The Source of True Positivity
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…
The Present Age Volume 3 / No. 9 December 2017
Contents Editorial The Source of True Positivity Thoughts on the Rhythm of the Year Commentaries on Rudolf Steiner’s Soul Calendar verses by Eleanor C. Merry Christ in the 20th Century…
The Present Age Volume 3 / No. 8 November 2017
Contents Editorial Lafayette’s Sword and the Sword of Michael Thoughts on the Rhythm of the Year Commentaries on Rudolf Steiner’s Soul Calendar verses by Eleanor C. Merry Friedrich Eckstein and…
Lafayette’s Sword and the Sword of Michael
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…
Trump, the Nation State and Ahriman
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…
The Present Age Volume 3 / No. 7 October 2017
Contents Editorial Trump, the Nation State and Ahriman Thoughts on the Rhythm of the Year Commentaries on Rudolf Steiner’s Soul Calendar verses by Eleanor C. Merry Evil in the Light…
Our sick financial system and its healing
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…
The Present Age Volume 3 / No. 6 September 2017
Contents Editorial Our sick financial system and its healing Thoughts on the Rhythm of the Year Commentaries on Rudolf Steiner’s Soul Calendar verses by Eleanor C. Merry 1917 – 2017:…
The Present Age Volume 3 / No. 5 August 2017
Contents Editorial How Far-sighted Should We Become? Thoughts on the Rhythm of the Year Commentaries on Rudolf Steiner’s Soul Calendar verses by Eleanor C. Merry A Fundamental Indication by Rudolf…
How Far-sighted Should We Become?
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…
The Present Age Volume 3 / No. 4 July 2017
Contents Editorial Sweet Freemasonry – an “Appreciation” in the Weltwoche Thoughts on the Rhythm of the Year Commentaries on Rudolf Steiner’s Soul Calendar verses by Eleanor C. Merry The Birth…
Sweet Freemasonry – an “Appreciation” in the Weltwoche
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…
1917-2017: Freemasonry, Globalisation and Threefolding
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…
The Present Age Volume 3 / No. 3 June 2017
Contents Editorial 1917-2017: Freemasonry, Globalisation and Threefolding Thoughts on the Rhythm of the Year Commentaries on Rudolf Steiner’s Soul Calendar verses by Eleanor C. Merry The Categories of Aristotle Thoughts…
The Present Age Volume 3 / No. 2 May 2017
Contents Editorial Hijacking Humanity’s Mind or Counting to Three? Thoughts on the Rhythm of the Year Commentaries on Rudolf Steiner’s Soul Calendar verses by Eleanor C. Merry The Spiritual Guidance…
Hijacking Humanity’s Mind or Counting to Three?
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…
Phantoms of Untruthfulness and the Salt of Truth
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…
The Present Age Volume 3 / No. 1 April 2017
Contents Editorial Phantoms of Untruthfulness and the Salt of Truth” Thoughts on the Rhythm of the Year Commentaries on Rudolf Steiner’s Soul Calendar verses by Eleanor C. Merry The Spiritual…
Lenin before the “The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb” – and the “Post-Fake Era”
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 Present Age Volume 2 / No. 12 March 2017
Contents Editorial Lenin before the “The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb” – and the “Post-Fake Era” LEITMOTIF FOR THE MONTH March Fred Poeppig Reminiscences of Hans Börnsen…
Rudolf Steiner Edited by T. H. Meyer: The First Class Lessons and Mantras – The Michael School Meditative Path in Nineteen Steps
“Initiation is precisely this: that we are able to see from the other side of the threshold. There, seeing is not just looking but is also reading. We read the…
The Present Age Volume 2 / No. 11 February 2017
Contents Editorial Trump – servant of America or humanity? LEITMOTIF FOR THE MONTH February Fred Poeppig Raphael’s “Transfiguration of Christ” Lecture by T.H. Meyer LETTER FROM STOURBRIDGE Two Symptomatic Speeches…
Trump – servant of America or humanity?
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…
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…
Fake News, Trump and Steiner in the West
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…