The Department of Justice is refusing to release any records related to the murder of former Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, according to a lawyer who has been investigating the unsolved case.
But that stance by the federal government is an improvement over its previous refusal even to look for records, says the lawyer, Ty Clevenger.
Clevenger wrote on his blog, LawFlog, he received the news Wednesday in a letter from the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys.
The letter from the DOJ to Clevenger said: "The records you seek are located in a Privacy Act system of records that, in accordance with regulations promulgated by the attorney general, is exempt from the access provisions of the Privacy Act … We have processed your request under the Freedom of Information Act and are making all records required to be released, or considered appropriate for release as a matter of discretion, available to you.
The letter, which provides a list of options for appeal, was signed by Kevin Krebs, assistant director in the Freedom of Information and Privacy office.
WND reported last fall when Clevenger started his hunt for the Rich records.
After his FOIA request for records or correspondence about the murder or its investigation was rejected, the DOJ at that time told the U.S. Attorney's Office for Washington, D.C., to hunt for records.
The U.S. Attorney's Office originally put off Clevenger's FOIA request, demanding he submit a death certificate to prove that Rich was dead.
But Clevenger appealed. And Sean R. O'Neil, the chief of administrative appeals at DOJ's Office of Information Policy, directed the executive office for U.S. attorneys to search for and produce any records covered in Clevenger's FOIA request.
Clevenger said at the time the effort to hide information about the Rich investigation prompted him to cull information from the government about the mysterious murder.
"I don't really have a strong opinion about exactly what happened to Rich, but it just seemed there was so much of an effort to conceal information – that alone made me suspicious," he told WND at the time. "I'm a former reporter, a former cop – deputy sheriff in Texas – and currently a lawyer. Any time somebody hides information, that makes me suspicious.
Washington-based lawyer and lobbyist Jack Burkman has organized the Profiling Project, a Washington, D.C.-based team of forensic psychology graduate students and instructors, to find Rich's killers. In addition, he has launched a nationwide TV campaign pleading for the public's help in cracking the Rich case.
Burkman, who claimed police insistence on withholding the most basic information pertaining to Rich's murder is suspicious, also filed a lawsuit against Washington's Metropolitan Police Department. He is demanding the release of Rich's medical examiner's report, autopsy documents and ballistics reports, which are typically made public during murder investigations.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has hinted that Rich, and not Russian agents, may have been the source of the Democratic National Committee emails he published online.


Yea kind of an odd title and ??. Here's the deal though, I've noticed this bike (16 450F) makes a squeaking sound when I come down from a larger jump. This bike is new to me and I did have to swap out the springs for my weight. I also ended up putting in 5wt fork oil and 320ish cc of oil which might be a little to much but not 100% sure? I know I've never heard what sounded like squeaking from forks before though so hearing it now has me wondering WTF???
Two of my old Montesa trials bikes did this. None of the newer bikes I've had did this. I don't know what caused it but the forks worked fine otherwise. I wouldn't worry about it.
320ish is a little low I think but not low enough to cause issues. Is everything in alignment. Had a buddy with a brand new crf with a squeaky fork. The fork qere not aligned on the axle properly causing them to bind slightly and squeak.
300-365 ml is the oil amount range per the manual, with 315ml being standard on the 2016.
I agree with checking the alignment of the forks for binding. Also, were the new fork springs the correct length?


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Sweet Land (2005)
(Release Date: October 21, 2005 [Hamptons International Film Festival])
(Sneak Preview Date: November 28, 2005)
Slow Steady and Sweet, buys the farm...
The World's Greatest Critic!
One of the best parts of doing this whole "reviews" thing is getting in touch with some of the artists that make all this happen (let's face it... film reviewing is the last truly parasitic occupation out there). I could give a pants load about "celebrity", but conversing with the true artists out there, now that's an honor! The sweeter honor comes in those times that the actor, writer, director or producer (so often found in the same person with these Indies I love so dear) comes off not as a holier-than-thou King of the Mountain, but as someone proud of their work and very happy that you've come to see it. On the other hand, there are those times that someone comes off as the VIP and VP of their own fan club, demanding a kiss on the ring before allowing a kiss on the cheek. I usually don't introduce myself at times like this. Chances are they've already read something of mine and want to punch me in the kidney for some review or other.
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Giorgio de Chirico was born from italian parents in Vólos, Greece, on July 10, 1888. He soon became interested in the art of Arnold Böcklin and Max Klinger. De Chirico moved to Milan in 1909, to Florence in 1910, and to Paris in 1911.
In Paris he was included in the Salon d'Automne in 1912 and 1913 and in the Salon des Indépendants in 1913 and 1914. As a visitor of Guillaume Apollinaire's weekly gatherings, he met Brancusi, Derain, Jacob, and others. In 1915 de Chirico returned to Italy, where he met Filippo de Pisis in 1916 and Carlo Carrà in 1917; they formed the group that was later called the Scuola Metafisica and he became appreciated in all the world for his fomus "manichini" and the "piazza d'Italia".
The artist moved to Rome in 1918 and in 1942 he participates for the first time at the Venice Biennale. His works are in the collection of the most important modern art museums of the world like MoMA in New York, Pompidou in Paris, Tate gallery in London and many others. He participated in the Venice Biennale for the first time in 1924. De Chirico died on November 20, 1978, in Rome.


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Q: Javascript idle visitor checking Is there a Javascript library (preferably a jQuery plugin) or simple mechanism to check if a visitor is idle?  For example, if the visitor to a webpage has been there more than 5 minutes only moving their mouse but not clicking any buttons or pressing any keys, then call a particular Javascript function.
It seems like I could just call setTimeout() for my desired idle time and then call clearTimeout() upon any mouse click or keyboard press by having something like $('body').click(clearTimeout(....  But I'm sure there are issues I don't want to have to figure out.  The one thing I definitely don't want to have happen is for my site to think someone's been idle and they haven't really been.  The other way around is ok.

A: Yes, very possible and there are a couple sites that use this (like banks and Mint) with great success. Take a look at these two blog posts:
http://www.erichynds.com/jquery/creating-a-mint-com-style-idle-logout-timer-using-jquery/
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I have used this approach in the past with Admin pages within websites to a fair amount of success, especially after adding the modal dialog box informing users that the session was about to expire. This helps the user to feel like the web application/site is working with them to help.

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Q: User name and password changes After getting "can not write bytes : broken pipe" message and being unable to boot, I reloaded 12.04, my user name had some upper case letters in it and I was unable to log in.  Maybe the password changed also.  How can I log in and reset my password and user ID ?

A: Assuming you have physical access you can boot into single user mode. In ubuntu, this is very conviniently called "recovery mode". If you lack this, go into edit mode in grub go to your user boot option and add the word single at the end
The 'proper' way to look up your username (and password, of sorts) is to look in /etc/shadow - cat /etc/shadow should spit out all that, and you'll see the usernames of all your accounts there.
You'll see something like geek:$fhgbesft7y842387ty884yg87.:16026:0:99999:7::: - First 'field' before the colon is your username, then a hash of a password (I've replaced mine with key mashing) and so on. There's a more complete writeup here.
You will then be able to change your password with passwd username as per your username on /etc/shadow


Shigure is being Shigure, and Tohru is being Tohru.
Shigure: Is there a point to holing up in your room for days on end? Do you really think that cutting yourself off from everyone will force the world to become what you want it to be?
Well you're certainly not helping Akito by calling out her obviously ineffective actions, so shut up and stop making things worse for everybody else! I get why Shigure is frustrated, of course, but Akito needs actual help, not someone telling her all the things she's doing wrong.
Anyhow, Momiji is all grown up! And he switched to the boys' uniform!
But he's not quite giving up his childish ways (yet).
Haru: Those two are something else. By all appearances, you'd think they're a lovey-dovey couple.
Now that Momiji actually looks his age, his cute and "innocent" gestures toward Tohru look an awful lot like something more, don't they?
And speaking of lovey-dovey couples, Kisa and Hiro show up at Shigure's house and are adorable.
Back at the main house, Shigure and Hatori are arguing about Akito (again).
Hatori: You're too old to be this nasty. You know Akito digs her heels in all the more when you're not honest with her. […] Why don't you stop this battle of wills with an opponent who's younger than you? From my perspective, it sometimes looks like you hate her with all your being.
Shigure: Easy for you to say. At the end of the day, my brand of "kindness" is a slapped-together afterthought. It doesn't hold a candle to your "real thing." But that's never struck me as "sad." I wonder why?
