Harry Patch and the Panther’s Claw

© Terry Boardman July 2009 the UK declares the first part of its delicately and ‘democratically’ titled  “Panther’s Claw” operation (the British bit of the US army ‘surge in Afghanistan) to have been a success. The BBC today (27 July) said that the Foreign Secretary “has been setting out Britain’s diplomatic strategy” as if Foreign Secretary...
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The ‘Abolition’ of the Spirit: The Enigma of Canon XI – The Year 869 & Its Significance in the Destiny of Europe

This article first appeared in New View magazine Second Quarter Spring 2008 At the Christmas Conference for the refounding of the Anthroposophical Society Dec. 24th 1923 – 1st Jan. 1924 , Rudolf Steiner restored to western culture something that had been lost for nearly 1100 years, namely, the threefold image of Man – once known as the Trichotomy – the image of Man as consisting of...
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ON THE DEATH OF DIANA, “QUEEN OF HEARTS”

©Terry Boardman 14 September 1997 This essay first appeared in the German magazine Info3 in October 1997 Quite some time will have to go by before the British people will be able to gain some real clarity about the nature of the truly bizarre, unsettling and moving experience they went through in the week of 31st August to 6th September 1997 following the death of Diana in a car crash in a Paris...
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At the Birth and Death of a Century

This article first appeared in the German magazine “Info3″  April 1996 Plus ça change (plus c’est la même chose) is a French expression which we use in English (the more it changes, the more it’s the same thing). “As above, so below”, say the Hermeticists; this would appear to refer to the spatial structure of the world, but in occultism, it also refers to...
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The ‘Third Way’ of 1998 and the ‘New Politics’ of Today

This article was first published in New View magazine Issue 56 July-Sept 2010 Broadly speaking, one could say that the three main historical political parties in Britain – Liberal, Conservative and Labour  – correspond to three key factors that have played a great role in British history since the seventeenth century. Respectively, these three aspects are: the Liberal concern for the...
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