tinydot wrote:It's like chasing Satan in the Christian perspective.
May I add two asides here; a friend of mine was a long time and trusted member of the TM Movement. He used to be invited to the private, intimate discussions held when the Maharishi held court. At one such meeting the Guru admitted that he was not of the Brahmin class but a Kshatriya. A warrior rather than a priest. His was a world war against the materialist world, a war of hearts and minds. Like the BKWSU.
Secondly, we take up Rudolf Steiner's work. One of the greatest Western mystics. I am not saying that he was right or wrong or worshipworthy but he was an active mystic. Steiner saw the opposition to Godliness that the Christians called the Devil and saw two individual entities. Actual living spirits;
Lucifer, the Angel of Light and
Ahriman, the biblical Satan.
- This is part of a line of thought that I am examining which suggests that what is affecting the BKWSU now are Luciferic in nature ... and that we need to understand what Luciferic means. Not to say it is Shiva necessarily nor to blame him/it.
Ahriman's assignment, according to Steiner, is to alienate humanity from its spiritual roots, to inspire materialism and heartless technological control. His influence highly relevant to present-day Western culture. Computers, control, materialist science, Fundimentalist religion, money. He is coming to power is in this Age and the West.
Lucifer and Ahriman were regarded as two scales of a balance with humanity in the middle to hold the beam in balance. The balance of which was the Christ-like path or the path to Visvakarman, the architect of this universe. To do this he suggested that we had to permeating what takes Ahrimanic form within us with a strongly Luciferic element.
Luciferic Traits;
- fantasy, illusion, superstition - the New Age is very Luciferic
hyperactivity, glamour, seduction
unified vision [United Nations], one language
unification, generalization
clairvoyant delusions regarding the spiritual world
experiential, phenomenalistic
flexibility, airy, the Flight of Icarus
Lucifer, although an evil striving for power over humanity, also brought about in humanity a great acceleration in spiritual growth. The problem arising when he was allowed to step out of balance.
Steiner set the physical incarnation of Lucifer in the third millennium B.C., or 5,000 years ago and stated that Asian religious evolution is the carrier of a luciferic element. its not all bad, the Luciferic beings brough gret benefit but it was in their own interest. If man could be given his own powers of understanding, i.e. if he could be cut off from divine guidance, knowing good and evil, then he might choose the latter and their own power would be greatly enhanced. Human being would provide the Luciferic forces with an instrument by means of which they could further their own evolution. Having remained behind in their evolution, the Luciferic beings were lacking in certain faculties through which they might have participated directly in world events, but they could do this via the human being if his mind were suitably attuned.
He wrote that;
Luciferic influences are said to be all that leads men away from reality and all that appeals to man 's pride, ambition and self-aggrandizement. They are present when the mind discards reality and lives in an airy-fairy imaginative world, when it sets up wonderful programmes for the betterment of mankind without reckoning with human nature. It is present in idle talk and brings about disregard and disinterest in one's fellow humanity; only what the self feels and thinks is considered right. It focuses on a consciousness of the self.
Shiva may Luciferic or he may well be pure and innocent. If it is not Shiva, then may just be other forces that are effecting and working through the BK Family and we are mistaking them for God.
Introductions;
Lucifer and Ahriman I,
Lucifer and Ahriman II
