11 May, 24 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, Explanations text fragments, News
Astrid van Zon When I tell people that I am involved with the Apocalypse, I regularly get a reaction that it is heavy stuff because they think it is about the downfall of the world or because they have associations and old interpretations related to the church and...
31 Oct, 23 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, Context and roots
Kees Zoeteman While participating in the Goetheanum World Conference from September 27 to October 1, 2023 in Dornach, Switzerland, I started to look for elements of the Apocalypse in the building of the Goetheanum. The goal of this conference was summarized by Pim...
21 Sep, 23 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, Context and roots, News
Kees Zoeteman Spring 2023, an exhibition of sculptures by Kees Zoeteman on the Apocalypse was held in Rotterdam. On that occasion, an exhibition booklet was published. This booklet, "Imagining Apocalyptic Visions" is now on sale from the publisher Nearchus C.V....
14 Sep, 23 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog
Kees Zoeteman Book review Apokalypse im Ich (2019)In the summer of 2019 the book Apocalypse im Ich (Apocalypse in the Self) (ISBN 978-3-7235-1612-6, Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland) was published. It contains eight contributions, consisting of revised...
4 Jul, 23 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, News
Kees Zoeteman and Astrid van Zon Once you pass the Boulevard periferique of Paris, you have the choice of storming into southern France on either the A6 or the A11 motorways. The A11 takes you west from Chartres to Angers, where ancient art treasures await the modern...
17 Nov, 22 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog
Kees Zoeteman and Astrid van Zon A treasure from the 15th century on the Apocalypse The history of Bruges Ah, how over the centuries Belgian Bruges has been cut off from its lifeline, the North Sea! From the 12th to the 15th century, Bruges was the center of world...
14 Nov, 22 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, Context and roots, News
Kees Zoeteman and Astrid van Zon In the heart of Europe, on a hilltop near Prague, we find Karlštejn Castle. Its great tower pierces high in the sky, harboring a secret. We went in search of that secret, because it is said to be the only place on earth where an...
20 Jan, 22 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, Context and roots, Interview
Kees Zoeteman Bastiaan Baan (1949) has been working as a priest in the Christian Community since 1981 and since 2012 also as a teacher at the theological schools of the Christian Community in Germany and the USA. Since the age of 18, he has been practicing the methods...
16 Jan, 22 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, Context and roots
Kees Zoeteman and Astrid van Zon The self, the ‘I’ of man plays a central role in the Apocalypse. By 'I' we mean our self-awareness, the authority in ourselves from which we make judgments and choices. By "I am" we refer to the unique person we are ourselves and which...
15 Jan, 22 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, Context and roots
Kees Zoeteman and Astrid van Zon About halfway through the Apocalypse, at text fragment 29 (Rev. 10: 1-11), we meet the imposing angel, -with a rainbow around his head and his face like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire-, standing with one foot on the sea and...
14 Jan, 22 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, Context and roots
Kees Zoeteman Seals play an important role in the Apocalypse. One manifestation of this is that the epoch that follows the current Post-Atlantean epoch is called the Seal epoch. In our daily lives, we know seals as stamp impressions in beeswax or sealing varnish. They...
13 Jan, 22 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, Context and roots
Kees Zoeteman and Astrid van Zon On this website we have already paid some attention to John, the writer of the Apocalypse (https://www.project-apocalypse.com/FAQ/). We know that he was one of the twelve apostles, was imprisoned on Patmos, became very old and ended...
4 Dec, 21 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, Context and roots
Kees Zoeteman The exhibition Façade by Igor Mitoraj at the Dutch Museum ‘Beelden aan Zee’ in The Hague (June 19, 2021-6 February 2022) made an overwhelming impression on me. Igor Motoraj, Ikaro alato (2000) and Ikaria (1987), bronze; Museum Beelden aan Zee (photo Kees...
17 Aug, 21 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, Context and roots, Interview
Kees Zoeteman Lisette Buisman-Walbeek (1951) has been a priest with the Christian Community since 2005. We meet on July 28, 2021 in the Raphael Church in Zeist, the Netherlands, after she has led a Wednesday morning service. Busily gesticulating as always. But when...
5 Jun, 21 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, Context and roots
Book Review Kees Zoeteman Over the past thirty years Frans Lutters, teacher at a Rudolf Steiner school in the Netherlands, has spoken frequently on the mysteries of the sevenfold nature of man and creation. He explained how the sevenfoldness also has played a role in...
12 May, 21 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, News
With 30 pastel drawings about the Apocalypse Kees Zoeteman Frans and Ineke Lutters drew my attention to the existence of the book by Erich Zimmer entitled Im Geiste an des Herren Tag (In the spirit at the day of the Lord) on the Apocalypse. His wife Hella...
9 May, 21 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, Context and roots
If you download the indicated file, you will get an overview of all 56 text fragments in order to grasp the interconnectedness among the text fragments: Apocalypse-overview-fragments-1-56-2Download
7 Feb, 21 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, News
Kees Zoeteman It was around 1970 that I became acquainted with the National Mall of Washington D.C. As a young researcher, I had received a scholarship from the German Marshall Fund to spend 5 weeks visiting laboratories all over the U.S. that were working on the...
