by Mike Bee

When we face the facts behind what we see happening in the world today, it cannot be denied that there is a certain very powerful minority-group within humanity who are working very hard to impose their view of life upon the majority.

It takes little imagination to see that the view of this minority-group concerning how they think life should be lived by the rest of us is clearly a Very Bad Idea – one that must come from an inhuman source. Those who are working for population reduction and absolute control of the thoughts and actions of other human beings do so with great powers of will and have enormous resources at their disposal. How are we to oppose them?

It is not enough merely to say that there are more of us than there are of them. Potentially, there may be more of us, but while the majority are unaware of what is happening, things are always going to go against us.

Many of us have put much energy into trying to wake others up about what we see happening and are repeatedly frustrated by the deep resistance, present in so many, that keeps them unaware of the evil machinations directed against them. It is vital that we who know what is at stake do not give up on our attempts to enlighten others, but at some point, we need to step back from what we are doing and ask some very fundamental questions about who or what it is that we are fighting against. To know how to fight against this twenty-first century variety of totalitarian tyranny, we need to understand where its power comes from.

The so-called deep state is powerful because, on the whole, we regard its leaders as ordinary individuals and do not understand what it is that is inspiring and energising them. We look only at surface phenomena and need to penetrate deeper. So long as the power-source of the élites is unidentified, the strategies that they direct against us will continually defeat us, but when light shines into the darkness of what is controlling their actions, then we will be given new weapons that will be effective against them.

What I am about to describe as a diagnosis of what is at the heart of our problem and what can be done about it will not be for everyone. But I am certain that individuals and small groups who dare to face the source of evil in our time can make a huge difference to the overall picture of what is happening. It is not a question of numbers here but of the intensity with which the truth is confronted.

In order to begin to forge the weaponry that I believe can greatly increase effectiveness against this current attack upon humanity, I need to draw upon insights given by Rudolf Steiner in 1917. At that point in time, three years into the First World War, Steiner felt called upon to speak publicly for the first time about events that had been going on behind the surface from midway through the previous century. He told his listeners that they could not understand the reasons for the First World War – and therefore be in a position to resist the forces that had unleashed it and were keeping it going – if they did not understand that everything that happens in this world is the result of actions that have taken place in realms of existence that are not physical.

In a series of talks, gathered together under the title of The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness, Steiner spoke of covertly-working esoteric groups that were aware of spiritual events that had been going on beneath the surface of world-events during the nineteenth century but held onto this knowledge in order to have power over others. We have become aware today of the presence of secret groups working to carry out an agenda that is not for the good of humanity and so can deduce who Steiner may have been referring to. But what was it that they were concealing from the rest, and how was this to give them power?

The hidden knowledge, that Steiner said must now come out into the open, concerned a great struggle in the spiritual world bordering our own. From the year 1841 onwards, rebellious spirits of the rank of the Angeloi (Angels) – those beings who are nearest to human beings but who do not have physical bodies and therefore never incarnate onto the earthly plane – had gathered under their leader to fight against the good guides of humanity. A spiritual war took place, very close to the borders of the physical world but completely unknown to the vast majority of those on Earth. This war reached its climax in the year 1879 when the rebellious angels were defeated and expelled from their realm.

In The Revelation to John there is given an account of the battle of the Archangel Michael against the dragon which is actually quite an accurate picture of what happened. St John prophetically saw these events that in his time had not yet come to pass and described how the rebellious angels and their leader were defeated and expelled from the spiritual world down into the realm of earth. He concludes the first part of this battle with the words:

Therefore rejoice ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. But woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! For the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time.

Hearing this, do you laugh it off as something quaint? Do you reject the idea that a sage, writing in the year 95 AD, could look into the future and see with clarity events that were to come? We have been brought up to think in very different thought-forms, and mockery of what would once have been unquestioningly accepted is very much a characteristic of our times. Yet the kind of thinking that we have at our disposal is actually well-equipped, if we keep ourselves open and hold our scepticism back for a time, to bring us to a clear understanding about what the old writings in their ”quaint” ways are describing.

What was written two thousand years ago needs to be studied in the thought-forms of today. Steiner never wanted disciples who accepted what he said without question but open-minded individuals who took what he gave as a hypothesis and tested it regarding everything else that they knew to be true in life. He did not give his account based on the old prophetic books but described events exactly as he saw them. He was eighteen years old at the time of the expulsion event, and years later in his autobiography he wrote about how he had been able at that time to see everything that was happening spiritually and which his contemporaries could not see.

When the rebellious angels were expelled from the spiritual world in 1879, they took up refuge within human beings. They became demons living in the unconscious, sub-diaphragmatic region of the human soul. Every one of us today has such a creature of darkness within us.

This must have been a very radical idea to the people Steiner was speaking to at the time. Today, when so many terrible events have taken place and when both the heights and depths of human potential have been shown, perhaps it is not so difficult an idea to come to grips with.

In 1917, at the time that Steiner first mentioned these events, the demons had had 38 years to “set up house” in the physical world. He spoke of how many of the phenomena that were visible in his time could be traced back to their actions. They had used the 38 years of their period of earthly habitation to colonise more and more of the space available to them in the human soul and in the world outside. When we see such utter depravity and incompetence in so many of our world-leaders, this is because the demonic intelligence has been at work shaping the kinds of power relationships that can best serve their dark agenda.

