MAITRI MANGALAM

MAITRI MANGALAM

February 7, 2024 | NEWS

A MYSTERIOUS EVENT

In the year 2005 on the 16th of May, a fifteen year old boy started meditating in the dense jungle of Nepal under a Banyan tree. Till the amazement of his fellow villagers, friends and family, he persisted in meditating for a prolongued time without consuming food or drinking water. And finally, till the amazement of the entire world, he continued to do so for 6 years.

SIX YEARS!

This has been captured by cameras from different press agencies from all over the world.

RAM BAHADUR BOMJAN

I remember myself watching (from the Netherlands) online footage on You Tube of him meditating. This was around the year 2007.
His name is राम बहादुर बम्जन, in English:
Ram Bahadur Bomjan. Born in 1990 in Ratanapuri, Bara district, Nepal.
Have you heard of him before?

I watched in utter amazement how this young lad seemed to be in some sort of trance as he wasn’t physically interacting with his surroundings and the people near him. Yet he sat in a straight position, undisturbed by anything. After a few years, his hair grew so long that it entirely covered his face.

The picture below shows Ram Bahadur Bomjan meditating in the hollow of the tree, with the early stage of his long hairgrowth. He sat there day and night, in different types of weather and had also been attacked by wildlife several times. Yet, he survived all of it.

At the time, what was spoken on the video footage, was mainly in the Nepalese language. So I couldn’t learn more about the reason why he was doing this. From studying the footage, I realised his family and fellow villagers didn’t know either. They were answering the foreign journalists, but admitted they didn’t know, and nobody knew. They accepted it as a given.

CATCHING GLIMPSES

While still in meditation, more and more people both nationally and internationally heard about him. As the matter of fact, thousands of visitors came to the location where Ram Bahadur Bomjan meditated to catch a glimpse of him. Also the media attention increased more and more.

In those six years, he changed location three times. Those were apparently the moments when he was briefly out of meditation. He changed location because of too much of a crowd watching and disturbing him, despite his family members and people loyal to his cause protecting him and setting up boundaries around him, such as markings of fences and mesh and long ribbons with small brightly colored flags.

MESSAGE IN RATANPUR

I also remember quite often searching online for more footage, but the mystery remained. And after a while I lost track of it, not getting any wiser. To only find out many years later that ‘Buddha Boy’ concluded six years of meditation officially in 2011, on May 16.

Like, SIX YEARS… REALLY? SERIOUS? At the time, Ram Bahadur Bomjan came out of the jungle, now grown from a boy into a young man, and went straight to a location close to the city of Ratanpuri to make arrangements for a public statement.
Four days later he gave a
Message in Ratanpur. This was during a public program called ‘Mahadarshan’. You can read more about this and Ram Bahadur Bomjan on the official website about him and his cause.

MAHASAMBODHI DHARMASANGHA GURU

In 2017 Ram Bahadur Bomjan addresses Humanity again on the 21th of March. Now he carries the name ‘Mahasambodhi Dharmasangha Guru’. Below you can listen to his statements with English subtitles. Some of the words he uses is special jargon in the ancient Buddhist traditions in Nepal, some of the phrases stemming from Sanskrit. But one can still follow the main topics he is addressing.

It’s time to rise Humanity!

Another statement Ram Bahadur Bomjan has made is that the world will know a new language. Now, this doesn’t mean all peoples have to give up their native languages. What might happen is an introduction of new words and new terminologies that will give Humanity an uplift, because those words are carriers of information, carriers of truth.

MAITRI MANGALAM

For fun one terminology will be mentioned in this article, which is the ‘Maitri Mangalam’. This is a greeting we can give each other, the words stand for: Maitri = Friendly and Mangalam = Greeting.
From Ram Bahadur Bomjan’s book (read online or download for free), I learn that:

‘Maitri’ is commonly used in most Indic cultures to mean ‘loving friendliness’, ‘compassion’, ‘oneness’, ‘inclusiveness’, ‘benevolence’, ‘awareness of and love for all living beings’, ‘without boundaries’, ‘without selfishness’.

The word maitri had been chosen for its affiliations with invisible yet clearly palpable states of being that focus our human consciousness on the Earth and on the welfare of all living beings without bias regarding race, gender, social position, political persuasion or religious belief. It indicates a gentle loving kindness, with a softness that melts and merges serenely into the whole.

