The Present Age Volume 5 / No. 6 September 2019
Contents Editorial Impressions from a trip to the North “Fioritura” – Florescence Martin Meyer Saharabbi or the Beginning and End of Kali Yuga A spiritual journey by Countess Johanna von…
Impressions from a trip to the North
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…
The Present Age Volume 5 / No. 4/5 July/August 2019
Contents Editorial Beings of Lies and Truth The First Dissertation on Anthroposophy W.J. Stein’s Pioneering Achievement and its Acknowledgment by Vienna University “Nothing but the Philosophy of Freedom” A Contribution…
Beings of Lies and Truth
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….
The Present Age Volume 5 / No. 3 June 2019
Contents Editorial “The Passage from Good to Evil” Estate – High Summer Martin Meyer “It is Necessary to Clarify the Facts” World-historical events in Spring 1919 T.H. Meyer ‘Reflections and…
“The Passage from Good to Evil”
“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…
The Most Dangerous Extremism
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,…
The Present Age Volume 5 / No. 1/2 April/May 2019
Contents Editorial The Most Dangerous Extremism “Espansione” Martin Meyer “On the Shoulders of Giants” The Michael School and its four previous phases from the 15th century to the present and…
Rudolf Steiner Edited by T. H. Meyer: The First Class Lessons and Mantras – Recapitulation Lessons given in Prague, Berne, Breslau, London, and Dornach, 1924 (CW 270)
“Why does the Guardian of the Threshold stand there? The Guardian of the Threshold stands there because true knowledge can be achieved only when we approach it with the right,…
The Present Age Volume 4 / No. 12 March 2019
Contents Editorial Cut Off From the Spiritual World? 5G – The Final Assault Jeremy Naydler THREEFOLDING: 100 YEARS Karl Heyer: Esoteric Foundations and Aspects of Social Threefolding Indications by Rudolf…
Cut Off From the Spiritual World?
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 –…
The Present Age Volume 4 / No. 10/11 January/February 2019
Contents Editorial The Supersensible Michael School – and how we were able to forget it The Year as an Archetype of the Activity of the Human Soul Commentaries on Rudolf…
The Supersensible Michael School – and how we were able to forget it
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…
The Present Age Volume 4 / No. 9 December 2018
Contents Editorial Celebrating Christmas – on the Meditative Path of the Michael School The Year as an Archetype of the Activity of the Human Soul Commentaries on Rudolf Steiner’s Soul…
Celebrating Christmas – on the Meditative Path of the Michael School
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…