In this “cosmic theatre” we can see that the Theosophists are not only on the side of karmic retribution but also on the side that will “save us” from these “karmic consequences” by acting as masters of wisdom in the secret knowledge.

Markus tells in his biography that in the fifties he came in contact with the Order of the Holy Grail which was led by Elisabeth Ståhlgren in Stockholm. Markus was initiated in the highest degree of this order and he was later appointed her successor but he later chose to leave this order. This woman authored four books, one of which was “Agni yoga or fire yoga: an intrusion into cosmic knowledge”.

Agni Yoga came from the couple Helena Roerich and Nicholas Roerich who were also involved in the Theosophical Society. The term Agni Yoga means “Mergence with Divine Fire” or “Path to Mergence with Divine Fire”.

Other books written by Elisabeth Ståhlgren were Eternity – Infinity: The Doctrine of 10 Dimensions and The Grail, The Eucharist, Man. The fourth book was called “The Interpretation of the Book of Revelation” and in this book we can read a prophecy about a Messenger who will come from the Nordic countries.

In the interpretation of Johanne’s Book of Revelations, written by Elisabeth Ståhlgren, chapter 19, page 158, we can read the following:

”The man on the white horse, he who comes as a conqueror, is the man from the North, about whom the seers have been telling for a long time. He will come to introduce the new age for the people of the Earth. He is a being belonging to higher worlds, but with experience from the struggles and strife of the lower realm, in which he is an active participant himself. His mantle is soaked with the blood of the enemy, and the enemy is Lucifer (Satan) who took residence in the body of the beast. Thus he is one with humankind, its victorious part.”

Alexander writes in his book Satan is the man of the day:

“At the beginning of every age, when man has sunk deeper and deeper into matter and into despair, the creator of the world, Sat Purush, sends his messenger to help lower civilizations. This is so that man can attain a higher cosmic consciousness and thereby free himself from suffering and misery. This time he has chosen to send a special messenger, with a special message.”

“From the Nordic countries, it is said in the prophecies, the essence that will lead the people in the new will emerge. He is a being belonging to higher worlds, but with experience from the struggle and battle of the lower realms, in which he himself actively participates. His mantle is dipped in the blood of the enemy, and the enemy is Satan, Lucifer, who has taken up his abode in the body of the Beast. So he is also one with humanity, the victorious part. In the 19th chapter of the book of Revelation, John reads: And I saw the heavens open, and there I saw a white horse; and the man who sat on it is called “faithful and just,” and he judges and fights in righteousness.”

In the book of Revelation, there are two white horses, one at the beginning and one at the end, showing different things. Revelation 6 shows a white horse as one of the riders of the Apocalypse “And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer” chapter 19 shows “And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war” It looks as if, in Alexander Markus prophecy, it has become a mix of both horses. Markus acts here as the savior, who will help us away from the Beast (the mind), by us developing a higher cosmic consciousness. He will help us free ourselves from our destructive ego. Markus message about the Beast shows that it is not a spiritual being but is man’s own mind, an ego to which man has handed over his actions.

“The beast in the Book of Revelation is a unit with a trinity in itself, it represents three powers, in the same way that man is a trinity with soul, body and mind. The beast’s 3-part being includes the number 7, which corresponds to man’s 7 energy bodies, symbolized by the beast’s 7 heads. Man has left the right to decide over his actions to the Beast, the mind, the ego or Satan, ie, that he has crowned his horn, representing his power. These are ten in number. Ten in number are also the cosmic dimensions of the world of the mind that lead man to the absolute consciousness of his source of origin, the ur-energy and the form-manifested universe. She does not reach it until she has deprived the Beast of its crowns, that is, has freed itself from the influence of the sensory world, Lucife.”

“The first encounter with the Beast I tells us that it is the falsehood in disguise that is before us. It puts on the lamb’s robe. He lulls his surroundings into the notion of his spotlessness, innocence. He is a picture of the calculated fraud, stands as a representative of the late who lives on the human weakness and uses it to his own advantage.”

