The idology of Francis Bacon

We must carefully understand the actual meaning of his four kinds of idols! It is a great challenge for our powers of differentiation, of distinction, to understand what Bacon sees right and where he leads us into confusion. The principle of his philosophy is: Don’t accept principles. Just follow the data of perception and don’t […]

Conspiracy thinking 2

In ancient cultures, in which a magical or mythical awareness prevailed, everything that happened in life and in nature was considered from the point of view that God or the Gods intervened there. Nature and life were material of expression for God. If one wanted to influence that, one had to become active in that […]

Conspiracy thinking

After an extensive reflection on the moral intuition that we as human beings can receive and realize in life by living together with the angels in our souls, I would like to return to the theme that concerns us: the corona crisis. The four weeks of reflection on the question ‘What are the angels doing […]

Technical revolution

This week I will provide the quote about the third effect. We will find here his prophecy about a possible technical revolution – in which we are fully involved now, but which can still become ever more revolutionary… ‘As you know, the Luciferic beings have remained stationary at other stages of evolution and they introduce […]

Look at the angels, weaving images in our souls!

In his prophecy about the near future Steiner gave three warnings about what will happen if we remain asleep to the work of the angels in our astral body. In the first he described were the changes in the area of the will, through which not brotherhood but a fight between people would arise, one […]

Angels or devils

What would happen if we didn’t want to wake up for these ideas, if we slept on and on and let the angels do their work without us knowing it? In the same lecture Steiner describes that the human being – we – have to wake up for this work of the angels. Although there […]

The work of the Angels in our Soul

This time I quote Rudolf Steiner, from a lecture in GA 182. In this lecture the threefold ideal of the human being is given, and with the clairvoyant thinking it is seen where this ideal has its origin.  I have made some small textual adjustments to assist contemporary readers. ‘The Angels form pictures in our […]

Between Ascension Day and Pentecoast

Between Ascension Day and Pentecost, a different theme than Corona may well be touched on, although according to the word it fits well with Pentecost. In the Apocalypse, the letter to Philadelphia says: “Behold, I am coming soon; hold what you have, that no one may take your crown. (Revelation 3:11) The crown is also […]

Vermin?

I’m sorry to write with a certain irony this time. It’s not always avoidable. Next time I’ll take a different path. Once (long before I was asked to give a number of seminars on this theme in Bruges) I decided to write a novel for each of the twelve worldviews — as described by Rudolf […]

Learning

This time I want to take a different perspective. In the past weeks an image has been created of the human being as a being that can only defend itself passively. Keeping distance, wearing mouth caps, avoiding contact and so on. There is an attacker, and we can only meaningfully prevent our perishing by keeping […]