THOUSANDS OF FOLLOWERS,
3 MILLION SYMPATHIZERS

If anything. Ram Bomjan radiates this Maitri friendlyness towards everyone he meets. And whatdyathink, does that go unnoticed? Both in Nepal and Internationally, there are an estimated 3 million followers and sympathizers. Some of them have been educated and trained by Ram Bahadur Bomjan and are spreading his teachings further. On 19 October 2013 Guru bestowed the title of ‘Sanyasi Gurumarga’ gurus to a few of his disciples who abstain from worldly possessions, attachments or desires and are fully commited to his cause. They were assigned to wear blue coloured robes.

The robes with red and yellow stripes are assigned to the ‘Mātma Gurumārga’ gurus who remain active in society and carry on their jobs and responsibilities for their families. Another thousands of devotees wear on special occasions Maitri outfits of pink, purple, blue or green colours. Many gurus were gathered from various districts of Nepal, initiating them to practise ‘maitri dharma’ in a more proactive manner from their own homes.

Surely the country of Nepal beholds so much ancient wisdom which is still alive under the Nepalese people and deeply rooted in their culture. Ram also has a following internationally. I’m one of those interested to learn more from him and the way of life described by him. I have been intrigued by ‘Buddha Boy’ from the first moment I saw him meditating many years back.

FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST
AND VICE VERSA

This reminds me of the
Dutch author Jozef Rulof, who stated in his books that masters from the East will come to the West to educate us on spiritual matters seen from their different perspectives. And I believe that is what is truly happening!
I consider it an advance though to have read all of Jozef Rulof’s books for he addresses many spiritual laws in a very logical and loving manner. For instance Rulof distinguishes between the law of ‘karma’ and the law of ’cause and effect’. He also states that all human beings are of equal importance and not one single soul will be forever lost. It is simply not possible. Thought I should mention this. Please get rid of the ‘doom and gloom burning in hell forever thingy’.

GAINING MOMENTUM BY SERVING OTHERS

According to Rulof, once we’ve straightened out our negative karma, heaven awaits us! And I’m sensing this is also what Ram Bomjan is saying. But we have millions of lifetimes on planet Earth, so we have to see all of our evolution in a much broader perspective. I guess we have to work on ourselves, any time, any place. And one thing highlighted in these books is that by serving others, we gain more momentum for sure. Thank you Guru! This means we all evolve to higher realms of existence (once we’ve sorted things out, kinda).

THE ELEVEN PRECEPTS

One of the teachings by Ram Bahadur Bomjan
are The 11 Precepts received during his meditations. He gained so many insights in his six years of meditation that he converted those in many more guidelines, but have still to be translated. By the way, translation itself is a challenging activity as it encompasses both the historical Buddhist type of traditions as well as the language gap between Nepalese language and western languages. The alphabets contain different characters and meanings.

That being said, below are the 11 precepts, although one has to study them a bit more on the bsds website to better comprehend them:
https://bsds.org/en/teachings

THE WILLINGNESS

Another comment I would like to make at this point is that no one is perfect, we’re all still learning (at least I do). So if you resonate and sympathize with the 11 precepts, but you don’t think you can follow them all, that’s okay. If you want to do your best to master these guidelines, that’s what it’s all about. The willingness. And to want to strive for it.

1

Never break oneness and equality on account of name, appearance, ethnicity, tribe, religion, colour, class, gender, belief, community, nation, power, position, ability and so forth; this means, give up all discord, be it worldly or spiritual.

2

Having found the eternal Dharma, Margapath and the teachings of Guru, remain respectful to all religions and beliefs.

3

Never cause rifts or doubts with untruths, accusations and counter-accusations, belittling or meaningless talk.

4

Resist all teachings and paths that lead to separation, rifts or boundaries; stay steadfast in the true marga-practice.

5

Resist doing even the least harmful karma-actions throughout life in true Gurumarga practice, melt totally into universal truth-nature, becoming part of it.

6

Before being truly merged in the essential realities and practices of Maitri-nature and Dharma-nature, refrain from expounding it with clever words. Because when one is still mired in hearsay, rumour, and propaganda, do not draw others into delusion.

7

Avoid any and all demonic behaviour: violence, killing, harming or hurting living beings. For one’s diet, only choose pure wholesome nourishment.

