The ‘Ghost’ of Rome and the ‘Spectre’ of the Old Testament

This article was first published in New View magazine #116 July-Sept. 2025 I recently returned from a working trip to Italy, which included a stay of 8 days in Rome, my first visit to the city. While there, I went to a number of well-known historical sites, including the Colosseum and the Circus Maximus, the latter of which was used in ancient times for races, notably the very popular quadriga...
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The 1960s: a Generation’s Path through Will, Wisdom, Love and Illusion.

This article was first published in New View magazine #112 Summer 2024 We are now perhaps far enough away from the 1960s to be able to look back on that decade – and many of us are still alive who can remember what it was like to be young at that time – and realise that it was a time that is extraordinarily pregnant with meaning and vividly illustrative of the contemporary spiritual struggles...
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Christ in Ansbach

  CHRIST IN ANSBACH The Working of the Logos                                                                        Or                                                                        The Beginning of the 5th Creation         ...
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A Different Country? The 13th Century and Today (2)

This article was first published in New View magazine #111 April-June 2024 Part 1 of the article is here: http://threeman.org/?p=3182 IN the presence of Rudolf Steiner during his visit to Britain in the late summer of 1923, on 2 September the Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain was founded, and Daniel N. Dunlop proposed that Rudolf Steiner become its president for life, which Steiner...
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A Different Country? The 13th Century and Today (1)

This article was first published in New View magazine #109 Oct-Dec 2023  “The past is a different country; they do things differently there”.                         – L.P. Hartley in The Go-Between (1953) This past summer my wife and I escaped the relentless eight weeks of the cool, dull, grey English “summer”, in which we rarely saw the sun, (at least where I...
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In Defence of Rudolf Steiner – A Response to J. Paul Greenaway

This article was written as a response to J. Paul Greenaway’s article Is “spiritual science” science? The flawed legacy of Rudolf Steiner published in the Comment section of the UK Column website on 25 May 2023. UK Column declined to publish the article, and so it has been published here. J. Paul Greenaway’s waspish hit-piece on Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) (published on the UK Column...
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