The plan of Ahriman is to mechanize all of creation. Steiner placed the incarnation of Ahriman shortly after the year 2000. People must choose whether they will pull themselves up from the abyss or whether they will choose to sleep and let evil pass by unnoticed. Technology feeds on the soul and one can become apathetic to Ahrimanic entrapment brought through technologies of all kinds. At this time, 2021, the incarnation of Ahriman may be very near. This second death may result in a complete severance from the spiritual worlds. Man and machine could merge coupled with an explosion in machine intelligence and expansions in gene research and nanotechnology. This will result in a lack of distinction between the biological and the mechanical or between the physical and the virtual. With these innovations, the bodies limitations will be transcended and illness will be eradicated. We will be able to manufacture any physical product on demand and hunger and poverty will be solved. Going beyond virtual reality, new technologies assisting Ahriman will be developed. Virtual reality will be eclipsed by augmented reality. People will be drawn into Ahrimanic Maya.1 Elsewhere in the book, Lainson mentions the beast’s mass biological manipulation of food products.
On the Beast
I do not regard Hitler to be the beast. Perhaps he was the beast, but he probably was a very mild version of the beast. I see the Nazis as revolting against freemasonry and anthroposophy mainly do to the monetary inequalities and the technology. Nazism was correct in theory but incorrect in implementation. The pragmatics were done out of necessity. The Nazis didn’t have an issue with the idealism but the reductionism. The natural spiritual development got cut off with national socialism but some of the spiritual developments were technologically motivated. That’s the Nazis reason for reacting against freemasonry and anthroposophy. Other organizations have alternative reasons for the reaction. Schellings organic idealism by itself is not necessarily a bad development. If watered down and handled correctly, his organic idealism is not the worst thing in the world.
Idealism Studies 