(Published in Grail World 12/99) Hell and devil belong together in the popular understanding. Who (like the majority today, including theologians) no longer believes in the devil, there will probably be no hell for him either. In issue 11, GrailWelt editor Siegfried HAGL investigated the question of whether the idea of an "adversary of God" *) is really just [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 11/99) In our time, many people struggle with religions, with "religious truths" in particular. Too much abuse has been committed to religious sentiment. Large religious communities put themselves at the service of earthly rule ideologies and were not ashamed to tolerate blatant injustice and violations of self-taught values for the purpose of exercising their own power [...]
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A master of the bizarre
(Published in GralsWelt 11/1999) There were and are many eccentrics on our planet who sometimes even make a name for themselves. One of the strangest among these outsiders is undoubtedly Charles Fort (1874-1932), who is so well known in the Anglo-Saxon-speaking world that two societies (the "Fortean Society" founded in New York in 1931 and the 1969 in Arlington, Virginia [...]
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Death from space
(Published in GralsWelt 9/1998) The latest research results clearly show that in the history of the earth there have been far more devastating collisions with comets or minor planets than previously assumed. These so-called “impacts” repeatedly destroyed life on earth as “death from space”. GrailWelt editor Siegfried HAGL describes the development of "impact research" and gives an outlook on protection options. [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 9/1998) Korea, the “land of the morning calm”, is often compared to Germany by its inhabitants. Because both countries were or are still divided as a result of the Second World War. This division of the country is all the more depressing for Koreans as they can say of themselves that - at least in the last millennium - of Korean [...]
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The Wizard of Cobenzl
(Published in GralsWelt 9/1998) Karl Freiherr von Reichenbach (1788 - 1869), the greatest, most righteous and decent scientist of the 19th century and the third greatest since the fall of Atlantis. Franz FERZAK, 1987 In our society the "recognized science" dominates, which declares itself responsible for all areas of life and human society as the last authority [...].
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The Legacy of Confucius
(Published in GralsWelt 8/1998) In East Asia, Christianity, Christian ethics, and Christian thinking are a comparatively new phenomenon. Old, very old, on the other hand, are the "classic attitudes towards life". In our series on “Wisdom of Asia”, Siegfried Hagl deals with the legacy of Confucius. "In a Confucian society, every individual must strive to show their loyalty to the society to which they belong [...]
(Veröffentlich in GralsWelt 7/1998). In Peking wurde ein „Atlas der Schande“ erarbeitet, in dem „Hundert Jahre der Schmach und Erniedrigung durch die kolonialen Herren“ erfasst sind. „Was immer geschehen mag, wir haben das Maxim-Gewehr und sie haben es nicht.“Hilaire BELLOC (1870-1953). Denn leider haben Europäer und Amerikaner sich in Ostasien seltener durch praktiziertes Christentum hervorgetan […]
(Published in GralsWelt 6/1997) A biblical commandment and the practice of the economy The world economy is apparently unstoppable on the way to globalization, which brings changes at all levels of the economy. Seemingly inviolable principles of the welfare state and the trade union movement are shaken and force discussions about new forms of economic activity, the [...]
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The global disaster
By Walter Wittman Langen-Müller / Herbig, Munich 1995 (published in GralsWelt 6/1997) When it comes to economic issues, one speaks particularly of the Maastricht Treaties, the imminent introduction of the “Euro” and the seemingly unstoppable globalization of the world economy . It is overlooked that all these expected - good or bad - innovations from the increasingly dangerous [...]