The realm of the Demiurge

[Stranger]

Your link goes back to Cleric's old comment. You did briefly answer that one, but not his comment after that.

Oh, thanks for pointing, somehow I missed it.

Once our moral-cognitive aperture begins to expand and encompass the higher individuality which passes through many incarnations, and which locates the source of all cultural and natural change within the supra-sensory planes, we don't place so much important on what seems to be happening on the physical plane within a timeline measured by years.

Sure, we should still keep hoping and do our individual inner work regardless

[AshvinP]

Your link goes back to Cleric's old comment. You did briefly answer that one, but not his comment after that.

Oh, thanks for pointing, somehow I missed it.

Once our moral-cognitive aperture begins to expand and encompass the higher individuality which passes through many incarnations, and which locates the source of all cultural and natural change within the supra-sensory planes, we don't place so much important on what seems to be happening on the physical plane within a timeline measured by years.

Sure, we should still keep hoping and do our individual inner work regardless

I would also point you towards your own earlier comment on the evolutionary structure of paradigmatic scientific shifts. These are qualitative jumps which are never anticipated from the perspective of the older, past forms of thinking. Just as the older generations never seem to understand the younger ones. Yet the jumps nevertheless occur lawfully like clockwork. The same holds true for the aesthetic and moral spheres of archetypal activity. The lawful forces of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness work into the manifest world from the spiritual fields of potential. What is natural is always being pushed out, or transmuted, by what is spiritual. So it's not a matter of mere hope - these transmutations are built into the very archetypal structure of the Cosmos. We must only consciously take hold of this ever-present, evolving structure if we want to participate.

[Federica]

I think most of our misunderstandings come from differences in language and conceptual apparatus since we approach the same subject from somewhat different backgrounds with different linguistic terms to describe the same spiritual reality and its processes.

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That hierarchy definitely exists, out whole structure from human personality up to the system of a variety of human beliefs and socio-economic structures is hierarchically built on the foundation of these subconscious erroneous perceptual cognitive mechanisms where the dualistic perception occurs and where the subconscious belief in the realty of "separate self" resides, upon which a whole hierarchy of egoic desires and behavioral-cognitive patterns is built in the subconscious levels of each person psyche, as well as in the collective subconscious . It is a futile attempt to rebuild the "branches" of the structure without diving into its roots, because similar branches will grow from the same roots again. That is why social experiments and restructuring on the society scale never fully work because the egoic core in each member of the society remains intact.

My only skepticism is based on the observation of how exceptionally rare are the individuals that are willing to dive into the depths of their psyche to discover and practically work on unrooting these egoic structures and the dualistic perception. It means that we should not expect any noticeable changes on the mass scale of the society coming from such deep transformation any time soon. I'm still always hopeful, but try to be realistic.

And my other skeptical comment is on Anthroposophy in particular, and I think Federica agreed on that. Steiner's philosophy and esoteric system is written in a style and language that is almost impossible to comprehend for an average human person. Even for people with philosophical, spiritual-practical and scientific background (like me for example) it is a big challenge to understand. The writings of other Anthroposophists, like you, Klocek or Cleric for example, are no less challenging. You can see how often other members of the forum complain that they simply do not understand what these writings are saying. From that perspective, IMO, Anthroposophy remains an esoteric system for intellectual elite, and because of that, it is unlikely that it will make any impact on the level of society at large.

That we will learn to comprehend writing which seemed complex and unapproachable before is actually the most superifical transformation which will occur for us on the path of inner growth. Everyone starts off with this view of spiritual scientific writings, including me. We are dealing with entirely new evolutionary impulses here, new forms of cognition and perception and understanding. The language centers around what is mostly supersensible. But with inner effort and persistence on the path, the whole situation inverts. The philosophical and religious analysis which used to seem very straightforward and 'concrete' is revealed in its prosaic abstractness, its consistent hand-waving, although we can even better comprehend how seemingly disparate theories/models are derived from the exact same old habits of thinking. On the other hand, we get an increasingly better intuitive orientation for how spiritual science gives us the language for the very inner archetypal core of our ceaseless becoming. Of course you can dismiss this as partisan explanation, but I am reporting to you my own concrete experience in the last 2 years. And it doesn't matter if its Steiner's 'system' or someone else's or noone's at all - we will learn to encompass them all with increasing ease through the inner transformation, because all outer forms are physiognomic expressions of these inner forces we are integrating.

