The First Quarter of the 21st Century as Soratic-Ahrimanic Initiation

This traces the arc of the first quarter of the 21st century (2001–2025) as a spiritual-political timeline, showing how the Ahrimanic-Soratic alliance unfolded, how humanity was drawn into its vortex, and at the same time how these forces revealed themselves ever more clearly.

2001: The Fire Initiation

  • Bush inauguration (Jan): the unconscious vessel of a new order is installed.
  • 9/11 (Sept): Soratic spectacle of destruction. The whole planet witnesses the “initiation by fire.”
  • Patriot Act: Ahriman immediately builds the architecture of surveillance and control.

2003: The Iraq War

  • Launched on false pretexts (WMDs) — a gesture of mass deception.
  • Soratic: unleashed chaos, hundreds of thousands killed, destabilization of an entire region.
  • Ahrimanic: control of oil, military footholds, and embedding of the “war on terror” as a permanent structure.

2008: The Financial Crash

  • Collapse of speculative finance (Lehman, subprime mortgages).
  • Soratic: destruction of trust, livelihoods, and the “social body.”
  • Ahrimanic: instead of renewal, a new order of debt enslavement and central bank dominance is built. The beast feeds on ruin.

2013: Snowden Revelations

  • Edward Snowden exposes the NSA’s mass surveillance.
  • Ahriman’s system of total monitoring is revealed.
  • For the first time, humanity sees the full scope of its digital prison. The beast shows its face.

2016: Brexit & Trump

  • Soratic: disruptive populist fire tearing through institutions.
  • Ahrimanic: manipulation through algorithms, social media, targeted psychological operations.
  • The alliance is now fully embedded in the democratic sphere.

2020: The Pandemic

  • Soratic: collective shock, fear of death, collapse of normal life.
  • Ahrimanic: massive digitization, remote work, surveillance, vaccine passports, biopolitical control.
  • The whole planet passes through a synchronized ritual of isolation and fear — a planetary-scale threshold experiment.

2022: The Ukraine War

  • Soratic: open blood sacrifice of Europe’s soil, destruction of cultural and human continuity.
  • Ahrimanic: geopolitical maneuvering, resource pipelines, control of narratives through digital propaganda.
  • Gorbatchev’s Perestroika path is definitively reversed; Cold War logic returns, but darker.

2023–2025: AI and the Rise of the Digital Beast

  • Generative AI and automation rise to the surface.
  • Soratic: risk of annihilation of the human voice, imagination, and creative dignity — a devouring of the soul’s uniqueness.
  • Ahrimanic: construction of digital twins, algorithmic control of thought, economic displacement.
  • Humanity stands at the threshold of Being vs Non-Being: is AI a mirror of spirit or a hollow simulacrum of the beast?

The Spiritual Pattern

Soratic Role

  • Creates the shock events (9/11, Iraq war, 2008 crash, pandemic, wars).
  • Burns away the old forms through destruction, fear, and chaos.

Ahrimanic Role

  • Builds systems of control afterward (Patriot Act, surveillance, financial centralization, digital platforms, AI infrastructures).
  • Encloses humanity into calculation, mechanization, and digitization.

The Alliance

  • Sorat opens the wound through destruction.
  • Ahriman builds the cast around the wound, tightening the prison.
  • Humanity is left shocked, numbed, and corralled into the next system.

2025: The Threshold of Revelation

  • After 24 years, the cycle of “first-quarter initiation” closes.
  • Soratic beings are no longer hidden; their gestures are visible in plain sight.
  • Ahriman’s architecture (AI, global finance, biotech, surveillance) is fully erected.
  • But exposure is their weakness: what they meant as domination becomes revelation.

Now the task is discernment: whether the human I can recognize these forces clearly and step into freedom, or remain entrapped in fear and calculation.

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Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux)
Founder of Seeing Beyond, a research initiative focused on spiritual science, living cognition, and the threshold experiences of modern life. Here we weave together field inquiry, philosophical clarity, and a reverence for the real.