It is this limiting view of reality that must be overcome. Only then can the true, unaltered logic within the systems—the systems as they should be—be formulated and restored.
We live in a time where humanity is being pulled in two directions at once—seduced upward by Luciferic illusions and hardened downward by Ahrimanic systems.
On one side, Lucifer inflates confidence and appearances. He whispers that there are no limits, that the future is always brighter, that a little more money printing, market speculation, or technological innovation will save us. He builds worlds of promise, detached from the weight of reality. These illusions can feel intoxicating: rising markets, digital lifestyles, grand visions of limitless growth. But they rest on foundations of air.
On the other side, Ahriman waits patiently for collapse. He is not in a hurry. He understands that the more we climb on Lucifer’s bubble, the more catastrophic the fall will be. And in that fall—when people are shocked, destabilized, and desperate—he will be there with solutions: systems that promise order, safety, and stability at the cost of our freedom.
This is not abstract mythology. You can see it in our global economy right now. The financial system has become unmoored from the “real economy” of productive work and grounded value creation. We are drowning in speculation, digital abstractions, and promises of future returns, while the infrastructures and communities that sustain actual life are hollowing out. And the further we drift into these illusions, the more dependent we become on the very systems that are tightening the noose.
The key is to understand how the two forces work together. Lucifer inflates. Ahriman harvests. Lucifer’s bubbles blind us to reality, and when they inevitably burst, Ahriman’s machine offers a cold, rigid refuge. This cycle has repeated many times in history—but rarely has it been as global and all-encompassing as it is now.
This is the stage on which the rest of the drama unfolds. The financial bubbles, the overleveraged markets, the political promises, the technological utopias—they are not simply “mistakes” or “miscalculations.” They are part of a deeper dynamic that drives humanity toward dependence on systems we do not control.
The choice is not to pick one side over the other. Nor is it merely to step out of the cycle altogether by recognizing the illusion for what it is and beginning to build something rooted—hopefully—in living reality. That is one aspect. Another, just as crucial, is to understand the systems from the inside and transform them from within their own inherent logic, a logic that has been distorted by a limiting view of reality.
It is this limiting view of reality that must be overcome. Only then can the true, unaltered logic within the systems—the systems as they should be—be formulated and restored to their rightful form. Today’s economy and institutions are covered and deformed by an all-pervasive flawed worldview. To unmask this view is the first task; otherwise, even the best-intentioned reforms will still contain the old logic, buried and unchallenged. Discerning the flaw and rethinking the systems in their true logic is the work that must be taken up now, before the bubble bursts and the machine closes around us.
