The Crisis of Civilization
XVII. Russia and the “Socialistic Experiment”
The “Experimenters”
For an understanding of the destiny of Russia in the 20th century, it is particularly important to have knowledge of the map that played a role in the occult societies in the ’90’s of the last century, where ‘desert’ is marked instead of Russia. We are still today witnessing the turning of Russia into a desert, because this process has not yet been completed. It has, so it now appears, two phases. The first phase was conceived as a confrontation. Rudolf Steiner spoke of this even before the February Revolution of 1917 had taken place, and this is what makes his statement so very valuable. In a lecture on January 15, 1917 he said: If we want to set up commercial-industrial world rule, then the main region involved has to be divided into two parts ... Thus ... there cannot be a commercial domain without a region that stands over against a commercial domain ... this is a great, a gigantic thought of those occult brotherhoods of whom I have spoken. It is a gigantic thought of world proportions to create the antithesis, compared to which anything else will seem as nothing, this antithesis between the British (today we can justifiably say – the Pan-American) Imperium of commerce and the one that will arise out of Russia with the preparation, arising from its spiritual disposition, for the sixth post-Atlantean epoch. ... expressed trivially, a more wonderful contrast could scarcely be imagined, to what developed in the West as the highest flowering of commercial and industrial thinking, than the future Russian Slav, who will in the future certainly be still less inclined than he is today to be professionally active in commerce ... Thus we are dealing here with a division of the world into two parts ... (GA 174). Rudolf Steiner further describes the character of ‘peaceableness’ with which Anglo-Saxon commerce is active in the world; we have already mentioned this.
It is this, that was hidden behind the false rhetoric and cynical propaganda of Lenin, Trotsky and their ‘comrades’, who branded the whole of humanity, with the exception of the ‘proletarians’ – which again was a lie –, enemies of the new power. But we will see what else stood hidden behind these lies.
In our book The Awaiting Culture we described those events at the turn of the 18th to the 19th century which served as a prelude to the revolutions of the 20th century in Russia. The politicising of a certain section of Russian Freemasonry was mentioned, and this was possible through the influence of England. We have already spoken of Freemasonry being brought to Russia from England. Here is a further witness: T. A. Bakunina, who, with full sympathy for Freemasonry, writes concerning the history of this movement: ... in Captain John Philips we see the first Grand Master chosen for Russia by the Grand London Lodge. Ten years later he was replaced again in this lofty post by an Englishman, the General in Russian service, James Keith ... whose name has become famous as that of the Founder of Freemasonry in Russia.(1)
Since 1745, the post of Grand Master had been placed in Russian hands and a direction emerged that was devoted to the spiritual quest (Yelagin, Novikov, Schwarz), but the English influence was stronger. Towards the end of the 19th century Russia was literally woven into a web by the political Lodges. They came forward as fighters for the equality of the Jews and in this way drew them on to their side. Preparation for the revolution began in the Lodges. The revolution of 1905 was a failure – the army put an end to it. Then special attention was given to preparation of the army. The French occultist Papus (friend of the Tsar’s family!) recruited members for the Lodges in the highest social circles.
At the beginning of the First World War almost all the generals – including General Alekseev, who presided over the general staff of the Russian army and later commanded the ‘White Movement’ –, the highest aristocracy – Princes Yusopov, Trubetskoy, the Grand Dukes – were all members of the Lodges and in one way or another supported the preparation of the revolution.
This was the great temptation of Russia, and Russia did not recognize it. The Russian ‘Nibelungen’ (whose ancestry reached back as far as the Normans, or who were direct descendants of the German ‘Nibelungen’) had within them too many decadent, disintegrating forces. The non-aristocratic intelligentsia, who were not able in the short time available to unfold the individual ‘I’, proved incapable of distinguishing the legitimate striving of the Russian people for a new social order, from the intentions of the ‘demons’ of Marxism and Atheism, as Dostoyevsky described them.