“Beast II are the preachers who have clothed themselves in the robes of the wolf and call everyone else false prophets.”

Alexander says that it is Satan (and the Beast) who is opposed to man’s higher consciousness and that it is Satan who tempts him to make himself a God.

“Satan and Arhiman are the two great opponents of the cosmic evolution of mankind. Satan tempts man to make himself cosmically independent of the Supreme Creator, Sat Purush, and tempts him to make himself a God.”

“I’m not talking about that well-known figure in red or black tights and with a fire fork in his hand that many of you imagine him to be. I am talking about a force, a mysterious force that is prevalent in the human mind. A force that has been personified as it operates through so many millions of human channels. Satan or Lucifer is the negative force personified, the fallen angel who is the morning star of Creation, of matter. He is the creator of matter, the form-manifested universe. He is the personification of the Ego. He is the Universal Mind that Dr. Jung called “the collective unconscious.” He is the opposite of the Supreme Creator, the Creator of the Soul. He is the Anti-Spirit, the Mind, the Anti-Man clothed in matter form. It is the mind, the ego that separates, distinguishes the spiritual, human consciousness from the consciousness of God.”

“Satan is not an evil being. He is the Supreme Creator of the manifest universe.”

Alexander talks about that it is through the mind itself that we can make ourselves a God.

“There is virtually no limit at all to what the mind can do when awakened properly. A yoga master who knows how to awaken and control the inherent forces of his own mind can stop a train anywhere he wants it to stop. He can cause a downpour of rain to fall from clear skies within minutes. He can do virtually anything with the forces of nature if he so wishes. Milarepa, Tibet’s greatest yoga master, has accomplished all this and much more. Remember that thought is a huge force. But these yoga skills have nothing to do with human cosmic development, they are just a play with the forces of nature. “

Markus continues in his book:

“But the genuine cosmic Masters can do all these things, and even their higher-developed disciples, but they seldom use such forces in their own interest because they are here on earth primarily to teach humanity and not to gain admirers.”

Markus writes here that man can become a God not only by being tempted by Satan’s influence but also by seeking the supreme Creator whom he calls Sat Purush. In Genesis we can read that the serpent tempted man to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and then the eyes would be opened and man would become like gods.

Genesis 2

15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Genesis 3

1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

KJV

Markus claims that through the powers of the Mind we can become like a God and at the same time say that seeking Sat Purush has nothing to do with magic and rituals. Becoming a God for good and evil can also be seen as using white or black magic, but Alexander says that we become like a God even by simply searching for divinity or the power of God. Seeking God leads us on a path where we ourselves can become a God. In other words, a “higher cosmic consciousness” is equated with becoming a God.

“Man believes in his ignorance and naivety that those who engage in magic, healing and mediumship have something to do with divinity or with the power of God.”

“We do not prescribe any rituals or ceremonies for the cosmic development of mankind, because rituals and ceremonies belong to magic and capture and keep man in the world of ideas.”

Alexander says that he does not prescribe any rituals or ceremonies and that “seeking the power of God” or “God” has nothing to do with magic. He describes the power of God as Sat Purush. Who or what is Sat Purush? Consciousness is equated with the Soul and it is through the Soul that we get this “cosmic consciousness”. Sat Purush is described as the Supreme Creator.

If we go back in Indian history, we find a creation myth in the Vedic hymns written in Sanskrit.

1 A thousand heads hath Puruṣa, a thousand eyes, a thousand feet. On every side pervading earth he fills a space ten fingers wide. 2 This Puruṣa is all that yet hath been and all that is to be; The Lord of Immortality which waxes greater still by food. 3 So mighty is his greatness; yea, greater than this is Puruṣa. All creatures are one-fourth of him, three-fourths eternal life in heaven. 4 With three-fourths Puruṣa went up: one-fourth of him again was here. Hymn XC. Puruṣa,” Rig Veda

Here Purusa is described as a great immortal being called the “Lord of Immortality”. In Upanishad’s and later texts, Purusha changed from the Vedic definition to no longer being a “being” to becoming a more abstract and complex definition according to modern historians. Here Purusa was changed to have a more pantheistic worldview. Pantheism is a conception of God in which the whole of nature, the world or the universe is animated by a transcendent spiritual being, in which everything is one. Sat Purush is also described as a “Cosmic Being” and “Father of the Soul”.

