statement provides the key to the history of the ‘modern world’ for the past several hundred years, and the human agency pushing for a world state – a ‘New World Order’ – enchained to the dead weight of matter.19 The power of the international banking cabals prepares the way for an Ahrimanic World Order by reorienting the spirit of Man:

If men do not realise that the rights-state and the organism of the Spirit must be set against the economic order called up through the economists and the banks, then again, through this lack of awareness, Ahriman will find an important instrument for preparing his incarnation.20

"In the future, we will eliminate the soul with medicine. Under the pretext of a 'healthy point of view', there will be a vaccine by which the human body will be treated as soon as possible directly at birth, so that the human being cannot develop the thought of the existence of soul and Spirit.

To materialistic doctors, will be entrusted the task of removing the soul of humanity. As today, people are vaccinated against this disease or that disease, so in the future, children will be vaccinated with a substance that can be produced precisely in such a way that people, thanks to this vaccination, will be immune to being subjected to the "madness" of spiritual life. He would be extremely smart, but he would not develop a conscience, and that is the true goal of some materialistic circles.

With such a vaccine, you can easily make the etheric body loose in the physical body. Once the etheric body is detached, the relationship between the universe and the etheric body would become extremely unstable, and man would become an automaton, for the physical body of man must be polished on this Earth by spiritual will. So, the vaccine becomes a kind of ahrimanic force; man can no longer get rid of a given materialistic feeling. He becomes materialistic of constitution and can no longer rise to the spiritual".

Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925)

(The Philosophy of Freedom by R. Steiner (original unrevised edition: [link to htgraceson.com (secure)]

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The emergence of the Kraken named Covid from the depths is the Globalist NWO. Emerged in 2019/2020 to hasten the Great Reset. This was a strategic win but not decisive despite death and illness. War then should complete the Reset. I read many different writers from many slices of time and suspend disbelief for I wish to hear and understand a view not of necessity. Last 6 years I have read more spiritual titles as insight into spiritual lineages feeding policy in quasi-secular states. What I feel is important is the undergirding structure of this emergent Global order bringing Brave New World.

Berdyaev is a writer I study closely. Below a summation of his thinking nearly 100 years ago.

1. Marxism denies the spiritual nature of man.

It reduces human beings to economic and class categories, ignoring their inner life, moral freedom, and divine image. For Berdyaev, this was a profound spiritual impoverishment.

2. History as a battleground of spirit vs. matter.

Berdyaev saw Marxist historical materialism as enslaving thought to matter. Instead, he believed in the primacy of spiritual freedom and creativity as the true motor of history.

3. Marxism mimics Christianity but distorts it.

Marxism promises a secular utopia—paradise on earth—but without God, grace, or transcendence. Berdyaev viewed it as a perverse echo of Christian eschatology, offering salvation through revolution rather than redemption.

4. The totalitarian danger.

Berdyaev warned that Marxism, especially in its Soviet form, leads inevitably to totalitarianism. Its suppression of individual conscience and religious life, in the name of the collective and the state, was for him the opposite of true freedom.

Key Quote (Paraphrased)

"Marxism is a Christian heresy—it borrows the Christian concern for justice and the oppressed, but removes the spiritual foundation, and thus becomes a monstrous distortion."

Berdyaev’s Fate of Man in the Modern World appeared in 1935. In it Berdyaev returns to his recurrent thesis that in the Twentieth Century the crisis of modernity has become a runaway catastrophe. In Chapter I, “A Judgment on History – the War,” Berdyaev writes, “More keenly than ever I feel that night and shadow are descending on the world, just as was the case at the beginning of the Middle Ages, before the medieval Renaissance.” Many keen-sighted people recognize the situation, Berdyaev remarks, but few of them have grasped its essence. “In reality what is happening is something even deeper… a judgment upon not one epoch in history, but upon history itself.” The times, Berdyaev asserts, choosing his key term with special care, qualify as “apocalyptic.”

This unveiling corresponds not merely to “a revelation of the end of the world”; rather it corresponds to “a revelation of the inner events of history, of the internal judgment upon history itself.” Because “man’s existence in this world is historical,” the disintegration of history involves the disintegration both of man and culture. “The things man has planned do not come to pass, and the true significance of what takes place escapes man’s comprehension.” Berdyaev means modern man – the deluded being who, having killed off God, took on the godlike role, quite as Ludwig Feuerbach had urged him to do, assuming that his will and his creativity could conjure a new and perfected world better than the one created by God. Such a man, enamored of his own ego, thought to appropriate the very course of history and to alter its direction according to his agenda. History, however, is cleverer than man.

https://www.knightstemplarorder.com/berdyaev_on_culture_and_christianity

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