I think you are misconstruing Federica's position as well. She may have great difficulty with the texts currently, but the key is that she knows it is due to her own current state of development and she has a very concrete sense of how the situation evolves over time, based on her experiences so far. That's all it takes - an inner disposition towards 'repentance' or metanoia and a consistent diet of inner effort, and the rest unfolds of its own accord. If we are still measuring the potential progress of humanity by its current state of cognition and the purely outward facing aspects of society, then we are still missing that the path of higher cognition draws on impulses not yet actualized for inner transformation. We expect the egoic structures and the dualistic habits to fade away for ourselves within a few years and for humanity in the course of our lifetime, and when it looks like this isn't happening, we conclude there is some immutable law which prevents individuals from consciously steering their intuitive becoming. That unreasonable expectation is not humanity's limitation, but our own. Once our moral-cognitive aperture begins to expand and encompass the higher individuality which passes through many incarnations, and which locates the source of all cultural and natural change within the supra-sensory planes, we don't place so much important on what seems to be happening on the physical plane within a timeline measured by years.

Likewise, it really makes no difference the quantity of people who take up an interest in this inner transformation to begin with in its earliest stages, but the quality and enthusiasm of the few people who do. That is how the spiritual future comes to concrete manifestation.

“To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what parable shall we picture it? It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on earth; but when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all herbs, and shoots out large branches, so that the birds of the air may nest under its shade.”

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Ashvin,
If I may add something to this part of your exchange:

And my other skeptical comment is on Anthroposophy in particular, and I think Federica agreed on that. Steiner's philosophy and esoteric system is written in a style and language that is almost impossible to comprehend for an average human person.

I think you are misconstruing Federica's position as well. She may have great difficulty with the texts currently, but the key is that she knows it is due to her own current state of development and she has a very concrete sense of how the situation evolves over time, based on her experiences so far.

I do have difficulties with texts, while knowing that if I persist the situation will evolve, but I think Eugene was referring to the following thing I wrote a few days ago, so I believe he was not misconstructing:

One can agree with what Eugene said that, sadly, many would shy away from, or stumble upon, a book like PoF. From my recent experience I can say that I have not succeeded once in the few attempts I've made to get another person to read anything av Steiner.

Regardless, what you have written in this post seems to me like a luminous concentrate of time-wisdom! It achieves the seemingly impossible, by making things not only evident, but self-evident.

[Stranger]

The lawful forces of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness work into the manifest world from the spiritual fields of potential. What is natural is always being pushed out, or transmuted, by what is spiritual. So it's not a matter of mere hope - these transmutations are built into the very archetypal structure of the Cosmos. We must only consciously take hold of this ever-present, evolving structure if we want to participate.

That is definitely true, and therefore nothing can stop the unfolding of these spiritual forces on the Cosmic scale, even though there may be temporary local stagnations or some evolutionary line dead ends (like dinosaurs or neandertals).

[AshvinP]

I do have difficulties with texts, while knowing that if I persist the situation will evolve, but I think Eugene was referring to the following thing I wrote a few days ago, so I believe he was not misconstructing:

One can agree with what Eugene said that, sadly, many would shy away from, or stumble upon, a book like PoF. From my recent experience I can say that I have not succeeded once in the few attempts I've made to get another person to read anything av Steiner.

Regardless, what you have written in this post seems to me like a luminous concentrate of time-wisdom! It achieves the seemingly impossible, by making things not only evident, but self-evident.

Thanks for the clarification, Federica. I suppose the key point is that, regardless of what happens within our personal sphere of pointing towards the Wisdom in any given texts, we know this has no bearing on the reality and capacity of our Earthly spiritual evolution. Not because of blind hope or faith, but because we can carefully reason out how evolutionary change unfolds in all domains of experience, including our own progression from childhood onwards. This key point is also in PoF:

