Demons and Healing

Foreword This book is an inquiry into anthroposophical medicine by the Norwegian acupuncturist and veterinarian Are Thoresen.

The central ideas of the book can be summarized as follows: 1)Anthroposophical medicine has to be thought of as part of a cosmic process. The practitioner does not deal with human beings or animals as distinct entities, but as interwoven with greater cosmic forces. 2)The universe is of a spiritual nature, of which the healer is also part. 3)The healer must acknowledge that the forces in the spiritual world are not only good. Evil spirits or demons also exist, and they are more numerous and have a greater significance than commonly acknowledged. 4)In the treatment of diseases, the power of Christ is the most important tool. 5)Finally, because the healer is part of a greater spiritual whole: he is a world healer.

We would see man as embedded in a larger unity of cosmic forces instead of belonging to the disintegrated world that is the inheritance of modern science. This would then give us a better understanding of the phenomenon and significance of human life than the scientific discoveries of the last past 500 years have been able to do. It would also inspire us with hope and confidence in the future of humankind on the planet, instead of leaving us with a feeling of fear and alienation.

Unlike the old philosophy and science, man will not be seen as something independent and self-sufficient, but as an integral part of the processes and forces that govern the cosmos, understood both in its physical and spiritual aspects.

this new philosophy is not only rational, but even more rational than traditional philosophy and science have ever been.

The basic concept in the study of spiritually-caused illness is that of demons.

To understand what demons are, the first step is to acknowledge their spiritual nature. In order to do this, we have to distinguish between good and evil spirits. Generally speaking, spirits can be divided into two classes: those that can connect with the human realm but not influence us without the human being’s conscious free will and, on the other hand, those that are ‘allowed’ to influence humans without the victims’ free will and conscious acceptance.

According to Thoresen, the proper word for demons would be ‘pathological structures of spiritual origin with their own life’. In other words, they are spiritual processes that have a non-benevolent effect upon humans and that can live and behave like independent spiritual beings, i.e. as individual and conscious entities.

spirits of deceased people and the hierarchy of higher spirits, such as the ahrimanic and luciferic beings.

Elemental nature spirits and ordinary nature spirits exist in their own right, without necessarily interfering with human life, and in many cases they do so. However, many of these demons are created by the thoughts and actions of human beings, past or present. They are sustained either by a mysterious force emanating from the depths of the earth (geopathic radiation, an ahrimanic influence) or by the magnetic field of the earth (related to Lucifer). They are always involved in creation of diseases. One of the secrets of these dark forces is that they have no power of their own. They can only feed on the fear and resistance that they initiate. The more we resist them, the more we risk that the demons suck power and strength from us if we do not fight them in the right way.

Thoresen describes a third group, known in ancient times as the azuric demons.

The book deals particularly with the harm caused by the ahrimanic, luciferic and azuric forces and their helpers upon us, how they enter into us, to which part in us they adhere, which diseases they bring and how we can free ourselves from them or treat the diseases. The three groups of pathological structures enter into human beings through the three different spiritual energy fields or auras that surround the human being: •The ahrimanic demons relate to the growth forces or etheric aura. •The luciferic demons relate to the feelings, the astral aura. •The azuric demons relate to the spirit, the ‘I’ organization.

Thoresen writes, ‘If, for example, ahrimanic demons enter into the physical body, they can cause degenerative diseases (calcified articulations, arteriosclerosis, stiff joints and depressions). […] If they enter into the soul, we become bound up with negative emotions such as greed, jealousy or anger. If they enter into the spirit we become confused, depressed and misled on our spiritual path.’ When luciferic spirits enter us, ‘the effect is that we become self-occupied, uninterested in our fellow men, uninterested in the earth’. Further, they can ‘cause us to become obsessed and manic […] or become […] egoistic and self-occupied. In addition, they cause painful conditions like rheumatism, chronic pain, headaches and infections. Hysteria and addictions are diagnoses that would also come under luciferic influence.’ In disease, however, the ahrimanic demons are generally attached to the organ processes of the body whereas the luciferic demons are more attached to the psychic parts of the soul and are therefore connected to psychiatric conditions. As regards the azuric demons, they ‘cause us to lose our higher self, our higher ‘‘I’’, leaving us only with our lower ‘‘I’’, and as such we become too egoistic and get access to alien knowledge that can be detrimental to our human evolution’.

Normally, diseases happen through some wrong way of living (wrong thinking, acting, eating, drinking, feeling, clothing or other mistakes we make in our lives). This creates a deficiency in the etheric part of the organ process (‘either of the heart, the pericardium, the kidneys, the lungs, the spleen or the liver’, writes Thoresen), which causes forces of a subhuman nature (ahrimanic forces) to enter and develop.

This luciferic demon usually incarnates in the astral part of the organ process controlled by the initial deficient process. Over some time, the disease will weaken other organ processes so that a ‘new’ ahrimanic demon will enter. After some time, this new ahrimanic demon will invite a new luciferic demon, which then takes hold of the astral parts of the process. This weakens the etheric part and, after some time, this weakness will open up to an invasion from a third ahrimanic demon, and so on.

The third step in understanding the demonic forces and how they act upon the human being is to gain knowledge of the treatment of the pathological structures that they cause. Treating these structures can be done in different ways. One way is to address one of the two demons, either by weakening the luciferic demon (excessive and symptomatic treatment) or by weakening the ahrimanic demon (deficient treatment).

Another method is to transform the demons. This consists in activating the ‘middle’ process between Ahriman and Lucifer by awakening what Thoresen calls the Christ Consciousness, or Middle Point. It is only when we do this that we can be sure that the pathological structures (the demons) are not translocated but disappear without coming back or being moved to another part of the body or another victim. Thus, in the treatment of diseases, we are in fact dealing with three methods: •Treating the excess, the symptoms, which is Lucifer. •Treating the deficiency, the cause of the excess, which is Ahriman. •Treating the Middle Point, the force which dissolves both Lucifer and Ahriman.

These three ways of treating diseases involve three different soul forces, which the author carefully separates. These forces are thinking, feeling and will. They can be used on their own or in combination.

Quoting Steiner, Thoresen explains that the entanglement of thinking, feeling and will, which are three cosmic and divine forces originating in the spiritual world and not within ourselves, is the main reason why we are anchored in the physical world.

Thoresen writes: The real content, function, power and origin of the three soul forces are hidden from us, as they overshadow each other. We are led to believe that thinking, feeling and will are just faculties developed or produced by ourselves, and forever interdependent. […] It is as if we would believe that the colours are within the eye, created by ourselves, and that the sounds are within the ear, created by the brain. It is the same with thinking, feeling and will.

The separation of thinking, feeling and will can be achieved through knowing their secrets, but also through meditation and concentration. According to the author, this act of separation is of crucial importance to the treatment process, as they constitute three different ways of relating to the diseases. In order to treat the excesses (Lucifer), we use thinking (‘our head, the white light and the rhythms of the head’). To treat the deficiency, we activate our will (‘our digestion and earthy, rhythmic energy’). In order to treat both by dissolving them, we should activate or use only our feeling (‘that is our love, our heart, our sunlight, our inner Christ’).

The Christ Principle is about staying in the middle, between the excess and the deficiency, between Lucifer and Ahriman. Christ, even in his last minutes inside the human body of Jesus, hung in the middle between two robbers: one representing the luciferic (the one that was saved), and the other the ahrimanic sins (the one that was not saved).

Within the Christ Consciousness, we will be experiencing cosmic, divine love and when we are doing so, we will not only be transforming the demons, but we will also free them so that they are ‘healed’. It is important to remember here that divine love is a love that, strictly speaking, is ‘all love’. It does not yield to the attraction of its object. It is not aiming at a particular being. It shoots beyond each being and only reaches the universe by passing through the whole universe.

Therefore, the influences of Ahriman have to do with powers of a much lower nature than the influences of Lucifer. Lucifer’s influences can never become as evil as the influences of Ahriman and of those beings that are connected with the ahrimanic spirits.

The battle will be fought through our thinking, our feeling and our will. ‘If these three abilities of the human soul are taken over by the adversaries, we are lost for eternity as a human race,’ writes Thoresen. ‘Therefore, the time for speaking about demons is ripe; in fact, the time is overripe.’

At the same time, we must understand that it is important to respect demons. They also have their own life and destiny, as Thoresen emphasizes: •Demons want to be transformed into the light. •Demons are trapped in the grip of the adversaries and want to become free. •When we see, hear or sense demons, we need to understand that the mere sensing of the demons gives us some power over them. •Christ and Christ Consciousness have the power to free demons.

Preface

Within both acupuncture and homeopathy, Hering’s law describes how diseases leave the body. For instance, a migraine, which physically may be caused by a pulsating artery upon a local nerve, travels from the head and all along the body, and leaves through the feet. It may be that a disease located deep within the body then slowly travels more and more to the periphery and leaves through the skin.

A disease in the parents may go over to the children and to an animal. I have experienced that a severe disease in a patient may jump over to me, and that I immediately get a strong migraine.