8

Do not think less of people or countries on account of national identity.

9

While being rooted in true Maitri Dharma practices, dedicate all your karma-actions through thought, speech and deed to the uplift of the whole world, including the uplifting of ourselves.

10

When searching for Truth, the Gurumarga path begins to take form within the heart. Strive for attainment of Paramatma moksha-liberation for the wellbeing of all life in the universe.

11

Remain always in the highest and deepest awareness, realising the various precepts in the soul, gaining freedom from all bygone bondage and constraints.

FREE RAM BAHADUR BOMJAN

Recently I was shocked to read online that Ram Bahadur Bomjan has been arrested and placed in custody. I heard from shanga members that this happened without any legal proces. Currently there are 7 lawyers working on his case.

I can hardly imagine that such an extremely gentle and noble man who values ​​universal justice and truth to such an extend that his whole life and mission evolves around it, would act inappropriately. Let’s hope he gets a fair trial and justice will prevail. Below you can watch the testimony of a medical doctor (MD, PhD) who observed Ram Bahadur Bomjan in his first year of meditation when he was still a boy, thus considered a child. A petition can be signed as well.

QUESTION

My question is this. If you finish reading this article, please take a minute in silence, call it meditation if you will, and pray for justice for Mahasambodhi Dharmasangha Guru. It is him meditating for six years, it is us for one minute.
Can be done!

Maitri Mangalam!
Margreet Otto Wilschut

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TWO CATASTROPHES IN NATURE

TWO CATASTROPHES IN NATURE

October 15, 2023 | NEWS


MANY PREDICTIONS

Due to recent hurricanes, I remembered the many predictions of the Swedish seer Anton Johanson (1858-1929).
I’ve read about him online for the first time around 22 years ago (right after the year 2000).

For introduction, Anton Johanson was born in the parish of the village Tarna on may 24th, 1858. This village is situated in the middle of Sweden. He was among seven siblings.

FINNMARK, LEBESBY

Later he moved with his parents to Lebesby, a fishermans town in the extreme northern part of Norway. This area is called the ‘Finnmark’.

Anton Johanson
1858-1929

JOHANSON’S PROFESSIONS

For his profession Anton served as a fisherman, as assistant to the officials of the Norwegian mapping service, and as a member of the town-counsil. Later on he travelled intensely through Europe to reach people with his prophecies and lobby among leaders of certain countries for what was to come.

NOVEMBER 13TH 1907

But what did these predictions consist of?
At the age of 49, Johanson prophesied the First and Second World Wars, and many natural disasters, some of which were catastrophic. He received visions of this on November 13th, 1907.

Anton Johanson was taken in spirit to the middle of the west coast of Norway in the vicinity of Trondheim (the third largest city in Norway). He stood on the high cliffs near the shore of the sea, looking out over the Atlantic Ocean, when suddenly the Earth began to shake under him.

What happend next one can read from page 36 onwards in an online published book, authored by Alfred Gustafsson. A number of pages of this book -or parts of it- have been placed in this article. You can read about the origins of the book at the bottom of this article.

On the map above you see Johanson’s place of birth Tarna in Sweden, the village Mosjoen where his father walked to from Tarna, The Norwegian Finnmark where Johanson grew up, and the city Trondheim on the west coast of Norway with its cliffs.

To start with one of the titles in the book, Johanson saw two main catastrophes in nature. But later on he mentions also three storms, and five storms that he saw. But we’ll stick with the major two catastrophes that he describes.

STORMS, ERUPTING VULCANOES, EARTHQUAKES

Although he couldn’t put a timeframe on all of his visions, Johanson stated that after the year 1963, natural disasters would occur more often, with huge storms, erupting volcanoes and earthquakes. These would hit Europe and many other world parts.

Indeed, the past decade has already seen massive hurricanes in America and other continents around the world, as well as major earthquakes. And some were also very devastating in nature. However, at the time of Johanson’s predictions, there were not yet such enormous hurricanes and earthquakes. So that’s food for thought!

Many events of Johanson’s predictions have since come true. But nevertheless, could it be that there’s more to come?
If you have read this article, what is your conclusion?

