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Dr Rudolf Steiner In our days, there has probably been no teacher who saw and understood all this more clearly than the great Austrian, Dr Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), founder of the Anthroposophical Society. Clairvoyant from childhood, Steiner saw into the other worlds and planes and saw deeply into the human heart, and no books or teachings are so relevant as his are to the crisis of mankind that is now upon us. His lectures throughout 1917, for example, show clearly that he foresaw, in their totality, the political, social and military results and the police-state tyranny which would inevitably follow from the Russian Revolution, just as the "Lady" of the apparitions at Fatima also did in the same year. Steiner foresaw what would result in the world as a whole from a materialistic sci- ence run mad: the development of "test- tube" man, "biological engineering” and other horrors; the deliberate creation and development of living monsters; and the soulless, Godless, dehumanised, comput- erised, insect-like chromium and plastic slave world of 1984 that may now be at hand. According to Steiner, a tremendous and crucial round in the battle was fought out in the last 30 years of the 19th century, and on the Inner Planes, between the Forces of Ahriman (the term he took over from Zarathustra) and the Forces of Light. These latter are conventionally known to the Western, Christian tradition as the "Cohorts of Michael". Steiner said that the fight ended in a complete victory for the Light, but that as a result of it a great many of the powerful demonic beings had been actually cast down upon planet Earth, with the consequence that their presence an their influence now impinge more than ever upon the prospects and the destiny of mankind. Steiner taught that the coming years will see incredible upheavals, in the course 0: which this great battle will be carried for- ward to its conclusion, inside every human heart. (See Rudolf Steiner, "Der Sturz der Geister der Finsternis" ["The Overthrow ot the Spirits of Darkness"], a series of lec- tures given in 1917.) The objective of the Forces of Darkness is to take over the stream of human evolu- tion, to merge with it and to divert mankin from the evolutionary development "planned" for it. The end result of this would be new creatures in which those — surveying the impasse into which we have qualities that represent the highest that we got ourselves, might well be tempted to know would have been eliminated. look up to the stars in the hope that someone Smart-alecky modern man of the Pop _ wiser than we are might arrive one day from Age, the "trousered ape" as he has been _ there and give us all the easy answers. called, has of course no use for all this sort If there be any truth in the ancient story of "rubbish", and immense numbers of our _ that the inhabitants of Magonia, unlike species have discarded all belief in the men, do not possess the possibility of existence of demons, along with any belief developing immortal souls and therefore in the Great Power that rules the Universe. —_ are anxious to acquire such by mating with There is a delightful passage in C. S. _ us and mingling their life-stream with ours, Lewis's Screwtape Letters where the Senior what moment could be more propitious to Devil, talking to one of his underlings, them for achieving their purpose than now? makes a profoundly important remark: "Of oo course, our greatest trump-card is the fact that everybody knows we don't exist" (or Editor's Note: words to that effect). Similarly, the vast Gordon Creighton, MA, FRGS, FRAS, majority of mankind knows that Jinns and British diplomat, civil servant, linguist and UFOs and UFO entities don't exist. And UFO enthusiast, died on 16 July 2003, what a nice advantage that is for the aged ninety-five. He was a regular reader entities! of and contributor to Flying Saucer . . . Review from its inception in 1955, and he But what if Homo sapiens were in for jater sat on the journal's board and was its some big shocks in the near future? What editor from 1982 until his death. His obit- then? a uary can be read at the FSR website, With the recent advance of science, man _ http://www. fsr.org.uk. has rapidly become aware of the vastness Flying Saucer Review is now celebrat- of the cosmos and of the probability that ing half a century of publication. The there exist out there innumerable other entire FSR archive is now available on a physical worlds inhabited by intelligent Series of CDs at £10.00 each. To obtain beings, some of which, for all we know, these or back copies or to subscribe to may be (as we dearly hope) identical with this quarterly journal, visit the FSR web- . actac 4 , . site, http://www.fsr.org.uk, email men, with our tastes and our values, our Lunula9@aol.com or write to FSR hopes and our fears. Publications Ltd, Post Office Box 585, It is natural that some among us, Rickmansworth, Herts WD3 1YJ, UK. Editor's Note: Gordon Creighton, MA, FRGS, FRAS, British diplomat, civil servant, linguist and UFO enthusiast, died on 16 July 2003, aged ninety-five. He was a regular reader of and contributor to Flying Saucer Review from its inception in 1955, and he later sat on the journal's board and was its editor from 1982 until his death. His obit- uary can be read at the FSR website, http://www. fsr.org.uk. Flying Saucer Review is now celebrat- ing half a century of publication. The entire FSR archive is now available on a series of CDs at £10.00 each. To obtain these or back copies or to subscribe to this quarterly journal, visit the FSR web- site, http://www.fsr.org.uk, email Lunula9@aol.com or write to FSR Publications Ltd, Post Office Box 585, Rickmansworth, Herts WD3 1YJ, UK. APRIL — MAY 2005 NEXUS = 63 "Looks like they decided to leave the whole Twin Towers site problem to market forces." www.nexusmagazine.com