What is the reality behind these observations? How can they be explained? What, actually, is travelling around? What is it that is jumping from one person to another? These are questions that we must ask ourselves, both to understand and to be able to treat a disease. The answer, in my humble opinion, is that the disease is the result of the presence of a noxious or pathological structure, a structure that may travel, jump, dislocate, develop itself, and also change to a former state of development. This pathological structure behaves like an entity. There are two sorts of such pathological beings (yin and yang). When we treat, whether with homeopathy, acupuncture or herbs, there are two possible outcomes from a seemingly successful treatment: either the pathological structure is dissolved or it is translocated.

If we treat the symptoms (which

I will call the excess), even if we treat the cause (which I will call the deficiency), the pathological structure is usually just translocated. We think then that the disease is healed, but it is just hidden or moved.

There is a strong energetic connection between all levels of creation: we are all connected energetically through the existence of the elementals—both the spirits and the demons,

As we will see in this book, this total connection to creation leaves us also vulnerable to invasion by elemental beings. The only way to keep safe and sound is to strengthen the spirit, our own self-consciousness. That is why the most important task of future spirituality is to strengthen the ‘I’ or Ego-function of man. That is, the cosmic and divine Ego-function, not the egoistic ‘I’.

Margit Engel expresses likewise: ‘Healing is only possible if you activate your courage.’ And by ‘courage’ she meant ‘will-intention-consciousness’.

Throughout my life, my professional life in particular, I have been able to observe diseases both through pulse diagnosis and by seeing the distorted and pathological energetic structures directly with the help of an elevated sensitivity.

I want to shed a conscious light on the fact that, when treated, diseases caused by energetic and self-containing structures may influence or ‘attack’ other beings, change, or just come back. This description of diseases sounds a lot like descriptions of real and living entities.

There are many stories and insights from olden times and old religions, where disease and ailments were regarded as separate and individualized entities, or energetically self-conscious structures, described as elementals, spirits, demons or devas.

We are all interwoven in an enormous web of energy, a web that connects all living entities in the world, maybe the whole cosmos. This web is to be seen just on the other side of the threshold of the spiritual world. It is called by many names, such as the akashic record, karma or the matrix. This web is made of energy, but not just lifeless and aimless energy. It is made up of elementals: living etheric beings, created by our minds, our thoughts and our actions. This web is also part of our diseases and is influenced when we treat energetically.

There is a moving story about Jesus, told by Rudolf Steiner in his lecture cycle The Fifth Gospel: When in his 20s, he visited one of the Essene communities. He realized that the sculptures around the door scared or drove the evil spirits away, but then a very important question arose in his mind; to where were the spirits driven? Then he understood that it was no solution just to drive the bad spirits away to other people, to save somebody at the cost of creating disease in others. This question and realization opened his mind to be the receiver of the Christ, the redeemer of all.

legal justification for its aim of healing the individual, but this justification really consists in the claim that there are no diseases; there are only sick, diseased people! Now, this justification would be valid ifpatients were really so isolated regarding their sickness, as appears to be the case today. But in actual fact, individual patients are not so isolated.

We often see that etheric weaknesses in the owner manifest in the animal attached to him or her.

A nervous, irritable owner often has nervous, irritable animals.

To do so it is also important to meet, in treating the disease, the cause of the disease in its karmic consequences, described by Rudolf Steiner as ‘meeting the three animals of the abyss’. These three animals shine out their dirty and twisted light: blue, red and yellow, the distorted thinking, feeling and will.

Introduction

was not until I reached the age of 21 that I was told by an anthroposophical doctor, ‘You know that it is not normal to be able to see through hands?’

Suddenly, one evening, in the light Norwegian summer night, a stone jumped over the trail I was following, and then, for three days, I could speak (as a dialogue) with the trees. And speak with them I did, something that gave me much of the material to my book, Poppel—Poplar— Pappel.

When I came into the room, I saw a ‘structure’, half out of the friend’s left skull and half still within the head. It was like a spiral or a curled snake. She told me that she was suffering a painful migraine. I went towards this woman and took hold of the energetic ‘structure’ with my hand. I pulled it halfway out, and the woman said that the pain diminished. Then I let go of the ‘structure’, and it slipped immediately back into her head. ‘Ow,’ she said, ‘now the pain has come back!’ Again, I grabbed hold of the ‘structure’ and pulled it all the way out. The migraine totally disappeared. I was now very careful with what I did to the ‘structure’ that I held in my hand. I went to the open window and threw it out. It did not return.

In the following years, in fact until the present, I have asked myself repeatedly, ‘What was that structure, from where had it come and where did it go after I threw it out of the window? Did it come back?’ These questions became very important for me. The answers to them are essential for understanding the existence of demons and their part in disease.

One day at his office, a corona suddenly appeared around his head, emitting a strong light and almost blinding me. In this light there was a date, and I knew intuitively that this was the date of his death. It was eleven months in the future. He died exactly on that day.

This experience brought several new questions to my mind. •Is our day of death destined?

Is destiny real? •What is karma?

Anyhow, I then performed a ritual isolating the whole barn from evil. After that, no more cows died.

As a medically-trained person, I knew that migraine is caused by a pulsating artery that affects a nerve in the head, so this moving around appeared quite strange to me, quite inexplicable. I then had to pose the very important question to myself: ‘What is it that travels from the brain into the little finger and remains there?’

In my practice, as well as in the practices of all my colleagues, I became painfully aware that we all merely translocated the noxious structure, the symptoms, and for this we received money!

became progressively aware that these structures, these symptoms, could not be fought—they had to be transformed. The question is, how can we transform something that is a living entity? I then started to treat these noxious structures in my work with acupuncture as if they really were living entities. I did not fight them anymore.

The ‘something’ was stuck in her heart, where it tried to make its new home. So, what is this ‘something’? As we will see throughout this book, this ‘something’ lives and behaves as an individual and conscious entity and is no less than a demon.

I could have described the entities as pathological or noxious structures with qualities of either Yin or Yang and with their own life, but this would not have been honest. I prefer to call them by their old name, demons.

The ‘pathological or noxious structure of Yin quality with its own life’ I call an ahrimanic demon. •The ‘pathological or noxious structure of Yang quality with its own life’ I call a luciferic demon.

Human thoughts and misdeeds, past or present, create these demons. Geopathic radiation, a mysterious force emanating from the depths of the earth, sustains the demons, which always trigger disease if they attach to a human or animal.

The people who started the Icelandic Elf School (Bryndis Pétursdóttir) or the Norwegian Angel School (Princess Martha Louise) are ridiculed by the ‘enlightened’ population and are considered by most people to be crazy.

We can see or sense these spiritual beings (good and evil) only by our sixth sense—our ‘third eye’ or our ‘spiritual heart eye’. Firstly, there are elemental beings inhabiting the Water, Air, Earth and Fire. They are everywhere and in the entirety of nature. They are the spiritual basis of all that we see around us. Then we have the ‘group souls’ of the plants, the ‘plant souls’. They are often described as ‘flower fairies’. Every single flower has its fairy. Likewise, every single tree has its own spirit. Animals also have their ‘fairies’, although this word may not so easily be used in connection with animals, as the elemental beings connected with them may often look ugly and not at all fairy-like. Crystals in nature also have spirits connected to them, hovering over them. Then, there are myriads of spirits connected to the so-called ‘earth radiation’, the energetic grid of the Earth (much more on this later). They are created by human thoughts, by human feelings and by human actions. They are closely connected to what is known as human karma. These spirits are bound to the people that created them as well as to the places where they were created.

The main groups of spirits and demons in my worldview Sub-Nature Spirits: The elemental realm (consisting of the totality of the Earth and cosmos) various beings (spirits, which I am not personally able to classify) demonic beings.

The elemental realm (what the elements consist of in their foundation) various beings (spirits) demonic beings.

The elemental realm (entities that we usually see in nature) various beings (spirits): gnomes sylphs undines salamanders demonic beings (demons): gnomes sylphs undines salamanders.

Ordinary Nature Spirits: crystal spirits (living in rocks) in ‘ordinary’ crystals = spirits in toxic crystals = (resemble demonic beings) plant spirits (living in plants) in ‘ordinary’ plants in poisonous plants (resemble demonic beings) animal spirits (animal group souls—relates to astral spirits and can be both demonic and spiritual).

Human Spirits: human souls between death and a new (re)birth

Nine Hierarchies of Angels: 9th hierarchy Angels demons of the rank of Angels

8th hierarchy Archangels demons of the rank of Archangels

7th hierarchy Archai demons of the rank of Archai 6th hierarchy—Exusiai 5th hierarchy—Dynamis 4th hierarchy—Kyriotetes 3rd hierarchy—Thrones 2nd hierarchy—Cherubim 1st hierarchy—Seraphim

(To my knowledge, there are no demons equal to the ranks of angels of the 1st to 6th hierarchies.)

They do not enter us with force and nor do they intrude upon us without our permission; rather, they respect our free will. Demonic entities are different, however. They are not beneficial to our spiritual development as conscious ‘I’ beings. They do not give us free choice; rather, they seek to impose their will upon us.

Directly attached to humans themselves (although not via the earth’s radiation), we find spirits of a higher rank than the spirits of ‘earth radiation/karma’. They are mostly ahrimanic or luciferic elementals. These elementals are necessary for our wellbeing and development.