The deception was only recognized between February and October 1917, but it was already too late. The interim government, which consisted entirely of Lodge members, paralyzed all security functions of the state and handed over the power to the Bolsheviks, whose highest level also consisted of Lodge members, albeit of the more radical direction.
Anyone who finds it difficult to understand the events in Russia at that time should reflect deeply on the recent events of the Iranian revolution, which took place in the more recent past. In it the same scenario was repeated exactly, that led to the destruction of Russia. First a bourgeois revolution takes place, which leads to the overthrow of the Shah. A provisional government is installed. The head of state is an exact copy of Kerensky, and correspondingly so is the rest of the government. Then a fundamentalist is ‘imported’ into the country, prepared this time in Paris, not Zurich, who seemingly speaks, not in the name of Marxism but of Islam. But this is no more than a factor specific to the country. The essential mission of the leader is the same: The country is to be completely destroyed from within. The head of the interim government disappears abroad like Kerensky, and is forgotten (and this when we consider the consequences suffered by the Shah, who had had the ‘audacity’ to emigrate). Then war breaks out between Iran and Iraq that is to go on for many years (an analogy to the Second World War) whose main purpose is to destroy as many people as possible on both sides and undermine as far as possible the economy of both countries. Then follows the severing by the European states of diplomatic relations with Iran, then renewed acceptance etc. (The Germans ought to follow the events in Iraq more closely, because in the plans of the world-powers it is in some way an Arab analogy to Germany.)
Within the machinations behind the scenes during the revolutionary events in Russia, parallel to the Bolshevik cadres, whose central core was prepared in the Lodges, the Jesuits were also active participants. We have already spoken of their method, first to let the Freemasons attain their original goals, in order then to appear as it were out of the background, infiltrate the ranks of the Freemasons and seize power for themselves by placing their own people in the leading positions without interfering with the power-structures as such.(2) A scenario of this kind was already prepared in the prelude to Dekabrist Revolt in 1825. Parallel to the working of the Freemasons, the Jesuits also prepared the revolt through the Society of the United Slavs.(3)
In 1917 the scale of the conspiracy was entirely different. It now included within it the world-wide relations. But when events assume this scale the organizers behind the scenes in some way lose control of them. And then no-one knows how what has been set in motion will turn out. This is what happened in Russia. The Trotskyites and Leninists, once they had seized power, saw themselves obliged to retreat and to reintroduce elements of the capitalist economy. But now, despite all the catastrophes that had overtaken Russia there was a danger that it might recover and throw off the ‘socialistic experimenters’. In wide sections of the population there were stirrings of hope for a spiritual liberation. In millions of simple folk there arose the wish to become culturally active, to join in the transformation of society according to the principles of equality and freedom. Somehow this had to be brought under control. And so at the center where Rabbis and Monsignori sit very amicably together it was decided that the leadership of the experiment should be placed in the hands of the Jesuits. Their representatives were Stalin and his helpers. Stalin had been recruited when he was being taught in a theological seminar. There, already, representatives of the Catholic ‘lobby’ in Orthodoxy had taken note of the, in their eyes, ‘gifted’ young man, and had smuggled him into the circle of Bolsheviks. V. Maximov, a former Soviet dissident, told this story in artistic form (how else? – Jesuits do not have the habit of leaving documents behind!) in his novel Quarantine.
Russia is caught in the iron grip of ‘militant communism’ (as this change of power was referred to by media propaganda). The terrible process began of destroying the Russian village. The old experimenters were no longer suited to this new departure in policy. It was decided to sacrifice them through creating the picture of the enemy without, because the enemy within was on the other side of the impervious borders and his picture threatened to pale in the consciousness of the duped masses. Trotsky was allowed to be the only exception. He appears to have been the only one in the entire original leadership who was absolutely untouchable and thus part of the highest circle of world power. He was later done away with after all, but this was, so it seems to us, his own fault – he did not want to keep quiet, similar to Kerensky.
