Let us consider the gradual discovery of electricity from William Gilbert around 1600 to Benjamin Franklin in 1752 flying his optimistic kite, attracting lightening from the sky. Let us remember the discovery in 1781 of the planet Uranus and the upheavals of the American and French revolutions in 1776-81 and 1789-99 with the creation of the citizen and civil rights. Now, electricity, associated with Uranus, belongs to the sub-physical luciferic powers (layers 1-3 of the 9 layers in the interior of the Earth) as a degeneration of the light ether, and when humanity began exploring and exploiting electricity, it started an interaction with those powers of sub-nature.

Rudolf Steiner remarks: “Electricity, for instance, celebrated since its discovery as the very soul of nature, must be recognized in its true character, in its peculiar power, which leads down from nature to sub-nature. People must beware lest they slide downward with it.”[i] But the Asuras are connected with the 7^th layer, the Earth Reflector, where “all the forces of nature are contained, but transformed as spirit … Think of electrical wires transformed into something spiritual and moral, as if the forces of nature were not mechanical, indifferent forces, but worked morally … First imagine the whole of nature as something moral. And then think of the whole of nature as something immoral. Think of everything you can imagine by way of morality in human nature, but then turned into its opposite.”

And so with man’s extended use of electricity the asuric powers gradually overlapped the luciferic forces, drawing in the sub-physical ahrimanic forces of layer 4-6 and attacking the core of the human I and the balanced development of the consciousness soul. Sure this period, 1780-1800, saw the dawn of “freedom, equality and brotherhood” and individuality, but also the discovery of bioelectricity in 1791, and on the scene of history the jolting agitation (human, astral electrification) and the aggressive, penetrating, cynical intellect and blood thirst of a Robespierre and his likes, directing the mob – that is, an asuric and ahrimanic enhanced version of Lucifer.

The human downfall and immorality continued with this impulse, slowly introducing the other polarity of Ahriman. In 1820 electromagnetism was discovered. In 1834 the term “scientist” was coined and with it came the second industrial revolution and the advance of natural science from around 1850. A static and systematic illusion was set up, covering human reality on all levels. Thus in 1846, the planet Neptune was discovered, mesmerizing humanity into a man-made? mechanical and material world directed by impersonal and rigid laws. Luciferic spell and asuric virtuality worked together with the rectification and standardization by ahrimanic sub-physical magnetism, the degeneration of chemical ether. On Earth nature, faith, the understanding of man and morality was turned upside down from the subterranean 7^th layer. Etheric vitality was undermined. And hence the period from 1840-70 saw the discovery in 1855-73 of the electromagnetic field theory, the basis for all later electrical apparatus. The periodic table was set up in 1868-70 by Mendeleev in chemistry, genetics was introduced in biology in 1865 by Mendel and the DNA was found in 1869. Darwin published his theory of natural selection and survival of the fittest in 1859. We notice here a first glimpse of the Sorath-impulse in its interest to pervert and control human procreation. Finally, the negative side of the Uranus-impulse linked to social revolution and seductive mass movements intensified in 1848 with The Communist Manifesto.

This new enhanced electromagnetic-asuric polarity of Lucifer-Ahriman (Uranus-Neptune) worked increasingly on all levels in society and culture from the beginning of the twentieth century till the cataclysm of 1933-45. Asuric mass destruction became prominent in the First World War and in the Russian revolution using ahrimanic military technology and false luciferic ideology. Then in 1929-33 there is a last turning point. Things are not in balance, far from. Think of the economic depression and its causes due to the heightened evil polarity. The Fascists are on their march. Then the asuric powers make their influence felt even stronger and behind them Sorath. There is a marked growth in the arts of black magic and in theories of eugenics. In 1930 the planet Pluto is discovered signalling the threshold to the underworld and the approaching 7^th layer of the Asuras which man is collectively on the brink to cross over unknowingly. As we know, Pluto is related to death, sex, procreation, (de)generation and the subconscious, and humanity is now slowly being caught up in the province of Sorath. 1932 saw the first atom-fission which heralded the atom bomb of 1945 and together with the Nazi-pyres and cremations and the firestorms of mass bombings this is certainly characteristic of the Asuras.

