A Different Country? The 13th Century and Today (1)

Posted by on Apr 29, 2024 in miscellaneous, most recent | 0 comments 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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Lines in the Sand: Britain, America and the Formation of the State of Israel

Posted by on Jan 27, 2024 in east west issues, First World War, most recent | 0 comments  A slightly revised and corrected version of an article that first appeared in New View magazine issue 110 Jan.-March 2024 David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister, read out Israel’s Declaration of Independence in the Tel Aviv Museum Hall on 14 May 1948; it included the following words: “In the year 5657 (1897), at the summons of the spiritual father of the Jewish State, Theodore...
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Three Kings and the Sun Demon

Posted by on Jul 15, 2023 in miscellaneous, most recent, nwo, Uncategorized | 0 comments This article first appeared in New View magazine Issue #108  July-Sept 2023 To the majestic heights of summer The Sun’s brilliant being arises It draws my human feeling out And into its vast expanse of space. Intuitively, within my soul A sense is stirring that dimly tells me: In future time you will understand That you now were perceived by a being divine. from Rudolf Steiner, The Calendar of...
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The Number 23

Posted by on May 30, 2023 in miscellaneous, most recent, threefold Society | 0 comments This article first appeared in New View magazine #107 April-June 2023 People born in the middle of a century, like me (1952), tend to look back to the beginning of the century, the time of their grandparents’ youth, as well as to the end of the century, the time of their own maturity and old age and also of their own grandchildren. As someone interested in history since childhood, this has...
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The Anglo-Russian Antagonism Part 1

Posted by on Jul 18, 2022 in east west issues, most recent, nwo | 0 comments To heal an illness, we must first diagnose it correctly; we must understand what is causing it. What then are the roots of the Anglo-Russian antagonism that we see going on related to the conflict in Ukraine? For while the local conflict there appears to be one between Russians and Ukrainians that has its own history in the decades and centuries of uneasy relations between those two Slavic...
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2022 – War in Ukraine

Posted by on Apr 28, 2022 in east west issues, most recent, nwo | 0 comments This article was first published in New View magazine No.103 April-June 2022 This year, which happens to be the Year of the Tiger in the traditional Chinese calendar, the month of March (in the western calendar) was dominated by the movements of the planet after which the month is named – Mars. When Vladimir Putin sent his troops into Ukraine on 24 February, Mars (lower aspect: aggression;...
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