Evolution is understood to mean the real development of the later out of the earlier in accordance with natural law. In the organic world, evolution is understood to mean that the later (more perfect) organic forms are real descendants of the earlier (imperfect) forms, and have developed from them in accordance with natural laws. The adherents of the theory of organic evolution ought really to picture to themselves that there was once a time on our earth when a being could have followed with his own eyes the gradual development of reptiles out of proto-amniotes, had he been able to be there at the time as an observer, endowed with a sufficiently long span of life. Similarly, evolutionists ought to picture to themselves that a being could have watched the development of the solar system out of the Kant-Laplace primordial nebula, had he been able to remain in a suitable spot out in the cosmic world ether during that infinitely long time. That with such mental pictures, the nature of both the proto-amniotes and the Kant-Laplace cosmic nebula would have to be thought of differently from the way the materialist thinkers do, is here irrelevant. But no evolutionist should ever dream of maintaining that he could get the concept of the reptile, with all its characteristics, out of his concept of the proto-amniotic animal, if he had never seen a reptile. Just as little would it be possible to derive the solar system from the concept of the Kant-Laplace nebula, if this concept of a primordial nebula is thought of as being directly determined only by the percept of the primordial nebula. In other words, if the evolutionist is to think consistently, he is bound to maintain that later phases of evolution do actually result from earlier ones, and that once we have been given the concept of the imperfect and that of the perfect, we can see the connection; but on no account should he agree that the concept attained from the earlier is, in itself, sufficient for evolving the later out of it. From this it follows for ethics that, though we can certainly see the connection between later moral concepts and earlier, we cannot get even a single new moral idea out of the earlier ones.

As you probably know, Steiner really anticipated how spiritual science would flow out into the world, as also evidenced in many of his lectures. So we only need sound judgment to discern that metamorphoses on Earth always arrive from the spectrum of 'future' potential (spirit worlds), and what we perceive in nature and culture right now, at any given moment, is the afterglow of already accomplished intents. Even with ordinary reasoning, we can decondition from this past-oriented fixation by taking the more macroscopic view of evolutionary arcs. We can discern that its not so much the content of the forms we see around us which is relevant, fixed in space and time, but the supra-sensory skills/forces which are latent in those forms and which have worked and will continue to work across many epochs. Then we aren't so mentally attached to only the outward-facing events and consequences which unfold in months and years, which no one can deny are often troubling.

On another note, it is indeed diffiicult to get people motivated to put the inner effort towards that which is still unknown and unfamiliar to them, but when Karma brings such people along our path, such as yourself, it is a fantastically rewarding experience! I recently had my day brightened by this comment on another forum:

Thank you for pointing me to Steiner's Philosophy of Freedom. I needed extra perspectives to open it up for me (especially Deleuze's Difference & Repetition), but it holds wisdom that's hard to find anywhere else... Maybe QRI? Maybe process-relational stuff (Whitehead, Deleuze, Sloterdijk, Bard & Söderqvist)? But like ... in terms of readability and practicality, PoF is just a more sensible place to start. The second to last chapter, "The Value of Life (Optimism and Pessimism)" is maybe the only place I've seen someone make connections between desire and pleasure (e.g. D&R ch. II & V), willing and freedom (D&R ch. I & II), and ideas and ideals (D&R ch. I, IV, & V) in an accessible & usable way.

[Federica]

I suppose the key point is that, regardless of what happens within our personal sphere of pointing towards the Wisdom in any given texts, we know this has no bearing on the reality and capacity of our Earthly spiritual evolution. Not because of blind hope or faith, but because we can carefully reason out how evolutionary change unfolds in all domains of experience, including our own progression from childhood onwards. This key point is also in PoF:

Evolution is understood to mean the real development of the later out of the earlier in accordance with natural law. In the organic world, evolution is understood to mean that the later (more perfect) organic forms are real descendants of the earlier (imperfect) forms, and have developed from them in accordance with natural laws. The adherents of the theory of organic evolution ought really to picture to themselves that there was once a time on our earth when a being could have followed with his own eyes the gradual development of reptiles out of proto-amniotes, had he been able to be there at the time as an observer, endowed with a sufficiently long span of life. Similarly, evolutionists ought to picture to themselves that a being could have watched the development of the solar system out of the Kant-Laplace primordial nebula, had he been able to remain in a suitable spot out in the cosmic world ether during that infinitely long time. That with such mental pictures, the nature of both the proto-amniotes and the Kant-Laplace cosmic nebula would have to be thought of differently from the way the materialist thinkers do, is here irrelevant. But no evolutionist should ever dream of maintaining that he could get the concept of the reptile, with all its characteristics, out of his concept of the proto-amniotic animal, if he had never seen a reptile. Just as little would it be possible to derive the solar system from the concept of the Kant-Laplace nebula, if this concept of a primordial nebula is thought of as being directly determined only by the percept of the primordial nebula. In other words, if the evolutionist is to think consistently, he is bound to maintain that later phases of evolution do actually result from earlier ones, and that once we have been given the concept of the imperfect and that of the perfect, we can see the connection; but on no account should he agree that the concept attained from the earlier is, in itself, sufficient for evolving the later out of it. From this it follows for ethics that, though we can certainly see the connection between later moral concepts and earlier, we cannot get even a single new moral idea out of the earlier ones.