I think Shigure tends to show his affection by scheming for the happiness of the people he cares about. He's just not good at comforting or generally being "nice." That doesn't mean he can't be a good person/friend/boyfriend/whatever, it just means he needs to be more intentional in that area (because, you know, his main issue is that he doesn't TRY).
Shigure: I wonder. Who should someone like me have dreamed about…? […] Even if Akito does want your tolerant "kindness", or Kureno-kun's innocent "kindness", if she's expecting that from me, I just can't deliver. I have no interest in becoming that girl's "father".
I know you're aiming for tough love, Shigure, but you're hitting more like "stubborn impatience". And as always it doesn't help that nobody else really knows how to help Akito either.
Haru: …The guy can't be in love?
Haru: Hiro. You deliberately choose to cross the bridges everyone else avoids, don't you?
Hiro: I'm…aware of that…I'm not trying to rock the boat or anything, but I just feel…I don't know, depressed or worried or something. Not that I can do anything about it.
And that's exactly how discrimination survives: Making anyone who might feel uncomfortable stop caring because they "can't do anything about it". Also, EVEN THE MIDDLE SCHOOLERS CAN SEE IT.
Kyo: Dude, when'd you get so tall?
Kyo: This late in the game…?
Momiji: Yes. Even if it seems like it's "too late" now…we tend to gloss over it, but that's all the more reason to be straightforward about it. It is "late", but wouldn't you regret if some other guy snatched up Tohru?
The only way to stop systems of oppression is to acknowledge them for what they are and try.
Shigure: Maybe I should have dreamed about you, hmm? Maybe somebody like me needed somebody like you…or, well. That's what I'm thinking today anyway.
Shigure, don't you dare go blaming your lack of compassion on Akito. It ain't a woman's job to fix her man, and Akito needs plenty of fixing up herself.
To be fair, though, this is one of the rare instances of spontaneous honesty from Shigure (usually he's only honest with Hatori, because he knows he can't hide his real motives from him). And now I think we have all the pieces of Shigure's puzzle that we need, so I'll just say my piece about him now (and hopefully hold my peace about him more in the future). As I've implied before, the Curse is (or at least is "about") the love of the Zodiac Spirits for their God (the "bond"). That love has simply become twisted over the centuries until it's only a Curse. That's why Akito wields so much power and influence over the Members of the Zodiac – they love "him" so much that it hurts more to cause Akito any pain than to run their own lives into the ground. And Akito is very sensitive. What makes Shigure different from the rest is that his love for Akito is romantic in nature (I think it's safe to call the others' love "familial").
Shigure had never cared much about anyone but himself. He still claims that he is his own number one priority. And that's why the Curse is so hard on him – because it forces him to prioritize somebody else. But since he has no strong feelings or convictions to compete with his love for Akito, that love itself became his purpose. I'm not even sure if it's Akito herself that he cares about, but the bond between them. He couldn't care less whether he's ever released from the Curse – what he wants is for all the other Members of the Zodiac to be released, because that would mean he gets Akito's love all to himself. Obviously that's a dangerous and extremely selfish inclination (it's been addressed more than once before in other characters), showing zero concern about Akito's own needs. There are two main reasons why I hate Shigure. The first is that he's the only Member of the Zodiac who never really grows – he changes when required, but he's fundamentally the same at age 7 as at 27. He's a stagnant person, never bothering to leave his comfort zone. The second is that he's just so selfish. It's not that he never cares about anyone but himself (he does care about Hatori, for instance), but that at the end of the day his needs are the most important. It doesn't matter that he acknowledges his faults if he never tries to improve himself.
is ultimately the crux of all of Shigure's issues and is the best and most succint way to sum him all up.
So here I am, back with my longer comment: As I said before you really nicely summed up the extent of Shigure's issues here, as I said before more than anyone else in the Zodiac (or series really) he has massive, MASSIVE identity issues and a disconnect of self and this is why the curse affected him so profoundly compared to the others. Shigure was and is a walking existential crisis he is searching for meaning and purpose in his life and whilst I tend to find characters with these types of psychological issues INSANELY interesting (I played Xenogears after all lol) what's incredibly frusturating about Shigure is that he never develops or grows past these issues. He never learns to live in the present and find meaning AS "Shigure Sohma", it really does feel like he's chasing a distant past that he never lived (i.e. the animal spirit possessing him) because he can't be comfortable in this new life. What he says to Tohru is really telling because it ultimately points to him feeling like he NEEDS SOMEONE to "fix him" and fill the gaping void within himself when really what someone in his position really needs is to learn to be at peace and content within himself and that can't come from anyone else that has to come from within HIM.
I also agree with your view that it was never even Akito herself he cared about, honestly I was hoping you'd touch more on what he said to Tohru "I should have dreamed of YOU" because that highlights my main issue with the ship and why this chapter pretty much sunk any chance of me ever appreciating or liking it. Imo what's most disconcerting about this ship isn't all the Kureno and Ren stuff and all the possessiveness and manipulating mind games (though that's also pretty bad) but that it really seems like Shigure didn't fall in love with Akito for herself but precisely because he felt he was "destined" to (Same reason why I take issue with the Usagi/Mamoru ship in the SM fandom which has some similar issues, I can't stand when destiny is used as the sole reason to get a couple together, I don't find it romantic I just find it sad as instant love to me is boring, unrealistic and sends a bad message to little girls. To me, real love isn't "instant" real love takes time to grow with both parties spending time together and getting to know one another whilst eventually coming to appreciate and fall for the traits that's inherent in the other, like in the Kyoru and YukiMachi ships) and also that he's ultimately just using Akito to fill the gaping empty hole/void within himself which is all kinds of unhealthy both for himself AND Akito!
I mean with that line he says to Tohru and himself he's basically admitting straight to the that that dream could've been about ANYONE and he would've fallen for them, confirming the fact that he doesn't in fact love Akito for herself. and that's what ultimately turned me off to the whole ship.
Anyways that's my two cents on both Shigure and this chapter ahaha, I hope you agree with my interpretation of him and his issues.
Personally, the whole "destiny" angle never bothered me much – it feels true to the idea that you can't help who you love (although I think you can help HOW you love them, to an extent). Shigure is constantly trying to take control of the relationship, hence all the manipulations and generally terrible behavior toward Akito (maybe that's even why he pursued her romantically – who knows?). That said, I don't really blame Shigure for loving Akito – I think if he hadn't been bound to her, he might never have loved anyone so deeply (or at least not for a very very long time).
But that's the thing though, when a relationship is based in destiny it IS taking out that whole element of "you can't control who you love" because its by virtue, "controlling the bond" and who falls for whom. Isn't this the exact reason why the Zodiac Bond itself is so unhealthy to its members in the first place? Its forcing a connection based on some mystical, intangible tie through no free will of anyone's members, its what everyone else in the Zodiac is fighting against to break free of and yet Shigure still (happily?) succumbs to it in the end, undermining a bit one of the main themes of the story (bonds can't be forced) as well as Akito's change of heart/epiphany at the end that she doesn't NEED a destined bond to be loved, she ultimately doesn't WANT to be special she just wants to be Akito and loved or herself.
That's an interesting take though, I'm curious to what you mean by "maybe that's even why he pursued her romantically" so the romantic feelings WEREN'T in fact, automatic for him and just him trying to take control? Why would trying to make those feelings romantic be considered by him as "taking control" of the situation though? Isn't that just defeating the purpose and sucking him in even deeper?
As for the romance angle, like I said, most of the other Zodiac members have more familial feelings for Akito. By fostering different (romantic) feelings for her, Shigure is controlling how Akito relates to him. Romantic love and familial love can both be equally powerful forces, but I think romantic love tends to be more "selfish" because it's explicitly one-on-one – it's only about Shigure and Akito, not the rest of the Zodiac or the rest of the Sohma family. He's not making himself love Akito more, just differently, but he's also encouraging Akito to take particular notice of HIM.
I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on the Shigure/Akito ship, that's a great explanation but I'm still not sold on the ship and I don't think I'll ever be lol.


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Felt - Forever Breathes The Lonely Word
by Jeff Penczak Rating:10 Release Date:2018-09-21 Label: Cherry Red
on 05 September 2018
I've got to hand it to Lawrence, he dreams up the best album titles ever! After confusing the shit out of his new bosses at Creation (Alan McGee must've shit himself when his new charges turned in their first album – a 20 minute collection of bossa nova, cha cha lounge instrumentals!), all parties were able to breathe easier three months later when the band regained their senses and recorded one of the shining lights in a brilliant, yet eclectic discography. It also marked the beginning of Tony Willé's brief tenure as second guitarist, replacing Lawrence's longtime mate and guitar foil Maurice Deebank.