Steiner called those demons who were active in human souls the electronic or Ahrimanic doppelgänger. The doppelgänger, or double, is a concept most people have some basic familiarity with, but Steiner gave his hearers very specific information that he said would be vital for the future. Ahriman is the name he gave for that being which has brought about materialism by taking us out of the old, dreamy clairvoyance of past ages into the intellectuality that we use today, and a great part of Steiner’s life was devoted to giving human beings knowledge of him. As well as speaking about him over years, Steiner sketched him, worked him into a larger-then-life wooden statue and depicted him in four dramas. However he only spoke specifically of the Ahrimanic doppelgängers under his control in a few lectures that all come from the year 1917.

Steiner spoke of how the consciousness of key personalities had, in the summer of 1914, been dimmed down in such a way that the war that would be so catastrophic for all sides was able to break out. He also gave information about the secret lodges who had prepared for this event for many years previously. To dim down human consciousness at a key moment and in a coordinated fashion can be seen as a characteristic sign of the activity of doppelgängers, working independently but controlled by a higher unifying force. Numerous other examples could be given throughout recent history.

If 38 years had provided enough opportunity for the doppelgängers of the time to control human life to the point where they were able to bring about the Great War, think of how further advanced they are today. They have very specific aims which, of course, are never the aims that are given when we are told what is happening. What is it that they are striving for?

According to Steiner, the electronic dopplegänger has a very great intellect – it is “super-intelligent” and far cleverer than us – and a will that is akin to the powers of nature as we see it expressed in volcanos, earthquakes and the like. It has no capacity for human feeling. It works within us through electrical forces. It enters us just before we are born and stays with us until a few days before our death. Although it inhabits our unconscious, it is highly conscious and is continually striving to make certain things happen.

These entities want a future where their control over human beings is always increasing, both in this world and in the one that we will enter after death. One of their most significant aims is to eliminate spiritual understanding in people of today so that when they die these people cannot cross over into the spiritual world. This is a tragic state that affects so many of those who have died in the last 150 years. I have tried below to express this situation in poetry:

Hear their thin, sad voices.
They are the dead
who have failed to transition
out of matter and into Spirit
and have found themselves chained to the material world.

When they were alive, they concerned themselves only
with the thoughts and substances of what they saw.
To cross over after death, you must make a bridge
that is woven from your knowledge of Eternity.
This they cannot do.

And while trapped in physicality, though denied of a body,
there are powers that make use of them –
destructive powers who take over their will.
The dead see what they’re doing, and they hate themselves for doing it,
but they’re forced to serve this alien will.

They have need of those whom they’ve known in life
who can help them construct their bridge into the Spirit.
Without help from those who love them, they will remain where they are
and suffer gravely from the slavery of their imprisonment
for a very long time.

Steiner was aware of the future when medicine would be seen as a tool of social control, and pharmaceutical companies would develop a “vaccine” that would work to abolish the human soul. Imagine all those chemists working to develop a product that would do what was desired, and then imagine that each one of them is being inspired by his own electronic doppelgänger and that the whole operation is coordinated by even more powerful spiritual forces. This and much else has been possible to them.

(As an aside to this, it is an extraordinary phenomenon that a significant minority of Steiner’s present-day followers failed to understand what was going on at the time of the so-called “pandemic”, about which they had been repeatedly warned. And both the Medical Section at the Goetheanum and the International Federation of Anthroposophic Medical Associations have stated that they are not anti-vaccine and do not support anti-vaccine movements.)

How many human beings today consciously work against humanity and for the aims of Ahriman and their own Ahrimanic doppelgänger? The majority of those who work for the goals that are so at odds with human aims are probably unaware of the origin of the powerful forces that are impelling them. Those who believe in a future in which humanity is merged with machines are under the influence of Ahriman, for this is another of his major goals. Steiner saw a hundred years ago that technology was destined to have an ever-greater influence over humanity and, in some ways, could not be stopped. However he also held out great hopes for humanity because of our ability to meet technology with our human forces of love and compassion – qualities which Ahriman cannot comprehend.

Looking at current events from a spiritual perspective widens our idea of what is going on. In my opinion, you cannot really fight against such forces by conventional means alone. We are engaged in spiritual warfare, and this needs new armour and weaponry that have never been available before.

I can do no more than make a few hints in this short article. For those who want to go deeper, Steiner’s entire life gives not just the negative but profound pictures of what is working for humanity at this time and ways we can connect with this. One book in particular influenced my decision to write this article. It is The Electronic Doppelgänger, published by Rudolf Steiner Press in 2016 and is an excellent introduction to the amazing relevance of Steiner’s vision today. It contains key passages from Steiner’s 1917 lectures along with a fine introductory essay by Andreas Neider.

We all have our experiences fighting the beast. Many of us know that what we are engaged in is at its heart a spiritual war – one that we came to Earth specifically to be a part of. How deeply into it do we want to go? I believe that some awareness of the spiritual dimensions of what is happening, brought by an initiate who speaks only of what he has personally seen and researched and who had no personal agenda other than to help humanity, can only assist us to align with what is working for us in the great drama of our time.