All the parties of Trotskyites, Social Revolutionaries (SR Party), Constitutional Democrats (CD Party) known to us from the history of the CPSU, were really no more than the cloak behind which were hidden the red Lodges. The ‘Right’ in Russia openly writes about it today in order to veil the nature of the forces that came to power with Stalin and at the same time ‘wash’ them a little of their crimes. One of several further sources is the book by the Freemason Michele Moramarco La Massoneria. Ieri e oggi, published 1977 in Milan and 1990 in Moscow. He writes: Cuba. Freemasonry is active in Cuba. Castro, who is involved in the traditional Freemasonry which does not interfere in politics, considered it expedient not to oppose it (Chapter 10).
And now let us imagine the neighbouring state of Cuba, the USA – ‘swarming’ with Freemasons; then – Cuba’s friend the USSR, the greatest enemy of the USA; the Khrushchev affair with the stationing of nuclear bombs, which is said to have cost President Kennedy’s life,(4) the Bolshevik threat, through revolutions in Latin America started in Cuba and much, much else – which, one might have thought, would have excluded the activity of Freemasonry on the ‘Island of Freedom’ (USSR propaganda). And yet it apparently flourished there. It could not have stood outside politics, if only for the reason that in the ‘socialist camp’ everything was politicized. Thus the second plan of history taking place behind the scenes is revealed to us by the Bolshevist Freemasons themselves. However the mixture is even more complicated if we consider Castro’s Catholic past, etc.
Now began the trials, and the toppling of the leadership as well as of the members of those parties. Many were banished to the concentration camps they had helped to create. For the most part they were ‘children of Ahasuerus’. In connection with this undeniable fact we refer again to Winston Churchill’s statement from 1919: There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these international and for the most part atheistic Jews ... And the prominent, if not indeed the principal, part in the system of terrorism applied by the Extraordinary Commissions for Combating Counter-Revolution has been taken by Jews, and in some notable cases by Jewesses. The authors of the ‘experiment’, when they decided to turn Russia into a bloody battlefield, had not placed a great deal of confidence in the Russians; they had a premonition that they might not be up to the ‘magnitude’ of the task of destroying their own countrymen. For the immediate carrying out of murders mentally-ill people were used. A mysterious regiment known as the Latvian ‘Guard’ was mobilized, which was to all appearances an order of professional murderers showing no trace of any conflict of conscience. Using such cadres, one now began to ‘experiment’ in the spirit of ‘Socialism’.
It is interesting to note that when today on radio and television relatives are mentioned of the ‘dictators of the proletariat’, who were once subject to reprisals, the great majority of them are Jews. For this reason the attempt was made to give Stalinism an anti-Semitic note. However, the new ideologues soon discovered that this could become dangerous, because the deeper backgrounds of Bolshevism would then be revealed. This would have been quite unavoidable. Let us take, for example, the fact that next to Stalin the second man of the state was called Kaganovich, that the wives of almost all of Stalin’s helpers were Jewish, etc. We emphasize again that Churchill, the contemporary whom no- one yet dared call an anti-Semite, confirms this.
But it
would be a
mistake to
blame only
Jews for the
Bolshevik
Revolution.
Yes, the hard
core of the
conspirators
and executors
was recruited
from their
ranks, but
what happened
from the
mid-’Twenties
onwards makes
it clear that
they too were
merely tools
in someone
else’s hands.
When the
mass-terror
began people
were picked up
in unbroken
succession by
the secret
police. It no
longer
mattered what
gender or age
they were,
what was their
religious
belief, or to
what nation
they belonged.
In truth: when
it comes to
murder, the
Bolsheviks are
and always
have been
Internationalists.
After the
advance into
Latvia in 1940
the
‘invaluable’
contribution
of the Latvian
‘Guard’ did
not make for a
moderating
influence on
the fate
reserved for
this people.
