Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Now is the time of monsters: The present human chaos is the revenge of the spirits that have been ignored for too long.

     



“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”  ― Antonio Gramsci





      




 




Hell is empty and all the devils are here.







Rudolf Steiner:

the present age is more than any other age demanding the one thing people least want to have: understanding based on the science of the spirit. Strange as it may sound to the ordinary, average people of today — order will not be created from the chaos of the present time until a sufficiently large number of people are prepared to recognize the truths of that science. Such will be the karma of world history.
If people insist that this war is just like the wars of the past and that we'll be making peace just as peace has been made before — let them talk. They are the people who love maya and do not distinguish between truth and deception. Let them make what may seem like ‘peace’ — order will only arise from the chaos that fills the world today when insight based on the science of the spirit dawns in human minds. You may feel in your heart that it will be a long time before such order comes; you may think it will be a long time before people are prepared to let the dawn of such a science arise — and you will be right. You have to accept that it will be a long time before order arises from the chaos. For it will not come until human hearts understand the realm of the spirit. Order can only come when it is understood how this chaos has arisen.
Chaos has arisen because the reality is considered in an unspiritual way — and the world of the spirit cannot be ignored with impunity. You may think it is enough to live with thoughts and ideas that are wholly derived from the physical world. It is what people generally think today, though this does not make it true. The most completely and utterly wrong idea humanity has ever had is — to put it simply — that the spirits will put up with being ignored. You may consider it egotistical and selfish on their part, but the terminology is different in their world. Egotism or not, the spirits take their revenge if they are ignored here on Earth. This is a law, an iron necessity. One way to characterize the present time is to say that the present human chaos is the revenge of the spirits that have been ignored for too long.
I have often said, both here and elsewhere: A mysterious connection exists between human consciousness and the destructive powers of decline and fall in the universe.













Source: September 29, 1917. GA 177
The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness, lecture 1
 


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Americanism: Destruction, Doom, and Death : The Karma of Materialism : A Glockwork Orange

   


Rudolf Steiner:  "The destructiveness lies...firstly in everything we can call Americanism, which increasingly tends to invoke fear of the spirit and make the world into a place where only physical life can unfold. This is actually quite different from the British tendency to try to make the world into a trading company. Americanism seeks to make the world into a physical habitation, furnished as comfortably as possible, where one can live in comfort and prosperity. That is the political element of Americanism. Whoever does not detect it is blind to the facts and merely shuts his eyes and ears. Man's connection with the spiritual is bound to die out under such an influence. In these forces of Americanism lies what must actually bring the Earth to its end, destruction dooming it at last to death, because the spirit will be shut out from it."



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Continued: 

https://martyrion.blogspot.com/2022/06/think-outside-botched.html


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"Let be be finale of seem"

   




"The Emperor of Ice-Cream"

by Wallace Stevens

Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring flowers in last month’s newspapers.
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

Take from the dresser of deal,
Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
If her horny feet protrude, they come
To show how cold she is, and dumb.
Let the lamp affix its beam.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.



Rudolf Steiner:  "The conditions that lay beneath the surface decades ago, during a time when people abandoned themselves to the illusions that existed — those are the conditions that now exist in reality. And in this way, we can truly study history, insofar as we seek the involution within the evolution, insofar as we seek to discover what is developing beneath the surface.... This is what it means to truly study reality. And it follows from this that we must always be careful to direct our gaze onto the true realities of any situation; for nowadays we live in an age in which many realities must be seen through, in which realities must be constantly laid bare by stripping away the outer layer."






Source: February 21, 1920. GA 196. What Is Necessary in These Urgent Times, pp.252-3





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Equally happy, equally sad

     









Joy and woe are woven fine,

A clothing for the soul divine;

Under every grief and pine

Runs a joy with silken twine.


It is right it should be so,

We were made for joy and woe,

And when this we rightly know,

Through the world we safely go.



 —William Blake










Rudolf Steiner:  "Equilibrium of soul: There must be moderation in sorrow and in joy. Goethe has said that the soul who loves is, till death, equally happy, equally sad. The occultist must bear the deepest joy and the deepest sorrow with the same equanimity of soul."





"In spiritual life, so long as you have grasped it properly, nothing can go wrong."  — Rudolf Steiner






"He must increase; I must decrease."  — John 3:30






Rudolf Steiner:  "The Luciferic spirits gave man material desires; as their countermeasures the higher beings introduced illness and suffering as the consequences of material desires and interests, to the end that he should not utterly succumb to this world of sense. And so there is exactly as much suffering and pain in the world as there is interest only in the physical and the material. The scales are held in perfect balance; the one does not outweigh the other — so many passions and desires on the one side, so much illness and pain on the other."




 

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"Shut up," she explained.

 

 









"Shut up," she explained.   — Ring Lardner


"This isn't me speaking, it's science!"

"Shut up," she explained.





"Shut up," she explained.






"Atlas implies Discretion. He was one of the Titans, or mundane, spirits, and 'brother' of Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoitios, or Precaution, Reflection, and Deliberation bred of, and exercised in, ignorance and distrust of God. In this aspect he is a type of the discretion taught by experience of the crushing weight of the world on those who are devoid of the quality especially as shown by their inability to restrain speech."



— Anna Kingsford, Clothed with the Sun, Appendix, Note J, p. 233




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