Alexander Markus also describes this “transcendental spiritual being” and mentions Goethe’s “magical” worldview.

“In Goethe’s worldview, which is of a magical nature, both human spiritual and physical existence are connected with the whole universe, with the stars, the sun and the planets. Goethe rather saw the celestial bodies as the physical manifestations of cosmic beings, higher developed intelligences that radiate cosmic forces within the spheres of their orbit. Neither those initiated into the ancient mysteries nor the occultists of today thought of the macrocosm in such concepts as space-time and the dimension of eternity, but rather saw them as spheres of transcendental consciousness. Those who have been initiated into ritual magic, whether white or black, seek to expand their consciousness in what they call the “astral light” of the planetary spheres. The purpose of their magical rites is to channel the cosmic forces or “project” these forces from the depths of their own being. To help achieve this goal, they use a whole range of signs, symbols, colors and shapes as part of their rituals to bring the magician into special powers that he or she wants to serve.”

Ritual magic is described here as something used to “channel” the “cosmic forces” and bring the magician into connection with the forces he wants to serve. Who or what is Sat Purush? A “being” that is described as a “cosmic being” that can be reached with the help of a “cosmic” consciousness. Is Goethe’s “physical manifestations of cosmic beings” also something that can be called “Sat Purush”? Alexander also describes that only Sat Purush can free the soul from its captivity and that a Master sent by Sat Purush is the only one who can “free” this soul from its captivity in the forehead region.

“Man (the soul) is trapped in a trap until he has learned his lesson. Only the Supreme Creator, Sat Purush, can free the soul from its captivity.”

“There are no self-initiated, or persons initiated in black magic by so-called occult or mystery schools, who can reach higher cosmic dimensions. They must be initiated by a High Master from the 5th dimension.”

According to the Christian traditional view of sorcery, a pact is made between a person and Satan, or a small demon, where one offers one’s soul in exchange for something such as immortality, wealth, fame or power. You exchange your soul for some form of magic.

What happens if we give up our soul to Sat Purush?

Alexander describes the “faithful servants of the negative powers” as lust, anger, greed, vanity, and selfishness, and he talks about how it is their task to lead the soul astray and seize the world of the mind.

“The soul sits in the innermost chamber of man, in the forehead region, in the corpus pinealis like a captain on his ship. The captain sits in his cabin and oversees his ship.”

“If a mutiny were to break out due to the whiskey bag that the crew has brought on board, if the helmsman were to be captured by the crew and replaced with a mutineer and if the captain were to be locked in his cabin, then he is helpless. He’s a prisoner on his own ship. It is the same with the state of the soul when the five mutineers, the passions are given free rein and seize the ship, the world of the mind and the body. It is important to keep in mind that the soul is in enemy territory and that it is constantly surrounded by the faithful servants of the negative powers, the five adversaries. In addition, these five are very anxious to get drunk with intoxicants. They have been commissioned to lead the soul and the world of the mind astray and cause them difficulties and troubles. That’s their job.”

Seeking God and the power of God with the help of the soul and seeking to become one with God can be a dangerous path to take. The risk is that we get lost and our soul ends up where it does not belong. Who then steers our ship if the soul has been lost?

The Lord will protect you from all evil; He will keep your soul.

Psalm 121:7

“Bring my soul out of prison, So that I may give thanks to Your name; The righteous will surround me, For You will deal bountifully with me.”

