The Present Age Volume 2 / No. 10 January 2017
Contents Editorial Fake News, Trump and Steiner in the West LEITMOTIF FOR THE MONTH January Fred Poeppig Who is the Greater Guardian of the Threshold? T.H. Meyer The First Class…
Contents Editorial Fake News, Trump and Steiner in the West LEITMOTIF FOR THE MONTH January Fred Poeppig Who is the Greater Guardian of the Threshold? T.H. Meyer The First Class…
In the last few weeks a new English ‘buzzword’ has been ‘buzzing’ around the world’s media. Unlike older such buzzwords such as “conspiracy theories” this one is not even translated…
The Solari Report Interview with T.H. Meyer read more: PDF: The Solari Report – Introduction to Rudolf Steiner with T.H. Meyer
In the last issue we presented some sinister news about the media infowar. Firstly, we focused on the absurd campaign by western media like the BBC in England against the…
Contents Editorial Media Disgrace, a New Magazine and a Hero of the Spirit LEITMOTIF FOR THE MONTH December Fred Poeppig Who is the Greater Guardian of the Threshold? T.H. Meyer…
A Moltke Première in Colmar On 16 and 17 September a conference was held in Colmar dedicated to Helmuth von Moltke. The title was far-reaching: “Helmuth von Moltke et le…
Contents Editorial From the First World War to Today’s Propaganda War LEITMOTIF FOR THE MONTH November Fred Poeppig Judas and the Transformation of Evil T.H. Meyer Learning to Understand the…
Close to the 15th anniversary of the attacks of 11 September 2001 a very timely article appeared in the magazine Europhysics News at the end of August with the title…
Contents Editorial 9/11 Article in Physics Magazine Alarms the Media LEITMOTIF FOR THE MONTH October Fred Poeppig NATO is an Offensive Alliance An Interview with Daniele Ganser LETTER FROM STOURBRIDGE…
Contents Editorial Simple Facts – Gigantic Deceptions LEITMOTIF FOR THE MONTH September Fred Poeppig Judas and the Transformation of Evil T.H. Meyer MEDIA REVIEW “Sponsors of Terror” Franz-Jürgen Römmeler 9/11…
On 19 September the speech of Winston Churchill that he gave on the same day in 1946 in Zurich will again be much in the news: it was a great…
Contents Editorial What is Truth? LEITMOTIF FOR THE MONTH August Fred Poeppig Samuel Pisar – One of the Last Witnesses of the Holocaust T.H. Meyer China and Waldorf schools Martin…
The question which Pilate put to Christ in the course of his interrogation of Him, has many levels. Someone who follows the news will have to put this question continually…
Contents Editorial Mt. Sainte Odile, Brexit, Skull & Bones LEITMOTIF FOR THE MONTH July Fred Poeppig LETTER FROM STOURBRIDGE Britain’s EU Referendum Terry Boardman LETTER FROM BOSTON Obama In Hiroshima…
Church policy as world policy On 19 June a small group of people found themselves on Mont Sainte Odile in Alsace, France. They commemorated the great individualities Helmuth and Eliza…
There are certain periods, even certain years, in a human life which are of special significance, and the same is true of the history of nations. I wrote in the…
Contents Editorial A Great Bridge-Builder: Helmuth von Moltke – In memoriam LEITMOTIF FOR THE MONTH June Fred Poeppig THE MEMORIES OF LUDWIG POLZER-HODITZ Memories of Rudolf Steiner Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz Emil…
In this issue we are devoting a special insert for the commemoration of the 100th death day (18 June 1916) of Helmuth von Moltke (b. 23 May 1848), this important…
In the family in which I grew up there was no television, but we had some good neighbours, so my sister and myself, more often myself, from time to time…
Contents Editorial The moon landing and the manipulative power of the mass media LEITMOTIF FOR THE MONTH May Fred Poeppig The Urgent Need for New Economic Concepts Alexander Caspar LETTER…
On 19 February this year at the opening of a congress for biodynamic agriculture, a video was shown in which the Prince of Wales gave an address. In it Prince…
Contents Editorial Princes, Monarchs and the Drama of the Future THE MEMOIRS OF LUDWIG POLZER-HODITZ Memories of Rudolf Steiner Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz The Empire Strikes Back Terry Boardman The Spiritual…
Contents Editorial Russian Roulette, “Conspiracy Theories” and a great European The Right Experience of the Passage of Times Fred Poeppig The Problem of Evil Charles Kovacs Understanding the Interior of…