A special spirit called the Death Spirit lingers behind every human. The distance between the physical body and the Death Spirit indicates the length of remaining life in the physical realm. The ahrimanic entity called the ‘doppelgänger’ or ‘double’ is of special importance. Oscar Wilde described this entity in his book, The Picture of Dorian Grey. Dostoyevsky also described it in his book, The Double. Rudolf Steiner described the doppelgänger as the most important ahrimanic entity or spirit connected to our body. It is responsible for our wellbeing and our disease. If we live a destructive life, the ahrimanic doppelgänger becomes more and more demonic in character.

Steiner was then 38 years of age, and the experience of meeting the Christ occurred after a tremendous inner struggle. To use Steiner’s own words, the ‘experience culminated in my standing in the spiritual presence of the Mystery of Golgotha in a most profound and solemn festival of knowledge’.

Illnesses that appear spontaneously from within the human being come, not through outer injuries, not from the human soul: they come from this being. He is the creator of all illnesses that emerge spontaneously from within; he is the creator of all organic illnesses.

For certain things need to happen, things that may even be harmful in a certain direction, because the human being must be exposed to what is harmful in order to overcome it and thereby gain strength.

The spirit/soul of dead people may also hover over living humans, waiting to enter whilst their alcoholic host is drinking alcohol, their drug-user host is taking drugs or sex-addict host is having sex. They are like parasites and may cause prominent changes in personality and create severe cravings.

He had always been unlucky in his life, unlucky with health, with love, with cars, with work and even with mundane things like light bulbs, which in his house had a considerably shorter lifespan than in other houses. I saw a huge demon lingering in his presence and I advised him to become friends with it. This is his story:

Why do some people ‘see’ such spiritual beings whilst others do not?

I use the word ‘see’, although this is not the correct expression for everybody. Some may feel, some may hear and some may taste, even smell, the spiritual world and its spirits. However, for most it is equal to seeing. The word ‘see’ is not even correct for those who really can see in the spiritual realm. We do not ‘see’ with our physical eyes, but with our spiritual eyes. However, as the impression is quite close to the experience of seeing, I will continue to call it ‘seeing’.

Other ‘divisions’ within our spiritual body may also be made in order to obtain clairvoyance, such as the division between the physical/etheric bodies and the astral body and the conscious ‘I’ function. This happens normally during sleep but can also be performed consciously.

However strange and paradoxical it may sound, it is true that if a person could reproduce a condition which on the one hand resembles sleep and yet is essentially different from it, he could reach supersensible knowledge. His condition would resemble sleep in not depending on any external stimulus; the difference would be that he would not sink into unconsciousness but would unfold a vivid inner life.

The separation of thinking, feeling and will Rudolf Steiner said that the entanglement of thinking, feeling and will, which are three cosmic and divine forces originating in the spiritual world and not within ourselves, is the main reason why we are anchored in this physical world.

Modern science would have us believe that thinking, feeling and will are just faculties developed or produced by ourselves, and forever interdependent. This is a serious mistake that keeps us in ignorance, in maya (or illusion). This is what the characters Morpheus and Neo in the film The Matrix call ‘the matrix’. It is what we may call the ‘greater illusion’.

The next thing was that width also lost meaning and height disappeared from my consciousness. I felt like I was floating in space, without any dimensions. Then time disappeared. I had no idea in myself how long these instances lasted,

However, the knowledge of how to separate distance, height, width and time remained. Consequently, I retained the ability of separating thinking, feeling and will. I use this method successfully every time I want to observe energy patterns in patients, trauma within the body or to perceive elemental beings, such as elves, gnomes or demons.

Pulse diagnosis When I started to teach pulse diagnosis to my students, I thought that it would be easy for them to monitor the pulse-diagnostic patterns in patients. I thought it was just a simple technique. Great then was my surprise when very few were able to master this technique. Why was that? They did not master pulse diagnosis because they did not enter the spiritual world before monitoring the pulse. After many years, I understood that the preparations for entering the spiritual world, before taking the pulse, was the most important aspect of it. One has to separate feeling, thinking and will to be able to enter the spiritual world and make a proper pulse diagnosis.

Then I ‘mingle’ the feeling, the consciousness of the heart, the awareness of the blood and the sensitivity of the fingertips to enter the proper pulse diagnosis.

After using pulse diagnosis for 29 years, I realized (in 2009) that the spiritual development I had experienced through using this technique every day had clear and distinct parallels to Rudolf Steiner’s description of the path that a spiritual disciple must walk.

My observations also became enlarged, from just an intellectual observation to an immediate knowledge of the past, present and future of the observation in question. In addition, the direction of the observation, now having become knowledge, also changed. In the beginning, the direction of the information streamed from the patient to me, but then it started to go both ways, as if the patient also received treatment at the same time that I was diagnosing.

I found Steiner’s description of the development of Inspiration, for example in his book Occult Science: An Outline.

The essential technique or tool to enter the spiritual world, as emphasized above, is to separate thinking, feeling and will. Alternatively, we must separate the dimensions of the physical world into height, width, depth and time. As feeling is related to depth, the easiest and best way is to start by separating depth from width and height. This is done by a kind of day-dreaming, when you merge or wander into the wide expanses of the surroundings. Many experience this state of mind during boring lectures or conversations, when you suddenly fade away and do not really hear what is being said. We must, to enter the spiritual world, develop this art of’ fading away’. Then thinking and will are left behind, and we just float away. We do not think as ‘intelligently’ as before, and we are unable to ‘will’ anything. We feel a slight change in the hearing, similar to tinnitus, and the colours of the landscape change a little; a slight turning towards violet. In the Elf School of Reykjavik, Iceland, the teachers use this technique when they prepare to speak with the elves. The students have to fade away into the landscape, i.e., excarnate (go out of the body) slightly. Then the landscape turns somewhat purple, after which the elves appear. Then we are in the spiritual world.

We must know that the laws in the physical world and the spiritual world differ completely. •In the physical world, we are bound to the dimensions of space and time, which are interconnected. In the spiritual world this is not so. Time and the three dimensions (length, width and height) are not linked. We can be present in pure thinking, pure feeling and pure will, or in pure time. •When we then concentrate on a patient, we are within that patient, no matter how far away the patient is. •When we go back in time, as described later, we are in the past. Time is not absolute.

How to enter the spiritual world and observe the demons, fairies, elementals and other beings that reside there

1.Feel reverence and respect for the physical world. First, we must observe the physical world in as detailed a way as possible, and to feel respect for this world. 2.Feel the darkness of the physical world. We must understand within ourselves that our spirit is not explicable by this world. The spiritual world cannot be found in the physical world. The physical world is ‘darkness’ in relation to the spirit.

3.Know yourself as a spiritual being consisting of interconnected thinking, feeling and will. We have to feel or understand that in the physical world our thinking, feeling and will are interwoven, are co-dependent. When we think of something, this will immediately influence our feelings and this again will influence what we will.

4.Accept that as a spiritual being you are different from the physical world. At this stage we must feel that we, as spiritual beings, are separated from the physical world. We should feel as if we are alien to this physical world, as if we have been misplaced, as if we are from somewhere else.

5.Separate the thinking, feeling and will, and let each go their own way. Then we have to fade into the distance, as sometimes happens when we are tired and weary. After a short while, we begin to fade into the surroundings and the words we hear become distant and fuzzy. That is the point we enter into the spiritual world, as our thinking, feeling and will start to separate.

6.By following each of the three soul faculties, we can enter three different areas of the spirit world.

Here it must be emphasized that without a proper training in controlling each of the three soul faculties we are not able to follow them into the spiritual world. In this respect, many ‘spiritual travellers’ are under a kind of illusion. We have to know ourselves in relation to our thinking, feeling and will in order to be able to travel with them in the spirit land.

7.Observe all the beings of the spiritual world.

The entities are often of three different colours: blue, red and yellow (relating to the three soul faculties: blue = thinking, yellow = feeling and red = will). We can also observe a multitude of other beings.

8.Turn around to see the physical world. At this point, we must ‘turn around’ to observe the physical world that we have just left. We have to do this to ‘check’ that the splitting of the thinking, feeling and will is stable, i.e. is semi-permanent.

9.Combine thinking and will (lower abdomen), will and thinking (shoulder area) or will and feeling (heart and arms). If we are able to keep the thinking, feeling and will separated whilst looking back at the physical world, we are also able to use our thinking, feeling and will in travelling into the spirit land. We can thus place them together in any combination we want.

The first indication that separation is occurring is that the surroundings grow a little darker, as when the sun is covered by clouds.

In addition, I see clearly that the thoughts are not really mine. The thoughts become isolated. I feel no emotions even if I think of pleasant things. Then feelings also become isolated. The feelings do not penetrate the body as before and become simple feelings. They do not involve any kind of will. The will also becomes isolated and seems to be of a higher and nobler character, not coloured by my personal desires or wishes. If I go into each of these three soul faculties, I can experience each of them without interference from the others. Seldom have I experienced total division of the three soul forces, but in such moments, thinking, feeling and will become luminescent, almost cosmic.

only felt a strange feeling of being invaded by fire. I was transported immediately to another realm of existence.

