Category: History of religion

Published in GralsWelt 40/2006 “If God wants to remedy the misery in the world and cannot, he is incapable, which does not apply to God; if he can and does not want to, he is malevolent, which is far from God; if he neither wants nor can, he is both malevolent and incapable and therefore not God; if […]

(Veröffentlicht in GralsWelt 41/2006) DER  KAMPF ZWISCHEN  LICHT  UND  FINSTERNIS Vor etwa drei Jahrtausenden verbreitete sich, von Persien ausgehend, eine neue religiöse Idee: Es war die Vorstellung vom Kampf der Kräfte des Guten gegen die Mächte der Finsternis, vom dem – so weit wir wissen – als erster der persische Religionsgründer Zarathustra (griech. Zoroaster, vgl. „Ein […]

(Published in GralsWelt 25/2002) A search for the legendary treasure “In 1118 nine of the most distinguished French knights appeared before Baldwin II, the king of Jerusalem. They wanted to found an order to protect the pilgrims in the Holy Land from thieves and murderers and to monitor the land routes. Then they moved into a house on the spot [...]

(Published in GralsWelt 33/2004). The first European immigrants to North America were neither ethnologists nor religious scholars and accordingly only interested in the customs, traditions, myths and religious ideas of the Indians to the extent that it was useful for trading with Indians or (in the case of missionaries) for conversion. In addition, Europeans and Americans understood "religion" until the 19th [...]

(Published in GralsWelt 55/2009; as of 2001) Believers in today's religions consider Plato's words below to be outdated, because they believe that the founder of their community has long since provided the enlightenment that Plato hoped for and that it is only up to us to put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 [...]

(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 [...]