Aspects of the Occult Significance of the Year 1998

Posted by on Jul 13, 2012 in miscellaneous | 0 comments © Terry Boardman  April 1998 * This essay is an abridged version of a lecture given by the author in Stourbridge, England 27.2.1998 to members of the Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain   Rudolf Steiner  saw the end of the 20th century as a culmination for anthroposophy and as a crucial testing time for mankind. The year 1998, he said,  is especially important because it is the...
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ON THE DEATH OF DIANA, “QUEEN OF HEARTS”

Posted by on Jul 12, 2012 in miscellaneous | 0 comments ©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

Posted by on Jul 12, 2012 in miscellaneous | 0 comments 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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Saturn Returns…

Posted by on Jul 11, 2012 in miscellaneous | 0 comments © Terry Boardman This essay was first published in New View magazine Issue 57 Oct-Dec 2010 “It’s useful to remember that an organism can have a future and a past only with respect to its organic present, and also that a person cannot have a future and a past unless his or her mental present is viable.” (1) Sitting in the garden gazing at the flowers, the majestic clouds of late...
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2011: Utøya – The Cross and the Roses

Posted by on Jul 9, 2012 in miscellaneous | 0 comments This essay first appeared in New View magazine Autumn 2011 Terry Boardman In the course of a year, all of us here on Earth move round the Sun once. As the Earth orbits the Sun, so too do all the other planets of our solar system at their differing speeds and thus they come into different mathematical relationships with each other. Astrologers call these relationships ‘aspects’. For...
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Axiomata and Metanoia – Changing Our Minds in the 21st Century

Posted by on Jul 7, 2012 in miscellaneous, most recent | 0 comments This essay was first published in New View magazine Issue 63 June-August 2012 Axiomata and Metanoia (1) – Changing Our Minds in the 21st Century        The Mood of the New Century Under the surface of all the turmoil of the new 21st century  has been the burgeoning hype surrounding “the 2012 phenomenon”: will the world end in 2012 because of the supposed predictions of the...
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