Things get off to a rousing start with Martin Duffy's barrelhouse organ, pushing 'Rain of Crystal Spires' through its giddy, roly-poly paces. Lawrence is in full-on Lou Reed vocal form, a phase that will last for the next few albums. The guitar sound on this album is the best it's ever been, with big phat glistening chords chiming thoughout 'Down But Not Yet Out', with Duffy once again doing yeoman work on his organ (fills ) and Lawrence's taunting vocal inflections at their vitriolic best.
The sentimental, nostalgically-tinged 'September Lady' is one of Lawrence's most melancholic tunes – a downright "tears on my guitar" moment. A rushed 'Grey Streets' is the album's lone weak link, a helter-skelter arrangement suggesting the band were overdo for a bathroom break. A hard-to-follow verbose lyric adds to the Chinese fire drill vibe – I remember I couldn't wait to flip the album over when I first bought it over 30 years ago. Luckily, we have skip buttons on our CD players today!
However, all is certainly rectified immediately upon exposure to one of the cream creations in the entire Felt oeuvre, 'All the People I Like Are Those That Are Dead', an incredibly poignant lyrical eulogy to absent friends ("I've been around this town/And I've seen what God has done") and one of the half dozen greatest tracks Lawrence has ever written. (Another one comes up in a few minutes!) The midpoint where the musical backing stutters to a pindrop silence for Lawrence to repeat the chorus a capella is one of the most bone-chilling moments in his and their career. Simply brilliant.
'Gather Up Your Wings and Fly' is another stutter step, a familiar melody we feel we've just heard grafted on to another forlorn, frustrated lyric that's too easy not to escape feeling must be another in Lawrence's series of kiss offs to the departed Deebank. 'Wave Crashed On Rocks' is yet another melancholic entry, another stab at Deebank(?) or perhaps a rejoinder to fans who feared the band were over once Deebank left (or both): "People are crying/What are we gonna do; People are crying/I don't care about them, I care about you". Like the titular wave crashing on rocks, the past is over and it is time to move on.
The albums ends on the previously alluded to brilliance of 'Hours of Darkness Have Changed My Mind' (once again, extra points for these brilliantly poetic titles). I've been listening to this track for over 30 years and I still get goosepimples singing along to the swaying chorus, imagining an O2-filled arena raising outstretched, lighter-waving arms, succumbing to Lawrence's beckoning "You sing it now".
The reissue adds a bonus single from 1985, coupling a crisper, albeit shorter version of 'Cathedral' (originally on their Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty debut) with their biggest hit, the Liz Fraser-accompanied 'Primitive Painters', originally released on Ignite The Seven Cannons. The two voices entangle each other like smoke rings circling to the rafters in a crowded nightclub, although they do eventually feel like they're fighting over the microphone .
Despite a few hiccups, this remained the zenith of the Felt catalogue until their swan song, more on which later this week. For now, enjoy one of the best bands of the 80s at the peak of their powers. This was the first Felt album I bought and it immediately had me scrambling to backfill my Felt discography. Newbies may want to follow in my footsteps if this is also your first exposure to Lawrence and his many charms.
Felt - Me And A Monkey On The Moon
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Felt - Train Above The City
Felt - The Pictorial Jackson Review
Felt - Poem Of The River
Felt - The Seventeenth Century
Felt - The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories
Go-Kart Mozart - Mozart's Mini Mart
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Felt - The Splendour of Fear
Felt - Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
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On the Esoteric Significance of Kaspar Hauser
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This is the third and final article in the series about Kaspar Hauser, the first of which dealt with the struggle for the factual truth about this innocent but complex figure, a struggle which is still going on today, as seen in the two recent and contradictory DNA tests. The second article looked at Kaspar Hauser in relation to the present and future cultural and political development ofEurope. This final article will consider the esoteric significance of 'the Child of Europe' but does not pretend to do more than indicate some of the outlines of what is a very wide-ranging and profound subject.[1]
To do this, it will be necessary first to refer briefly to two esoteric concepts that in this author's view, help to illumine historical development. The first was touched on briefly in the second article of this series; it is the concept of time regencies. According to this, time like space is differentiated and laden with various qualities; it is not, as was thought in the 17th century, a mere continuum, essentially the same at all periods. In an individual life, the experience of time of a 70 year old person is very different from the experience of the 7 year old. Esoteric knowledge, including Anthroposophy, works with the concept not only of the evolution of bodies but also of consciousness throughout history; this means that the way we think about ourselves and the world today is very different from how the Greeks or the Egyptians did. Esotericism has always seen everything in the universe as being governed by intelligence, or rather, the intelligences of a variety of spiritual beings. Monotheism, by contrast, has lost sight of this differentiated activity of the divine and regards it from afar, so to speak, as a single unitarian phenomenon. The esoteric viewpoint is thus that we human beings live our lives within the longer-lasting periods of historical activity of particular spiritual beings, or Time Regents, and we are affected by them just as we are by the weather, within which we also live and over which, similarly, we normally have no conscious control. The activity of these beings forms a considerable part of our 'historical weather'. These Time Regents, whose evolutionary consciousness is two stages higher than that of Man, and one stage higher than that of the beings traditionally known as angels, are of the rank of archangels. There are seven of them and their periods of activity rotate in cycles of approximately 350-500 years. The first European esotericist to describe them in detail wasAbbot Trithemius of Sponheim (1462-1516).[2]
The seven archangels are associated with the planetary spheres; their traditional names are: Oriphi-el (Saturn), Ana-el (Venus), Zachari-el (Jupiter), Rapha-el (Mercury), Sama-el (Mars) Gabri-el (Moon) and Micha-el (Sun). The three with which we are most concerned in this article are Samael (1190-1510), Gabriel (1510-1879) and Michael (1879-c.2300?)[3] Each archangelic period has its own character and brings something different to human development, as does each season of Nature: Samael periods divide, differentiate, and individuate; Gabriel periods focus on the physical world of Nature and the senses; Michael periods focus on the spiritualisation of human thinking and on cosmopolitan impulses. These three impulses have been present in the background of human history from the period c.1200 until the present. Each impulse does not start and stop suddenly but rather fades in, climaxes and fades out; the peak of an impulse is invariably just afterthe end of a regency, thus the early 20th century saw the peak of the Gabriel impulses, which included the urge to nationalism, and the fading in of the Michael impulses, which were still weaker by comparison.
The second esoteric concept we need to keep in mind when considering the period which Napoleon (1769-1821) and Kaspar Hauser (1812-1833) lived through is that the esoteric name of the Earth is not Gaia but Mars-Mercury. This relates to the eoteric fact – described by the spiritual scientist Rudolf Steiner in his book Occult Science An Outline – that in the process of the seven great periods of Earth evolution known as Old Saturn, Old Sun, Old Moon, Earth, Jupiter, Venus, Vulcan, the period of the mineral Earth in which we now live has two phases: the period of condensation, 'inhalation', or materialisation until the Crucifixion of Christ, and the period of expansion, 'exhalation', or spiritualisation since the Resurrection of Christ. These two phases are known as the Mars phase and the Mercury phase respectively, hence the name Mars-Mercury for the whole Earth development. The seven archangelic Time Regencies go on rotating throughout these two phases, so it will be obvious that also during the Mercury or spiritualisation phase, there will be regencies of Gabriel e.g. 1510-1879. A certain clash of impulses or 'musical dissonance', can thus be expected, as the Gabriel impulse has something more in common with the condensing, hardening, incarnatory gesture of Mars than it does with the more fluid, relational, expansive gesture of Mercury. Napoleon was the Mars gesture incarnate allied to the Gabrielic in the way he sought to base his worldly military empire on his own family's blood lines. Kaspar Hauser, whose teacher and carer Prof. Georg Friedrich Daumer noted, related more to quicksilver than to any other metal, will be seen to be the ultimate bearer of the Mercury impulse.