German,
Spanish and
many other
communists
made
acquaintance
with the Cheka
prisons. Only
those who were
sufficiently
cunning and
who recognized
the
far-reaching
changes in the
leadership of
the
‘experiment’
were spared. We need
to make all
this quite
clear, not in
order to sow
national
dissention,
but to hold in
our memory the
terrible
lesson, and
avoid a
repetition of
the old
mistakes that
are
death-bringing
to all who
allow them to
happen. For
the world is
today poised
at the
threshold of a
repetition,
only this time
on a still
bigger scale.
Method and Plan of the “Experiment”
All
that came with
Stalin – one
tries today to
revamp into a
‘truly’
national
affair of the
representatives
of Russia, who
were
purportedly
deeply
concerned over
the historical
role of the
country, and
who made it
into a world
power. But we
have learnt,
meanwhile,
that
Leninism-Stalinism
had been
planned as one manifestation
before the
‘experiment’
began – in
order to
create an
antithesis
between
America and
Russia. The
vision for
Russia within
this
antithesis can
be shown by
means of a
diagram (Fig.
8):
After Stalin’s death the Khrushchev era began. Russia appeared now to move in step with the general course of history, but in fact everything remained within the sphere of social-economic fantasy, of progress on the yawning heights. At the same time the mere attempt to move parallel to history brought an approximation of conditions to reality in the Soviet Union, and the time of stagnation began. The dragon slowly lost its strength and thus a hope for freedom was born that found its expression in a struggle for civil rights. As during the time of the NEP, the danger arose again that Russia, in defiance of everything, might stand on its own feet. (5) So the ‘experiment’ was given another new turn. The leadership was taken from the Jesuits and placed again in the hands of the representatives of the Western brotherhoods.
These appeared to be continuing the struggle of the dissidents for a return of Russia to the lap of civilization and world culture. But in reality the total destruction of the means of production and all state structures began, which posed a threat to the very national existence of Russia.
Under the cover of the ‘Perestroika’ we are as a national entity finally erased from world history. All stages of the events of recent years are plainly steered by the political occultism issuing from the same black core of the planet – from dark ceremonial magic. All this obviously shows things in a very dark light, but it cannot be otherwise when we reflect that our century has heaped up mountains of corpses owing to factors that are not entirely coincidental. Just imagine what those people must carry in their souls, who think up such experiments and put them into practice. Merely to contemplate this, is enough to remove any trace of naivety with regard to political occultism. And the opportunity to contemplate it is provided at every step.
An example: English children were recently asked by sociologists what they think of horror films. 85 % of the children thought that they have a bad influence on their behaviour, and 35 % even said that they encourage them to commit crimes. Children admit this! And the adults? – They continue to stuff their children full with these films. Does this not show beyond a shadow of doubt that such inhumanity becomes habitual in accordance with a definite plan?
Through the entire course of the ‘socialistic experiment’ in Russia, two forces are permanently at work – whatever dramatic changes it undergoes, and regardless of who happens to be killing whom: the Western secret societies and religious-political Romanism. From time to time one of them defeats the other, but it never happens that one force carries off the final victory; this would be beside the point. If the one side wins – economic and spiritual relief is the result, if the other side comes to power – then the NEP reverts to ‘war-communism’. The dissidents have long observed this constant fluctuation. But it is important to look at the shared attribute that, despite all changes, always remains the same.