Apparently the after war-scenario also brought a shift to the better in terms of human rights, welfare and individual opportunities, at least in the West. But actually the evil trinity worked smoothly on the background of deep human slumber “in the belly of the materialistic beast”. The evil principles are constantly intensifying their polarity-structures and blending in all sorts of manner, combining and maximizing their strength. Returning to our theme of electromagnetism – only think for a moment how man has been shaped and transformed by this phenomenon penetrating deeper and deeper into our mind and physical body, sinking still deeper into the sub-physical, sooner or later degenerating the life ether. Electric machines, devices and gadgets of all sorts, shapes and functions are found everywhere in our lives. Television and personal computers linked up with internet create virtual reality and dissolve watchfulness. Brain scanning is creating new paradigms for consciousness, biofeedback-mechanisms can define behaviour, chips can be implanted to control it and so on. This is all trivial, but none the less alarming.

Let us sum up the point of this example: Since the intervention of Sorath and the Asuras, evil works on a wholly other scale and with an enhanced dynamic driving all aspects of human life. This is the reality behind the Omega Point speculations of the New Age – not man’s heightened consciousness, but evil’s heightened efficiency converging towards some kind of dire culmination. The intensified luciferic principle enhanced by Sorath through the “Lucifer-Ahriman-Asuras-triangulation” is expressing itself in the electrification and agitation of man, attacking the astral and the sentient soul with jolts and shocks as in fanaticism, excitement, ecstasy, thrills, recklessness and obsession. The enhanced ahrimanic principle is expressing itself in magnetization, paralysis and regimentation, attacking the etheric and the intellectual soul with dulling abstraction and static repetition as in rigid functioning, comatose routine, mechanization, machining, digitalization, blind systemic adaptation and impersonal android-robot behaviour. The released and enhanced asuric principle is expressing itself in natural and moral perversion (7^th layer), atomization, “zombization” and isolation (8^th layer, Fragmenter Earth, multiplying any creation in absurdum). The Asuras attack the physical body and the consciousness soul, and hence the multiplied Phantom of Christ (the prerequisite for any spiritual development, the integration of the Resurrection Body and the three higher members of man and the future planetary phases of Jupiter, Venus and Vulcan). They are behind any mass-reduction of man (mass killing, mass media, mass production) and modern ego-self-worship and narcissism, the false individualization based on mass produced consumer goods and entertainment. They support any kind of virtual reality, desensitization and depersonalization caused by for example synthetic materials and plastics, electromagnetic impulses and –fields and chemicals. And from the 8^th layer they destroy human relationships, solidarity and brotherhood and causes alienation and segregation, so that even when people are apparently together, they are isolated in their own worlds. As demonstrated in the atomic bomb, the Asuras are in favour of splitting things and blowing them into pieces.

Finally we are sadly enough nowadays getting a feel for the spider in the midst of his evil web, Sorath. Sorath opposes the creation of man in cosmos and hence any creative quality and its preconditions like love, offering, freedom and empathy. This resentment expresses itself when the above-mentioned evil tendencies are taken to the extreme and carried over in destruction and perversion of human procreation and creativity. Take for instance when chemicals and plasticizers function as endocrine disruptors and cause sterility and malformation of sexual organs or when genetically modified and engineered organisms might influence the human genome. Sorath would like man to destroy the diversity of species and their hereditary material as well as his own – to replace the human chromosome with a polymer, figuratively speaking. He is behind genetic control, screening, testing and design and in vitro fertilization and cloning. The pornographic perversion and degradation of sexuality to the level of fucking-machines, electric erotic stimulation and love dolls made of plastic is also Sorath’s work. To use another metaphor: Sorath wants to short-circuit the human brain with the sexual glands through the spine and invert all the higher streams of creativity and intelligence as in ritualization, animalization and intellectualization of sex combined with enhanced (chemically induced) ecstasy. Therefore he promotes kundalini-practices and tantric techniques in combination with black magic as a mocking of the creation and the Holy Trinity. And unlike the other evil powers, Sorath wants man to participate voluntarily and half knowingly in his own degeneration and self-abasement, fueled by enhanced sensualism and self-indulgence, because this is Sorath’s ultimate mockery and vengeance against the Holy Trinity – if man, created with divine love, saved by divine love, chooses his own de-creation, desecrates himself and worships death in Sorath. That is why Sorath wants to set up a magically inverted, pseudo-clairvoyant quasi-religion which contains no trace of confession to or faith in Christ. The ultimate triumph of the beast 666 and the final success of Sorath’s build-up of an “eight sphere” (the irretrievable downfall of man and the Earth as a creative project) is, when in this religion man believes himself to be God-like, a self-made God-man, who doesn’t need Christ, shrugs his shoulders at Christ’s passion and is in complete denial of his own evil and the evil powers.