The individuality that hides behind the Kaspar Hauser veil is a being which worked inspiringly into the Rosicrucian connection from the beginning, and then on 29th September 1812, incarnated as the son of Grand Duke Karl of Baden and his wife Stephanie de Beauharnais. Kaspar Hauser had an important mission of esoteric Christianity to fulfil….It is not a question of who …Kaspar Hauser was, but of what was to have been achieved by [him]. One should occupy oneself with the question as to what was to have been brought about through [him], for by such a direction of investigation we shall always gain the key to an understanding of many problems."[4]
According to these thoughts of Rudolf Steiner, cited by Peter Tradowsky, to concern oneself with Kaspar Hauser is to concern oneself with the future. Steiner draws attention to when Kaspar incarnated : Michaelmas in the year 1812; where : Baden in southern Germany; and the importance of his mission. To the above indications he added that Kaspar Hauser had been an angelic being and that he had been unable to discover any previous incarnation of Kaspar Hauser since Atlantis. 1812? So, what could all this have to do with the future? What could a putative German princeling of the early 19th century have to do with global warming or the development of Africa ? But then, one could also ask: what could an apparently insignificant Jewish preacher in AD 33 or a poor French farmer's daughter called Joan in 1429 have to do with the futures of the Roman and British Empires respectively?[5]
It may seem surprising that Rudolf Steiner said very little about Kaspar Hauser in public; most of what we know of any comments he made about him comes from conversations with individuals, including the above, quoted by Peter Tradowsky. But when we note the reference to the Rosicrucian connection and become aware that it was held as an esoteric principle that one should not speak openly about great individualities active in the Rosicrucian movement for at least a century after their death, then we may understand a possible reason for Steiner 's reticence. It is, however, worth paying careful attention to what Steiner said and did in and around Karlsruhe – where Kaspar was born as the Crown Prince of Baden – and in and around Nuremberg , where Kaspar was first imprisoned for 12 years and then released.
We see for example that it was Malsch, near Karlsruhe, on the night of a full moon, 5th-6th April 1909, that Rudolf Steiner chose for the laying of the foundation stone of the first 'anthroposophical' building, the 'Rosicrucian temple'. The Malsch building was known as 'Francis of Assisi', an individuality whom Steiner later explained had been a pupil of the super-earthlyBuddha around 700 AD in the Black Sea region. That individuality later incarnated as Francis of Assisi in the 13th century at the time of the original initiation of Christian Rosenkreutz. His own destiny at that time portrayed the change from Mars to healing Mercury, as he was a warrior in his youth and transformed himself into a gentle healer. That night of the 5th-6th April RudolfSteiner spoke these words:
We want to sink the foundation stone of this temple into the womb of our Mother Earth, beneath the rays of the Full Moon shining down upon us here, surrounded by the greenness of nature enveloping the building. And just as the Moon reflects the bright light of the Sun, so do we seek to mirror the light of the divine- spiritual beings. Full of trust we turn towards our great Mother Earth, who bears us and protects us so lovingly . . . In pain and suffering our Mother Earth has become hardened. It is our mission to spiritualize her again, to redeem her, in that through the power of our hands we reshape her to become a spirit-filled work of art. May this stone be a first foundation stone for the redemption and transformation of our Planet Earth, and may the power of this stone multiply itself a thousandfold. When we were still resting in the bosom of the Creator, surrounded by divine powers, the all-penetrating and all-embracing Father Spirit wove within us. But we were still without consciousness, not possessing independence. For that reason we descended into matter in order to learn here to have self-consciousness. Then evil came. Then came Death. But Christ was also active within matter and helped us to overcome death, and as we now die in Christ , so do we live. We shall overcome death and through our strong powers we shall deify and spiritualise matter. So shall the power of the Healing Holy Spirit awaken within us.[6]
These references to the Moon, the spiritual sphere of birth and death, to the Mother and to Nature, to the innocent state of unself-consciousness, the growth of consciousness through the encounter with matter, with evil, to the coming and the overcoming of death, the spiritualisation of matter – is this not a veritable picture of Kaspar Hauser's life in public during those 5 years 1828-33, spoken here by Steiner in the place near where Kaspar was born?
It was in Karlsruhe on 25th January 1910 that Rudolf Steiner gave the first public lecture of which we have a record about the Second Coming of Christ, which would take place, not in the physical body but in the etheric world, the spiritual region where, according to Steiner , angelic beings are most active between the Earth and the Moon. He said that this would commence in the 1930s, citing especially the years 1933, 1935 and 1937, which was, incidentally, a century after the death and slandering of Kaspar Hauser (1833-8). In that same lecture, as part of his exemplification of how human consciousness was different in earlier epochs, Steiner specifically refers to a child growing up alone on some desert island, unable to acquire the faculties of thinking and speaking, and indicates "…that time when human beings were in direct intercourse with divine spiritual beings…"; it was a time which "engendered forces and impulses in the soul that were divine-spiritual in a totally different sense from the forces of today….a will spoke out of this soul that also derived from the divine spiritual world." This is how more sensitive people in Nuremberg, notably Kaspar's teacher Professor Daumer, (described by Steiner as "the last Rosicrucian"), perceived Kaspar Hauser during the first six months after Kaspar's release as a totally unselfish being from Paradise, from another world, gifted with remarkable extrasensory abilities that contemporaries could not hope to acquire.
It was also in Karlsruhe the following year at Michaelmas[7], almost exactly 99 years after Kaspar's birth, that Steiner compared for the first time the methods of the Rosicrucians with those of the Jesuits. The struggle between the Rosicrucians and the Jesuits takes us back to the decades before the 30 Years' war (1618-48) when the Rosicrucian movement first emerged into the light of day, specifically around the momentous year of 1603-1604 when the first version of the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz was written. The Rosicrucian movement had hardly taken the stage in 1614-1618, however, when it was overwhelmed in the chaos of the 30 Years' War as the Jesuit-influenced Habsburgs of Austria made war on Bohemia and the Palatinate.[8] Outright opposition to Rudolf Steiner's activities from Catholic quarters is usually dated from those Karlsruhe lectures of 1911.
In those same lectures of 1911 given at Kaspar Hauser's birthplace, Rudolf Steiner revealed one of the most profound teachings of esoteric Christianity – that of the nature of the human 'Phantom', or the Resurrection body. There is not space in this article to enter into that here (the reader is referred to the lecture cycle) but a few days earlier on the 27th September 1911[9], Rudolf Steiner spoke about the original initiation of the founder of Rosicrucianism, Christian Rosenkreutz, in the mid-13th century in such a way as to leave no doubt that this young man was himself endowed with the Resurrection Body, and said that: We must look for the starting point of a new culture in the middle of the 13th century. In his book Kaspar Hauser – The Struggle for the Spirit, Peter Tradowsky discusses in detail the close relationship between the angelic being of the Kaspar Hauser individuality and Christian Rosenkreutz. It is in this context that we can understand Steiner's remarks that: he could find no earlier incarnation for Kaspar Hauser (before 1812); that he was a 'stray Atlantean'; that he was a higher being who had a special mission on the Earth, and that the individuality that is concealed behind the Kaspar Hauser veil is a being who worked inspiringly into the Rosicrucian connection from the beginning.[10] In Kaspar Hauser, we thus have to do not with an ordinary human individuality but with a being of an angelic nature, whose lowest member is normally not the physical body but the invisible etheric, or life body.[11] If this is taken seriously, then no questions will arise as to how the child was able to survive his 12-year isolation on only bread and water; no desperate assertions will be made, as have been by those who think materialistically, for example, to the effect that he must have been treated well in captivity and hypnotised shortly before his release so that everything he did and said after his release was under the influence of hypnosis. Kaspar was "…a being who worked inspiringly into the Rosicrucian connection from the beginning…" It was no accident therefore that in his teacher and carer Professor Daumer , he met the man described by Rudolf Steiner as 'the last Rosicrucian' of the initial Rosicrucian stream; it was the meeting of the 'first' and the 'last' Rosicrucians, so to speak.
