Letters to the Editor—Alternate Perceptions Magazine, January 2026
A reader recently wrote us about an article in our June 2003 edition. He wrote: You published a title called RUDOLF STEINER, UFOs, and AHRIMAN.
Here is your author’s quote:
In his lecture in Dornach on May 12, 1921, Steiner predicted that humankind might be forced to live with “ant people,”. If evolution goes awry: “From the earth there will spring forth a terrible brood of beings, a brood of automata of an order of existence lying between the mineral and the plant kingdoms and possessed of an overwhelming power of intellect.
Here is what Steiner ACTUALLY said:
when the moon unites again with the earth. And from the earth there will spring forth a terrible brood of beings, a brood of automata of an order of existence lying between the mineral and the plant kingdoms and possessed of an overwhelming power of intellect.
This swarm will seize upon the earth, will spread over the earth like a network of ghastly, spider-like creatures.
No where does he mention any people but rather SPIDERS and he mentions that this takes place when the moon and the earth merge which is not in this earth’s incarnation but (Steiner goes on to say WHEN this will happen), in the seventh millennium, a time will come when their bodily nature will be capable of development only until the fourteenth year of life. Then, women will cease to be fertile; an entirely different form of living on earth will come about.
That will be the time when the moon will again approach the earth and will be incorporated into it.
Please retract his article for the sake of the community.
Author Robert Filocco replied to this editor’s (Brent Raynes) request for comment on this. He replied that the quote is accurate and not out of context. "Steiner mentions spiders, locusts, and yes antlike beings in this context of human evolution going astray," he wrote. "That's the main point, not whether we refer to them as people or automats. ...If you want to change the term from people to insect like automata, that is fine with me. Seems to me like either an overreaction in the spirit of protecting Steiner's work, which I respect, or an attempt to censor the overall paper which is supported by direct quotes and references. The hyperbolic reaction to an accurate quote that is a very small part of the paper is disturbing."
Other readers caring to respond to this issue are invited to do so.
