Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00338)

Nov 19th 1998

It would seem to me from this post that there is a tendency to
try to place "blame" on someone, some force, some agent that is
outside of ourselves.  But is this true, are not the Satan, the
Ahriman, etc. Not personalizations of our own LOWER SELF - the
selfish and devious kamic principle - which cannot see or
envisage a future of mutual harmony in which the whole of Nature
cooperates with all the rest ?

How can we live at loggerheads with each other either in small or
great matters ?  When all the fuss and fury is resolved what is
left other than personal opinions on this or that situation ?
How do we set our lives right ?

Dallas

> From: <augoeides@aol.com>
> Sent:	Thursday, November 19, 1998 5:57 AM
> Subject: Re: Apology

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