A FEW PAGES

From now on Anton Johanson is cited:

Not less than five great storms during the time from the World War and on were mentioned to me that night (Nov 13th, 1907) that were to visit different parts of the earth before 1956. But no detailed particulars were given to me about the others; nor did I get the year in which they were to be.

GREAT EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS

(Page 34) Anton Johanson: Great earthquakes and vulcanic eruptions visited different areas, and also in places that heretofore had been spared. In Italy these became more violent and destructive than ever before. If I remember correctly I heard about a great new eruption of Vesuvius in this connection.

Great mine disasters and gigantic floods also happened during this time. Floods visited western Germany where large areas were inundated. Damages of enormous proportions were caused by these floods. Several mines were filled with water and collapsed, caused by subterranean catastrophes.

EUROPE AND AMERICA

Storms of greater or lesser violence and extent raged in several parts of the world. Europe and America suffered from them, and especially England.

No fewer than five major storms from the period since the Second World War were mentioned to me.

Much damage was also done by excessive thunder and lightning during these years; northern Germany, Denmark, and southern Sweden were visited in this way.

TWO CATASTROPHES IN NATURE

(Page 36) Two catastophes in nature fraught with fatal and disastrous consequences, were to take place some years after the World War. The first one was a gigantic hurricane that hurled itself over two continents, and the other a violent earthquake in connection with a volcanic eruption in the North Sea.

Anton Johanson: After I had been permitted to see the terrible World War, and the misfortunes and sufferings that would follow in its train, I was borne in the spirit to the countries and the coast of the North Sea.

THE FIRST OF THESE DISASTERS

(Page 37) There was the first of these disasters revealed to me. One of the first names I heard in connection with the earthquake was Iceland. But if the source of the eruption was at this place or from the bottom of the North Sea I could not discern so clearly.

It surprised me when the Lord mentioned these places, because I did not know that earthquakes or eruptions took place in this part of the world. But the Lord mentioned these places several times distinctly, and later I understood that I had not been mistaken when I saw the disaster and the places where it happened.

Although all countries around the North Sea were affected, none seemed as badly affected as England, especially on the east coast. The voice said this was ‘a punnishment for English pride’.

TWILIGHT SEEMED TO EXTEND OVER THIS WHOLE AREA, AND NO STARS WERE VISIBLE IN THE SKIES.
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A STRONG WIND CAME IN FROM OVER THE SEA.
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SNOW HAD NOT YET FALLEN…

 

While it affected all the countries around the North Sea, none seemed to be as hard hit as England, especially on its east coast. The voice said this came as ‘a punishment for England’s pride.’ Twilight seemed to extend over this whole area, and no stars were visible in the skies. A strong wind came in from over the sea, and snow had not yet fallen.

THE EARTH BEGAN TO SHAKE

I was taken farther in the spirit, to the vicinity of Trondheim. I stood on the shore and looked out over the sea, when suddenly the earth began to shake under me.
The houses in the city trembled like leaves, and tall wooden buildings near the shore collapsed.

A TERRIBLE ROAR WAS HEARD OUT FROM THE SEA
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AND A GREAT TIDAL WAVE CAME ROLLING IN.

A terrible roar was heard out from the sea, and a great tidal wave came rolling in with fearful velocity and dashed against the steep mountainside.

In the lower places it continued far inland, inundating large sections of the city, and causing great damage. Great warehouses with their stores of goods were hurled over and carried away by the waves. The floods extended thus all along the coast, from southern Norway and up to Bodo in the north. (see blue dots on map above for locations).

EASTERN COAST OF ENGLAND

After I had seen the extensive damages wrought by this disaster in my own country, I was taken in the spirit to the large cities along the eastern coast of England. Here it was most violent, and great stretches toward the interior were flooded. I heard the name Hull mentioned as one of the places badly damaged, with its immediate vicinity.

SCOTLAND PARTLY SUBMERGED

(Page 38) Scotland was hard pressed, and it appeared to me as if some of it was submerged.

Below a map of Europe and surrounding countries. The blue dots are the cities and areas that Anton Johanson mentions. The circles are the trajectories of the events to take place.

As a first visualization, this map gives a bit of an overview.
Further on, more detailed pictures of the situation in north-, central- and south Europe, as well as the Americas are given.

CITY OF LONDON

Further south I saw the, city of London. That seemed to be the place where the disaster wrought its greatest destruction in England.

