Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00335)

In a message dated 11/19/98 3:41:21 AM Eastern Standard Time,
LeonMaurer@aol.com writes:

<< Capitalism, today, has become no different in its motivation (with the same
 elitist people behind it) than the fascism and Nazism it forcefully overthrew
 yesterday--except it's a lot stronger militarily, and its dirty tricks a bit
 more sophisticated >>

Any form of Statism is oppressive as we have seen in the
heavy hand of communism and socialism, i,e, command
economies that make a million shoes for the left foot but
none for the right.  Mussolini was a Socialist before he created
his own brand of it - fascism - and National SOCIALISM is
just that .... with racism thrown in.

Rudolph Steiner defined Lucifer as restless activity on the
spiritual plane leading to illusion.  He said Ahriman is the heavy hand
of dead letter materialism.  Anthropos, Man, the fully integrated
man, is the balancing equilibrium between the two.  What
he was really talking about were the three Gunas.  He said that
national socialism is luciferic and communism is ahrimanic.
The Nazis were interested in the dark side of the occult
(luciferic) while the Communists promoted the oppressive
bureaucratic state (like in George Orwell's *1984*).  Both
systems desired to mold man/woman into automatons of the
State, mindless androids serving the Party Programme, i.e.,
the Aryan superman for the Nazis and the Homo Sovieticus
for the Commies.

Participatory democracy with a free enterprise system seems
OK to me.  I'm glad the Lords of Karma placed me here the USA
in this incarnation.  It ain't perfect but it's better than most.

Augoeides