There are some (christian?) conspiracy theorists claiming reality comes down to an eternal struggle between "Good and evil." One of theory asserts that anyone that has a birth cert is owned by the crown of England due to some Maritime law loophole. in spite of my agnostic attitude towards the "it all comes down to good and evil"; I could be convinced that circumstances on Earth are playing out in some type of a proxy-battle between unknown forces.
Rudolf Steiner's "An Outline of Esoteric Science" discusses 3 figures who have large influence on man across our thousands of years of human culture:
Lucifer - who might be considered neutral knowledge-bringer (but perhaps "evil" when considered by Western European morality), the Christ figure, and Ahriman.
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The Rudolf Steiner Archive
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/19191101p02.html
[Steiner]: As I told you, Ahriman and Lucifer will always work hand in hand. The only question is which of the two predominates in man's consciousness at a particular epoch of time. It was a preeminently Luciferic culture that persisted until after the Mystery of Golgotha—a culture inspired by the incarnation of Lucifer in China in the third millennium B.C. Many influences of this incarnation continued to radiate and were still powerful in the early Christian centuries; indeed they are working to this day.
But now that we are facing an incarnation of Ahriman in the third millennium after Christ, Lucifer's tracks are becoming less visible, and Ahriman's activities in such trends as I have indicated, are coming into prominence.
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(Ed: Definitions)
Basic Buddhism : there is no soul, all is temporary, in the end, even the spirit disintegrates
Tibetan Buddhism : there is no soul, but it is possible to make one
Steiner : there is the ether-body, astral-body and 'the-I' - a permanent consciousness
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From Allan Pittman and Bryan Lynch lecture : (2014)
"Essential Teachings of Helena Blavatsky and Rudolf Steiner" (on YT)
"Teachers come forward and there's a lot of fascinating stuff with Bruce Lipton and DNA and the teachings of Abraham on vibrational awareness; and getting people like the physicists are starting to agree with theologians and it's getting more and more in contact between disciplines;
There is getting to be more and more agreement again between Material Science and Spiritual ideas.
So this wave (ed: of resonance) is hitting again; so enjoy it. But we have twice as much distraction because of of Media.
So, the War for your body soul and spirit is largely between your ability to concentrate on what's important for you alone - and what the 'Forces Outside' want you to look at.
This is essentially the next stage of
Black Magick versus White Magick :
Do you want a mind of your own -
or do you want someone else to run it?
(end Allan Pittman and Bryan Lynch lecture)
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Throughout history, a few men and women have realized there is something
beyond the dichotomy of materialism and spirituality.
-"Resurrecting the Mysterious: A Biomind Super Powers Book" -Ingo 2020 p109