Harbors and docks were completely wrecked. A great number of buildings collapsed, with wreckage and debris floating around in great quantities in the turbulent waters. Several ships were wrecked in the harbor, and others were thrown up on land among the buildings.

It was the greatest calamity ever seen in England. Out at sea there were many shipwrecks and many sailors perished. Great masses of fish were also killed and floated around in the leaves.

ENGLISH CHANNEL, NORTH COAST OF FRANCE

The tidal wave continued along the English channel destroying harbors and creating great havoc in the cities on both sides.

I heard the French city Rouen mentioned especially, and a couple of other places on the north coast of France, the names of which I cannot now recall.

To give you a more detailed picture of the situation, this map was designed using a route planner, on which only 10 cities could be planned. But that was enough as a basis for drawing the map and adding all the cities and locations Johanson mentioned to the layout.

There have been many floods this year 2024, including in France, Italy, Ireland, and even worldwide.
West Germany (what Johanson mentioned) also experienced many floods in June 2021, and also in 2023 and 2024.

But this map only shows those cities and locations mentioned by Johanson. For some countries a detailed map might be even better. For example, for the Netherlands and Germany due to low location near sealevel, and river basins.

GREAT PARTS OF HOLLAND, BELGIUM, GERMANY NORTH COAST

Great parts of Holland, Belgium, and the German North Coast were also mentioned as among those that would suffer much from this disaster. I heard Antwerp and Hamburg mentioned as among the cities that were hardest hit.

I also saw Hamburg, and the destruction there was next to London in extent. I heard mention made of great stores of goods and merchandise that were lost there.

DENMARK WEST & NORTH SHORES, SWEDEN WEST COAST

Denmark’s north and west shores, with their harbors and the Swedish west coast suffered greatly from this disaster.

On the Swedish side I heard Gothenburg, Malmö, and Helsingborg especially mentioned.

BALTIC, MEDITERRANEAN

The tidal wave proceeded on into the Baltic and down towards the Mediterranean, but the damages must not have been so great there, as I could not see it so distinctly, and there were no names mentioned.

A TERRIBLE HURRICANE

About the same time as this before mentioned earthquake and tidal wave, I also observed a terrible hurricane that seemed to reach over two seas.

(Page 39 ) It was shown to me at almost the same time, and because of this I am not sure which one of these powerful disturbances came first. It was not so easily discerned, but I believe the earthquake was first. If the earthquake and the storm had any connections with each other I cannot say.

PANAMA CANAL

In the spirit I was then taken from there to the Pacific Ocean, in the vicinity of the Panama Canal. Here the hurricane started. The names of these places were mentioned to me very distinctly, and from my place of elevation I could clearly distinguish the form and character of the landscape. It was a mountainous country, and I saw islands.

There are numerous islands and states surrounding Panama and the Panama Canal (P).
A number of them are indicated on the map, such as the large island of Cuba (C) and the islands in the Caribbean (C).
Also the state of Florida (F), and countries in Central America such as Mexico, Nigaragua (N), Costa Rica (C), Guatemala (G), Honduras (H), Belize, and many small islands.

NORTH & EAST OVER THE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT

The hurricane continued from these parts north and northeast up over the North American continent. It raged over the coast cities with their millions, and harbors, over industrial plants, over plantations, and with such violence that great stretches were devastated. Buildings were thrown down, and the debris flew around in the air.

PLANTATIONS IN SEVERAL STATES

Large plantations in several states were badly damaged, with other stretches inundated, as the waves rolled in over the land. Many vessels were shipwrecked at sea, and others were carried inland over the shores.

Harbors and docks were wrecked so badly, that it was doubtful if some of them would be rebuilt, and commerce was ruined for a long time. Of the plantation states Virginia was especially mentioned.

MEXICAN GULF

The states bordering on the Mexican gulf were also ravaged by the storm.

(The states in the north of the gulf are: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the gulf coast of west-Florida).

And I heard Florida mentioned.

THE STORM RAGED FURTHER

The storm raged over a wide belt from the Atlantic Coast and up over the Mississippi Valley, continuing up towards the Great Lakes, where it seemed to gather new strength.

A RUGGED BELT BETWEEN TWO AREAS WAS SPARED

Over the Mississippi valley the storm raged just as violently as along the Atlantic coastline.
But a belt between these two areas was spared; an area that was more rugged and where the soil was not so rich.