I was thrown into a state of complete and total communication with the entire cosmos, on all levels. The thoughts were crystal clear, able to understand everything. The feelings were totally transparent, encompassing all and everything in a love so deep and warm I never thought was possible. The will was as if I could reach the highest mountaintop and overcome the most difficult task. Eventually I came out of this experience and slipped back into the ordinary world, exhilarated and dazed at the totality of such a cosmic experience.

This is described in my book, Forgotten Mysteries of Atlantis, CreateSpace 2015.

Chapter One Are Demons Real?—Personal Experiences

Are demons real, or are they just what could be characterized as ‘bad energies’, subconscious pathological patterns, neuroses, psychoses, hallucinations or any other inventions of the mind?

These structures do have a conscious life; therefore, I will call them demons. In addition, I have seen these entities more or less throughout my whole life.

There is a law in the spiritual world that nothing is lost, it just transforms. Abilities that have been lost always reappear.

program. I do not see the death date as such now. The date is ‘material based’ and is an illusion. Now I see death itself in the form of a demon, spirit or an elemental being, and I can see how close death is to the physical body. The further away it is, the longer the time before death; the closer it is, the nearer death is.

How to perceive spiritual beings

We have to see spiritual beings in a ‘knowing-and-wanting-to-see’ way. We must want to see the elves, that we already know of, before they appear in front of our eyes (after we have separated our thinking, feeling and will, of course).

We go further and further in seeing and understanding each time we enter the spiritual world. However, sometimes spiritual vision is so vital and strong that it is difficult to tell if we see with our spiritual or with our physical sense organs. The more important the message brought forward by the spiritual world, the more ‘physical’ the image becomes.

Then something totally unexpected and unbelievable happened. A huge hand appeared out of the sea, coming up from the depths. The water was running down its skin and seaweed was hanging from its fingers. It was a totally real and physical hand, apart from the fact that it was around eight to ten metres high. No upper arm was to be seen, no body, no head, no face, just this enormous hand. Then the hand started slowly to beckon me, as if it wanted me to follow, asking me to come down into the depths of the ocean. I was well acquainted with old Scandinavian folklore and immediately understood that it was the ‘Hand of Draugen’, calling me to my death by drowning. (In Norse mythology, ‘Draugen’ is the malevolent ghost of a sailor who drowned at sea. The ghost tries to lure other sailors to their deaths). In a flash, I instantly realized my predicament and, without hesitation or fear, made a quick decision.

Experiences as a veterinarian Most animal owners and veterinarians, including myself, have observed that pet dogs and cats often seem to ‘take over’ the diseases of their owners. If you master pulse diagnosis, you will see that most of the diseases in domesticated animals such as cows, horses, sheep and all pets originate in man, in the human being.

The astral bodies of all humans do influence each other and the animals attached to them. However, the pathological influence is mediated through luciferic demonic elementals.

However, the pathological influence is also mediated here through elemental beings of an ahrimanic and demonic character. I realized that it was the demon of the disease that multiplied and spread.

The main demon of the disease multiplies and divides to infect all those that have a weakness in one of their energetic bodies (etheric, astral or ‘I’), through which the demon may enter. If there are no weaknesses, the person in question does not get the disease. The demon multiplies, especially if it is partially driven out with the help of allopathic remedies or symptomatic treatment. After a while, it returns to the original person, multiplies and influences other members of the household and the animals they are attached to.

This ‘driving out and multiplying’ is described in detail in the Bible, for example in Matthew 12: 43—45, where it says: When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So, shall it also be with this wicked generation.

Jesus asked him, ‘What is your name?’ He said, ‘Legion’, because many demons had entered him. And they begged Him not to command them to go out into the abyss. There was a large herd of swine feeding on the mountain. They begged Him to permit them to enter them, and He permitted them. Then the demons went out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd ran violently down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.

What happens when ahrimanic and luciferic demons ‘enter’ the human body (or when ordinary elementals are transformed to demonic ones)

If they enter into the soul, we become bound-up with cold emotions, interested in money and adapt an ignorant perspective on life, especially towards other people’s sufferings. If they enter into the spirit we become ignorant towards the spiritual world, atheistic, hostile and in denial of religious belief. Ahrimanic elementals that enter the demonic realm cause us to be without empathy (think of our present-day governments, or the ‘big pharma’ industry), showing extreme intelligence and an over-interest in ‘artificial intelligence’.

Luciferic elementals that enter the demonic realm cause us to become obsessed and manic (think of crazy football fans or ‘Black Friday’ shoppers) or become swept-away artistically (producing art that has nothing to do with reality), egoistic and self-occupied. In addition, they cause painful conditions such as rheumatism, chronic pain, headaches and infections. Hysteria and addictions are diagnoses that would also come under luciferic influence.

Meetings with the icelandic elves and the ‘hidden people’

As these three forces of the cosmos also are responsible for all-natural laws, the red elves are connected to gravity as gravity is derived from cosmic will. The red elves are therefore heavier than the others. There are elves of all sizes. Some are as big as humans, some as small as tiny flowers. The ‘hidden people’ are mostly like human beings, although some families look more like older human species, such as the Neanderthals. The elves are dressed in colours but the ‘hidden people’ are dressed in grey clothes, mostly in fashion of around two hundred years ago. These entities talk to you in Imaginations, not human words. Rudolf Steiner says that they have no incarnated ‘I’ and that their physical body is in the astral world with their consciousness in the physical world (that is, in our world).

As a consequence of this split, the material world became like a mirror image, a reflection of the etheric. That is why humans always see the etheric phenomena as if turned the other way around, as in a mirror. However, it is really the material world that is the ‘wrong way around’, as it were.

Both elves and humans are trapped in their own worlds: elves in the etheric realm and humans in the material realm. The only way to redemption and liberation for both sides is for humans to spiritualize all powers and forces within their thinking, feeling and will, so that both sides or…

The whole cosmos is thus dependent of the spiritualization of man. To be able to do this, Christ is absolutely necessary. This future is not possible without the help and sacrifice which Christ made on Golgotha. This act helps man to create a new spiritual centre in the body, a new chakra; not the old one, related to the spinal uprising stream and neither the one in front of the heart, but the one just below and behind the heart, which can be reached only by passing the heart and then turning back. This is the great…

We experience the same thing when we die. Our interior becomes the whole cosmos and the whole cosmos becomes our interior. That the cosmos appears endless is therefore an illusion of the material world. This illusion of endlessness is created by the fact that both the etheric and the physical cosmos are created or organized as a mixture of fractals, holistic constructions and a hall of mirrors, both in themselves and between each other. There are two areas of this fractal world that differ, according to the elves: the luciferic area, where all mirrors…

The ever-increasing materialism of humanity in general, and the astonishing egoism of tourists in particular, attracts and creates these beings, which…

A shamanistic approach

While he was doing his ritual, several of the Norwegian elemental nature spirits had emerged from the forest and stood around the circle of participants. The elementals look very much like goblins, forest goblins’ or ‘skog nisser’, as they are called in Norwegian language and tradition.

A huge anaconda appeared. I was actually a bit frightened, but after reminding myself that this was all in the realm of the spiritual, I relaxed. The anaconda curled around the whole circle, thrilled by the ritual of the South American shaman. But then something unexpected

happened. When the Norwegian goblins, the ‘skog-nisser,’ saw the anaconda they were very frightened and retreated into the forest. They simply disappeared.†

Example 2 The second instance occurred when Anette Høst, a Danish shaman, demonstrated ‘seiðr’. This is an old method of coaxing elemental spirits to work for you.

How to hinder demons from entering us

Follow the Eightfold Path of Buddha This concerns the teaching of Buddha to his disciples to develop the right view, the right resolve, the right word, the right action, the right standpoint, the right effort, the right remembrance and the right contemplation. If followed, he said, it would gradually lead to the extinction of the thirst for existence with its attendant suffering and impart to the soul something that brings liberation from elements from past lives that enslave it.

Develop a strong consciousness of the self, of the ‘I AM’ The consciousness of the ‘I AM’ is the light that leads us out of error and corruption, the light that enables us to find our way past both the ahrimanic and the luciferic demons.

Chapter Two How are Demons Created? Earth Radiation

Demons can be divided into two groups, according to when and how they are created: 1.Demons created by human actions. 2.Demons existing from earlier cosmic development. I find it extremely difficult to make a differentiation between these two groups as they appear equal, although I know that they are different.

Then a huge and dark shadow slowly engulfed him, and he sank into a dark mood. This dark mood that descended upon him was the cause of his repeated depression, and was caused by this huge, dark demon. I tried to ask the demon from whence it came, but it would not answer. I continued to ask the entity how old it was, and finally it responded that it had been created by a dark action committed by my friend’s grandfather. The action had to do with an act of low morality.

The next step would be to find out what this was, and then ask for forgiveness. If this is performed properly, the demon would disperse and vanish, having been freed and transformed. We must not just push the demon away. It wants to be transformed.