Psalm 142:7

“Satan är dagens man” is the title of a book published by author Alexander Markus in 1995 by Caduceus publishing company. This book was published only in Swedish and the title translated into English is “Satan is the man of the day”.

The book is written as a story told to a group of people who have gathered at an inn in Switzerland during the late 20th century. These different people represent the governing forces in society in politics, business, the economy, the media, religion and the family. These people are visited by a mysterious stranger (representing the author himself) who begins to tell a story about the negative power of the universe which he describes as the embodiment of the mind and ego in the form of Satan. This story goes back in time and describes what was behind the rise of Hitler and Nazism and its connection to black magic and secret societies. It also goes into the multidimensional nature of man and he describes how the Soul and Mind work in relation to matter. It also has a section on “cosmic psychology” that shows how the mind is governed by the negative forces behind the world of the mind.

Alexander Markus writes on the back of the cover:

“We must become aware of ourselves as individuals and our role in this cosmic theatre. The choice is in our hands. We decide who will rule the world, God or Satan.”

Alexander Markus presents himself as a very highly developed person compared to most people on Earth. He actually describes himself as a person who has reached the highest spiritual levels that one can experience as a human being. He describes the world of the mind and the Soul in a special way and he claims that we ourselves can experience and understand creation if we reach the same spiritual levels that he himself has reached. Through his spiritual development, his spiritual vision has led him to be able to see through the world of the mind and describe reality as it actually looks.

Can Alexander really see reality and show its true nature or is he a liar and deceiver?

Markus writes:

“The truth is relative. Each individual has his truth and these individual truths are like access roads that lead to the main road. Before we get to the main road, our experiences are individual. When we reach the main road, our experiences are shared. In each specific situation there are several possibilities, e.g. when it comes to describing an event. By and large, there are as many ways to describe an event as there are people. But still, there is only one real truth about what really happened or is happening. Information about this truth is stored in the superconscious and if we can only open the right channels then we can have access to this information.”

To understand reality, we must have a higher consciousness, he writes, pointing out that consciousness and the Soul are the same thing. He shows that through his soul he can see his past lives.

“You can call me Jeshu ben Pandira, Markus Johannes, Saint Germain or John Mark if you like. I’m known by many names.”

Markus also describes that his spiritual vision is based on science:

“The words cosmic or spiritual have nothing to do with religion or idolatry. Religions are based exclusively on faith, while the cosmic or spiritual is based on the science of man and the universe.”

In Alexanders descriptions of reality he shows that there is a Universal Mind and an absolute consciousness in the Soul that is connected to what we call God. He calls this Atma Vidya (science of the soul).

“Cosmic psychology describes man from a space-time, and an eternity-dimensional point of view and demonstrates the difference between Mind and Soul. The Mind descends from the Universal Mind and belongs to the 4th dimension, while the Soul descends from the 5th dimension of eternity, infinity, the energy ocean of the absolute consciousness.”

Markus describes that in order to be able to see through the Mind and reach the Master in life, we must be able to separate the Soul from the world of the Mind.

“These are, from the point of view of consciousness, the most highly developed among mankind and who have attained Mastery in life, souls who have developed a cosmic four- and five-dimensional consciousness. There are only a few such intelligences on earth at present. They usually come from higher civilizations. How come they know so much more than what modern science accepts as knowledge? This is because they are able and equipped to separate (move their consciousness) from the physical body and that they are able to separate themselves from the world of the mind and to see themselves as pure cosmic energy, as five-dimensional beings. …”

“All those who have achieved mastery in life can do this in full day consciousness and not under any kind of trance state or suggestion used by so-called channeler or by hypnosis or regression therapists.”

In Alexander’s cosmology, he divides creation into two parts, which he calls Sat Purush and Kal Purush (Sanskrit language). The soul comes from God who is Sat Purush and the Mind from Kal Purush.

“The opposite polarity of Sat Purush is the negative pole, the universal mind, called Kal Purush, which is a projection of Sat Purush, a mirror image. Kal Purush is also known as Brahma by the Hindus, Jehovah by the Jews and Lucifer, Satan and the Antichrist by the so-called Christians.”

