1998–2001: Threshold Timeline of the New Millennium

This is an esoteric perspective, a viewpoint on the great initiation of the early 21st century: the opening act of a drama where the Ahrimanic and Soratic forces appear not only separately, but in a new alliance.

1998–2001: Threshold Timeline of the New Millennium

1998: The Turning Point

• Steiner indicated the late 20th century (around 1998) as a karmic hinge where forces would rearrange.
• In retrospect, this was the moment before the seal broke: the financial “dot-com” euphoria, the global acceleration of digitalization, and the first shadows of a coming void.
• Esoterically, the Soratic beings — powers of absolute negation and annihilation — began to press closer to human evolution. They become perceptible only when their masks fall.

2000: The Contested Inauguration

• The Bush–Gore election ended in deadlock and a Supreme Court decision. Many sensed an occult displacement: the candidate of earth-consciousness (Gore, with his ecological vision) was blocked, and a dynastic, oil-military clan (Bush/Cheney) was installed.
• In this sense, a path of Perestroika (world openness, ecological concern, post–Cold War détente) was aborted.
• Clinton — despite his flaws — represented a more “humanized” pole, but by 2000 his influence was exhausted. Gore could have carried a different continuity, but was displaced at the very threshold.

2001: The Inauguration of Fear

• Bush sworn in (Jan 20, 2001): With him, the archetype of the unconscious instrument — a man easily overshadowed by stronger powers around him (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz).
• 9/11 (Sept 11, 2001):
  • The Twin Towers (Mammon’s pillars) fell in fire and dust, televised endlessly.
  • The Pentagon (earthly military might) was struck.
  • Building 7 — the hidden intelligence structure — collapsed mysteriously.
  • This triple gesture signaled the “initiation” of humanity into a new matrix of fear, control, and surveillance.

The Spiritual Forces at Work

Ahrimanic Powers

• Calculation, surveillance, digitization, the mechanization of consciousness.
• The Patriot Act, Homeland Security, endless war — all are Ahriman’s architecture of control.

Soratic Powers

• The fire of annihilation, the spectacle of destruction, the initiation through trauma.
• Unlike Ahriman, who wants to bind, the Sorat beings want to consume, to make chaos itself sovereign.
• 9/11 as an apocalyptic sign-act belongs here: fear and spectacle of destruction become a kind of black sacrament.

Alliance of Ahriman & Sorat

• Sorat creates the shock event (spectacle of destruction).
• Ahriman builds the system afterward (control, digitization, endless war).
• Humanity is caught between the two: terror from above, surveillance from below.

Political Archetypes in Contrast

• Gorbachev / Perestroika: gesture of openness, reform, loosening karmic knots. A possible path of healing cut short.
• Clinton: flawed but still operating with a humanized instinct, mediating between worlds.
• Gore: bearer of ecological consciousness, arguably displaced by destiny or manipulation.
• Bush: unconscious vessel, surrounded by initiates of power.
• Blair: the “fiery instrument,” consumed by zeal, almost possessed — unable to resist the current.

The First Quarter of the 21st Century

From 2001 to 2025, humanity has been drawn steadily deeper into the Ahrimanic-Soratic alliance:

• Endless wars and militarization.
• The digitization of every aspect of life.
• Shock events (financial crises, pandemics, environmental disasters) used ritually.
• A culture of fear and division.

But at the same time: revelation. The Soratic beings cannot act without showing themselves. Their exposure is their weakness, and in that exposure the human I can begin to stand upright, perceiving clearly what is at stake.