Bastiaan Baan worked as a teacher in the Netherlands before being ordained as a Christian Community priest in 1981. From 2013 he was the director of the Priests’ Seminary in North America before returning to the Netherlands in 2019. He lectures widely, and has written many books, including Lord of the Elements and Old and New Mysteries, both published by Floris Books.

• ContentsForeword 71 Signs of the Times 92 What Do Mythologies Say About the Future? 173 Old Forms of Predicting the Future: Prophets,Sybils, Shamans 264 The Little Apocalypse 395 The Apocalypse of St John 526 Freedom and Inevitability – Jesse Mulder 747 The Counterstream of Time 908 Providence: The Hidden Presence of Christ 1029 ‘Behold, I Make All Things New’: Moralityas Creative Principle – Jesse Mulder 11210 Our Self-created Destiny 12711 Manichaeism and the Origins of Evil – Jesse Mulder 13812 Manichaeism and the Redemption of Evil 14613 Current Trends and Developments 15514 What Can I Do? 168Afterword 182Appendix 183Notes 188Bibliography 196Index 200

'A very inspiring and helpful consideration of the anxieties we must surely all experience at present and how we can learn to feel strengthened rather than crushed by them.'-- Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain'In this slim volume Bastiaan Baan espouses a very broad view... He takes the reader along with him in a warm and inclusive manner, thus making it a thoroughly stimulating and enlivening read.'-- Perspectives

Bastiaan Baan worked as a teacher in the Netherlands before being ordained as a Christian Community priest in 1981. From 2013 he was the director of the Priests’ Seminary in North America before returning to the Netherlands in 2019. He lectures widely, and has written many books, including Lord of the Elements and Old and New Mysteries, both published by Floris Books.

• ContentsForeword 71 Signs of the Times 92 What Do Mythologies Say About the Future? 173 Old Forms of Predicting the Future: Prophets,Sybils, Shamans 264 The Little Apocalypse 395 The Apocalypse of St John 526 Freedom and Inevitability – Jesse Mulder 747 The Counterstream of Time 908 Providence: The Hidden Presence of Christ 1029 ‘Behold, I Make All Things New’: Moralityas Creative Principle – Jesse Mulder 11210 Our Self-created Destiny 12711 Manichaeism and the Origins of Evil – Jesse Mulder 13812 Manichaeism and the Redemption of Evil 14613 Current Trends and Developments 15514 What Can I Do? 168Afterword 182Appendix 183Notes 188Bibliography 196Index 200

'A very inspiring and helpful consideration of the anxieties we must surely all experience at present and how we can learn to feel strengthened rather than crushed by them.'-- Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain'In this slim volume Bastiaan Baan espouses a very broad view... He takes the reader along with him in a warm and inclusive manner, thus making it a thoroughly stimulating and enlivening read.'-- Perspectives

Bastiaan Baan worked as a teacher in the Netherlands before being ordained as a Christian Community priest in 1981. From 2013 he was the director of the Priests’ Seminary in North America before returning to the Netherlands in 2019. He lectures widely, and has written many books, including Lord of the Elements and Old and New Mysteries, both published by Floris Books.

• ContentsForeword 71 Signs of the Times 92 What Do Mythologies Say About the Future? 173 Old Forms of Predicting the Future: Prophets,Sybils, Shamans 264 The Little Apocalypse 395 The Apocalypse of St John 526 Freedom and Inevitability – Jesse Mulder 747 The Counterstream of Time 908 Providence: The Hidden Presence of Christ 1029 ‘Behold, I Make All Things New’: Moralityas Creative Principle – Jesse Mulder 11210 Our Self-created Destiny 12711 Manichaeism and the Origins of Evil – Jesse Mulder 13812 Manichaeism and the Redemption of Evil 14613 Current Trends and Developments 15514 What Can I Do? 168Afterword 182Appendix 183Notes 188Bibliography 196Index 200

'A very inspiring and helpful consideration of the anxieties we must surely all experience at present and how we can learn to feel strengthened rather than crushed by them.'-- Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain'In this slim volume Bastiaan Baan espouses a very broad view... He takes the reader along with him in a warm and inclusive manner, thus making it a thoroughly stimulating and enlivening read.'-- Perspectives