In February US President Obama quadrupled the 2016 military budget for the NATO armies advancing towards Russia’s western borders. These armies have, until now, constituted nothing but a provocation of…
Overcoming A Critical Experience Anyone who has for many years been seriously occupied with Anthroposophy will, sooner or later, experience something like what could be described in the following way:…
Contents Editorial Living with Anthroposophy and True Positivity The Anglo-American and Middle European-German Missions T.H. Meyer LETTER FROM BOSTON The Migrants and the German Government Andreas Bracher Media Review –…
Contents Editorial Gazing across centuries or digital dementia? St. Benedict, Reginald of Piperno, Thomas Aquinas and Rudolf Steiner T.H. Meyer The Nature of the Human Being (part 2) Rudolf Steiner…
Some World Historical Rhythms and Motifs The year 2016 does not promise to be a calm one, certainly not calmer than 2015. In such times of war, migrations, economic crises…
Just one day after the ISIS attack in Beirut which took the lives of more than 40 people, there was a series of attacks in Paris which killed more than…
Contents Editorial The Paris Attacks – Cui Bono? The Nature of the Human Being Rudolf Steiner The Solomon Jesus Child and The Christmas Light Inside Charles Kovacs Evidence of the…
read more: PDF: The Disastrous 21st Century, A Eurasian Conflict Imagined in London in 1992
read more: PDF: Commitment, Compromise and Communicide, Inner and outer challenges for the Camphill movement in the UK
Contents Editorial The “New Caliphate” – Planned Long Ago November, the Threshold Month T.H. Meyer November verse Monica von Miltitz Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition T.H. Meyer LETTER FROM STOURBRIDGE “The Disastrous…
Many Europeans lack the capacity to grasp long-range perspectives of the development of Europe and the world. This is not the case with the leading political circles in the West…
Why was the act of arson that destroyed the first Goetheanum so devastatingly successful in its malicious intent? What was the nature of the poisoning that Rudolf Steiner suffered in…
Contents Editorial Beyond Ambition, Vanity and Untruthfulness How to become a contemporary in the Michael Age T.H. Meyer LETTER FROM STOURBRIDGE Education and Economic Competition: Britain and China Terry Boardman…
One can certainly object to much in the policies of the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Mihály Orban, especially in regard to the current refugee crisis. But in one thing…
The shooting down of the MH-17 airliner in Eastern Ukraine on 17 July 2014 was and still is a cornerstone of Western policy against Russia. The mainstream media have with…
Contents Editorial Through dark events to the light of the spirit The Holy Peasant Charles Kovacs How to become a contemporary in the Michael Age T.H. Meyer 9/11 – 14…
Contents Editorial Will there be a rise of Europe? Assistance as Punishment: The Case of Greece Gerd Weidenhausen LETTER FROM STOURBRIDGE Midsummer Madness Terry Boardman My Path to Anthroposophy (part…
Every summer at the end of July and the first half of August in the northern hemisphere the so-called Perseids are visible in the constellation of Perseus. On founding our…
We are heading into a summer that holds much potential for conflict. From 10th to 14th June a Bilderberg Conference was held in Telfs, Austria. The topics on the agenda,…
Contents Editorial The powerful few and a speech by Vladimir Putin My Path to Anthroposophy Wilhelm Rath Letters to Owen Barfield Saul Bellow The spiritual background of Public Opinion T.H….
Almost daily, earthquakes or volcanic eruptions on various scales are occurring somewhere or other on our planet. Since the end of February Chile has suffered repeated earthquakes. Since mid-April Nepal…
April 14, 1935 was a Sunday . . . though no ordinary Sunday. It was what was later called Black Sunday*. On that very day there was a dust storm…
by Andreas Bracher PDF: The Papacy and the First World War
This volume begins with Thomas Meyer’s assessment of Anthroposophy’s evolution since Rudolf Steiner’s death and its future prospects. He offers an overview of the eighty-seven years of the development of…
Finally available in English, Thomas Meyer’s major biography of Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz (1869-1945) offers a panoramic view of an exceptional life. One of Rudolf Steiner’s most valued and independent-minded colleagues, Polzer-Hoditz…