As you probably know, Steiner really anticipated how spiritual science would flow out into the world, as also evidenced in many of his lectures. So we only need sound judgment to discern that metamorphoses on Earth always arrive from the spectrum of 'future' potential (spirit worlds), and what we perceive in nature and culture right now, at any given moment, is the afterglow of already accomplished intents. Even with ordinary reasoning, we can decondition from this past-oriented fixation by taking the more macroscopic view of evolutionary arcs. We can discern that its not so much the content of the forms we see around us which is relevant, fixed in space and time, but the supra-sensory skills/forces which are latent in those forms and which have worked and will continue to work across many epochs. Then we aren't so mentally attached to only the outward-facing events and consequences which unfold in months and years, which no one can deny are often troubling.

On another note, it is indeed diffiicult to get people motivated to put the inner effort towards that which is still unknown and unfamiliar to them, but when Karma brings such people along our path, such as yourself, it is a fantastically rewarding experience! I recently had my day brightened by this comment on another forum:

Thank you for pointing me to Steiner's Philosophy of Freedom. I needed extra perspectives to open it up for me (especially Deleuze's Difference & Repetition), but it holds wisdom that's hard to find anywhere else... Maybe QRI? Maybe process-relational stuff (Whitehead, Deleuze, Sloterdijk, Bard & Söderqvist)? But like ... in terms of readability and practicality, PoF is just a more sensible place to start. The second to last chapter, "The Value of Life (Optimism and Pessimism)" is maybe the only place I've seen someone make connections between desire and pleasure (e.g. D&R ch. II & V), willing and freedom (D&R ch. I & II), and ideas and ideals (D&R ch. I, IV, & V) in an accessible & usable way.

Thank you for this new layer, Ashvin. Even if the previous one felt so crystal-clear, the latter is naturally very helpful too, because after one step of realization is completed - and even if it feels as self-evident as it can be - it's a progression, and there are always new shades of meaning to permeate and expand into.

And also for sharing the glimmer of light from the other forum! It's the joy of discerning in the outer events a tiny but appreciable bit of the unfolding of our spiritual scientific future.

[AshvinP]

So I was browsing the structured discussion page of Free Man Creator, and came across the following post in response to a question. Since it speaks so clearly on the Anthroposophical perspective to this question of the 'Archons' or 'Demiurge', I felt it would be good to include it on this thread. It is also rife with linked references to other sections of the website and RS' lectures. (I gave up including all the links about halfway through, they can be found at the original page : ) )

It should be stated that such intellectual schematic understanding of the situation, by itself, is not so important and can become a hindrance. Rather the most important thing is giving ourselves the capacity to arrive at these ideas somewhat independently and make sense of them in a living and experiential way, even if they are outside the terminological framework of Anthroposophy.

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Question: I've been reading lately how the reincarnation cycle was begun by Archons who feed on our loosh and thus force us to reincarnate over and over again to the physical Earth plane so they can satisfy their thirst for our pain and suffering.

Does RS address this theory or concept? I have been on a spiritual path for 40 years and have thoughts that repeating earth lives over and over to "work out" Karma just doesn't seem what God/Jesus wants for us.

Response:

Short answer: Rudolf Steiner did not address this theory or concept of Archons the way you describe it, and how it appears on internet forums these days. That being said, Archons are a concept of Gnostic teachings which are, in general, difficult to 'place' or interpret for our contemporary minds, and hence various versions exist, they can be described as fallen angels or indeed also sometimes as a category of beings at the basis of a creation of a cosmos which enslaves humanity.

Rather than map the term Archon or address the theory you mention in your question, below I will give you the spiritual scientific description and then come full circle to your question, so you see how that concept relates. My advice is that if you follow any links, best to right click to open in new tab.