NORTH AMERICAN CITIES

(Page 40) Among North American cities I heard Chicago, Minneapolis, Washington, and New York especially mentioned as visited by this great storm.

NEW YORK

Of these New York suffered most. Here many ruins of wrecked buildings were seen. The storm roared on in a terrifying manner through the streets, and the high skyscrapers were seen waving as reeds in the wind, in a most threatening way.

Great clouds of dust and smoke arose, and a great number of objects, big and small were thrown up by the storm and whirled around in the air. Down by the harbor great waves rolled in overland.

Huge warehouses with stores of goods collapsed and were washed out to sea. Ships were thrown ashore, or wrecked in the harbor. Fires also broke out in more remote parts of the city, and farther inland fires were seen to be raging, lighting up the skies in a terrifying manner.

FORESTS CANADA

Way up towards the forests in Canada fires were discernible. Disastrous fires were mentioned for Canada at different times. The hurricane also reached up into that country.

I saw how the timber was broken down in places, especially near the great lakes in the north. The city of Quebec was mentioned a couple of times in connection with this storm, as badly harassed.

Somehow these ‘two nature catastrophes’ look like an arrow on the map.
However, realise that the trajectories may differ.
Northwest of Florida is a small green area marked,
this is what Johanson describes as
‘the rugged belt between two areas’.
The fire zones that Johanson mentions for North Canada or above aren’t drawn on this map.

NEW YORK CITY, WASHINGTON, OTHER CITIES

(Page 41) In the east of the Americas the magnetic storm cut off New York City, Washington and other cities from communication with the rest of the world for several hours. Important news and diplomatic exchanges were held up.

EASTWARD TOWARDS WESTERN AND SOUTHWEST EUROPE

From North America and Canada the storm continued eastward towards Europe, where the western and southwest areas of Europe were subject to its ravages.

(Countries with coasts in Western Europe are Ireland, Scotland, England, Holland, Denmark, Northern Germany, north coast of Belgium. Southern Europe coasts starts with the south coast of Belgium, then France, Spain, Portugal).

FRANCE, SPAIN, MOROCCO, BLACK SEA, SOUTHERN RUSSIA, CRIMEAN PENINSULA, SICILY, ITALY.

The storm then proceeded and pressed on over France, Spain, and Morocco, out into the Mediterranean Sea and ravaged the countries along its coasts.
Here it was also quite violent, and reached way over to the Black Sea, continuing over southern Russia.
There I lost track of it.

SICILY, TURKEY, CRIMEAN PENINSULA, AUSTRIA

In the surroundings of Constantinople (Turkey) I saw a very rough sea and floods on both sides of it. I heard the Crimean Peninsula (Black Sea) mentioned and the island of Sicily (Italy).


Some other disaster also complicated matters in Italy, besides the storm, but I did not understand what it was.
The vicinity of Vienna (Austria) was also visited by the storm.

FRANCE

In France the most damage was done along its west coast, and the southern parts, and along the Channel. Of the cities I heard the name of Rouen and Marseilles also mentioned, this time.

SPAIN

In Spain the effects of the storm were also felt to a great degree.

ENGLAND

The hurricane raged over England with just as great a violence as over the North American States.
A number of ships were wrecked in the harbors and along the coasts.
I heard Southampton* especially mentioned, and cities on both sides of the Channel.

Telegraph lines were torn down, and trees uprooted in the forest in the interior.

(Author: *Anton Johanson could not pronounce this name, but described the city’s location so well that his interviewer could easily understand what place it was, and Anton recognized the name at once when he heard it)

NO TELEGRAMS (OR NO INTERNET?)

The voice told me that telegrams could not be dispatched from England for several days. Floods rolled in over the low-lying stretches along the coast.

Now as before, during the effects of the volcanic eruption (in Iceland), England was one of the countries hardest hit by the storm. No country was mentioned so many times in connection with disasters as England.

NOT LESS THAN THREE GREAT STORMS

(Page 42) Not less than three great storms were mentioned to me that night (13th November 1907) that were to visit different parts of the earth before 1956. But no detailed particulars were given to me about the others; nor did I get the year in which they were to be.

But it seemed as if two were to take place not so long after the World War, and before the French-Spanish war.

