In this article, published in 1937 on the eve of the subsequent terrible events, Walter Johannes Stein looks at historic events from the point of view of an important spiritual law. Namely, it can be recognized that after a round of about 33 years events of the past come to resurrection under new circumstances.
Also today in 2010 it is useful to try out this exercise by looking back in steps of 33 years. If we go back 33 years we will come in the year 1977. In January the world’s first personal computer, the Commodore PET, is demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago. It changed our time completely; currently, we are living in an age where personal computers in the form of sunglasses, which can interact with the object that looked at through the glasses, are developed. Also, is this the year were more and more people are made ready to have implanted a microchip in their skin? April is the month in which Apple Inc. was founded.
Looming as a prophecy on climate change in January 1977 was the snowfall in Miami, Florida, despite of its tropical climate – until now the only time in history. Snowfall has occurred farther south in the United States: on the high mountains of the state of Hawaii.
And as an inner link to President Obama’s inauguration on January 20th, 2010 – Jimmy Carter succeeds Gerald Ford as the 39th President of the United States in 1977. Subsequently, muslim terrorism seems to have started in the U.S. on March 9, 1977 – approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims took over 3 buildings in Washington, D.C., killing 1 person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ended 2 days later.
And also current unsolved problems with emigrants seemed to be present in 1977. On May 23rd Moluccan terrorists take over a school in Bovensmilde, northern Netherlands (105 hostages), and a passenger train on the Bovensmilde-Assen route nearby (90 hostages) at the same time. On June 11, Dutch Royal Marines storm the train; 6 terrorists and 2 hostages are killed. Today, the question is a main problem in Dutch politics and still unsolved.
And then the dream of finding other worlds in a clash between good and evil started on May 25th as Star Wars opened in cinemas and subsequently became the then-highest grossing film of all time. This future of the earth in cosmos is the main question of humanity today, albeit in a much broader sense. Good and evil are showing nearly their true faces in the credit crisis, climate change and politics.
In conclusion, this article is gives a still useful opportunity to become aware of the driving forces in history.
The article can be found here.
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