Miscellaneous Writings
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 third repetition in the Christian era of the number 666, the Number of the Beast in the Apocalypse. 3 beasts are mentioned in Apocalypse: a great red...
read moreON 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 underpass. Many agree that in some undefined way, it was indeed some kind of defining moment for the nation. Perhaps one has to go back to the death...
read moreAt 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 time – “as before, so later”. We can see from Rudolf Steiner’s descriptions of the sevenfold evolution of the Old Moon epoch...
read moreSaturn Returns…
© 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 summer, the buzzing insects, the gently swaying leaves of the horse chestnut tree, one’s mind given up only to these impressions, away from our...
read more2011: Utøya – The Cross and the Roses
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 example, when, from our perspective here on earth, two planets appear very close to each other, within say, 5° arc of space, they are said to be...
read moreAxiomata and Metanoia – Changing Our Minds in the 21st Century
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 Mayan Calendar? (2) There are conflicting moods of apocalypticism and messaianic millenarianism such as have occurred before at the turning of...
read moreHarry Patch and the Panther’s Claw
27 July 2009: the UK government declares the first part of its delicately and ‘democratically titled’ Operation Panther’s Claw (the British bit of the US army ‘surge’ in Afghanistan) to have been a success. The BBC today said that the Foreign Secretary “has been setting out Britain’s diplomatic strategy” as if Foreign Secretary David Milliband’s strategy to divide the Taliban originated with him……BUT in November 2008 in a speech at Chatham House (Royal...
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