Professional responsibilities gave us, over a long period, access to scientific circles and at the same time to the highest sphere of the Soviet trade unions. (6) And, thus we had the opportunity to gain some insight into the developmental process of Soviet politics. Throughout this time we were also pursuing a thorough study of historical symptomatology as taught by Rudolf Steiner in Anthroposophy. It was not long before we noticed, to our amazement, that the system of power in the Soviet Union was not at all a monolithic block, but that on the contrary two forces oppose each other irreconcilably. Later it became clear to us that we were governed by a force that, though very much the opposite in form, was in spirit absolutely identical with what is called Jesuitism in the Western world; its most important strongholds were the trades unions and the army. There, as everywhere else in the world, the spirit of subordination, of the authoritarian regime, of strict subjection was introduced by this force; one played on people’s national feelings and behaved in a pastoral spirit, as a ‘shepherd’ of the ‘flock’ of the ‘little ones’ – of the workers who were mercilessly exploited and held under an iron rod. At the same time it was stressed repeatedly that their superiors were like fathers to them, who could not sleep for nights on end, were concerned about their well-being etc. When the book Aquarium by Viktor Suvorov was published we not only found our conjectures confirmed, but we also discovered something entirely new: the fact that this force even had its own counter-espionage service – Chief Administration for Intelligence (GRU) – a secret order with a very remarkable rite of initiation, only mentioned in passing by Suvorov.
The members of the Western secret societies control the Academy of Sciences, journalism, medicine, and further education. The Party and the KGB are both as it were twofold. In school education as well as in Marxist and atheistic propaganda both forces work hand in hand. On the level of advanced science (nuclear physics) there were always scientists who, despite all the draconian secrecy regulations, were able to travel from the West into the Soviet Union as easily as we, living in this country, could travel, say, from Moscow to Kiev.
The entire 75-year history of the Soviet Union is an expression of the cooperation and battle of these two forces. Times of relative calm mark the preparation for revenge being made behind the scenes by the force that is, at the moment, slipping behind. It is always easier to organize underground; the ruling power is always in the public gaze. Thus we have the secret recruiting of their agents, the gradual replacement of ‘outside’ people by one’s ‘own’, in the positions of responsibility. Once these preparations are complete, the force operating underground launches the attack and the world witnesses the beginning of a change in the Soviet Union. When the Bolsheviks staged their revolt in 1917 with the help of Western secret societies, and stirred up civil war and mass-terror, a pro-Jesuit grouping was already preparing behind its back to seize power from within. This process is described in detail in various publications, but in the language of ‘Aesop’.
During the regime of Stalin a pro-Western group armed itself underground in readiness for attack.(7) The first attempt to seize power was made with Khrushchev. Actually it was more like ‘reconnaissance in battle’. It was doomed to fail, since the opposition did not have enough ‘agents of influence’ in the army (as in 1905). After an ‘interregnum’, the ‘Right’ rose to power again, but this time its rule was milder than Stalin’s since its power was already partially undermined. The ‘Left’ resumed its activity in the succession Andropov-Gorbachev-Yeltsin. When they came to power, the ‘Right’ went underground and worked from there – as the ‘Left’ did previously. This hidden working is, as before, far more successful than the work of the ‘Left’ above the surface, and this fact became very clear through the ‘congresses’ of the ‘representatives of the people’ in the parliamentary sessions during the time of the ‘Perestroika’. In view of this we may ask: Why can not one of the forces gain a decisive victory over the other? – Because that third force, which strives to bring about a ‘dialectical’ collaboration of the two forces issuing from it, does not intend this to happen.
The
“Perestroika”
In Russia today there is nothing to outdo the naivety of those who believe in the existence of some kind of attempts at reform, whose aim is to strengthen the country’s economy and build up a democratic society. Oh no, the ‘Perestroika’ is designed to ensure that all the forces in power consciously further the destruction of all spheres of life. This is easily proven through an analysis of the edicts, resolutions, and changes in law that have issued from the government in the last three to four years. The corrupt elements from before are guaranteed full freedom of action and now grow beyond all bounds. With incredible speed a clan of the new financial elite is forming. It buys up the currencies entering the country as credit and deposits it in personal accounts with Western banks (a billion dollars and more disappear from the country every month!). The country is left only with the mountain of debt that is already so vast that Russia will never be able to repay it. A newspaper reported that the country’s population is declining with increasing rapidity. In the first three months of 1992 alone hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily ended their lives or attempted to do so. Even in times of war such losses were rare. Suicide is committed not by the Party-nomenclature – they are entirely successful in business – but by simple people whose already miserable standard of living is today three or four times worse than before!
