Is that what Horstmann meant? It still doesn't identify who or what is "the Beast".
Christians speak of "the Beast" in the Book of Revelation. But even they cannot agree who or what it is.
Good question, the only thing I can find in English about his book The Beast is he suggest the use of nuclear weapons in order to bring forth the extinction of the human race.
For him only the annihilation of life would give rise to a universal redemption in which we would once again achieve the existential peace of inorganic matter.