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Science

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. [...]

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History/Historic

From the land of the morning silence

(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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Esotericism

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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History of religion

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 [...]

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History/Historic

China III: China's decline and awakening

(Published in GralsWelt 7/1998). In Beijing, an “Atlas of Shame” was drawn up in which “Hundreds of years of shame and humiliation by the colonial masters” are recorded. “Whatever happens, we have the Maxim rifle and they don't.” Hilaire BELLOC (1870-1953). Because unfortunately Europeans and Americans in East Asia have less often to practice Christianity [...]

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Economy and social affairs

The dilemma with interest rates

(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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Book and film reviews

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 [...]

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History/Historic

China I: China and the stratagems

(Published in GralsWelt 5/1997) When people talk about "economic growth" today, one looks confusedly at East Asia. There the economy is expanding, there have been growth rates in production for years that classic industrialized countries can only dream of, and there one expects the rapidly growing markets of the future, in which Europe and America will have to be present, if [...]

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History of religion

Religions of Antiquity III: The Search for Immortality

(Published in GralsWelt 33/2004) In esoteric circles the view is widespread that humans were already conscious at the beginning of the incarnation; that the actual human being - his soul or his spirit - continues to exist after shedding his earthly body, that there is thus a “this world” and a “hereafter”. This human soul can then either be in [...]

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History/Historic

From the beginning of our time

(Published in GralsWelt 5/1997) ARE WE ALREADY LIVING IN 2004? A calendar is something so natural that we no longer have to worry about how and when it was created. We also take the upcoming year 2000, a magical date for Christian cultures, almost as "given by nature", without going any further about the beginning of our "Gregorian calendar" [...]