A no less destructive assault is directed at the spiritual life. Centers are set up in which different spiritual interests are as it were accumulated and then profaned. Thus, for example, someone who is keen to exploit the Russian inclination to mysticism and apocalypticism, publishes the journal Voice of the Universe. In it astounding prophecies are publicized, reports are given of supersensible manifestations, allegedly confirmed by trustworthy witnesses, and, parallel to this, critical observations are made of the occult-political forces in the world; patriotism is propagated. The popularity of this magazine is growing enormously, and its reports come ever closer to the totally absurd, so that now only a schizophrenic can take it seriously. And at the same time the paper is designed, together with the ‘black magic’ of journalism, to make use of the direct magic of dark occult manipulations: the magazine is charged with ‘energy’, etc.
From another direction there rings out ever more loudly the propaganda for spiritual freedom, for human rights. This attracts people in their swarms who live under the yoke of oppression in the sphere of rights and the spiritual life. But here too they are led astray. They are soon told: ‘If you love freedom you should love it in all its manifestations, including the freedom of sexual license, and the ‘right’ to commit crimes’. The ‘free’ press is starting to publish small ads like the following: Looking for a boy, white or yellow – it does not matter, provided he looks like a cute dandelion. This is not just a bad joke. A Mafia, going entirely unhindered and unpunished, is active in the enslavement of children to wealthy, sex-crazed criminals. The television broadcast a report of an attempt that had been uncovered,(8) to export children to foreign countries as ‘raw material’ for organ transplants (how many have remained secret?). Anyone who protests against these unbelievable crimes is branded an enemy of democracy, a ‘nationalist’, a chauvinist, or a member of the ‘Right’.
From a third direction believers are inculcated with the idea of the alleged ‘traditional’ unity of Orthodoxy and army. At the opposite pole, practical occultism is unleashed and countless groups, often international, are formed in which spiritually aware people meet to work with magicians of the darkest kind. It is impossible ever to free oneself from this kind of group because their magic is intimately bound up with the gangster world.
In no other country in the world have the mass-media worked so intensively to destroy the structures and relationships of society. People lurch from one side to the other and meet only what is abhorrent. Infernal caricatures stare at them; grimacing, mocking, baring their teeth and poking out their tongues. There was a similar situation in Russia before the revolution and in the years immediately after it. Today it seems as though the tactic of the ‘two daggers’ has increased tenfold, as though the time of the pluralism of barbarous deeds had begun. But this is only apparent. In reality a system becomes visible behind the chaos; just ‘two hands’, as before. The world of ‘dialectics’ has not ceased to exist; it is merely undergoing a transformation. And an incredible success awaits it. Recently there has been a general change of mood: people are starting freely to yearn for a return to what they so long and quite justifiably hated! (9)
The Spiritual
Beings and the
Events behind
the Scenes of
Politics Today
For an understanding of all that is happening in the world today it is of fundamental importance to know that we live in the epoch of a twofold coming: the decisive coming of Christ in the world of the etheric forces and the imminent coming of Ahriman in the physical body. The first takes place in full freedom for the human beings who confess to it; the second works by means of lies and violence. The world and human souls are woven by the servants of Ahriman into a complicated web of ideologies, temptations, exploitation of the instincts etc. If this web is not broken, we cannot speak at all of a conscious experience of the coming of Christ.
The Lesser Apocalypse says of our time: And let him who is on the housetop not go down into the house ... (Mark 13;15). This means that only on the level of the consciousness-soul where narrow-minded egoism (also in the realm of opinions) is overcome, can we understand world events today without drowning in the tide of lies that create the only acceptable ‘ecology’ for Ahriman.
Rudolf Steiner says: It is now the time to gain insight into these things because there are many different ways of forcing the human being out of his right development. It is not easy to speak about this, not even of things that lie very close at hand, ... because one touches upon something, of which people do not suspect in the least that it is, in that it diffuses itself through human souls, an occult impulse of immensely powerful influence (Jan. 22, 1917, GA 174).
