BOOK REVIEW: THE AQUARIUS CONFERENCES BY J.VAN RIJCKENBORGH AND CATHAROSE DE PETRI
the apocalypse of the new time If the earth coughs even softly, connections are disrupted and people become desperate. If the silence during a memorial meeting is disrupted by a shout, panic breaks out. The large as well as the small earth suffer from quite a lot of tension, as becomes evident if only the slightest part of the veil is touched or lifted.
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e sometimes hear that we live in a field of increasing tension, in apocalyptic times, in fact. Translated freely: we live in a time that occurs at the end of a certain dispensation. Nowadays, most people refer to this particular description as a situation resembling the end of the world. The word ‘apocalypse’ stems from Greek and means ‘revelation’: divine unveiling, manifestation or lifting of the veil. In the terminology of the early Jewish and Christian literature, an apocalypse is the revelation of hidden and/or future developments and events, revealed by God to a chosen prophet or disciple. It was the German, Gottfried Lübcke, who used this word around 1830 and made it more widely known, when he explained the Book of Revelation from the New Testament. However, not only the Book of Revelation, but 40 pentagram 2/2011
also many books from the Hebrew Bible, the so-called Old Testament of the Christian world and the ancient apocryphal books, like the Book of Henoch, refer to future developments, often accompanied by dreams or visions. In Christian mysticism, there is hardly any example of a true apocalypse, in which the help of angels for passing on the message is not prominently mentioned. Apart from possibly historical aspects from antiquity, the veil is often very far-reaching and can only be approached by those who are able to read the memory of nature, into the past as well as into the future. Lifting the veils may concern exoteric as well as esoteric aspects and developments. To people of this world, the apocalypse concerns the outside of things; to the person seeking inner renewal, it concerns spiritual genesis and renewal.