Mars and Mercury
Earlier mention of the year 1604 and the Rosicrucian movement, of Baden and southern Germany brings us to a second principal esoteric theme in that story: humanity's intended movement from the Mars impulse to the Mercury impulse in the course of history. The Mars gesture, according to Steiner, is that of contraction, condensation into solidity and incarnation on the physical (mineral) plane, while the Mercury gesture is that of release into flowing and relationship. A renewed mercurial impulse of Rosicrucian origin around 1800 was frustrated by the turmoil of the French Revolution and the revolutionary and napoleonic wars that followed it. The threefold ideals that appeared in the French Revolution in 1789, liberty, equality, and fraternity, which were originally not revolutionaries' ideals but Rosicrucian ones inspired by the Count St Germain (an incarnation of the individuality of Christian Rosenkreutz), were distorted by the Revolution and could not take proper root. Likewise, the impulse of Idealism that attempted to break through in German culture around 1800 was frustrated by the Europe-wide campaigns of the martial master Napoleon and the British-organised struggle against him. The idealism of Goethe and Schiller was unable to translate into effective social action. Schiller died 7 years before Kaspar's birth, writing his Demetrius, about a young man in Russia (1604-06) who, like Kaspar, died in tragic circumstances.[12]
On 24th Jan 1919 in Dornach, Switzerland, Steiner indicated that the middle of the 19th century was a crucial turning point i.e. the 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, because, as he said, After the Europe-wide 1848 Revolutions, social questions were seen predominantly in abstract terms. The middle class had until the 1870s (approx 33 years, 1845-78) to internalise and act out of the abstract social idealism of the 1840s so that a healthy social order might begin to develop with the beginning of the Age of Michael in 1879 ; remaining asleep, they failed to do this. The consequence was that instead of leading the liberal ideals of the 1840s over to the emerging working class movement, the bourgeoisie recoiled in selfishness and fear and clung on to the upper classes, perpetuating old social forms from the Ages of Samael and Gabriel , and abandoning the new, third force in society, the industrial proletariat. The social movement thus fell into the hands of extremist revolutionaries, themselves mostly middle class intellectuals and society rapidly became polarised: middle classes and aristocracy against the working class. Rudolf Steiner put it like this:
The characteristic feature of the [modern] epoch is man's isolation. That he is inwardly isolated from his neighbour is the consequence of individuality, of the development of personality. But this separative tendency must have a reciprocal pole and this counterpole must consist in the cultivation of an active concern of every man for his neighbour.[13]
This personal isolation and separative tendency had developed increasingly since the early 15th century, the high point of the Age of Samael. What was needed in the 19th century was not to look just to the individual and his separate personality, as was the tendency in the West, especially in Britain, nor to look only to the collective and to the demands of society as was the case in the East and in Russia (the "objective scientific" socialism of the Marxists – western abstract philosophy religiously taken up by East Europeans) but rather to see Man in the world. This was the true task of Central Europe – the task of the balancing Middle: to relate the individual to the whole. This 'general reformation' of society that would harmonise religion, art and science had been the aim of the public Rosicrucian movement already in the early 17th century (1604-1613). Natural science and spiritual science needed to be linked if European culture was not to break asunder. These Rosicrucian hopes were associated with the attempted marriage between the impulses of England and Germany, symbolised by the wedding of Princess Elizabeth Stuart and Elector Frederick V of the Palatinate.[14] This would-be mercurial marriage between England and Germany was dashed by the martial madness of the 30 Years' War (1618-48) – and Central Europepaid the price. Russia had already been invaded from the west ( Poland ) and cast into seven years of chaos (1606-13). In the year of Kaspar Hauser's birth, Russia, where his aunt was the Czarina, was again invaded from the west (France) by Napoleon, his mother's adoptive father. Into this situation Kaspar Hauser came like a youthful spiritual comet in 1812,[15] as Joan of Arc had come in 1429 and Dmitri (as portrayed Schiller's Demetrius) had come in 1604.
Schiller wrote of Joan of Arc : "The world indeed loves to blacken all that is radiant and drag down into the dust all that is sublime". Rudolf Steiner spoke[16] of how the pure soul of Joan of Arc defeated the self-seeking and vainglorious element in the culture of her time, both in the English and the French elites, despite the fact that those elites, by sins of commission and omission, succeeded in killing Joan. He indicated that the danger in the modern period comes more from the materialistic acquisitive element. It was this more "modern" element in the English power elite, through the well-connected Lord Philip Henry Stanhope, Pitt 's nephew, that contributed to the killing of the 21-year old Kaspar Hauser. The real power of the aristocratic families that dominated Britain in Stanhope's time was no longer based on the vainglorious claims of 'blue blood' but on commerce, trade, industry and purely legal entitlement to land.
The English will to power in 1429 and in 1828 (when Kaspar was released from captivity) was ultimately defeated in both cases by an innocent soul. Joan 's 3 years of activity (1429-31) began a process of English development that led away from the conquest of France and ultimately out to the conquest of the seas. Kaspar Hauser's 5 years of activity were followed by a process of British development and eventual Anglo-German antagonism that led ultimately to the beginning of the end of the British Empire in the bloodbath of the First World War. If Kaspar had lived to become the spiritual if not the political leader of Germany, it is highly unlikely that Germany would have opted to seek to copy Britain's route to world domination as she did under KaiserWilhelm II. But British manoeuvring (Stanhope) had been involved in the removal of Kaspar, and in the event, without the more enlightened leadership that a Prince Kaspar could have provided, Germany chose to challenge Britain on its own terms; the result was that not long after the dawn of the Age of Michael (1879) Germany industry and commerce were beginning to outpace Britain's, and by 1915, after a single year of war, Britain could no longer go on without US financial assistance; it was effectively the end of British pre-eminence.
Having completed the imperial phase of their history that goes back to 1604, when James the First's peace treaty with Spain made possible Britain's oceanic mercantile advances – a phase that arguably began with Henry VIII and his separation from Rome – the people of Britain now need to develop a greater degree of ethnic self-knowledge and a new understanding of their place in the world. For they have been the world's leading initiators into the principles of separation, individuation, and personality – what Steiner called 'the separative tendency'. Paradoxically, this has been effected by means of the British Empire , which would at first appear to be an integrative, uniting enterprise. In fact, it was largely created through motives of greed and acquisitiveness (piracy – the original 'privatisation') and secured with the application of the principle of divide et impera. It introduced communities and individuals to the drastic and often harsh experience of an isolating individuation.
These qualites of Mars; compulsion to divide and individuate, British ships (the hearts of oak) carried around the world.[17] The tendency of the Mars epoch (1190-1510), was an egocentric drive to assert a separate sense of self that seeks to compete with others, is oriented to the physical mineral world and strives against traditional, blood-based social bonds. England had fully internalised this tendency by the time of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I and the nation proceeded in the Age of Gabriel (1510-1879) to carry this martial impulse successfully into the realm of trade and commerce, which can be described as the lower octave of the mercurial. One must be clear, however, that without this me-centred and alienating development, not only would there have been no natural science but also no emergence of a self-centred personality of the lower ego which could be transformed into a higher, spiritual ego: the age of natural science perforce had to precede that of spiritual science – the age of Gabriel (Moon) had to follow that of Samael (Mars) and precede that of Michael (Sun). Each phase lasting beyond its time and pushed to the extreme, however, as has happened for the last century – has the tendency to become evil, and in Rudolf Steiner's words, threatens "to flood the world with the death of culture and the sickness of culture".[18]
Britain having done most to spread the impulse to materialism during the 18th century, the 19th century needed an antidote – which was to be given by a Germany intended to be the focus of a new healing Grail culture, and Kaspar Hauser would have been at the centre of that new mercurial Grail culture that could develop fully after the beginning of the Michael era in 1879. Near the end of his life, Steiner said that:
South Germany should have become the new Grail Castle of the new Knights of the Grail and the cradle of future events. This spiritual ground had been well-prepared by all those personalities whom we know of as Goethe , Schiller , Hölderlin, Herder and others. Kaspar Hauser was to have gathered around him, as it were, all that existed in this spiritual ground thus prepared. But that was not wanted by those circles (the western lodges and the Jesuits). They could not tolerate a centre that was awakening to consciousness if they were not to relinquish their power and designs for power. A spirit such as Goethe 's frightened them." [19]
Kaspar's path in the 19th century, like Germany's path in the 17th and 20th centuries, was a painful one of sacrifice through terrible darkness and misdeeds. In the last century, during the 12 years of 1933-45, Germany experienced a most radical evil. The defeat of Liberalism on the Continent the 1848 Revolutions led to massive German emigration overseas, mostly to North America . This is the nature of the counterpole to the 'separative tendency' – "the cultivation of an active concern of every man for his neighbour", the antidote to isolation and the relation of the individual to the whole. Whereas these German emigrants had to adapt to the lands and communities they settled in, emigration from Britain, by contrast, led to the creation of new countries which were dominated by majority English speakers that saw themselves as part of the British Empire (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, S. Africa) and which subscribed to white, Anglo-Saxon protestant values. This amounted to the continuation of 'the separative tendency' and indeed, in the first decades of the 20th century there was a powerful movement among the British imperial elite (e.g. Joseph Chamberlain, Lord Milner and his Round Table acolytes) to federate the white nations of the Empire to bind them ever more closely together so that, in alliance with the USA, they could be in a better position to dominate the globe.[20]
Since arguably, it would appear that no culture has developed 'the separative tendency' as extremely as the Third Reich, it might seem problematic, to say the least, to speak of a Germancounterpole to 'the separative tendency'. But in fact, so much of the Nazi movement was the exact inversion, like a glove turned inside out, of the Grail culture that Steiner said was supposed to have developed in Germany. This was so even down to Hitler 's great love for the music of Wagner and especially Parsifal. The Nazis' concern for Volksgemeinschaft (folk community) andVolksgenossenschaft (folk cameraderie) was a shadow image of 'the cultivation of an active concern of every man for his neighbour'. In the middle European culture of the I (Ich), the Nazis sought to eradicate the I. In the culture in which, during the age of Kaspar Hauser, the idealistic principles of liberty, equality and fraternity actually meant something – at least in philosophy and the arts – the Nazis later preached the ancient doctrine of Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer. The true German soul element as it had developed over many centuries was in effect imprisoned, no longer visible, and in its place, the world perceived an evil incubus, alien in spirit to the proper nature and developmental stage of humanity in the mid-20th century: Faust possessed by Mephistopheles.