“The word Kal, means Spirit of Time, time, death, the transient. All that is time-bound and undergoes dissolution and transformation in the universe. Purush or Purusha means creative power, creator.”

Alexander also claims to be able to read from the “cosmic chronicle” to be able to see events that have taken place during the history of the Earth. A large part of this book describes the story of Hitler and Himmler and the Nazis’ connection to the negative pole Kal Purush, which he also calls the world of the mind. He also divides the world of the mind into different regions and compares this with the different chakra systems we have in the body. He says the lowest chakra levels lead to black magic and the highest to God and Sat Purush. He also describes the story of Hitler as a form of karmic retaliation that humanity has invited for its evil deeds in the past and that Hitler would be embodied in the execution of this evil karma.

“To the karmic retaliation that plagued Europe in the early and mid-twentieth century. To the influence of Satan and Arhiman during the 2000-year history of man and how this force clothed itself in the form of Adolf Hitler to teach man humility and love through suffering.”

“The rise of Nazism during the first decades of the 20th century and the Second World War, in which 25 million people were killed, in addition to all the suffering it caused to many survivors, was nothing more than a karmic consequence of what humanity has accomplished in 2000 years. It was the task of the Negative Powers to ensure that humanity paid in the form of war and suffering, in accordance with what they had done to each other. “

“Is it not the case that Hitler possessed a higher transcendental consciousness compared to most of his peers? Maybe he was just an instrument of fate, the law of karma.”

Hitler was also part of the World Doppelganger (spirit double) and the Anti-Spirit.

“The Negative Hierarchy, the World Doppelganger, the Anti-Spirit, the Antichrist, the Luciferian power are embodied in politics, in religion and in the financial world on earth and its actions have influenced and are constantly affecting human development.”

Markus then writes about a hierarchy which he divides into two poles and calls the Cosmic Federation. Note that he describes this hierarchy as consisting of two poles, a negative and a positive, as an organization that is one and the same and of a dual nature.

“This Federation consists of Highly Developed Souls that many know as Master Figures or Wisdom Teachers. They constitute the highest Hierarchy or Council of the form-manifested universe. This Hierarchy is of a dual nature. A positive called the Great White Brotherhood, the Divine Hierarchy or the Galaxy Council and a negative one called the Black Brotherhood, the Powers of Darkness or the Hierarchy of the Antispirit. Both of these hierarchies serve the Creator and the Creation. These two forces interact with each other and are dominant in different time periods depending on the human involution and evolution process. They are as necessary for our development as the mirror is for us to be able to see ourselves as we are and not as we have imagined we were.”

Alexander also describes that in the events of World War II, these two poles were present in the events of the war and he writes that both the Black Brotherhood and the White Brotherhood had a part in the secret society of the war. One of these societies was called the Theosophical Society. The Theosophical Society is well known these days and also all secret societies that have connections to these lodges such as the Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Ordo Templi Orientis and Golden Dawn. Alexander also says that Rudolf Steiner was one of the leaders of the Cosmic Federation:

“Leader of Europe within the Cosmic Federation was Dr. Rudolf Steiner, the most consecrated Christian adept at the turn of the century. That is why Adolf Hitler could not hide any of his activities from Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual vision, and he declared that he was the main enemy of the Nazi party. Dr. Rudolf Steiner from the year 1902 to 1912, was general secretary of the German section of the Theosophical Society, which he left in 1912 to form anthroposophy.”

