(Note: Here I am using a typology of evil: Luciferic, Ahrimanic, and Sorathic - which I have adapted and transformed from their origin in the works of Rudolf Steiner.)
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In the past, the dominant sins were probably the triad of Anger,
Lust and Pride. These, at any rate, seem to be the dominant characteristics of
great sinners of history - right up into the middle twentieth century.
But as Western society became more industrialised, specialised,
coordinated and impersonally-systemic; the dominant nature of evil became
Ahrimanic.
The most prominent triad of sins became Fear, Resentment
and Despair.
Fear, Resentment* and Despair is the dominant mood of the world
in 2020 - these are the modern, 'bureaucratic sins'.
The self-seeking, self-aggrandising evil of the mid-twentieth
century (as exemplified by the atheist-socialist dictators such as Lenin,
Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot etc.) is not much in evidence in the West. Of
course, Luciferic evil is still present; but these sins require greater courage
and motivation than are possessed by the masses - or indeed the rulers - in
2020.
Luciferic sin is weaker and less common than in the past;
because it requires high motivation which is fuelled by the virtue of
courage.
Great Luciferic sin entails a positive, active, for-the-self
mind-set. However; courage, hence motivation, has been incrementally eroded by
the passage of several generations of de facto atheism.
Hence the rise in Ahrimanic sin; which is much more passive, negating, and
directed against-others.
Beyond the Ahrimanic lies the Sorathic, which is even more fully
negative in its motivations. I think this happens, because the Ahrimanic sins
erode their own basis.
A bureaucratic world tends towards a state of passive,
unconscious, materialism. The Ahrimanic impulse begins with a
denial of the aliveness of the mineral world, extends through denial of
consciousness to plants, then animals, and eventually - as for the past
decades, creates a world where aliveness, and consciousness is denied even to
Men.
This materialism (positivism, scientism) is the basis of modern
bureaucracy; which terms Men 'human resources', and generates policy on the
basis of numbers and statistics. The individual Man counts only as an
integer.
When this world view of negation of the Self, penetrates the
soul and has been internalised; we get the Sorathic form of evil.
...Evil as the negation of The Good - any good.
So, evil loses any positive goal and becomes directed-against Truth,
Beauty and Virtue; against life and consciousness, against the
natural and spontaneous, against Beings and their
relationships.
Sorathic evil's only 'satisfaction' (because it has become
incapable of 'pleasure') is in this destruction of anything that is
of-God; anything created, anything capable of creation.
An example? Well, a very
obvious instance of Sorathic evil in 2020 is the imposition of that
demonic-triad of lockdown, social-distancing, and masking. Leading, as they
must do, to the permanent annihilation of human society - and
the construction of a world of universal solitary-confinement.
Obviously the mainstream, birdemic-related,
excuses for annihilating human society and culture are lies. But - much more
significantly - even the architects of the Great Reset cannot make a
coherent argument why societal destruction is necessary!
They do it, but They can't explain it.
Their attempted justification of universal
isolation relates to the need (and benefits) of automation, robots and
artificial intelligence systems; but this is a non sequitur. The
'need' for one, does Not imply the destruction of the other.
What we are therefore seeing here is a very pure form of Sorathic
negation. Even the Global Establishment themselves, the people who are imposing
societal destruction on the world, do not understand why they
are doing this work of societal destruction.
They insist upon its necessity; but they cannot coherently
explain it!
The reason is that the 'need'
for societal destruction cannot be explained in materialistic
terms - which are the only terms possible in public discourse; and
among those who deny the reality of God and creation.
The true reason for societal
destruction is that human society is Good and therefore needs
to be destroyed. Society between Men is indeed one of the great and essential
Goods of this mortal world; as Men at all times, everywhere, have acknowledged
and acted-upon - quite naturally and spontaneously.
The idea that this can and should be dispensed with is
monstrous, outrageous and ridiculous... for anyone who is Not deep into the
servitude of Satan. But then, that is precisely what we are
dealing-with.
Therefore human society is an obvious, and essential, target for
Sorathic evil; not because it is 'useful' to destroy human
community, not because its destruction will enhance the lives
of the Global Establishment - but exactly because human society is Good,
and a Great Good; and because destroying it will induce suffering and (in
this atheistic world) despair on a scale unprecedented.
(And despair is a sin,
because it is a rejection of God: a failure to trust in God, and a refusal of
Jesus's gift of eternal life in Heaven. Despair - that is, as an existential
decision, not a mere emotion - is therefore the choice of damnation.)
In this burgeoning world of Sorathic evil, we need to stop
looking for the 'advantage' in evil. Need to stop trying to 'explain evil' in
terms of it (for example) making more money for Them, or giving Them more
power...
From now, evil needs gain no advantage by its action: evil
thrives purely on the destruction of whatever is Good.
Evil has therefore ceased to be a triad, and has
become a unity - the unity of negation; the unity of simple
destruction of Good.
This is Sorathic evil.
* Resentment can be understood as primarily directed against
others. Spitefulness is another term for this. A person motivated by spite will
put his greatest efforts into causing harm to others, rather than promoting
himself. He will even harm himself in his zeal to harm others. The 'positive'
face of resentment is the burgeoning phenomenon of 'entitlement'; which, again,
has a strong flavour that 'my' privilege is best expressed in terms of the
intrusive inconvenience, anger and misery it causes to others.
Note
added:
There
are implications in the above understanding for Christians; because Luciferic
evil was usually opposed by trying to build church-administered systems to
'tame' Anger, Lust and Pride - by encouraging/ insisting-upon obedience to
church rules.
However,
this strategy of taming by obedience (as we have seen) played-into the
reinforcement of the Ahrimanic sins. And church-Christianity has dis-couraged,
and de-motivated itself. Thus all the churches have (more, or less) become part
of the global, atheistic bureaucratic System of Ahrimanic evil. In 2020, the
mainstream churches have actively embraced their all-but annihilation by birdemic rules.
Ahrimanic
evil was opposed by 'counter-cultural', anti-System, individualistic ideas -
which, when not 'Romantic' Christian - often fell back into
Luciferic evils (especially lust). And it is tempting, nowadays, to suppose
that evil can be attacked by resisting and destroying the Global Bureaucratic
System ('The Matrix'). But, if I am correct that this Ahrimanic System is
already being superseded and consumed by negative, Sorathic evil; then the
current, world dominating evil cannot be resisted by any form of destruction.
In
sum; if we aimed primarily to destroy The System, we would only reinforce the
emerging Sorathic spirit of destruction.
What
then? Resistance to Sorathic evil is as simple as the evil it opposes; in that
it is to pursue the positive virtues most characteristic of God - which
are love and creation (which are one: creation being a
superabundance of love); that is, to pursue loving and creating.
('Loving'
in the sense of love in the best marriages and families; 'creating' in the
broadest sense of thinking and acting from our real, divine self - we are
children of God; which is always original and generative.)
And,
resistance to Sorathic evil must be individual, or based upon personal, loving
'familial' relationships; because of the danger of Ahrimanic ('Systemic') evil,
standing behind the Sorathic.
So,
our course seems clear and simple, as well as difficult and hazardous; which is
for each individual to resist Sorathic destruction by creation; to resist
Sorathic negation by love. And to ensure that these values and behaviours of
creation and love come from within-us: that is, come from God-within-us.
And
not to wait for a lead from any church, institution or other-person - nor to
look behind to see if anyone is following us. We must do what needs to be done
our-selves, starting now.
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