According to Steiner, the whole period of the 15th to the 36th centuries (2160 years) is concerned with the development of Man's individualism, independence, self-reliance and conscience against the background of a growing materialism and the encounter with the mineral plane of existence. As the nature of mineral 'reality' is itself intrinsically one of fragmentation and separation (i.e. alienation from the cosmic whole), then a major task in this modern epoch is the understanding of the question of evil, which is 'the separative tendency' taken to the extreme. We can thus begin to sense the dimensions of Kaspar Hauser's mission. Whereas the Age of Samael in particular and the Middle Ages in general were overawed or overwhelmed, so to speak, by the image of the Cross and the Crucifixion, the challenge in the present epoch will be to awaken to the meaning of the Resurrection, symbolised by the roses in the Rose Cross imagery. This will happen in the most difficult possible circumstances, as the events of the 20th century, for example, have already made clear, through its wars and persecutions, the terrible destruction of innocence of Nature, of ethnic minorities, and of childhood itself, for the descent into materialism will be so strong, and human consciousness will become so soporific, that only the encounter with radical evil will suffice to awaken our consciences to the Good. In the midst of a terrible darkness and ignorance, we shall be challenged to awaken to spiritual reality. In the heart ofEurope, the angelic being who quickly became known as the Child of Europe showed through his life and death what this means. This is the second reason why Kaspar Hauser is no 'mere historical' phenomenon and why his life and death will shine like a beacon throughout the modern era. It is thus clear that Kaspar Hauser was and is a great companion of Christian Rosenkreutzand Christ Himself. Kaspar Hauser did not achieve much outwardly in terms of great or widely recognised historical deeds; he became known through the evil that was done to him and through the quality of his being in response to it.
The third and final aspect of the esoteric significance of Kaspar Hauser that will be mentioned here[21] relates to what is known as the Etheric Reappearance of Christ – what is traditionally called the Second Coming.[22] Rudolf Steiner emphasised that this will not occur in the physical body but in the etheric body of the Earth, the spiritual form of the Earth's biosphere which is the realm of the angels and which extends to the orbit of the Moon. It will be an ongoing event that will last till the end of Earth evolution. From the 1930s onwards, a few people, and then gradually more and more as the decades and centuries go by, would be able to perceive the Etheric Christ in the form of a being of light. As previously mentioned, the first recorded public lecture by Steiner on this subject was in Kaspar's birthplace of Karlsruhe on 25th Jan 1910.[23] He later emphasised that before humanity would be able to perceive the Christ in His etheric form (in which his vessel would not be a human being, such as Jesus was, but rather, an angel) it would have to encounter what he called the Beast from the abyss. This he dated precisely to the year 1933.[24] As we now know, the Beast did indeed appear in the year 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power, exactly 100 years after Kaspar's murder. Throughout the 1930s Hitler's demonic voice thundered out over Europe from the Nazi Party rallies held in the swastika-bedecked city of Nuremberg, the very city where the Child of Europe had been proclaimed in 1828, and among the ruins of which Nazi leaders were judged after the war.
Steiner thus spoke of this reappearance or second resurrection of Christ in 1910 in Kaspar's birthplace, but it was not until three years later that he described what had preceded this resurrection. The date was 2nd May 1913 and the place was – London. Here in the capital city of the world's greatest power of the time, the capital city of the nation that in the 1830s and 40s was initiating the world into industrial society, and the city of the Foreign Office that had given Lord Stanhope his orders as a secret agent[25], Steiner described how in the 1840s a second Crucifixion of Christ had occurred in the etheric realm, not of course of His physical body, but of the consciousness of the angel that was 'bearing' Him. The human being Jesus of Nazareth bore the divine being of the Christ for the three years from the Baptism in the Jordan until the Crucifixion, and enabled the Christ to experience human existence on the physical plane. Since his Ascension, the Christ has dwelt in the etheric realm of the angels, the supersensible sphere nearest the Earth and He has been borne by an angel; His outer form is thus that of an angel just as it was a human being between 30 and 33 AD. This etheric realm in which the angels are active is also the realm in which human thinking has its being.[26]
For some three centuries, the etheric realm had been increasingly polluted by the materialism of human souls as they passed into the first supersensible (Moon) sphere after death. This materialism of thought reached a kind of peak in the 1840s, and its smog-like pollution clouded the consciousness of the Christ-bearing angel. "This onset of unconsciousness in the spiritual worlds will lead to the resurrection of the Christ-consciousness in the souls of human beings living on earth in the 20th century…the consciousness lost by humanity will arise again for clairvoyant vision…This was a renewal of the Mystery of Golgotha, in order to bring about an awakening of the previously hidden Christ-consciousness within human souls on earth." It is in this context that we can try to make sense of Steiner 's most enigmatic statement about Kaspar Hauser . The first Mystery of Golgotha 2000 years ago in Palestine , then the land of the Jews, was made possible through the sacrifice of an innocent young man – Jesus of Nazareth. Karl Heyer reports the well-authenticated remark of Steiner 's that: "if Kaspar Hauser had not lived and died as he did, the contact between the earth and the heavenly would have been completely severed."[27] What was it that created the bridge that linked the second crucifixion and the second resurrection of Christ ? Steiner does not spell it out, but well over 100 years have now passed since the death of Kaspar Hauser, and so we can now at least put the question: was it not the sacrificial life and death of the angelic being of Kaspar Hauser there in the land of the Germans, the crossroads region of the heart of Europe[28], that built a spiritual bridge between heaven and earth at the time of Europe's darkest materialism of mind and secured for mankind in the 20th century and for centuries afterwards the possibility of seeing the resurrected Etheric Christ? And if Kaspar Hauser's sacrificial life is so intimately related to this Second Crucifixion and Second Resurrection of Christ (Second Coming), does this not suggest that his spiritual significance is of a most profound and awesome nature?
1. Readers are referred, for example, to Peter Tradowsky, Kaspar Hauser – The Struggle for the Spirit (Temple Lodge, 1997), esp. ch. 5
2. The seven archangelic Time Regents have a specific function within the community of archangels; needless to say, there many more archangels than just seven. The other archangels have various other functions, such as being the guides or bearers of human groups and communities. Trithemius' description of the archangelic regencies is included in his book A Treatise on the Seven Secondary Causes i.e. Intelligences, or Spirits, who move the Spheres according to God (written 1508, published 1515 and dedicated to the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I). He was also the author of the great book of cryptography, the Steganographia and the teacher of the esotericist and magus Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim . Trithemius saw the archangelic periods as being fixed at 354 years and 4 months each – a periodicity related to astronomical phenomena of the Moon and Saturn – whereas Rudolf Steiner saw these periods as becoming less rigid after the Incarnation of Christ)
3. The dates given – except for 2300 – are those by Steiner cf. Trithemius' dates: Samael 1171-1525, Gabriel 1525-1879, Michael 1879-2233
4. 3.3.1925, Tradowsky, p.281
5. Steiner pointed out in a lecture of 18.10.1918 (From Symptom To Reality in Modern History, Rudolf Steiner Press, 1976) that it was Joan of Arc who played the key role in differentiatingEngland from France . After France's resurgence led by Joan, and England's subsequent defeats, England turned away from trying to build a continental empire and looked outwards to the oceans.
