The Lucifer Principle Lucifer! A mighty secret surrounds this concept. Even in the 21st Century it still awakens uneasy sensations for believers, or stirs up fears. Others, however, think “Lucifer" is only pointless devil mythology and should long ago have been overcome. But what is the reality behind the image of “the Tempter"? Is there such a thing as an evil principle, standing in conflict with all that is good and originates from God? How can such a principle influence us human beings? This essay seeks to lift the grey veil from the very being and working of Lucifer.  [more...]

Are we living in the End-Time? Old-fashioned – and nevertheless of the present; supposedly outdated – and yet current; incomprehensible – yet strangely true-to-life: the concept “Apocalypse”.  [more...]

Sleep & Dream Something made me wake up … and as so often in my mind kept sounding like a dream. I resolved not to forget what I had dreamed. However, when I left the bed the next morning I knew only that I had dreamed, but no more of what I had dreamed. – A really very strange process, which should surely be worth a closer exploration. [more...]

The Hidden Power of Thoughts Experiences of "positive thinking" and experiments with telepathy suggest a hidden power of thoughts which influences our life and that of others. [more...]

Fate, Karma and free Will Why do some people have to suffer severe illness? Why do, occasionally, even children have to die? Where is there any recognisable justice in birth? Are things, in the end, pre-ordained for every one of us, through the stars, or even through the Creator Himself?  [more...]

The Apocalypse in the 21st Century The idea of a final judgment has been known even before the time of Christ. All three World Religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam - speak of a final judgement. Siegfried Hagl follows the traces of this concept from ancient times to the present.  [more...]

What is Time? Time passes! Lost time! No time! Time is a concept that is “pervasive” in our life, and it would seem natural to us that we know what it means. But whoever reflects deeply about the nature of time is sure to find himself in the situation so splendidly described by Augustine: “If nobody asks me, I know what time is, but if I am asked, then I am at a loss what to say.”  [more...]