Friday, 1 February 2013

SECRET SOCIETIES AND THE OCCULT WAR


We must remember that things are not always what they seem to be in the physical world; white is sometimes black pretending to be white and the other way around. Do not believe things just because it is written; it is just somebody else’s opinion. Sometimes he knows more than the average person but sometimes even he can be deceived or he may be bias. In my difficult quest to find out who is Good or Evil amongst our Leaders and the Policy-makers of today, I came across the following article by DR. K R Bolton that ties in nicely with the trend of thought that I intend to bring out and explore through this website:
For those who believe there is an ‘occult’ or ‘spiritual war’ taking place between forces of ‘light’ and ‘darkness’, or ‘good’ and ‘evil’, and that this ‘war’ manifests on the material and mortal planes politically, culturally, and economically, it is often surprisingly difficult to discern the affiliations in this ‘battle’, with the multitude of occult Orders, Schools and personalities. These often use similar or even identical terminologies and symbols, and draw on the same traditions and origins. In such a situation well-meaning people are easily duped into supporting long-range aims of which they do not understand.

 Occult War: Adepts ‘Black & ‘White”

The definition of ‘Good and evil’, or ‘light and darkness’, metaphysically can – from an esoteric perspective – be regarded as a dichotomy [clash] between those who seek a higher spiritual path for mankind, and those who seek to enchain man to matter. This dichotomy is well portrayed in the standard depictions of ‘The Devil’ trump in the Tarot Major Arcana. Paul Foster Case, founder of the Builders of the Adytum, gave a particularly apt explanation:
In its most general meanings, it signifies Mammon and thus big business, the conventions of society, the injustice and cruelty of a social order in which money takes the place of God, in which humanity is bestialised, in which war is engineered by greed masquerading as patriotism, in which fear is dominant. Students of astrology will have no difficulty in seeing how this corresponds to Capricorn, the sign of big business, and the sign of world fame.
One sees in this Trump a male and female human each starting to take on the appearance of wild beasts – with horns and tails, with the Devil enthroned. As Case states, it is symbolic of the reign of Mammon, which is ushered in by materialistic doctrines such as Capitalism and Marxism, keeping humanity focused on lower pursuits in the guise of ‘progress’ and ‘freedom’.
Occultists such as Rene Guenon, Aleister Crowley and Julius Evola have sought to identify contending Schools as ‘white’ and ‘Black’ Brotherhoods, or as ‘Right’ and ‘Left’ hand Paths.
Given the confusion that exist – because individuals and occult currents that are diametrically opposed often claim to represent the same traditions – the biblical injunction ‘by their fruits ye shall know them’ is the best formula for identifying motives, although this also is often oobscure. For example, the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley, whose ‘evil’ antics plays up to the tabloid press, could easily be regarded as a ‘Black Adept’. Although Crowley claimed to work in the tradition of, among others, and for unclean reasons, the 18th century Black Adept Adam Weishaupt and his crypto-Masonic Illuminati, Crowley sought to exposed the spiritual war that was taking place between the ‘White’ and ‘Black’ Adepts, while his doctrine of Thelema is antithetical to the doctrine of the Illuminati. Also, while having been a Freemason, as was Eliphas Levi, Rene Guenon condemned the Black Adepts who had subverted and redirected Masonry.

 