6. Steiner lecture of 18.5.1907 Occult Seals and Columns GA 284/285. GA refers to Steiner 's Collected Works in German.
7. 4-14 Oct. 1911 GA 131 The lecture cycle known as From Jesus to Christ (Rudolf Steiner Press, 2005)
8. The Palatinate (the word comes from the old imperial title Count Palatine – palatial count – and is related to paladin) is an important region straddling the Rhine and including the cities ofHeidelberg and Mannheim . It also includes Sponheim, where Trithemius was active, and stems originally from the 10th cent. County Palatine of Lotharingia (Lorraine). Its ruler was made one of the seven hereditary imperial Electors by Emperor Charles IV's Golden Bull of 1356 so that the region assumed a decisive importance in Germany. In the mid-16th century it embraced Calvinist Protestantism and by 1613 its capital Heidelberg was becoming a centre of Rosicrucian activity. In that year, the Elector Frederick V married Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James I of England & VI of Scotland. This alliance of the two Protestant courts was seen as a great opportunity for those warlike and hotheaded Protestants who were spoiling for war with the Catholic Habsburgs of Austria in the tense 'Cold War' situation of 1610-1618. The young and impressionable Frederick allowed himself to be swayed by his adviser Christian of Anhalt to accept the offer of the Crown of Bohemia; this was unacceptable to the Habsburgs and sparked the catastrophic 30 Years' War.
9. lecture of 27.9.1911 GA 130, in Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz (Rudolf Steiner Press, 1984)
10. See Tradowsky, esp. ch. 5
11. Whereas human beings have physical (mineral), etheric (life) and astral (feeling) 'bodies' and are developing their own ego during Earth evolution, angels have an etheric, astral body and ego and are completing the development of the next highest member, the Spirit-Self, during this same period.
12. The efforts of the young would-be Czar, Dmitri, to gain the throne were frustrated by a combination of Jesuit intrigues and Russian Orthodox and aristocratic conservatism. His overthrow was followed by 7 years of chaos in Russia that ended with the establishment of the Romanov dynasty in 1613.
13. Steiner, From Symptom to Reality in Modern History, lecture IV
14. cf. Ferdinand and Miranda in Shakespeare 's The Tempest, which was performed for the wedding of Frederick and Elizabeth on Valentine's Day 14th February, 1613.
15. It was a year of destiny for both Napoleon and Russia. The Great Flaugergues Comet, which had appeared in 1811, was still visible in the heavens during Kaspar's mother's pregnancy and last observed on 17 Aug 1812; he was born on 29 Sept 1812.
16. 17th and 19th January 1915, GA 157
17. Interestingly, the oak tree has from time immemorial been associated with Mars.
18. Lecture of 15.12.1919 GA 194, Ideas for a New Europe (Rudolf Steiner Press, 1994) p.49
19. Tradowsky, p.278
20. See P. Roberts, World War I and Anglo-American Relations: The Role of Philip Kerr and The Round Table, in 'The Round Table', Vol. 95, No. 383, pp.113 – 139, Jan. 2006, and Inderjeet Parmar, Univ of Manchester at: http://ire.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/16/1/53.pdf
21. There are many other aspects of the esoteric character of the destiny of Kaspar Hauser but they cannot all be included here. See further: Tradowsky, Kaspar Hauser – The Struggle for the Spirit.
22. This is a complex subject; readers are referred to The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric (Anthroposophic Press, 1983)
23. Apparently, he first gave a public lecture on it in Stockholm on the 12th January 1910 but no record of that lecture exists. See T.H. Meyer, The Boddhisattva Question (Temple Lodge, 1993), p.136.
24. In the lecture of 20.9.1924 (GA 346) in The Book of Revelation and the work of the priest (Rudolf Steiner Press, 1998)
25. Stanhope was active as an agent in Sicily and Dresden 1812-1816 and thereafter, mainly in southern Germany 1817-1835. See J.Mayer, Lord Stanhope, Der Gegenspieler Kaspar Hausers (Urachhaus, 1988); untranslated.
26. For Christ and His Reappearance in the etheric realm, see The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric, Anthroposophic Press, 1983) and Steiner 's lecture of 2.5.1913 in The Archangel Michael – His Mission and Ours (Anthroposophic Press, 1994). The cyberspace of the Internet is a materialistic and deceptive 'copy' of this angelic realm of thoughts. It is noteworthy that both the Internet and a concern with angels emerged in the 1990s.
27. Tradowsky, p.282 and ch. 5
28. Both Pilsach, where he was imprisoned for 12 years, and Ansbach, where he was killed, are within 25 miles of Nuremberg.
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PSQLv12 Quick Links
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Actian PSQL v12 Product Information
First Customer Ship: December 17, 2014
End of General Availability: July 1, 2018
End of Support: July 1, 2019
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As with previous versions like Actian PSQL v11 and older, PSQL v12 is available for Windows in both 32-bit and 64-bit levels. The Linux engine was released in April 2015 in a 64-bit version only, and the Mac OSX engine is also available only in a 64-bit release.
What's New In PSQL v12?
Here is a list of the most important new features in this release:
Online Database Defragmenter: Most PSQL administrators are familiar with the venerable "Rebuild Utility", which can both reclaim deleted space and shrink index structures to their most optimal state. New with PSQLv12 is the ability to run this process on "live" files -- while the system is in use! This important new feature will allow you to maintain your database, even in 24x7 operational environments like airlines and health care! Read more about it here.
More Unicode Support: As applications increasingly must perform correctly in the global marketplace, support for the full Unicode character space is more and more important. PSQLv12 adds even more Unicode support to the engine, including new SQL data types NCHAR, NVARCHAR, and NLONGVARCHAR, a new ODBC driver for Unicode applications, and support for Unicode in various utilities like BDU, PCC, and the Query Plan Viewer.
Rebranding: Although the product has been called Actian PSQL for a long time now, the dialog boxes and menus finally reflect this change. Additionally, the names of the services, the installation folder, and more are changing. This may be an issue for companies who support the PSQL environment, but not an issue for new installations.
Easier Installation: PSQLv12 brings some new capabilities to ease installation. First, the Workgroup Engine will install as a service by default, eliminating the common Status 7224 error message when applying a license. Second, there will only be ONE Client installer, and it will be smart enough to install all applicable components -- eliminating the issue caused when users install the 64-bit Client and find that their 32-bit applications do not work.
License Changes: There are two important licensing changes in the PSQL v12 release. First, *ANY* use of multiplexing (i.e. thin client solutions) or public web services will require a switch to the PSQL Vx licensing model, which is now licensed based on the size of the database only. (Note that PSQL Vx may offer a lower cost for some sites, as well.) Second, and perhaps more importantly, all PSQL v12 and PSQL Vx Server 12 licenses will no longer be tied to the entire hardware fingerprint of the server -- but ONLY the machine name. This makes all the v12 engines hypervisor-friendly for use in virtual machines and full-server failover environments! In a third change related to licensing, the PSQL Vx Server 12 engine no longer requires constant internet access to stay activated.
Developer-Level Updates: Software developers now have access to the ADO.NET v4.1 drivers (though 3.2 and 3.5 have been eliminated), new features through JDBC and ODBC for Unicode, and PDAC components for design-time (32-bit) and runtime (32 and 64-bit).
High-Speed Reporting: PSQL v12 Server Engine licenses also include a license to install the Actian Analytics Platform for PSQL. This new reporting solution leverages the eye-popping speed of Actian's Vector database engine and the fast data migration capabilities of Actian Dataflow (formerly DataRush) to bring incredible, high-speed reporting and analytics to your PSQL environment. The included license provides a whopping 1TB limit and no user count restrictions, so you can use it for all of your reporting needs.
64-Bit Linux Engine ONLY: Actian has made a decision to release ONLY a 64-bit version of the PSQL v12 Server Engine for Linux. As such, PSQLv12 is NOT supported on 32-bit Linux installations. This new release will include all 64-bit utilities , as well. Users needing to run 32-bit applications on their Linux server can ALSO download and install the "Client Access" components, which will support running 32-bit applications on the 64-bit environment.
Windows 10 Support: On October 22, 2015, Actian announced support for PSQL v12 on Windows 10. All editions of PSQL v12 include support for Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Enterprise 2015 LTSB. The Workgroup Engine and PSQL Client are also supported on Windows 10 Home Edition.