1/ First, let's take a step back on all ideas and stories one can find in the world. With the internet bringing free flow of information, we are overwhelmed today with huge amounts of information. In this infoglut a lot of stuff is pure non sense and hotchpotch. There are so many more Man-made thought forms, than there is truth or objective reality .. so one needs to be conscious that so much exists that is purely made up and has no basis in reality. The challenge is how to assess and filter.

We try to process what we encounter, we are led by interests, coincidence, intuition, by who we are (and the laws of karma) .. different things resonate with different people. This can only be a very personal process and journey, and we have no choice but to try to find our way in all this, trying to sort the valuable from the mumbo jumbo. It is it is up to everyone individually to sharpen one's virtue of discernment and work and practice the study process to construct meaning for ourselves.

And, as it is such a personal process, there is no sense to try and convince someone else. We make our own way. But importantly, like the Parsifal figure we have to ask questions as a way to grow our soul faculties.

So now moving to your question, below I will offer some answers and links to topic pages and schemas on this wiki, in case you would care to study, then it is up to you what to do with this. The below can be a map and guide to such study, but it does not provide any spoon-fed answers, as insight can only come from own soul work.


2/ In ancient times in the Lemurian epoch, we can consider the beginning of mankind on Earth at the time there was the descent of different cohorts of spirits into bodies on Earth, taking hold of physical bodies. Up to that point, the spiritual entity of the human being was not physical, or individual. Humanity is in a process of individuation, of developing the human 'I' from the original group souls of humanity. This is a complex matter, and the site covers it extensively from different perspectives, see eg Schema FMC00.472 and Schema FMC00.472A on Development of the I, or Schema FMC00.370 and Schema FMC00.377A.

Now as part of this 'start of humanity as we know it', there was a category of angelic spiritual beings which we call Luciferic beings, who didn't attain their developmental goal in the previous planetary stage of evolution Old Moon, and that therefore continued their development on Earth, and: they do this in and as part of Man.

The above idea should not shock us, as after all the human being and nature kingdoms are all made up of spiritual beings, see Cosmic Fractal. However, granted, this not the contemporary dominant worldview of materialistic 'mineral science', but it is the basis of the worldview of spiritual science.

This above event is called the 'fall', or also the luciferic infection, because it brought Mankind sin and death, but also freedom. So it's not just or only bad, this freedom is a big thing as it represents a step change for the divine creation, it's the basis for pure love and for selfless giving, which can only follow out of free choice. But this freedom (and the possibility to err) came at a big price, called 'evil' .. or let's say counterforces that were created (and allowed by divine providence) in order to strengthen the development of humanity. Humanity now has to overcome error, sin, and all that follows from this. In the future, Mankind will redeem these luciferic beings as part of its development. Another way of putting it: in a sense humanity can help and allow these other beings to get 'back on track'. This does not happen all by itself, it is part of our active mission.

This monumental event described above (see also FMC00.480) is referenced in some of the oldest books of wisdom of mankind, such as the Book of Genesis and the Book of Dzyan. However mind boggling it may come across if one is new to all this, nevertheless it describes the truth, as presented consistently in wisdom teachings and religions across cultures and ages. These are not just Man made thought forms (as millions of thoughts can be found on the web), but rather what actually happened as per clairvoyant research of the akashic records. It has been part of human wisdom forever, all we are doing here is trying to describe, study, discuss it in a language and knowledge framework, adapted to our age and contemporary consciousness.

Now if one is new to spiritual science the above may be a bit 'too much', it comes across as overwhelming, because one requires a knowledge framework of spiritual science, which one has to develop for one self. And true, intellectual study is not everyone's cup of tea. On the side: one advantage of being on this wiki is that, in answering your question, I can insert weblinks to the topic pages and schemas that enable anyone to self-study in a more effective way. And as this is published and available from across the world, it is available for anyone who would be looking and care to investigate further, alone or together with others.

3/ Now, unfortunately, the above (Luciferic infection) is not the end of the story.

Because the human being is really a complex structure made up of different 'limbs', so to speak, Man's bodily principles, that are all under development ... this makes it possible for different categories of beings to 'sneak in'. Whereas Man's ideal balanced make-up is made up of the 'regular' spiritual hierarchies, all those hierarchies individually are also under development, and some of the entities are ahead of the curve whereas others lag behind. This is where these 'adverse' influences or counterforces comes from, it is said evil is just good in the wrong place.

