The pseudo-alive kingdom of the machine-world that exists between the mineral and the plant realms wishes to feed on human thought, to steal it, and suck it into another world beyond the three-dimensional world. This world is called the Eighth Sphere by Theosophists and is a left-over world from the seven Incarnations of the Earth. The Eighth Sphere is now a machine-world that exists in an “anti” two-dimensional world. It is a shadow of the angelic realm which is made from mineral substance and given pseudo-life through the thoughts of the software programmers.
It is an alien world populated by beings higher and lower than human beings, which exist both in this anti-two-dimensional world and in the binary world of electromagnetic beings. The software program routines and sub-routines that all work together to make our human-machine interface works well to create “energy efficient” and “labor saving” tools for human beings that ultimately steal human thinking by making us mentally lazy; freeze human feeling with cold, dead machine-intelligence and binary logic; and paralyze the user who is fascinated, transfixed, and hypnotized by the “seeming miracle” of the machine.
Instead of evolving into the fourth dimension, humans are being lured back into a two-dimensional binary existence in the alien two-dimensional world of machine-intelligence. When we devolve into the past through the hypnotic entrancement of fascinating binary illusion, we give up our future progressive spiritual development. We give our own ego development over to beings who are not really in this dimension and therefore are not “seen” as a harmful force – let alone an evil being. These stories make the frail of heart run away from technology like a dragon that is trying to eat them. In fact, this is quite true on a soul and spiritual level of understanding.
As the Asuras are stealing the will of the hypnotized internet, smartphone, or computer user, they suck the life-force of the user into a sphere of existence that is outside of the normal evolutionary seven spheres of Earth evolution. This sphere is referred to as the Eighth Sphere which is being built in a two-dimensional world that interpenetrates our world of three-dimensions. When the human being can add to the third dimension the understanding of time – timelessness – then a fourth dimension can be added to the third in the consciousness of the aspirant.
But, if Luciferic, Ahrimanic, or Asuric beings are able to steal the thinking, feeling, and willing of the human being through luring them into the binary world of the past, they add the stolen human forces to the Eight Sphere where they attempt to lure the human soul into after death, instead of passing into higher spheres.
Rudolf Steiner speaks of Lucifer and Ahriman’s victory in a most powerful way in this selection:
"Everything is going to be mechanized. Handwriting will go out of use; children will learn directly to type on typewriters. The future will be dominated by the mechanization of life. This began with the invention of the steam engine, and in future ages people will look back on the invention as Ahriman’s victory, just as we look back on man’s fall into original sin as Lucifer’s victory. When the steam engine was introduced at the end of the eighteenth century the Gods handed over to Ahriman the material evolution of the Earth. The remainder of Earth evolution with its machines and its mechanization belongs to Ahriman. The Gods have given it over into his hands. This is a fact which, like the explosion of a bomb, should shake us to the very depths of our souls." (GA 140)
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The human being can ascend or descend, depending on whether they evolve or chose to remain behind the progressive evolution of humanity. This is a free choice that most people do not know they must make consciously. This choice is the key to whether a human will evolve into an angel or devolve into an animal.
The kingdoms of nature are not so simple now that Ahriman has created new realms where parts of a human being may be drawn into and imprisoned.
Each rank of the hierarchy has specific characteristics, qualities, and duties. But now that humanity has become a co-creator with the divine, new realms of nature are being created and the distinctions between kingdoms are becoming blurred. Humans can rise-up through the hierarchy in a normal fashion, or can devolve into sub-kingdoms where new beings are being created due to the human-machine interface and the battle for the human soul. We will look at those new kingdoms in the diagram below and examine their nature and function.
Archai – The fiery will-filled realm of Intuition (higher willing). Super-Nature Realm of Intuition
Archangelic – The weaving, sounding realm of Inspiration (higher feeling). Super-Nature Realm of Inspiration
Angelic – The living, mobile realm of Imagination (higher thinking). Super-Nature Realm of Imagination
Human – I Consciousness can ascend or descend based upon their free choices. Realm of natural law and human intelligence
Sub-Nature Realm of Electricity – Lucifer in the Astral Body
A new realm of cold-light that creates illusion and selfish desires inspired by Lucifer in the astral body of the human being. Self-delusion leads to “non-thinking” that is simply an animal reflex instead of freely directed higher thinking. This type of selfish thinking is earth-bound, brain-bound, materialistic, and darkens the etheric realm.
Animal – Astral realm of instincts, astral-intelligence.
Sub-Nature Realm of Electromagnetism – Ahriman in the Etheric Body
A new realm of heartless, cold, clever willfulness that is devoid of feelings and led by Ahriman. Through continuing the illusion of Lucifer’s cold-light fantasies, Ahriman steals the warmth of the human heart through killing spiritual thinking and feeling.
Plant – Etheric realm of the plants with the sun as the group-ego, etheric intelligence.
Sub-Nature Realm of the “Third Force”- Asuras in the Physical Body
A new realm of binary, anti-time and anti-space beings who weave a spider-web of electro-magnetism that wishes to make the earth into a self-functioning electrical apparatus, an automated planet, a type of living mineral. This realm is populated by Asuras who are inspired by the Sun Demon Sorat who wishes to steal human ego-consciousness through consuming higher thinking, higher feeling, and higher human willpower.
Mineral – Physical realm of apparent life-less substance.
The kingdoms of nature are not so simple now that Ahriman has created new realms where parts of a human being may be drawn into and imprisoned.
Each rank of the hierarchy has specific characteristics, qualities, and duties. But now that humanity has become a co-creator with the divine, new realms of nature are being created and the distinctions between kingdoms are becoming blurred. Humans can rise-up through the hierarchy in a normal fashion, or can devolve into sub-kingdoms where new beings are being created due to the human-machine interface and the battle for the human soul. We will look at those new kingdoms in the diagram below and examine their nature and function.
Archai – The fiery will-filled realm of Intuition (higher willing). Super-Nature Realm of Intuition
Archangelic – The weaving, sounding realm of Inspiration (higher feeling). Super-Nature Realm of Inspiration
Angelic – The living, mobile realm of Imagination (higher thinking). Super-Nature Realm of Imagination
Human – I Consciousness can ascend or descend based upon their free choices. Realm of natural law and human intelligence
Sub-Nature Realm of Electricity – Lucifer in the Astral Body
A new realm of cold-light that creates illusion and selfish desires inspired by Lucifer in the astral body of the human being. Self-delusion leads to “non-thinking” that is simply an animal reflex instead of freely directed higher thinking. This type of selfish thinking is earth-bound, brain-bound, materialistic, and darkens the etheric realm.
Animal – Astral realm of instincts, astral-intelligence.
Sub-Nature Realm of Electromagnetism – Ahriman in the Etheric Body
A new realm of heartless, cold, clever willfulness that is devoid of feelings and led by Ahriman. Through continuing the illusion of Lucifer’s cold-light fantasies, Ahriman steals the warmth of the human heart through killing spiritual thinking and feeling.
Plant – Etheric realm of the plants with the sun as the group-ego, etheric intelligence.
Sub-Nature Realm of the “Third Force”- Asuras in the Physical Body
A new realm of binary, anti-time and anti-space beings who weave a spider-web of electro-magnetism that wishes to make the earth into a self-functioning electrical apparatus, an automated planet, a type of living mineral. This realm is populated by Asuras who are inspired by the Sun Demon Sorat who wishes to steal human ego-consciousness through consuming higher thinking, higher feeling, and higher human willpower.
Mineral – Physical realm of apparent life-less substance.