Mac OS X Support: In September 2015, Actian announced support for PSQL v12 Server Engines running on the Mac OS X platform. Support is currently available for v10.9 and v10.10 of OS X. Please note that Goldstar Software will be able to sell Mac licenses, but will not be able to provide any support for this platform, as we have no expertise with this OS at this time.
Standalone Server License: In February 2016, Actian announced a new Standalone Server Engine license for PSQL v12. This 1-User Server Engine is NOT expandable like other Server Base licenses, as it does NOT accept any user count increases, so it is somewhat limited in that regard. If you think you might need to add more users in the future, then the 32-bit Workgroup Engine may be a better option for you. However, if you have a 64-bit operating system and you want the extra security and features of a true Server Engine, or if you want the performance gains to be had with access to more than 4GB of memory for the database engine and cache, this is for you! The Standalone Server Engine is ideal for developer workstations with lots of memory, and the extra performance will certainly be noticed. Still not sure? Check out our Server vs. Workgroup comparison chart.
Windows Server 2016 Support: On November 8, 2015, Actian announced support for PSQL v12 on Windows Server 2016. All editions of PSQL v12 are now supported on this operating system!
Supported Operating Systems and Hardware Requirements
Officially supported operating systems include Windows Vista and newer, and Windows Server 2008 and newer only. Windows XP, Server 2003, and older operating systems are not supported in this release! This does not mean that they will not work (though we know that Windows 2000 will not even accept the install), but only that they have not been tested and will not be supported by Actian.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you intend to upgrade to a new Windows 11 computer, please be aware that some recently-released solid state disk (SSD) modules are now shipping with sector sizes larger than 4K, which can cause problems with older versions of database systems from Microsoft, Oracle, and Pervasive/Actian. Actian will NOT be releasing updates for Zen v14 or older to address this issue. If you intend to stay on an older database engine on new hardware, you should first run the command "fsutil fsinfo sectorInfo C:", which will report a value for PhysicalBytesPerSectorForAtomicity. If this value is reported at anything over 4096, your new hardware is incompatible with Zen v14 and older, and you should plan to upgrade your database software to Zen v15 to retain functionality. Note that the sector size is an inherent property of the hardware and cannot be altered (without replacing the hardware).
There are no stated minimum hardware requirements. Essentially, if you can run the OS, you can run the database engine. However, performance will be commensurate with the resources provided, as well as the workload.
Actian PSQL v12 License Models
Actian PSQL v12 has three different license models to choose from:
Workgroup Engine: Per-user licensing, up to a maximum of 5 concurrent users
Server Engine: Per-user licensing, starting at 6 concurrent users
Vx Server Engine: Data size licensing with unlimited users for Web/SaaS installations
Please see our PSQL v12 License Primer for more information on the various license types and other factors that might help you determine the best license type for your environment.
If you have decided on per-user licensing, but you are still not sure if you want the Workgroup Engine or the Server Engine, check out our Workgroup Versus Server Comparison Chart.
Pricing for each of these license models can be found on our Actian PSQL v12 price list, or you can BUY IT NOW from our on-line store. If you want to try out different license models before you buy (a really good idea!), you can get trial downloads from Actian's Web Site.
Still not sure which license model or size to get?
Actian PSQL v12 Application Support
It is up to application vendors to announce support for PSQL v12 with their products. For those that have told us if they support v12, you will find that noted on our Application Support pages. Otherwise, please contact the vendor for more information.
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[+] Actian PSQL v12.10 (SP1)...
Released in June 2016 (and re-released in July 2016), the SP1 (Service Pack 1) product build offers a some important new features to users of PSQLv12. This release includes the following changes:
Automatic Defragmentation: Expanding on the PSQL v12 Online Database Defragmenter, this new feature allows you to configure your system to automatically defragment your larger files every day, as they get more and more fragmented.
Disk Space Monitoring: If the ODD detects that disk space is running low, it will now cancel defragmentation automatically.
Unicode Support: Additional support for NCHAR fields in the PCC, as well as come new collation capabilities have been added for international developers.
SDK Updates: Updates were released for the ADO.NET, JDBC, JCL, and PDAC drivers.
Windows Server 2016 Support: SP1 has been tested and is supported on Windows Server 2016.
This is a free patch upgrade to previous versions of PSQLv12. Users of PSQLv11 and earlier can purchase a paid upgrade at a discount. If you are running the v12.00 code (FCS), then we strongly recommend upgrading to the latest patches, if possible.
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[+] Actian PSQL v12.00 (FCS)...
Released on December 17, 2014, the FCS (First Customer Ship) product build offers a lot of new features to users of older PSQL versions. This release includes the following features:
Online Defragmenter: You can now rebuild database files live, while the system is running, enabling rebuilds to comoplete in even the most demanding 24x7 environments!
Easier Installation: PSQL v12 installation has been revamped, making it easier than ever to install the right components, every time.
License Enforcement: Relaxed license enforcement means that PSQL v12 works better than ever on virtual machines!
This is a paid upgrade to previous versions (PSQLv11 and earlier).
[+] Frequently Asked Questions About Actian PSQL v12...
Q: My vendor doesn't support the new version yet. What can I do?
A: You can still purchase Pervasive PSQL v11, which is supported through June 30, 2016. Then, you can choose to upgrade the engine later on, if needed.
Q: Is Actian PSQL v12 backward compatible with my older applications?
A: Officially, 16-bit applications are no longer supported. You may be able to get around this by using our special Requester Patch Pack (scroll all the way down).
Q: If my application worked on PSQLv11, will it work on v12?
A: It is always a good idea to test your own applications. Most new features can easily be ignored by older applications. One noted issue may result due to discontinuing of older ADO.NET drivers. If your application is hard-coded to asn older version, it may break. If the application uses the latest ADO drivers, then it should work just fine.
Q: Are all of the Ecosystem products (AuditMaster, DataExchange, Backup Agent) supported on Actian PSQL v12?
A: Not all versions are supported. See our Ecosystem pages for Backup Agent, AuditMaster, and DataExchange for details on compatibility for each product.
Q: Is Actian PSQL v12 supported on Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2?
A: Yes! PSQLv12 will run on these newer operating systems.
Q: Is there a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template for Actian PSQL v12?
A: Yes! Here is the VPAT document, often needed for US Government buyers.
If you have additional questions about the product, please contact us!


Via, this impressive game-controller trick to be used in Katamari Damacy for getting one million roses.
Why do I blog this? this is is a good expression of gamers' creativity to achieve their game goals. I also like the idea of using additional artifacts to act on the game. The use of rubber bands is interesting. Would we see some people using a vaccuum cleaner to create huge bubble with the bubble toy in Nintendogs on the DS?


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A new 12-inch iPad Pro is reportedly being worked on for a March release
Apple is rumored to be working on a new 12-inch iPad Pro.
DigiTimes reports that it will be announced "around March".
It isn't clear whether this 12-inch iPad is all-new, or a refresh of the 12.9-inch model that's already available.
March could be a big month.
DigiTimes has today expanded on yesterday's report that Apple will announce refreshed iPad Pro tablets "around March". The new report suggests that the refresh will involve a "12-inch iPad Pro".
It isn't clear whether this 12-inch model is going to be an all-new tablet, or simply a mistake on the part of DigiTimes. Apple currently offers a 12.9-inch iPad Pro, so it's possible this is the device DigiTimes is reporting on.
The report also mentions that the new tablet will have a three-lens camera setup around the back, with a time-of-flight sensor included.
After upgrading its 9.7-inch iPad to 10.2-inch spec in 2019, Apple is set to release its new 12-inch iPad Pro model featuring a rear-end three-lens ToF 3D sensor in the spring, in a bid to boost its share of the global table market. The vendor registered total iPad shipments of 44 million units in 2019, slightly lower than 2018, the sources said.
We've heard rumors of such an addition for a good few months, although again, it isn't clear whether it will be included in all iPad Pro models or just the 12-inch one.
However, it would appear that Apple's supply partners aren't able to produce the units as quickly as anticipated thanks to the coronavirus outbreak.
In fact, upstream supply chain partners already kicked off production of related components for the new model before the Lunar New Year holiday seeking to support iPad Pro shipment ramp-up by assemblers after the holiday. But assemblers are not expected to start ramping up shipments until March due the epidemic, and shipments may peak at a monthly level of over 3-3.5 million units in the second quarter, the sources said.
We've recently heard that an event will take place next month with the rumored iPhone 9 set to be announced. If so, that would likely also be the event that sees new iPad Pros, too.
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