Published in GralsWelt 27/2003 By Charles Hapgood Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt 2002. EUR 25, - In the GralsWelt 22/2002 we reported on the enigmatic old nautical charts under the heading “The Secret of the Portolane” (here under “Strange Stories”), which suggest that there must have been a prehistoric high civilization whose researchers sailed around the world. Pioneering work on [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 34/2004) “If you disregard everything in the social contract that does not belong to its essence, you will find that it is limited to the following: Together we all, each of us, his person and all his strength under the supreme guideline of the common will; and we take, as a body, every member as an inseparable [...]
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Modern fundamentalism
(Published in GralsWelt 55/2009; as of 2001) Believers in today's religions consider Plato's words below to be outdated, because they believe that the founder of their community has long since provided the enlightenment that Plato hoped for and that it is only up to us to put the spiritual insights available to us into practice. To other religious people, the quote seems strangely topical. "We [...]
(Published in Grail World 36/2005) FROM THUNDERLIGHTNING AND GRAINING Probably in the middle of the 2nd millennium BC. a people immigrated to Italy whose origin is disputed. It mingled with the local population and other immigrants, came into contact with the Greeks and adopted their alphabet: the Etruscans. Greek influences can be seen with them [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 20/2001). In Germany, the name Zarathustra (Greek: Zoroaster) is best known through Friedrich Nietzsche, whose main work bears the name of the Persian priest. However, Nietzsche's philosophical fictional figure has only the name in common with this model. "They didn't ask me, they should have asked me what was in my mouth, in the mouth [...]
(Published in Gralswelt 37/2005) Priests in white robes pose in front of the megalithic cult site Stonehenge. You feel connected to the classical Druidism from Caesar's time and want to revive an old religion as a Neo-Druid. Because the life of the Druids and their worldview continues to attract great interest in our day. Fantastic novels and also comics present [...]
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The modern era still begins
(Published in GralsWelt 37/2005) On September 25, 2005: The “Augsburg Religious Peace” was proclaimed 450 years ago - a first step towards a religious tolerance that we are still struggling to achieve today. Historians cite various important dates that mark the beginning of the modern age: the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks (1453), the journey [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 39/2006) During excavations of Roman antiquities, Mithraea, ie cult sites dedicated to Mithras, were found in many places, including Germany, Austria and Switzerland. For example, you can visit a Mithras grotto on the Hallberg near Saarbrücken; the Saalburg near Bad Homburg (Taunus) and the Palatinate Museum in Heidelberg have reconstructed mithraea. "Had a fatal disease [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 38/2006) THE QUESTION ABOUT THE FUTURE Anyone who thinks or plans ahead is because of a future they hope for. Out of that desire, asking about the future for foreknowledge has become a practice almost as old as humanity. Here are some practical reasons: "The prophetess also sits on a holy tripod [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 33/2004) When we Europeans speak of antiquity, we actually only think of the Mediterranean area, but especially of Greece and Rome. We were taught at school that this is where the roots of our culture lie; this is where philosophies were devised two and a half millennia ago and which continue to have an impact today; and on the edge of the Mediterranean - [...]