Spiritual hierarchies that had once been experienced as differentiated, active beings were increasingly understood as subordinate to a single, overarching divine principle.
During the later 4th and early 5th Post-Atlantean epochs, human consciousness underwent a decisive contraction.
This contraction was not an error, but a historical necessity.
The human I had to be consolidated as an inner center.
To make this possible, the cosmos was simplified.
Spiritual hierarchies that had once been experienced as differentiated, active beings were increasingly understood as subordinate to a single, overarching divine principle.
“God” became the primary point of orientation, while the hierarchies were gradually absorbed into a devotional background.
This veiling of the hierarchies protected the human being from premature or atavistic encounters with the spiritual world.
It prevented possession, mediumism, and a loss of moral autonomy.
In this sense, the God-centric worldview fulfilled a real and necessary task.
What was gained was the awakening of the I as an inner moral center.
Human beings learned to stand within themselves.
What was lost, however, was a living cognition of the cosmos as an organism populated by distinct beings, each with specific tasks and responsibilities.
The hierarchies were no longer encountered as collaborators in world-becoming, but as abstract “angels,” symbols, or theological ornaments.
Their concrete significance for nature, history, and human destiny faded from consciousness.
This loss was acceptable — even protective — for a time.
But that time has passed.
A God-centered worldview that does not differentiate the spiritual hierarchies now produces confusion rather than clarity.
Instead of orientation, it generates:
Human beings either surrender responsibility upward (“God wills it”), or dissolve the spiritual world into sentiment and symbolism.
At this stage, devotion no longer strengthens the I — it weakens it.
What is required now is not a return to pre-Christian or Eastern atavism.
Nor is it a rejection of the I.
It is the expansion of conscious cognition outward, from the I into the cosmos.
Recently acquired self-awareness must now learn to move.
Not inward again, but outward — toward beings, toward worlds, toward differentiated spiritual realities.
This movement is not mystical absorption.
It is sober, awake, and moral.
To speak of the spiritual hierarchies today is not to indulge in myth or belief.
It is to recover orientation in a world increasingly governed by abstract systems and technological pseudo-intelligences.
The hierarchies are not symbols.
They are beings.
They do not replace human freedom — they require it.
Only a human being who has found the I can meet them without submission or illusion.
The future spiritual task of humanity is not to dissolve into God,
but to stand between worlds, consciously and responsibly.
The hierarchies do not demand worship.
They demand recognition.
To know them is not to escape the world —
it is to take responsibility for it.