Alexander also claims that the Cosmic Federation was in Tibet:

“We must remember, however, that Helena Petrovna Blavatsky’s so-called Theosophical Lodge did not have any permission from the then spiritual head of Tibet, the head of the activities of the Cosmic Federation, the Great White Brotherhood on earth, the Panchen” Tashi “Lama, Hutulktu, Kvan- shi, Dhyan Chohan for the 6th root race, something that HP Blavatsky invoked in his teaching and uses to found the Theosophical Society. The Cosmic Hierarchy, the Federation, has never given its permission, either in writing or orally, for the publication of such information and material that was known to be misused due to ignorance and for selfish reasons, for black-magic purposes. H.P. Blavatsky’s way of publicly publishing her The Secret Doctrine which she has received from the Tibetan Spiritual Head Panchen “Tashi” Laman, Kot Humi Lal Singh, was completely contrary to what the Cosmic Federation approved. Her publication resulted in the emergence and spread of secret orders in the world, whose activities were mainly based on black magic and the information they received in her book. Adolf Hitler’s perversion of the Cosmic Doctrine could have been avoided if he had not had access to H.P. Blavatsky’s The Secret Doctrine, the title of which already indicates that its contents were “secret” and not intended for public use.”

Alexander Markus goes on to write about the magical symbols that have influenced world development and describes the story of Longinus’ spear and how it has been replaced by the Holy Grail and shows how Rudolf Steiner describes this Grail Cup.

“The Holy Lance (Longinus spear) which appears in Rickard Wagner’s opera Parcifal, has influenced world development throughout history and its power has now been broken and replaced by the Holy Grail, the Grail Cup, the symbol of the New Age. The symbol of the higher cosmic man.”

“Rudolf Steiner sees in Jesus the union of two human currents, a fusion between the sinless, five-dimensional (cosmic), immaculate nature of the soul before the Fall, and the perfect earthly wisdom it gained after thousands of years of development through reincarnations. He believed that this mysterious union between cosmic consciousness and earthly wisdom was the holy grail that many have sought throughout the ages.”

Alexander shows in his book that Walter Johannes Stein (1891-1957) who was a student of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) and his Anthroposophy belonged to the positive side and tells that Stein “infiltrated” the Thule Society. Stein wrote the book “The Ninth Century and the Holy Grail” in 1928.

The book also describes Max Heindel (1865-1919) who Alexander lists as his cosmic brother. Max Heindel was a Danish-American occultist, astrologer and mystic who joined the Theosophical Society in Los Angeles and became its vice president in 1904-05. Heindel also met Rudolf Steiner on a trip to Germany in 1907 and later founded The Rosicrucian Fellowship in 1909.

The author Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke published in 1985 the book The Occult Roots of Nazism which describes the Nazis’ connections to occultism and Ariosophy in Germany and Austria and shows the esoteric ideology built up by Guido von List and Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels. Many of the esoteric and occult societies that helped build the Nazi ideology had their inspiration from the Theosophical Society and many were also members of the Theosophical Societies that existed in Germany and Austria.

Vienna’s Theosophical Society, founded in 1887, also lists its members as members of the Guido von List Society. Rudolf Steiner is also listed as a resident of both the German and Austrian parts of the Theosophical Society.

The German part of the Theosophical Society also had members of the Guido von List Society. Franz Hartmann (1838-1912) who was an acquaintance of Helena Blavatsky started the German part of the Theosophical Society in 1896 at the same time as he was also a supporter of the Guido von List Society and one of the founders of the Ordo Templi Orientis. From the Guido von List Society also emerged in the year 1912 the Germanenordern and the Reichskammerbund. In the Germanenorder we also find Rudolf von Sebottendorf who founded the Thule Society in 1918.

Alexander writes that the actions during World War II were karmic retaliation and that Hitler, under the influence of Satan and Arhiman, carried out this suffering for humanity. We can see that the secret societies that Alexander calls the Black Brotherhood or Black Lodges that built the ideology of Nazism were part of the Theosophical Society and so were those who belonged to the White Brotherhood.

Is it not the case that this “cosmic theatre” shows who is really pulling the strings in his puppets?

“Poor slaves, shackled and bound by a force you neither know nor understand. Should I tell you who he is? You who are all his slaves … Satan, my friends! Satan is the man of the day! “