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# The Hidden Purpose Behind Materialism
- URL: https://seeingbeyond.tech/the-hidden-purpose-behind-materialism/
- Published: 2026-11-11T16:03:32.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-11T16:03:32.000Z
- Description: The entire doctrine of reductionist thinking, from Darwinian concepts to prevailing ideas about health and the purpose of living, is presented to us by those who, I believe, desire to use humanity in ways that are, in fact, diabolical
- Author: Diane T Adams
- Tags: #Threshold Diaries, Threshold Diaries

Very few elites seem to be true materialists. You can judge this by the fact that occult symbolism often accompanies their public actions and words. In fact, they seem to do little without some type of occult overtone or undertone. I think those who run the world, the people whose power extends far beyond money, know full well that the spiritual realm exists. Why, then, do they instruct the masses, using propaganda ranging from television to textbooks, to believe the opposite?

Rudolf Steiner shows us what he believed to be the nefarious purpose behind such elite groups and their obsession with teaching materialism. He said:

“What, then, do such initiates want, those who actually know quite well that the human soul is a purely spiritual being, a spiritual being entirely independent of the physical body, and who nevertheless nurture and cultivate people’s materialistic mindset? These initiates want as many souls as possible to exist who, here between birth and death, absorb only materialistic concepts. In this way, these souls are prepared to remain in the earthly sphere.

“So these materialists are not materialists simply because they do not believe in the spirit; these ‘initiate-materialists’ are not so foolish, they know full well the nature of the spirit, but they cause souls to remain with matter even after death so that they can make use of such souls for their own purposes. Thus, such brotherhoods create a clientele of souls of the dead who remain within the realm of the Earth. These souls of the dead possess inner forces that can be directed in a wide variety of ways; with these forces, one can bring about various effects, thereby achieving very special manifestations of power over those who are not initiated into these matters,” Steiner concluded.

We are truly in a spiritual battle. The entire doctrine of reductionist thinking, from Darwinian concepts to prevailing ideas about health and the purpose of living, is presented to us by those who, I believe, desire to use humanity in ways that are, in fact, diabolical. This demands a response. By using nefarious techniques to pull people's souls away from the natural and necessary progress of understanding and transformation that takes place in the afterlife, these elites have become degenerate and cruel. They have lost their purpose, no longer capable of or willing to perform the task they were given: helping all of humanity reach new levels of development and grow into higher spiritual states. They have become the enemy of themselves and of the human race as a whole.

Later in the same lecture, Steiner describes the remedy we must all embrace if we are to avoid becoming victims of these powerful groups, whom he believed deliberately promoted materialism for their own benefit and to our detriment. He said:

“And in this matter, only those can see clearly who do not allow themselves to be deluded by darkness or obscurity; who do not allow themselves to be led to believe that such secret societies either do not exist at all, or that their activities are harmless. They are by no means harmless; they are very harmful. They want people to continue advancing further and further into materialism. According to the view of such initiates, people are to believe that while spiritual forces do exist, these spiritual forces are nothing other than certain natural forces.”

There are many traps along the road to human development. Reductionism is perhaps the biggest one we face in our time. To avoid it, we must learn to see clearly. And to see clearly, we must study spiritual science, as Steiner taught. To refuse to understand the spiritual nature of our reality and to learn how to interact with it ourselves is to make ourselves vulnerable to deception. We must learn to see beyond the material world, not simply by rejecting materialism, but by learning how to counter it with genuine spiritual understanding.

\*Quotations from Rudolf Steiner, “How Individual Spirit Beings Work in the Human Soul,” GA 178.\*