Steiner placed Ahriman within a "cosmic triad" of forces that shape human history:
The concept of the comes primarily from the prophetic lectures of Rudolf Steiner , given in 1919. According to Steiner, Ahriman is a real spiritual entity—the embodiment of materialism, cold intellect, and technological enslavement—who is destined to incarnate in human form in the West during the third millennium. The Incarnation of Ahriman The Embodiment of Ev...
In the winter of 1919, Rudolf Steiner stood before audiences in Zurich and Dornach to deliver a series of startling warnings. He spoke not of a metaphor, but of a coming event: the physical . Steiner placed Ahriman within a "cosmic triad" of