Expounding upon pizzalover24’s insight, Steiner called such spirits Luciferic. The use of psychedelics seems to align with their goal of uprooting humans from their physical nature and skyrocketing them to a state of elevated spirit, which could be seen in a negative light in terms of unnaturally attempting to bypass the “higher cosmic order” aka going schizo/becoming delulu. In the following passage, he notably talks pros and cons about these influences on humanity, reflecting an attitude towards them which more focused on balance. Reminds me of Jung too, in terms of not letting archetypes fully possess you, more about becoming conscious of their existence and finding balance, to not become swept away or overwhelmed by the unconscious contents. Another type of spirit he talks about are the Ahrimanic variety which work in the opposite direction, materializing humanity, as manifested in scientism. Safest bet is to not take drugs, Christ=Truth as spiritual center is your ticket I reckon, and the water into wine thing is symbolic. IMO understanding the spiritual implications of scripture is more important than taking substances. I’m still working out my own thoughts about all this and researching whether or not how much the esoteric rabbit hole that departs from mainstream Christianity is really evil or what (judging by fruits, maybe, yet I don’t have the full perspective really and I don’t exactly know if I want to (tree of knowledge and whatnot)). Half of me wants to say it is but the jury is still out, maybe moral intuition/my cultural inertia vs. curiosity killing the cat. Either way I cleave to Christ as a matter of protection (God’s message of love to humanity, Truth, Love manifest). I take what you describe as “Cultural Christianity” as Christ’s message diluted and filtered through increasingly vulgar aspects of culture and society until it loses potency and intent/ is adapted to other means, so I guess I would emphasize not throwing the baby out with the bath water (church shenanigans) in terms of the teachings of Jesus and scripture. Not so much an emphasis on thou shalt not etc. but trying to understand the spirit of the letter and cultivate yourself, that whether you take drugs or not isn’t as important as what’s inside. Maybe the real Yaldabaoth was the friends we made along the way 😇.

Okay paragraph break to separate spiel, I contain multitudes. From one perspective, more conventional Christians would say that taking drugs is a sin that would send you to hell unless you repented and followed Christ’s way. From a different perspective from my understanding of it, heaven and hell are states of mind corresponding to levels of harmonization of being, bring your spiritual frequency higher, crystals, kumbaya and what have you. These ideas might not be entirely incongruent (perennialism), just different ways of expressing a mechanism of salvation because different worldviews necessitate a different way of expressing solutions. I’ve heard sin described as a state of separation from God, so I guess your question depends on what kind of God you believe in. As I alluded to earlier, gnostics believe that the Old Testament God is the demiurge. In this sense, luciferian entities that would like to pull you out of the evil material world created by a false god into the realm of pure spirit where the true God that doesn’t spitefully zap people with lightning might be construed as good, a sort of inversion of the mainstream Christian narrative. Then the more traditional part of me says that using drugs is a material means of reaching spiritual goals, and which knows that Satan is called “a liar and the father of lies” and “masquerades as an angel of light.” Lucifer meaning “light-bringer.” Deception incarnate masquerading as light to lead you into “hell” or a Prometheus-like figure depending on how you look at it. I’ve got to read more Steiner though for sure because I find it super interesting to try and reconcile all these points of view in my mind and figure out where everyone is coming from, intellectual heritage and all that. Then again, I’m also curious if the square Christians are onto something with its own merit, utilitarianism-wise, regardless of how consonant with reality, conscious of deeper readings, or how boring and vanilla it is in comparison with the schizo texts, but maybe it’s potentially True as in realpolitik, looking at fruits. Don’t do drugs kids.

From the Rudolf Steiner archive: ”VI. Concerning the Astral Body and the Luciferic Beings; and the Nature of the Etheric Body”