Demons and earth radiation

Since 1972, I have been investigating so-called ley lines and earth grids, also called earth radiation—especially since 2004, when I have been able to see this matrix of energ. This energy is spiritual energy, because as yet no one has been able to prove its existence using electronic instruments or other kinds of devices. It can be detected only by living beings. I am aware that there is also a huge grid of electromagnetic energy that causes disease in living beings, especially that which is emitted by high-voltage installations and cell phones. This is something I will come back to later, but here I will write about the ‘energetic grid’, which has a spiritual origin. This spiritual energy is an emanation from the demonic layers of the earth itself. It is also, at the same time, an expression of the ahrimanic entities created by human misdeeds from all times. This ‘spiritual substance’ is thus both the demonic entities themselves and a kind of fuel or food for the ahrimanic entities, including ‘the doppelgänger’. This emanation fuels the karmic demons and causes disease, especially if one sleeps above such radiation or is connected to it.

The radiation then changes in some way, so that the dowsers have to come back once a month or so. My conclusion from these observations is that this matrix or grid of earth radiation is changeable: it is alive and it has its own intent. The next level of my observations is as follows: I have discovered that the lines of earth radiation not only change, but also move several metres by themselves, especially if someone tries to alter, disperse or stop them. Then I made the astonishing observation that they could also be moved by my own will and intent. I started to demonstrate this to dowsers. During a congress, I moved a ley line so fast that many of the participants felt it like a soft wind that swept through the room. I perform this moving of the earth radiation according to the following method: First, I have to ‘see’ the energetic lines After seeing the energy, I hold it with my will power, just as we may hold a naughty child when we want attention or when we want the child to act a certain way. Then I move the energies by willpower and intent to another place. They follow my command and move.

I stood watching from a distance. Just before she was ready to demonstrate the presence and effect of the lines to the group, I moved all the lines away. Then I waited for the results. She started to look for the lines, but she could not find any. She became very frustrated. Then I knew that my vision and actions were objective. This led me to understand that the ‘earth radiation lines’ were living entities that could be manipulated by my will, which means through the spirit. For years, I investigated the ‘black snakes’ that I saw in nature. One peculiarity regarding them was that they opened my mind to time itself. They did not only

stream between trees and other living entities, but they also streamed between past and present and between present and future. I discovered that I could travel ‘inside’ them to the past (always towards the left) or into the future (always to the right). If we do not enter the ‘snakes…

When I travel within them into the past or the future, it must rather be described as if the past or the future comes towards me. When the past comes into my consciousness, it is like an encounter with an ahrimanic demon or spirit. When the future comes into my consciousness, it is like an…

When I travel inside these streams into the past, I experience strange and changing plant-forms—plant-forms that have not been seen for millions of years. With this travelling technique, I can investigate…

I opened my physical eyes wide open, but still I could not see the present. I was really stuck in the past. I saw, with open eyes, the dinosaurs walking past me, just as if I was…

I tried several methods to come back to the present time but was totally unable to do so. After a long while I managed to come back,…

Then I started to understand how this darker grid or matrix of ‘snakes’ is created. They are all caused by the evil or egoistic deeds of humans and fed by the upward streaming forces of the deeper layers of the Earth. If the human being that created any…

period, it may cause disease or discomfort in other humans or animals that happen to sleep or live where the lines are. In a later life, when the maker of the line is reincarnated, the spirit of this reincarnated human is drawn to the site where the line awaits. When he or she then comes again to the area of past sin, the grid-lines (demons) attach to the human who then remembers the past deeds. It is known within criminology that the perpetrator always returns to the scene of the crime. If they are benevolent, the lines are elementals. If they are malevolent, they are demons, although both…

The whole world is full of these demons, these demonic grids, fed by the upward streaming of ahrimanic forces from the depths. They are of many kinds and appearances. Some are made by greed, some from anger, murder, violence, jealousy, pain or sorrow. In the Old Norse book Edda† a similar structure or phenomenon is described, relating to the Norns.‡ The Old Vikings ‘saw’ that when a child was born, a ‘web’ was waiting for it. Three women connected the child to this web, which was the karma of the little child. The names of the three women were Past, Present and Future (Vilje, Ve and Verdande). The Norns also had a scissor to cut the thread when…

I saw how the actions of man created or attracted the snakes/demons, and how these demons created…

Summary •All our actions conducted through passions such as greed, hate, jealousy and anger, create luciferic demons. •All deeds done with the help of machines, cold thoughts, slaughterhouses or cutting down trees, create ahrimanic demons. •All deeds that betray the truth, lead people astray or try to convert people to religions create azuric demons.

We may say that demons of a lower rank than humans, especially those of the three elemental regions, are created by man.

There are, as we now understand, many different kinds of earth radiation: 1.Electromagnetic radiation from the earth itself (radiation from the development of the earth). 2.Radiation from the nine (of twelve) layers of the earth (see page 84), mainly of ahrimanic influence. 3.Electromagnetic radiation created by human technology (high voltage pylons or mobile phones). 4.Spiritual radiation, from actions committed at the place where the radiation is found (usually called ‘geopathic radiation’), caused mainly by ahrimanic demons. This has a huge influence in the creation of disease. 5.Spiritual radiation (both luciferic and ahrimanic demons) that follows the individual human being. This causes disease, mainly for the person in question. 6.Radiation from the cosmos (from higher beings of many kinds, among other demonic, angelic or planetary beings).

The obvious and detectable effects of earth radiation

Several Native American cultures have the same rules. If a tent was to be put up or a camp built, one should first sit down and talk with the spirits about whether it was the right place or not. This practice can be found especially among the Hopi Indians in America. We find the same tradition in India, where it is of great importance to find the right place to put a bed. Several woodcarvings from fourteenth–sixteenth century show diviners (branch bearers) searching for earth radiation of various kinds.

The electromagnetic field of the earth itself is related to the cooperation (electric = ahrimanic, magnetic = luciferic) of both ahrimanic and luciferic demons that have become physical. •Over millions of years, our biorhythms have developed in the earth’s fluctuating electromagnetic fields (earth radiation) and are dependent on these fields. We are in fact dependent on the existence of both Ahriman and Lucifer to develop as human beings in full freedom. •Illness occurs both when the physical earth radiation, especially man-made earth radiation, is too strong. Degenerative diseases will then develop when the ahrimanic demons are the strongest, and infectious diseases when the luciferic demons predominate.

Environmental earth radiation includes electric fields, radio, TV, laptops, computers, equipment that uses microwaves, high frequency radiation such as alpha, beta and gamma radiation, cosmic radiation and other types of geopathic radiation. All these forms of radiation affect us. We meet these influences in our everyday life as sound, light and other electromagnetic and spiritual radiation. Our five senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell) normally do not perceive such forms of radiation, but our sixth sense, or dowsing, can sense them.

That is why we cannot predict which person or animal will develop disorders, which places will manifest the disorders, or which specific disorders will arise. However, despite that, it is very important that we can diagnose the cause.

1.The strength and virulence of the demons behind the electric, magnetic or spiritual radiation present at any given site. 2.The vulnerability of the three auras that surround us: the etheric, the astral and the consciousness (‘I’) auras. Many people who are especially sensitive to earth radiation have ‘holes’ in their auras, through which the demonic influences may enter (and leave).

These must be ‘closed’ if they should have any chance of regaining normal health. This closure may be brought about mainly through understanding the cause of the hole, which may be a former trauma, misuse of drugs or immoral/wrong thought-forms, but it can also be done by physical means such as wrappings of wool or turf.

As far as possible, we should: •Avoid strong artificial radiation from mobile telephones, high-voltage cables and transformers and electric equipment, etc. •Avoid strong geopathic radiation, especially that which occurs over crossing aquifers or other strong geopathic radiation relating to earlier misdeeds carried out on that particular spot.

It is most important not to try to explain disease as due to viruses or bacteria per se, but rather by stress-induced immunosuppression, i.e., by a reduction of the host’s resistance to these organisms. Immunosuppression occurs when we are exposed to excessive earth radiation over a long period of time, i.e., geopathic radiation, electric installations, TV or heating cables in the floor, etc. Geopathic stress can cause lightning to strike trees. Like the flow of electricity, lightning bolts seek the paths of least resistance through the air. The exact places where they hit the ground are not random; they are places where electrical resistance is lowest, i.e., where conductivity is highest.

I have often observed that people bitten by mosquitoes are bitten at the exact acupuncture-point that needs treatment, i.e. at the pathological point. For me, this all confirms the relationship of insects to the pathological ahrimanic earth radiation, associated diseases and the Eighth Sphere. Insects are attracted by disease, especially those of ahrimanic demons.

What is the Eighth Sphere?

For those who know the concept it is quite frightening. It is the sphere where all ahrimanic deeds, thoughts and concepts materialize in a separate physical planet, which in the far future will be left behind by the common development of the universe and of human kind. It is where deeds done without soul or consciousness will end. It seems to me also to be a place where all our experiences with synthetic drugs, synthetic additives, pharmaceutical medicines or artificial food will take us. In addition, our work and pre-occupation within the field of computer technology—machines without soul—discussions on social media, conversations through emails and all lifeless computer interactions where the soul cannot enter, will end up in the Eighth Sphere.

