Thank you for posting this, placekicker17. The description of the three types of evil in this substack made perfect sense to me, and I really enjoy the author's thinking, writing, and -- elsewhere -- his morbid sense of humor. (Here's how he describes his substack on the subscription page: "Occasional meditations on depressing topics").

But enough of that. Here's what got me hooked:

Professor Bruce Charlton, on his blog Charlton Teaching, has written extensively about the nature of evil. According to Charlton, there are three types of evil. Luciferic, Ahrimanic, and Sorathic. As he explains,

This ordering is reflected in several ways, which are related.

First it describes the ordering of dominance in history, secondly the degree of evil-ness, and thirdly it reflects the societal hierarchy of The Masses, The Establishment, and The Satanic powers.

By societal hierarchy I mean that Luciferic evil dominates the Masses - who are evil in impulsive, short-termist ways; Ahrimanic evil is typical of the Global Establishment and its managerial-class servants - who regard Men as merely human resources towards abstract goals; and the Sorathic evil of negation, value-inversion and destruction of The Good is characteristic of the demonic overlords.

Let’s explore each a bit.