Uranus, Neptune and Pluto – The Three Magi at Humanity’s Crossing of the Threshold

© Terry Boardman Background The three years 1998, 1999, 2000 are all intimately related to the number 666, which the Apocalypse of St John in the New Testament describes as the number of the Beast, or Antichrist – a Being who will pretend to be the Christ, but who will in fact seek to enslave humanity.                     1997 ÷ 3 =...
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The Millennium In The Light of Anthroposophy

© Terry Boardman   Nov. 1999 How can one understand the Millennium in the light of Anthroposophy? First, by recognising that the Millennium has to do with Christ. There are of course those who say that the dating is all wrong, and that Jesus, if he lived at all, must have been born in 4 BC or earlier. This is not the place to go into the complexities of what Rudolf Steiner had to say about...
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Aspects of the Occult Significance of the Year 1998

© 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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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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