To present this correctly, the Eighth Sphere belongs to our physical earth. We are surrounded everywhere by ‘Imaginations’ into which mineral materiality is continually drawn. Its substance is far denser than the other mineralized substances. Its density is of a more physical-mineral character than exists anywhere on the earth. Hence, Lucifer and Ahriman cannot dissolve it away into their world of Imaginations. This sphere circles around us as a globe of dense matter, solid and indestructible.

There is increasing evidence, however, that the geopathic radiation is created by the activities of humans themselves. For example, traditional dowsers believed that nearly all of the old church sites were built upon or were in strict relation to ley lines or other patterns of geopathic radiation. The same was also found in relation to old trails, roads, burial sites and places of worship.

The area where a new church was to be built could be totally clean and free from earth radiation, but after the church was built, the radiation pattern usually seen in connection with ancient churches was present.

However, as soon as the farmer lined up the different squares that were to be used in the trial, a strong pattern of radiation appeared. This radiation was related to the planet Saturn and to the metal lead. Such patterns are often seen when a materialistic way of thinking excludes a more spiritual way of thinking. The intention of the farmer to make rectangular squares in which he was to compare the effect of different spiritually-prepared fertilizers expressed itself as an ahrimanic grid of spiritual power, drawing its force from Saturn.

Examples •Children who cry and cry for months, immediately stop crying once their beds are moved 0.5 metres away from where they originally stood. •Older people with chronic

Cancer in humans chronically exposed to strong electrical fields

That statement must be viewed with great scepticism. No government will admit that EMFs, especially those caused by power lines, can cause cancer. This is because modern industry depends totally on electric power. Without electric power, mass unemployment, social unrest and anarchy would destroy the economies and social cohesion of modern societies.

Though I am an experienced researcher and veterinary clinician, not qualified in human medicine, I disagree with his medical verdict. I am convinced that my colleagues died from cancer, triggered by EMFs emitted by the power cables.

In the book Lord of the Rings, the character Saruman describes how the Orchs (demons) came into existence. To paraphrase, the Orchs were once elves; good and benevolent beings. They were then seized by evil forces, by the greed and power-hunger of men, and that changed them into malevolent beings. These malevolent beings can be changed into beings of even greater malevolence with the help of black magic.

Energy production and demons When humans produce artificial energy derived from many new sources (electricity, nuclear energy, wind turbines, solar energy), benevolent elementals are changed into demons, or new demons are created.

When ‘old’ sources of energy are used, such as burning of wood, coals and oils, there are a large number of elementals present called ‘salamanders’. These are not changed into malevolent elementals. This happens only when magnetism, electricity or nuclear power is the source of the energy. Fire, Air, Earth and Water are the four basic elements of nature. Within each of the four elements, there are three realms or levels of elemental beings. All the elemental beings of all three realms together form the spiritual essence of that element. The elementals are made up of etheric substance that is unique and specific to that particular element.

They may be etheric thought forms, yet they have etheric flesh, blood and bones. They live, eat, talk, act and sleep. They cannot be destroyed by material elements such as Fire, Air, Earth and Water because they are etheric in nature. They are not immortal. When their work is finished they are absorbed back into the ocean of spirit. They live a very long time—300 to 1,000 years and have the power to change their size and appearance at will. However, they cannot change elements.

Earth—gnomes The nature spirits of the earth are called gnomes. There are many sub-groups: brownies, dryads, durdalis, earth spirits, elves, hamadryads, pans, pygmies, sylvestres, satyrs, nisser, dverger, hulder and many more. Billions of elemental beings from the first, second and third realm tend the earth through the cycles of the four seasons and see to it that all living things are supplied with their daily needs.

On a spiritual level, the gnomes have an even graver duty. They must clean up the imprints of man’s discord and negativity that remain at energetic levels in the earth. War, murder, rape, child abuse, the senseless killing and torture of animals, profit seeking at the expense of the environment as well as hatred, anger, discord, gossip—all these create an accumulation of negatively charged energy that creates demonic elementals (earth radiation) and becomes a heavy weight on the earth body and on the beneficial nature spirits.

Fire—salamanders The salamanders are the spirits of Fire. Without these beings, fire cannot exist. You cannot light a match without a salamander being present. There are many families of salamanders, differing in size, appearance and dignity.

If you ever need to light a campfire in the wilderness, call to the salamanders and they will help you. It is said that salamanders (and other elemental beings) can be mischievous, even malicious at times. For example, a fiery temper and inharmonious conditions in a person’s home can cause these beings to make trouble. They are like children in that they don’t fully understand the results of their actions. They are greatly affected by human thinking, as are all nature spirits.

Air—sylphs Sylphs are Air elementals. Their element has the highest vibratory rate of the four. They live to be hundreds of years old, often reaching one thousand without appearing old. They are said to live on the tops of mountains. Sylphs often assume human form but only for short periods of time.

Water—undines Undines are the elemental beings that live in Water. They are able to control, to a great degree, the course and function of the Water element. Etheric in nature, they exist within water itself and this is why they cannot be seen with normal, physical, vision. These beings are beautiful to look at and are very graceful. They are often seen riding the waves of the ocean. They can also be found in rocky pools and in marshlands. They are clothed in shimmering substances resembling water but shining with all the colours of the sea, predominantly green. The concept of the mermaid is connected with these elemental beings.

Every fountain has its nymph. Every ocean has its oceanids.

The undines work with the vital essences and liquids of plants, animals and human beings. They are present in everything containing water. There are many families of undines. They are emotional beings, very friendly and open to being of service to humans. The smaller undines are often seen as winged beings that some people have mistakenly called fairies.

As stated earlier, elementals are the spiritual foundation of nature and are also created by positive human deeds as well as ill ones. When electricity was created, man started to use this material energy source, created by the vibrations of atoms. This resulted in the creation of a lot of demonic elementals, or elementals on the verge of becoming demons.

Before I visited them, I thought that elementals were always serious, unsmiling and uninterested in humans, but when I came to the Amish community I was greeted by smiling elementals that were interested in me. I was deeply shaken by this observation and came to understand the terrible effect that electricity has on the world’s elementals.

•Electricity creates ahrimanic elementals of demonic tendency. •Magnetism creates luciferic elementals of demonic tendency. •Nuclear power creates azuric elementals of demonic tendency. In this connection, it is very interesting to observe how electricity and magnetism is used in the healing of different diseases in humans and animals. Magnets sometimes work wonders, as in the cases of rheumatism and related ailments, and sometimes not. Electric therapeutic currents sometimes work wonders, and again sometimes not. The answer to this riddle is the cooperation of ahrimanic and luciferic demons in the creation and development of disease. As described later in this book, the cooperation of ahrimanic and luciferic demons in the creation and development of disease holds the answer to this riddle.

This is also why marijuana is reported to be beneficial in many diseases but may totally fail to help in others. It even works differently on the same symptoms in different people. This is because marijuana strengthens the luciferic demons, much like magnetism, and this may counteract the ahrimanic symptoms. I emphasize that treating the Middle Point with Christ Consciousness counteracts both luciferic and ahrimanic demons simultaneously.

Rudolf Steiner on disease and the doppelgänger, and demons of ahrimanic and luciferic nature and their relation to Earth radiation

The opportunity therefore exists a short time before we are born for another spiritual being in addition to our soul to take possession of our body, of the subconscious part of our body. Then Rudolf Steiner describes the mysterious ahrimanic doppelgänger. A short time before we are born we are permeated by another being; in our terminology we would call it an ahrimanic spirit-being. This is within us just as our own soul is within us. These beings spend their life using human beings in order to be able to be in the sphere where they want to be. These beings have an extraordinarily high intelligence and a significantly developed will, but no warmth of heart at all, nothing of what we call human soul warmth (Gemüt). Thus, we go through life in such a way that we have both our souls and a doppelgänger of this kind, who is much cleverer, very much cleverer than we are; who is very intelligent, but with a Mephistophelian intelligence, an ahrimanic intelligence, and also an ahrimanic will, a very strong will, a will that is much more akin to the nature-forces than our human will, which is regulated by the warmth of soul.

When natural scientists believe that the nerve-force that belongs

to us as the basis of our conceptual life has something to do with electrical streams that go through our nerves, they are incorrect. For the electrical streams, which are the forces put into us by the being I have just mentioned and described, do not belong to our own being at all. We carry electrical streams in us, but they are of a purely ahrimanic nature. These beings are of high intelligence, of pure Mephistophelian intelligence, and with a will more akin to nature than can be said of the human will. These beings once decided out of their own will that they did not want to live in that world in which they were destined to live by the wisdom-filled gods of the higher hierarchies. They wanted to conquer the earth, and to do this they needed bodies; they did not have bodies of their own.

There is only one thing in human life that they absolutely cannot endure: they cannot endure death. Therefore, they must always leave the human body in which they have established themselves, before that body succumbs to death. This

Then Rudolf Steiner describes the importance of the Christ, the Christ Consciousness, and what, as we will see later, creates the possibility of the Middle Point, of treating the diseases of ahrimanic origin without just translocating them.

is of tremendous and profound significance to have insight into the connection between Christ passing through the Mystery of Golgotha and these beings that want to conquer death in human nature but are not yet able today to endure it. They must always avoid experiencing in the human body the hour when the human being is predestined to die. They must avoid maintaining his body beyond the hour of death, of prolonging the life of his body beyond the hour of death.