So, besides Luciferic beings there are also what we call Ahrimanic beings and their influences that are sneaking into Man, and hence Man is really a battlefield for the soul, this is a key point covered on o.a. Sixteen paths of perdition and Christ Module 14 – the counterforces: Lucifer, Ahriman and Sorat. This is known for ages, can be found in art & religion, see for example the artwork on the last two pages, such as Schema FMC00.499A.

Hence, Man is placed with free choice in the world, with the mission to - from the inside out - develop a balanced pathway through this minefield of challenges, distractions, addictions, attacks. The compass or gyroscope is spiritual, and the future goal of humanity is represented by the Christ (Schema FMC00.481), moral ideals, love as selflessness and sacrifice. And that is what this site is all about, to teach about the cohesion of those things, of how these matters hang together.

4/ Coming full circle. So you see, in a way, back to the Archons story in your question now, there is a bit of truth in it, in that there are beings part of Man, and some of them do kind of 'vegetate' on the elementals we create through our functioning. It also true that this is linked to the start of reincarnation, but as is explained elsewhere on this site reincarnation is a temporary phenomenon that started in the Lemurian epoch and will end also (in the future Sixth epoch). Hence, this is only one aspect of a much broader picture, and it is surely not the essence of development, or the goal for the future of humanity and creation. Even though it is part of our great challenge and mission, it's not correct to sketch it the way it is done in the Archons story that is spread on the web today.

It appears that people often jump on Man-made fictional stories and theories that are launched and spread, because of their sensational content. Some of these stories are inspired on or may contain snippets or elements that are part of the truth. But partial truths and untruths are worse than ignorance. That is a technique on its own: to confuse and distract the hell out of everyone, something nicely commented on in this note. As a result, search engines can not be used any more because keyword terms will lead you to materialistic stuff and untruths instead of the original meaning of concepts. It becomes ever harder in today's world to still find some stable ground and true north. People that are confronted with enough of such stories (as the world is flooded with them) will get lost in the storm or in the forest if they don't sharpen their soul faculties by actively using their threefold soul. As Krishnamurti put it half a century ago, before web, smartphones and social media: "the entertainment industry is taking over your brain". That is why I started this answer with the paragraph on discernment, the most spiritual of virtues. It's normal that people are dragged along in everything we are exposed to, because they have no frame of reference, no knowledge whatsoever to be able to assess or place these kinds of things (or think or say much sensible about this).

The importance of this frame of reference is why this site tries to provide 'maps', such as Schema FMC00.486, or the PDF file The great journey of humanity, that can be used along one's journey of building such comprehension.

5/ Then to your point on the fact "suffering and karma is not what God wants for us". The existence of suffering and evil is a common and predominant argument of atheists, and the above was introducing, just telling you about a frame of reference to help understand this. Without this, many very intelligent people and thinkers just block on this point due to the limitations of their worldview. It's not for nothing this is called the Mystery of Evil, it's not something you 'get' in a few sentences.

It is surely true also that humanity has some huge challenges ahead, that we cannot even imagine today. Whereas today good and bad flow into one another, in the future they will be separated like water and oil, and there will be complete opposition with evil forces more fierce then we can today imagine. Fortunately the good part will also evolve accordingly in order to face these conditions.

Imagine a lab experiment with a multi-stage distillation column, with always an extract before the next stage, the rest discarded (re parable of the sower), or like chemotherapy, killing the bad cancer cells just barely keeping the patient alive. If there would be no resistance of the road to your car tires, your car would not advance.

So if you look around you in the world, and your intuition or gut says this bell does not sound like how you would expect the divine plan to sound, you are of course right. It's clear that adverse forces are there around us in the world, and as said, things will still get a lot tougher before part of humanity will have reached a first major intermediate goal at the end of the Sixth epoch, which is what the Book of Revelation talks about. Things like alcohol and drugs, violence and sexual additions, the rise of egotism and black magic, are all forces that sidetrack souls that are not having the intrinsic strength at this time, and we can only be compassionate for our fellow human beings. With consciousness and freedom comes responsibility. You will find more about these themes on Meaning of Free Man Creator, Seeds for future worlds, and Contemporary worldview war. We can go into those things if you want.

To conclude: I hope you appreciate the nuance I've tried to convey with the more extensive answer. And bottom line: no it's not evil at the steering wheel of creation.