At times people (especially Anthroposophists) sense these impulses and fear- fully flee, flee therefore from social understanding. But Rudolf Steiner also said: It was a source of great pain to me in recent years, where it would have been so very necessary for these things to be understood in the appropriate places, that these things were not understood. But the truth is that if one knows these impulses, if one is willing to take hold of them, if one receives them into consciousness, they are in a certain way rectified, they can be steered in a different direction (Dec. 1, 1918, GA 186).
So we see that the central issue is always the same: faithfulness to the meaning, content and mission of Anthroposophy. In the world today one can no longer fight for the good out of naivety and worthy intentions alone, because all relationships and factors of life have been dislocated and falsified. We can sustain the good only with the help of strong, effective means. And this Anthroposophy has. Of course attempts are made to falsify or at least weaken it. It is a serious hindrance for us today that the first generations of anthroposophists neglected to do important things. For instance, they were not able to awaken an understanding for the events of that time, when Rudolf Steiner himself was speaking about them. To have to start doing this right at end of the century is extraordinarily difficult, but necessary, because we are still in the midst of the battle that has grown ever more intensive since the end of the 19th century. (10)
At the end of the 20th century the old tactic of the ‘two daggers’ is used still more openly and a number of new factors have been added. A fundamental change in the meaning of the terms ‘Right’ and ‘Left’ has taken place. The forces that until recently praised socialism to high heaven have now become furious apologists of the restoration of capitalism and present their views under the heading of ‘Left’ liberalism. The ‘Right’ are gathering under their banner the remaining socialists, Marxists, Neo-Bolsheviks or plain Bolsheviks, as well as monarchists and nationalists, and form the ‘Right’ block that stands for the restoration of Socialism, but this time with a human face, and occasionally without a human face.
Polarization of the two camps grows ever more extreme. The Left wing of democracy, capitalism, and of course Pan-Americanism, has shifted to attack on all fronts, thereby abandoning the tacit convention of a dynamic balance of the mutually-opposing forces in the world. A revenge of the NEP took place in Russia, somewhat comparable in its scale to the revenge of Stalinism at the end of the ’Twenties. The ‘Right’ turns in this situation to unconventional methods of combat. For example they place, figuratively speaking, their trumps on the table and offer to play with open cards. This shows itself in the fact that the secrets from behind the scenes are unveiled. Information appears openly in the press, beside which everything that one had previously guessed at pales into insignificance. But it would be a fateful mistake to take this information at its face value. With the necessary preparation, if one has acquired the method of historical symptomatology, much can be gleaned from it, that brings into clear relief the outlines of the occult-political world-picture. We should not be deterred by the fact that the source of information is mainly to be found on the ‘Right’. This is not to say that it should be accepted uncritically. And at the same time today’s ‘Left’ is mostly using the methods of former Bolshevik propaganda.
In the last two years the main forces of the Right opposition (they call themselves: spiritual opposition) have gathered around the weekly The Day; (11) some irregularly appearing journals are also issued by its publishers. Everything in this paper bears a markedly publicist character and is designed to shock the Left camp, with the result that so far they have been unable to react appropriately. They tried to react with mockery and scorn – but the laughter became a grimace; and if they were to resort to denial, this would provoke further revelation of the secrets behind the scenes.
The ideology of the Right opposition is coming to coincide with that of the ‘New Right’ in the West. Another kind of new unified front of the opposites is beginning to emerge in the world. For the present it is still possible to reach clarity on things, but soon on all sides every trace will be obscured. In Russia this opposition declares that it claims the right and freedom openly and calmly to speak about themes that have hitherto strictly been tabooed or have been the object of raging criticism.
These themes are: the connection of ‘secret societies’ to political regimes, the influence of various sects and neo-spiritual streams on politics and economy, the actual theological background of international and geo-political transformations, the contacts of Jewish mystical-political organizations with the Masonic Lodges, the mystical forms of racism and anti-racism.