Everything that the human being experiences here, even what he experiences below the threshold of consciousness, he needs after death, because he must look back upon this life, and in looking back this life must be entirely comprehensible.

In the coming centuries, human beings must increasingly gain knowledge of the doppelgänger. The human being in the coming centuries will have to know more and more that he bears such a doppelgänger within him, such an ahrimanic-Mephistophelian one.

This doppelgänger about which I have spoken is nothing more or less than the creator of all physical illnesses that emerge spontaneously from within; and to know him fully is the basis of holistic medicine. He is the creator of all illnesses that emerge spontaneously from within, and a brother of his, who is luciferic, is the creator of all neurasthenic, neurotic and hysterical illnesses.

One must know, for example, that our entire earth is not the dead product that mineralogy or geology thinks it to be, but is a living being.

When the human being entered into this epoch, the guiding spiritual beings had to consider his special weakness in relation to the doppelgänger. Had the human being taken into his consciousness the knowledge of the doppelgänger, it would have gone badly.

America was known to be the region where the magnetic forces particularly arose that brought the human being into relation with the doppelgänger. For the clearest relations to the doppelgänger proceed from that region of the earth that comprises the American continent.

Medicine can endure only if it is a spiritual science, for illnesses come from a spiritual being that only makes use of the human body in order to profit from it, which it cannot do in the place assigned to it by the wise guidance of the world, against which it has revolted, as I have shown you.

Illnesses emerge because this being works in the human being. Moreover, when remedies are employed, it means that something is given to this being from the outer world that it otherwise seeks through the human being. If I provide a remedy for the human body when this ahrimanic-Mephistophelean being is at work, I give it something else. I stroke this being, as it were. I come to terms with it, so that it lets go of the human being and becomes satisfied with what I have tossed into its jaws as a remedy.

Christ, demons (luciferic, azuric and ahrimanic), the Eighth Sphere and Quantum Physics

Albert Einstein had a deep feeling or intuition about this when he said that God does not play dice. He felt that quantum physics brought in something that was opposed to God. What do particles that come into existence out of a vacuum (i.e. from a non-material existence), bring into this world? Where do they come from?

1.Entanglement; that particles of the same origin are forever connected. This is a spiritual law, not a law of the physical world. 2.Non-locality; that a particle may be everywhere and nowhere, until it shows up. This is also one of the fundamental laws of the spiritual world. Some scientists even express this phenomenon as follows: that the elemental particles actually avoid the onlooker as soon as the onlooker can see the particle. 3.The entanglement between particles is immediate, time is of no importance. This is also a law of the spiritual world.

Furthermore, what materializes from the spiritual world into the physical world is probably connected to the world of the adversaries.

If we use LED light, quantum computers and other quantum-physical inventions, then we open ourselves up to the azuric world, just as when we use electricity we open to the ahrimanic world and when we use magnetism we open to the luciferic world.

The six principles are: 1.The speed of light (constant in all directions). 2.The equivalence principle (within gravity).

3.The cosmological principle (that the cosmos is the same in all directions). 4.Quantization (all things are divided in small quantities or packages). 5.Uncertainty (before we see an elemental we don’t know how or where it is). 6.Wave/particle duality (all things are both particle or wave).

Quantization says that everything consists of minimal packages. They are elementals of the first level. Uncertainty principle says that the better you ‘see’ the elemental particle (being), the less you can predict where it goes. (Actually, some say that the more you see the elemental the more it can and will avoid you. I experienced just this in my cancer therapy, when the cancer started to avoid me. That happened when I started to ‘see’ the cancer elementals.) Entanglement is also explained by the elemental spiritual view. The elementals are together in the spiritual world and, as such, forever connected. There the time and distance are non-existent; also, the speed of light is not a restriction. The restriction is the border between the physical and the spiritual world.

Dark Energy

The deeper layers of the body and the Earth. The origin of the radiation that feeds the demons, the ahrimanic beings and the doppelgänger

As background to this section, I refer briefly to my investigations of the layers of the human body. When making a pulse diagnosis, there are twelve layers through which we must penetrate between the skin and the centre of the heart. Most of my students stop at the fifth, sixth, seventh or eighth layer, and do not enter the heart. We need a little power to enter the heart, a little bravery, a little push.

The twelve layers of the body are as follows: •The outer layers (first and second) relate to the astral body. •The third and fourth layers relate to the material body: the third being our own physical, material body, and the fourth, the parasitic material body. •The fifth to the eighth layers relate to the etheric body (the four ethers); the eighth touching the pericardium and the ninth touching the endocardium, where we encounter most hindrances in therapy. •The inner layers (ninth to twelfth) are within the heart and relate to the ‘I’: the lower ‘I’ to the ninth, the middle ‘I’ to the tenth, the higher ‘I’ to the eleventh and the cosmic ‘I’, the Christ Consciousness, to the twelfth, where we are in the middle of the heart, the lamb (ram). We may also consider the layers within the heart as the future possibilities of human spiritual development, especially relating to the feminine part of the higher ‘I’s. These layers also relate to the future development of the deeper layers of the earth itself, which today are evil but, in the future, can be transformed to good through the union of the Divine Mother and the Divine Father.

When we are in the centre of the heart, we might have the Imagination of standing at a cross. Actually, this cross is more than an Imagination: it is made out of true spiritual substance.

Mirroring Earth. Here man’s uncontrolled ego can be nurtured. It is also called the Reflecting Earth. All the natural forces and laws are found here, but in their opposite form. All moral impulses are changed into their opposites. All colours appear in their opposite or complementary colour.

Here, there is also the possibility of a reunion between the Divine Mother and the Divine Father. So far, this has not yet developed, so the three last layers are more like possibilities for the future. The seeds of these three layers were put there by Christ himself on the 4 April, in the year following the crucifixion at Golgotha, after which he descended through the earth, through all the various layers. Reaching the ninth layer, the ultimate evil, he placed the seeds of a future heart, a heart to be created by the actions of the human race, in correlation with the creation of the three higher selves in the heart of the human being:

Both of these kinds of influences or radiations enter through our feet. To avoid this, we must ‘wash our feet in Christ’, which is the deeper meaning of the symbolic washing of the feet.

1st layer The astral sheath of the body The physical Earth 2nd layer The astral and the physical/material body Fluid earth, high pressure, expansion

5 th layer The etheric body I, warmth-ether (infrared). Also, the scars of the body, both physical and mental that have come from life’s experiences of living in warmth Fruit Earth

12th layer The Christ ‘I’, the Divine Consciousness, Christ-Consciousness The Christ ‘I’, the divine Consciousness, Christ-Consciousness, that may be transformed through the development of man into a good and angelic form of

the ‘I’ (which may lift humans to the 10th hierarchy of angels)

the body. In the Earth, this is the centre of evil, where Ahriman resides.

This core is like the human heart, in as far as the heart itself houses egoistic feelings. As the heart is the hope of humanity, the growing power of our higher selves resides there, and will in the future become the tenth, eleventh and twelfth layers, expressing Christ Consciousness and as such splitting off from the eighth layer (which will be in close connection, although not identical with, the Eighth Sphere). This Eighth Sphere will in the future branch off, as the material Earth will no longer be able to develop with the rest of the spiritualizing Earth and ascending humanity.

I used this difference to find the scars but did not realize at that time that it was possible to treat them from the twelfth layer. When we treat from the twelfth layer, the scars do not matter as they are of no significance. In the past, I only diagnosed my patients from the sixth to ninth layer, and then injected the physical scars with procaine, as described in Neural Therapy by Dr Ferdinand Hünecke. Today I know that if I go to the

twelfth layer, which I now always go directly to, all forms of scar treatment is unnecessary. This indicates that if we enter into Christ Consciousness, all old obstacles disappear.

In the context of this book, we could say: the old demons that hinder the progress of mankind are to be found in the eighth layer, but if we enter the Christ Consciousness of the twelfth layer, all the demons are dissolved. The ‘spiritual Ahrimanic radiation’ from the deeper layers of the Earth enters both into the weakened organs or organic processes, but also through the weakened astral sheaths that surround and protect our body.

The auras We have three main auras, the etheric, the astral and the spiritual ‘I’-aura. •The ahrimanic demons can enter mainly through the etheric aura. •The luciferic demons can enter mainly through the astral aura. •The azuric demons can enter mainly through the spiritual aura.

were: 1.Always to wear a hat. 2.To wear a little cap of pure wool under the hat (a little like the skullcap

The Silurian time is a geological period and system that extends from the end of the Ordovician Period, 443.8 million years ago, to the beginning of the Devonian Period, 419.2 million years ago.

Another explanation why insects are attracted to the demonic expression of spiritual or electromagnetic radiation may be that all the life forms in the Eighth Sphere are insectlike (see the Addendum on page 151 on the effects of different drugs).

The full lectures are published in Secret Brotherhoods and the Mystery of the Human Double, Rudolf Steiner Press 2004.

Chapter Three How to Stop or Prevent the Demonic Effects of Earth Radiation

The pathological radiation coming from the Earth was explained as being electro-magnetic. Such radiation, such as we find under high voltage lines and the emanations from cell phones, is pathological to all life forms.

