By Rolf Krauss, Ullstein, Munich 2000 This book is once again an example of the fact that we are living in a time when (almost) everything is being questioned and many ideas are being shaken. Especially from the past, more and more "facts", which were self-evident until now, and which can be found in every textbook, are being doubted. The Grail World has occasionally reported on this. [...]
(Published in Gralswelt 33/2004) “We will not create a new world until we have created new people.” Henry Miller (1891-1980) GLOBAL ECONOMIC AREAS Politicians never tire of assuring that the globalization of the world is an unstoppable, irreversible process that no one can stop or only delay. As if there were any human view, conviction, ideology, rule, measure, [...]
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 […]
(Published in GrailWorld 41/2006) THE FIGHT BETWEEN LIGHT AND DARKNESS About three millennia ago, starting from Persia, a new religious idea spread: It was the idea of the fight of the forces of good against the forces of darkness, of which - as far as we know - the Persian founder of religion Zarathustra (Greek Zoroaster) was the first to speak. [...]
(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 35/2005) On March 14, 1755. TWO HUNDRED YEARS "GENERAL NATURAL HISTORY AND THEORY OF HEAVEN Kant as a naturalist In the past year 2004, the bicentennial of the death of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), his importance and his achievements as a philosopher and epistemologist have been widely acknowledged, as he is counted among the most important thinkers. Less noted in these laudations [...]
(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 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 [...]
(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 [...]
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