25 Jan, 21 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, Context and roots
Kees Zoeteman Dieter Hammer read about project-Apocalypse on this website and then sent me a message whether I also knew the work of Charles Kovacs. This is exactly what I had initially hoped for: to share our insights about the Apocalypse with each other. Not knowing...
8 Jan, 21 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog
Kees Zoeteman Based on my experiences with companies and organizations, the following is a guide on how the Apocalypse can be used in recognizing key challenges for leaders in organizations and businesses during the seven successive episodes in a cycle. This blog will...
27 Dec, 20 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, Context and roots, News
Kees Zoeteman If you read the cover of this book (Viking Penguin, 2012) by the American Elaine Pagels, your first impression is to get in touch with the latest truth about the Apocalypse. John wrote his book according to a Dutch newspaper commentary ‘as a devastating...
7 Dec, 20 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, News
Kees Zoeteman The science section in the Dutch newspaper NRC of 31 October & 1 November 2020 contained a provocative article about man's self with the title 'We have no self'. Because the Apocalypse is actually one big poem about the essential importance of the...
4 Dec, 20 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, Context and roots
Kees Zoeteman The book by Friedrich Benesch (1907-1991) about the Apocalypse (Stuttgart: Urachhaus, 1981) was already almost forty years old when I got my hands on it in a shop for second-hand books in Zeist, The Netherlands. The special thing about it is that it...
8 Nov, 20 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, Context and roots, News
Kees Zoeteman This blog is the result of a collaboration with Jaap Sijmons who made suggestions for the theme and commented on draft versions of it. Anyone who has had the opportunity to visit the 14th century tapestry of the Apocalypse at the Castle of Angers in...
18 Oct, 20 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog
Kees Zoeteman The Apocalypse calls upon every human being to turn around and find again the connection with the spiritual world. That is where the future perspective of man and Earth lies. However, for our consciousness the world of the spirit has disappeared further...
15 Oct, 20 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog
Kees Zoeteman It is striking how often the Apocalypse still appears in our speech. But not as a hopeful perspective. An example: ‘Whether China will have supplanted the USA as the most powerful country by 2050? She has no idea. "Who knows, there may already have been...
2 Oct, 20 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, Context and roots
Kees Zoeteman There are similarities between apocalyptic concepts and Egyptian mysticism (https://www.project-apocalypse.com/blog/better-understanding-the-apocalypse-by-looking-at-its-egyptian-roots/). Hèléna Blavatsky (Isis unveiled, Mysteries of Antiquity and...
6 Sep, 20 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog
Kees Zoeteman Seen from a distance, the Apocalypse seems to be only about separation and reunification. In order for man to unite with his creator, man must develop his inner qualities and what stands in the way of the ultimate unification must be separated....
16 Aug, 20 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog
Kees Zoeteman I used to talk with my grandson, who is now eighteen, about the question of whether God exists. He didn't think so. Since this is one of those issues you can difficult convince another, I asked him the follow-up question: Are you sure? He had no good...
14 Aug, 20 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, Context and roots
Kees Zoeteman Anyone who wants an overview of a modern Christian theological interpretation of the Apocalypse will find many interesting propositions in Margaret Barker’s The Revelation of Jesus Christ, published by T&T Clark (www.tandtclark.uk) in 2000. Barker is...
15 Jul, 20 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, Context and roots
May 3, 2020 | Jana Loose and Kees Zoeteman (published on 1 May 2020 in Dutch magazine Motief of the Anthroposophical Society in the Netherlands, issue 242, p 10-13) The last book of the Bible, the Apocalypse, is seen as the most mysterious and incomprehensible. We can...
6 Jul, 20 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog
Kees Zoeteman Already in 1909, Rudolf Steiner pointed out that in our current fifth cultural period (Sardis) and in the period that follows (Philadelphia) a strong oppositional force becomes active. While mankind is taking in the Christ principle - the higher Self...
4 Jul, 20 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog
Kees Zoeteman Postponing death as long as possible, is our motto, even if it sometimes takes a lot of effort. After all, death is the end of our existence. Or at least we're not sure if there's anything left after death. No matter how you look at death, at least you...
1 Jul, 20 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog
Kees Zoeteman There are also places in the Apocalypse referring to the role of money as an expression of our interest in the materialistic aspects of existence. First of all, we can find them in the letters to the seven communities. But the consequences of the money...
11 Apr, 20 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog
Towards a sustainable society Can we see the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (UN) as a modern way of implementing the message of the last book of the Bible, the Apocalypse? This blog explains why this idea is not as farfetched as it may...
7 Apr, 20 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog
The effects of climate change The fires in January 2020 in the south of Australia, in which more than two and a half times the surface of the Netherlands went up in flames, evoked 'apocalyptic feelings' at for instance Annemarie Kas, South-East Asia...
6 Apr, 20 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog
The measures taken early 2020 by authorities to combat the Covid-19 pandemic have left the streets of our major cities empty, which evokes an apocalyptic association. Or as Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer puts it in the description of the street where he lives in Genoa: 'The...
29 Dec, 19 | Apocalypse in discussion, Blog, News
Kees Zoeteman I accidentally walked into the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in December 2019. There was an exhibition entitled 'Chagall, Picasso, Mondrian and others, Migrant Artists in Paris, Exhibition - 21 Sep 2019 until 2 Feb 2020'. And to my surprise I came across...