The descriptions of earth radiation from before 1500 AD were highly spiritual. People were totally aware of the existence of such entities and there were numerous ways to protect oneself and others against them. These methods were mainly of spiritual origin, using special and magical words (as described in the Kalevala), special poems, ritual offerings (as described in the Edda) or magical rites. People burnt special herbs and made and wore special masks to scare away demons.

Of the human or animal disorders or symptoms caused by earth radiation, 90 per cent responded positively within weeks after correction or elimination of the earth radiation. The general opinion among dowsers is that, when more usual methods of conventional and holistic medicine fail to help a patient, one should always check his/her sleeping and work places for noxious radiation from geopathic zones. In recent years, some people have shielded their homes against all types of radiation. This is not a good practice as it also removes the earth’s normal radiation that is necessary and health-giving (later we will see that we need it for our ‘karma’). Total shielding from normal radiation can have problematic consequences for our biorhythms.

The only truly effective way to dissolve radiation is to acknowledge the spiritual origin of the radiation and to ask or pray for forgiveness for the ill deeds done, so that the radiation is permanently dissolved.

Divining instruments As recorded over aeons of time, one can find noxious zones by dowsing or divining. The dowser holds a divining rod (Y-stick), or other divining instruments such as a pendulum, rubbing pad or angle irons in the hands. When the body’s autonomic system senses a noxious influence, it increases muscle spasm. This causes the divining instrument to move or behave differently, thus indicating the location of the noxious influence.

This showed me that the usual scientific explanation is not sufficient in explaining the effects of dowsing. There are far stronger and unknown spiritual forces working within earth radiation.

In these ‘noxious zones’, some people felt unwell or dizzy and saw dots in front of their eyes (vibrating sight). Blood pressure, measured before and during walking across areas of strong radiation, fell.

Finding pathological radiation through sensitivity and/or clairvoyance

For me, this method is one of the most interesting as it points to the real origins of radiation, namely not physical but spiritual. It can be performed in several ways, but all ways require that we have entered the spiritual world through dividing our thinking, feeling and will. We do this: •Through pulsing (see pulse diagnosis page 32f). •Through ‘seeing’. •Through a number of other means such as: —Smelling (like a metal smell). —Hearing (like glass cracking).

A Buddhist way of seeing the radiation and how to relate to it

The reason for describing the Buddhistic viewpoint is that their description matches my own observations quite well. The main source for this description is found in the writings of Sri Ananda Acharia, a Buddhist monk that came to Norway from India in 1910, and lived his whole life in Alvdal, Norway, where he tried to build a university based on peace, love and Buddhism. In his book, How Karlima Rani Spoke, Chapter 9, he describes the geopathic radiation as follows:

‘Old’ medieval spiritual ways of protection Many spiritual methods of protecting oneself from demonic influences are described in literature deriving from medieval times. •Imagine yourself to be a fully armoured knight, holding a huge long sword. Stand towards the north and touch the ground with the tip of the sword. Where the tip touches the ground a flame lights up. Then slowly turn west and continue through south, east and back to north again, thus creating a full circle around you with the tip of the sword. When the circle is complete, you will find yourself standing in the middle of a flaming circle. This will protect you for about twelve hours, after which the whole procedure has to be repeated. •Imagine a mirror surrounding you, reflecting back all radiation coming in. This procedure will protect you for 24 hours.

I did this by going around the entire barn imagining that I was a knight in shining armour, encircling the whole area with my sword.

Is it possible to treat the elementals and demons within earth radiation through the Middle Point, through Christ Consciousness? Earth radiation appears to the spiritual eye, or at least to mine, as black snakes curling and moving along the surface of the Earth. They must not be mistaken or wrongly seen as the energetic bonds between trees and plants, which are described in my book Poplar.† The bonds between trees are much lighter and not so dark, but still look very similar to ‘earth radiation snakes’, as both are moving through the floor of the forest. The ‘tree-snakes’ are relatively easy to enter with the consciousness, and it is possible to then travel within the energy.

Then I realized that all humans and animals do have a deficiency of Water where the luciferic demon or elemental abides, as Lucifer is

Fire and Light, which is opposed to Water. In connection with Lucifer, we always find a deficient kidney-energy. The luciferic demon is almost always to be found around a third down from the head.

The phenomena of smoke and smell and their relation to demons

In many different religious ceremonies dedicated to the gods, incense is often used around the altar to keep the demons away and possibly transform them. The American Indians often burn white sage to cleanse the body before ritual ceremonies.

When I blew out the flame, the room was filled with the smoke of the incense. I waved the smoking piece of wood in front, beside and behind me, and immediately both the luciferic and the ahrimanic demons of the disease loosened their grip. For me, this was a huge revelation.

The smell drove the demons of the disease away, in the same way that the plant spirits do if they resemble the disease-demon. It’s all about driving the disease demons away, although in doing it this way, we do not know where they are translocated.

This also brings some insight into why smoking is such a huge and worldwide habit. It simply keeps the demons at bay. All my life I have wondered why people smoked. When asking smokers, they told me that they felt better when smoking, still unable to tell me specifically how and in what way better. They simply felt ‘relieved’. Now this makes perfect sense. The smoking/smoke pushes the demons away, and then of course the smoker feels better (although the effect on the lungs will attract disease-demons).

To my surprise, it was very easy to smell the Middle Point. From the cranial region to the Middle Point, the smell was very typical. At the exact Middle Point, the smell changed to a pleasant odour and immediately from the caudal to the Middle, the smell changed again to a somewhat more ‘physical’, doglike or even pathological smell.

The plant spirits are not easily frightened by the disease spirits. Indeed, they are quite brave. The disease demons are much less brave, at least in most cases. As such, the plant spirit wins over the disease demon.

The phenomena of shivering and jolting and their relation to the release of demons (or, as in homeopathy, the translocation of healing spirits)

For the first exercise, he asked us to stand in a special and exact Qigong stance. This was the opening stance to free oneself of any attached spirits (demons). As directed, all participants stood in this somewhat unpleasant stance. After a few minutes, the other participants began to tremble and shiver and groan as the stance and the trembling became more and more unpleasant.

He told me that I did nothing wrong. This Qigong stance was designed to expel the demons attached to the body and this struggle caused the trembling and jolting. Upon the initiation of a fight against demons, the demons and the body of the host always shiver and jolt. ‘You,’ he said, ‘seem not to have any attached demons. You can go home.’ And so, I did.

Mediumship and demons As I have stated several times, the demons and the adversaries are ‘allowed’ by cosmic law to work on human beings and to influence them. Demons do not have to respect the free will of humans. The benevolent entities and forces, however, are obliged to respect the free will and free choice of all humans under the same cosmic law.

It has become more and more apparent that the ahrimanic demons are very intelligent and they change and translocate to avoid being seen or attacked.

Today, the mediums seem to be totally conscious and intelligent people that channel information from the spiritual worlds.

Deepen consciousness of the presence of the spiritual worlds, especially the angelic world, but also of demons. •Develop a strong ‘I’-function (especially in the tenth, eleventh and twelfth layers of the heart, the Christ level). At this level the demons have no power at all.

Today I understand this perfectly well, as the lines really are demonic beings, created by the life and behaviour of the prisoners themselves, and they belong to the karmic grid that each person carries around with him or her. That is why I no longer believe in isolating or shielding houses or bed-places from radiation. The only way to be free of the demonic radiation is to acknowledge the origin, to ask for forgiveness and change one’s life. The radiation is a part of ourselves and must be loved and respected.

Ordinary everyday people set themselves aims for the afternoon, for the evening or the morning; the spiritual man is able, out of spiritual principles, to set himself distant aims which pulse through his will and make his forces quicken. To set goals before humanity means in the true, highest sense, in the sense of the original Christ principle, to grasp Christianity esoterically.

The double stream of time is one of the most important secrets we should know about when entering the spiritual world. Time can go either way, both from the future towards the past, and from the past towards the future.

Chapter Four How Do We Free or Defend Ourselves from Demons?

Demons and disease—A short description or characterization of ahrimanic and luciferic demons The luciferic spirits have reached a higher state than man, and are therefore supersensible beings, whereas ahrimanic beings are in a lower state than man and, therefore, are ‘subsensible’ beings.

The influences of Ahriman therefore involve powers of a much lower nature than the influences of Lucifer. Lucifer’s influences can never become as evil as the influences of Ahriman and of those beings that are connected with the powers of Fire.

When disease develops, it usually takes the path described below. 1) Improper living creates a weak and empty organ process, manifesting in a weakness of the etheric part of the process, which in acupuncture is called the Yin part. First, one or more of our bodily processes are compromised. This happens through some wrong way of living. We might say by violating the Eightfold Path of Buddha: wrong thinking, wrong acting, wrong eating, wrong drinking, wrong feeling, wrong clothing and/or other wrongs we do in our lives.

2. An ahrimanic demon will enter or develop in this empty space. In this void, emptiness or deficiency, foreign forces of a subhuman nature enter. These forces usually manifest in the shape of an ahrimanic demon. Sometimes, other demons might also manifest in a weakened organ, but that is not so usual.