Steiner and The Ahrimanic Deception

Rudolf Steiner (1861 – 1925), founder of Anthroposophy, whose influence has gone far beyond ‘occult’ circles for his prominence in alternative education, architecture, and organic agriculture, was one of those seminal personalities who believed in the existence of such an ‘occult war’. Again, as with Crowley, difficulties are encounted due to Steiner’s own affiliations with Freemasonry. However, like Guenon, Evola and Crowley, forthrightly sought to expose a Dark current at work within the secret societies, and in particular within Freemasonry, whose influence was being directed in the world politically.
In a 1919 lecture in Zurich entitled ‘The Ahrimanic Deception’, Steiner stated that, “a great part of mankind today is already under the control, from one side or another, of Ahrimanic forces of a cosmic nature which are growing stronger and stronger.” Steiner had an unusual perception of [another influence] what he called the “Luciferic Impulse,” which he stated manifested on Earth in 3000 BCE. The Luciferic Impulse prepared the way for the “Christ Impulse” in Steiner’s cosmology. Both ‘Impulses’ began to fade and mankind has therefore become increasingly materialistic. Steiner stated this Ahimanic Deception emanates from an actual being:
The Ahrimanic impulse proceedsfrom a supersensible Being different from the Being of Christ or of  [Light] Lucifer……The influence of this Being becomes especially powerful in the Fifth Post-Atlantean Epoch. If we look at the confused conditions of recent years we shall find that men have been brought to such chaotic conditions mainly through the Ahrimanic Powers. [Evil]
While the Luciferic Impulse pushes humanity into what Nietzsche might have called the Dionysian passion that gives birth to arts and brings humanity outside of himself, albeit, according to Steiner, with a “false spirituality,” [Religion is only necessary or needed on a small part of our unfoldment to keep us on the right path. EDGEBA] “Ahriman is the power that makes man dry, prosaic, philistine – that ossifies him and brings him to the superstition of materialism.” [Against evolution. EDGEBA] Ahriman would seem to equate with the Christian perception of the Antichrist. The Christ Impulse balances the two poles, in what in some respects seems akin to a Hegelian dialectic. And the true nature and being of man is essentially the effort to hold the balance between the powers of Lucifer and Ahriman; [Light and darkness] the Christ Impulse helps present humanity to establish this equilibrium…..the Ahrimanic influence has been at work since the middle of the fifteenth century and will increase in strength until an actual incarnation of Ahriman takes place among Western humanity. 
 
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 pray 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.
The way in which humanity looks at the cosmos under the Ahimanic 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, 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
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….
We might state of this Ahrimanic Deception that it motivates Rationalism and materialism, the dominant ideologies of the Late West. Steiner warned that the Ahrimanic Deception aims to imbue Man with “scientific superstition,” and “external illusion,” that while necessary [it was far 
Om 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, as 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 the 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.
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.
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. 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.
 