If
someone were
now to ask: Is
not all this
made into an
‘All-Operator’?
– we have to
answer: yes.
Moreover, it
happens not
infrequently
in the world
of high
politics
today, that
one speaks
openly on
matters that
appear at
first sight to
correspond to
what is known
to us from
statements by
Rudolf
Steiner. If we
are not
attentive, we
will, whether
we want it or
not, be drawn
into politics
and divided up
into the
different
camps and
parties. Only
activity
within the
process of
cognition will
enable us to
maintain our
spiritual
sovereignty.
An external
coincidence in
the selection,
in the
accentuation
of facts from
history,
sociology and
politics has
in itself no
significance
whatever,
since
politicians
and occultists
of every
shades and
coloring are
avid readers
of
spiritual-scientific
literature
today. What is
of essential
importance is
the
interpretation
of the facts,
whereby for us
(and, so it
turns out,
only for us)
no
falsification
is allowed. In
this book we
have several
times pointed
out the
immense
importance of
this task, the
fulfillment of
which is an
almost
religious
service to
humanity. And
we never cease
hoping that
the
anthroposophists
who use their
healthy common
sense will
read this book
to the end
and, when they
have
thoroughly
grasped it,
will
understand our
disquiet with
regard to the
situation of
Anthroposophy.
The violent madman of whom Rudolf Steiner speaks, and by which he means our present civilization, is moving into a phase of decisive action. His mental disorder is of a special kind – it is the logic of the Ahrimanic intellect which is altogether inappropriately applied to the social life of human beings. We must get to know this logic. And then will be revealed to us the meaning of the events that are building up on a kind of ‘anti-dialectics’ in the direct confrontation of the Luciferic and Ahrimanic forces, which is dissolved in that ‘synthesis’ of which one can only say: Heaven preserve us from it! For the ‘synthesis’ here means the appearance of Asuric beings. Only when we understand this synthesis, can we understand the great significance of the other – the synthesis in Christ. The esoteric, ‘Ur’-phenomenal image of the present world is represented in figure 9. (12)
Only the strong, spiritual-scientific understanding that includes within it self-knowledge and conscious work on oneself, enables us to unite with the power of Christ which holds in balance the opposing luciferic and ahrimanic forces and leads to their mutual cancellation. (All this was brought to expression in the sculptural group The Representative of Man created by Rudolf Steiner). All else is driven into the infernal ‘synthesis’ in the sphere of the Asuras, into radical cosmic opposition to the Christ. In this field of tension of forces will take place the incarnation of Ahriman, whose task it will be to push humanity entirely into the abyss and create an irreversible tendency to fall out of normal evolution. Only through the power of the Second Coming of Christ can humanity escape this terrible fate.
The Hidden
Background of
the
“Perestroika”
Today’s struggle of ‘Right’ and ‘Left’ in Russia and throughout the world must be understood in the light of the principle we have tried to illustrate in figure 9. The one as well as the other weakens the human being by robbing him of a unified understanding of things, and replacing it with various one-sided ways of viewing the world. On a certain level of blindness, one-sidedness can appear to be unified. The ideology of the ‘Left’ is primitive and superficial but it pleads for liberation from the ‘GULAG’; and therein lies its strength. Here it has been thoroughly understood that people are capable of great sacrifices, simply to prevent a repetition of the past. And these sacrifices are demanded of them, but in such a way that they never end. To the material sacrifices are added the moral ones, and this will continue to the point of accepting freedom from the hand of Ahriman. ‘Left’-wing propaganda tries to persuade us that a higher party-official like Gorbachev is enough to make the entire system collapse. And the American and other bankers, entrepreneurs – people of crystal purity – supposedly dream of a flowering, sovereign, free Russia moving as one with the progressive, democratic, capitalistic lands of the earth. Such a ‘concept’ appears entirely credible also to many Western anthroposophists.