TPA Editorial

Did you hear anything in the European mainstream press about the unusual events in Texas in the spring? Neither did I. Amazing, because on 10 March, Texas Governor Greg Abbott…

Mendacity as the Fundamental Characteristic of Public Life Rudolf Steiner spoke of “mendacity as the fundamental characteristic of the entire public life of our time” already in 1920 (21.8.1920, GA…

In his article “Strategic Theatre” (p. 27ff.) Arnold Sandhaus presents an issue that deserves our utmost attention: on 1 May of this year the Geneva-based W.H.O. commissioned the Anglo-American public…

The traditional autumn fair in Basel has been cancelled. Instead, we have been experiencing the forced roller coaster and ghost train rides of tightened Corona measures with the almost unlimited…

On 1 August, the Swiss national day, which passed tamely without any noticeable ‘fireworks’, something remarkable happened in the capital of Switzerland’s neighbour. Berlin was full of people, more almost…

A year ago I was invited again by the Wiesbaden branch to a give a lecture and a seminar this May. The subject: Ahriman’s knowledge, from the point of view…

No world dictator would have been able to achieve in a few weeks what the “virus”, against which no remedy has allegedly yet been found, has been able to achieve…

Just in time for 11 September, Catherine Austin Fitts published an interview with her and the editor of this magazine in Copenhagen in March 2019.1     The focus of the conversation…

On this trip I was fortunately able to escape the gaudy Swiss national day celebrations. The confederative cantons (Eidgenossen) – once named conspirati, oath-takers in the old spiritual league –were…

Nothing happens in the world one-sidedly. R. Steiner   Rudolf Steiner once referred to “mendacity as the basic trait of public life in our time”. That was in August 1920….

“No more and no less than the passage from good to evil” – This is the answer given by the spirit summoned by Lessing’s Faust when Faust asks him how…

There’s currently much talk about extremism. Even the mere word is enough to send a shiver down the spine of many people. Right-wing extremism is held to be particularly bad,…

Thoughts on the Coming 5G Mobile Phone Standard The new superfast, more efficient and wireless technology is supposed to be about to revolutionise mobile phone communication and the Internet –…

In her book Der Brief der Lehrerin (The Teacher’s Letter), written in her youth, Barbro Karlén says that at the age of 12 she had written that the human being…

Rudolf Steiner’s lectures on the great annual festivals were not for edification, intended to caress the soul. In the course of his activities they increasingly took on the character of…

Some thoughts about the present world situation Humanity is steeped in a permanent war – the “global war on terror”. It terrorises in fact a great number of souls trying…

In September I had a unique opportunity to visit China. First I visited Guangzhou, then the Waldorf teacher seminar in Beijing. Here are a few impressions from what I lectured…

The First Class Lessons and Mantras: The Michael School Meditative Path in Nineteen Steps – Under this title in Dec. 2015 Steinerbooks published the spiritual legacy of Rudolf Steiner from…

An Open Statement by the Chief Editor of Der Europäer and The Present Age Recently, several anthro-media put out an article “Open Anthroposophy and its Opponents”, consisting of short texts…

Karl Marx (1812–1883) wrote his “Communist Manifesto” in a café on the Great Square (la Grand Place) in Brussels in 1847. We pointed out the karmic background of Marx in…

There was a shocking scene during the public senate hearing in the USA in early May on the nomination of Gina Haspel as the new Director of the CIA. It…

If in the greater world a government doesn’t like the result of a referendum, it simply has it carried out again. That happened in June 2008 in Ireland. At the…

The Basel event of 3 March at the Scala in Basel has proved to be something of a barometer of the climate of public opinion in relation to key events…

A notable blunder by the Swiss tabloid Press Great events cast great shadows, but sometimes those shadows are cast not by the event itself, but by people for whom a…

We know so much. We are so terribly well-informed. Mails stream into my mailbox daily that tell me “the truth” about this or that greater or smaller event, with links…

Between 18 October and 24 November I had a unique occasion to tour the US 1. I gave 25 lectures in 10 places on the following subjects: “The World-Historic Significance…

What is the value of life? In a world of hunger, misery, continual acts of terrorism and war? In the face of the destruction, hatred, fear and greed that seem…

At the beginning of the 1930s something unusual occurred in the USA. Monica von Miltitz (1885-1972) presented the Rector of Lafayette College with a sword¹ that had belonged to the…

In his speech of September 19 in the General Assembly of the United Nations President Trump said: “As President of the United States, I will always put America first, just…

Editorial interview with Catherine Austin Fitts After a recent encounter with Catherine Austin Fitts in Basel who did an earlier interview1 with the chief editor of The Present Age, he…

Oliver Stone’s interviews with Vladimir Putin Oliver Stone (b.1946), the well-known American producer and film director, who recently made a film about Edgar Snowden, has undertaken, for more than two…

Modern Freemasonry celebrated its three-hundredth birthday on 24 June – and the Swiss weekly Die Weltwoche added its voice to the celebrations. The occasion: the day of the founding in…

Rudolf Steiner clearly distinguished between a Freemasonry with high, universally human aims and one with particular political interests. For the first kind one may look at the rituals for the…

One hundred years ago, in May 1917, Europe and the world were at war – as they have been in today’s global “War on Terror”. But in that spring month…

By “phantoms of untruthfulness” [Lügen-Phantome] spiritual science understands a kind of “nature being” which is created by human beings – by human lies, hypocrisy and the like – even by…

On a November evening in 1916 Vladimir I. Lenin (1870–1924), coming from his Zurich residence in exile, paid the city of Basel a little-known visit. The outward purpose of the…

The name of the 45th President of the United States is Donald Trump. Trump’s inauguration speech1 was like a slap in the face for the US Establishment and the  US…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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:…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

Charles Kovacs, in his important lecture about Anthroposophy, points out that all knowledge of the spirit rests within each human soul, like the fish in the depths of the sea….

Dear readers and future subscribers, This is the “free trial” issue of the English-version of the German-language monthly journal Der Europäer, now running into its 19th year. We decided to…