Role of Secret Societies
The ‘Ahrimanic Deception’ equates with what Guenon and Evola referred to as the ‘Counter-Tradition’. The secret societies it uses behind the façade of the Perennial Traditions are the ‘Anti-Tradition’. Steiner lectured on the role of these secret societies in the occult war.
While referring to both the “humanitarian work” and the spiritual evolution that is supposedly at the foundation of freemasonry, Steiner, like Levi, Crowley, Evola and Guenon, also spoke of the manner the ‘Ahrimanic Deception’ operates through Freemasonry. Steiner even went further than anti-Masonic ‘conspiracy theorists’ such as Nesta H Webster and the eminent Scottish scholar. Prof. John Robison, himself a Grand Lodge Freemason, both of whom accepted English Masonry’s innocence of intrigue. Steiner, however, made a particular point of discussing the origins of Continental Masonry in the English Lodges. Despite its repudiation of ‘irregular’ Grand Orient Masonry that predominates on Continental Europe and Latin America, English Grand Lodge Masonry, stated Steiner, was also involved in a struggle for world power. He said the British Government was subverted by the secret societies, and that in particular foreign affairs was taken over by “an inner committee.” Steiner, in tracing the origins of the Grand Orient Masonry to the Grand Lodge, wrote that:
But everywhere in a different way, in many places outside the actual British realm, Freemasonry pursues exclusively or mainly political interests. Such political interests in the most palpable sence are pursued by the ‘Grand-Orient de France’, but also by other ‘Grand Orients’. One might now say: what has that to do with the English?.... But view this in conjunction with the fact that the first High-degree Lodge in Paris was founded from England, not France! Not French people but Britons founded it; they only wove the French into their Lodge…..
After listing the Lodges that were founded under the impetus of the English Grand Lodge, from Spain to Russia, Steiner adds that, “these Lodges were founded as the external instruments for certain occult-political impulses.” These impulses included the Fury of the Jacobins,” [who launched a Reign of Terror over France in the name of ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity’]; weishaupt’s Illuminati and the Italian Carbonari. Although Steiner admits these began without “evil” intent, [The movements have been taken over by the dark forces for their own agenda, as we see today happening in our so called popular revolutions in the Middle East, Egypt for one…EDGEBA] they “continued their underground work in many different forms,” after being driven underground. Steiner alludes to the hypocrisy of Grand Lodge Masonry in being able to say:
‘Look at our Lodges, they are very respectable – and we are not concerned with the others’. But if one can see through the historical connection and the driving forces in an interplay of mutual opposition to one another, then it is indeed high British politics that is concealed behind it.
Of the “occult-plitical societies, Steiner observed they serve a materialistic aim behind the façade of spirituality. These ‘various Orders’ are ‘not spiritual, because of their purposes and goals.’ They are the secret societies that in the name of ‘democracy’ and a ‘Universal republic’ [as did the Jacobins and the Illuminati]. [I can just add here that there is another movement by the forces of Light, the real Illuminati, that is also working for a new world, but totally different to the one that the dark forces are planning to put in its place….thus the secrecy on the side of the forces of light…with whom Rudolf Steiner was in contact with and for whom he worked. EDGEBA.] Steiner warned:
If one wants as a person of modern times to see clearly in order to meet the world openly and understand it, then one should not let oneself be blinded by democratic logic, which is justified only in its own sphere, or by phrases concerning democratic progress etc. One would have also to point to the interposing of something that reveals itself in the attempt to give rulership to the few through the means available within the Lodges – namely, ritual and its suggestive effect.
While genuine mystical lodges existed and still do – even Guenon sought initiation in them, as did Steiner – both pointed out that one must be cognisant of those Orders with mystical trappings and claims to ancient pedigree as a mask for other motives, as they are “often nebulous, maybe even fraudulent”…. ‘For power is of special importance for these secret societies, not insight. [End of DR. K R Bolton’s article]
As I said: “I find it very difficult to find out who on the world stage is working for the evolution of the human race and who is working against evolution and to enslave the human race.” Our western religions are so infiltrated by dark forces that not one of them can be trusted to lead us out of the darkness into the light. We have to look again for the Light from the East, the Eastern Religions. But, not the Eastern religions as taught to the Masses of people in the East, but to the Secret Doctrine that was kept pure and brought to the west through people like H. P. Blavatsky and Alice A. Bailey and as taught in the Theosophical Society and the Lucis Trust in the Arcane School. There are other societies that am not familiar with, and some I have studied with; some are secret, some are not. I found a complete philosophy in the teachings of H. P. Blavatsky and A. A. Bailey.
One reason why it is difficult to find out the good from the bad on the world stage is that the forces of light have to work in secret to hide their planes for the dark forces. Even the personalities on the world stage have to keep their agendas to themselves, and work in secret or in the dark, to prevent attacks from the dark side and their agents. They steer humanity according to the Will of God or the Plan. This Plan must forever remain out of the hands of the Dark Forces. We all know what happens to politicians that do not do the bidding of their ‘masters’. We know what Stalin did to them. We know what happened to JFK.
Another reason is that because the forces of Light are working to stimulate evolution, they are forced to drive humanity forward by creating a cause, in line with the Plan, that will have a certain effect that is not at all clear to the average person in the street. We are not qualified to judge their actions that go against our ideas of niceness or political-correctness. We do not know the Plan for the immediate future but it is their job to push us in the right direction; we all know that human beings left on their own would digress backwards into the stone age and even beyond, thus all this pushing and chaffing in our lives and on the international stage. Some might look cruel, but it is for our own best will.
This war of Light and Darkness, good vs. evil, jinn and yang, is for real and as old as time itself. We must accept to face it in our personal lives and fight it that way. If each of us triumphs over evil in his own life, humanity as a whole will be unbeatable. It starts with ourselves and the help we can give our brother to fight evil in his own life. Everything you do to help another person to better himself will help the forces of light to break through the darkness. Let your own light shine.
 
To what extend is the damage done by the Dark Forces on this planet today and who are they? I came across an update on this on the internet at: Prison Planet.com
The following article shows how a few super rich people are running this world for their own benefit; it also helps us to make some affiliations or distinctions between the good and evil forces on this planet during our time.
 

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