BELGIUM, HOLLAND, WESTERN GERMANY & NORTH SEA COAST, ENGLAND

These two storms seemed to rage in Belgium, Holland, and the German North Sea Coast, but in England the greatest ravages were wrought this time also. Much land was inundated there. Western Germany was also mentioned in this connection as badly ravaged by the storm.

SCANDANEVIAN COUNTRIES

It then continued from west and southwest towards the Scandinavian countries, and raged with great violence over the North Sea; many vessels and sailors went under.

“It Was A Pity About The Poor Seamen”

I heard the voice say ‘It was a pity about the poor seamen.’

THERE WAS A TERRIFIC ROAR FROM THE GREAT ANGRY WAVES

There was a terrific roar from the great angry waves. I had never seen the sea in such great turmoil before as it now appeared to be, between England and the Norwegian coast.

DENMARK, SOUTHERN SWEDEN

(Page 42) This hurricane also caused great damages in Denmark and southern Sweden, and brought floods along its west coast. I heard Gothenburg, Malmo, and Helsingborg mentioned this time also.

It continued north until it struck the Norwegian coast tearing up several of its harbors, and wrecking ships. But the Norwegian mountains seemed to check it considerably, so that the other side of Norway and middle of Sweden were spared to a great extent. Yet from the south it rushed in over Finland where it was the most violent between Vasa and Helsingfors.

RUSSIA AND SIBERIA

It passed on, up over Russia, towards Murmansk and Siberia. The severest damages were around the great lakes of Onega and Ladoga.

(Page 43)
Till so far the predictions!

Anton Johanson:

“For more than two years I have prayed, with hundreds and thousands of other Christians, that the Lord might spare us from this misfortune, which was said to be coming because of the wickedness of men.

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And even if these calamities should be delayed, let us not forget to pray that the Lord might protect us, because it seemed sure that they would come.
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At first I doubted what the Lord said about the volcanic eruptions, and thought to myself that this is not a place where the origin of earthquakes usually take place. But the Lord said positively that it would come.”

(For Anton Johanson’s first encounter with the Lord, and the choice he had to make, read the previous chapters in the book-red.).

ORIGIN OF BOOK

An engineer from Stockholm, Alfred Gustafsson (aka ‘Compiler’) transcribed and published Anton Johanson’s prophecies (1918/20-Stockholm), and is the key source of piecing these together. This is probably under the title ‘Märkliga Syner’ (Strange Visions), which seems to be no longer in print. (It might be published again though).

The document or book is later translated, interpret and published by Swedish people, Swedish newspapers, as well as foreign translators. One example in English is by Nathaniel Carlson (first print 1940), under the title ‘Visions of Anton Johanson’.

A much later book has come to hand from Germany including more interviews with Anton Johanson in a later stage of his life (1953). The links to the book (in English and German) are placed below.

TRANSLATIONS IN ENGLISH & GERMAN

Here are a few versions of interpretations and translations in German and English:

German:

http://www.prophezeiungsforum.de/…/Eismeerfischer_Anton…

https://schauungen.de/wiki/index.php?title=Anton_Johansson

English:

http://theheckhypothesis.com/…/Anton%20Johanson%20The…

PICTURE ANTON JOHNSON

This is a picture of Anton Johanson at an older age with a caption in Swedish and his signature.


The caption states in Swedish language:

‘Bedjen om kärlek, tro och ödmjukhet’

This translates as:

‘Pray for Love, Faith and Humility’

In German:

‘Beten Sie für Liebe, Glauben und Demut’

In Dutch:

‘Bid om Liefde, Geloof en Nederigheid’

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What do you think? Shall we pray with him?

In Love and Light,

Margreet Otto Wilschut

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THE AGE OF CHRIST

THE AGE OF CHRIST

July 25, 2023 | NEWS

Did you know the 25th of July is called ‘The Day Out of Time’? This is according the Mayan science of time. It’s Moon Calendar closes 13 moons in one year, thus each moon-month has 28 days = 364 days. But the galactic solar year contains an extra day, the 365th day (to be more precise 365 and a quart day, in numbers: 365.242199). So this day is kind of ‘left over’ in the moon calendar, thus it was destined as a day free of time. Only the next day July 26th is the start of the new year. So this day out of time could countwise be considered point zero. From a cosmic perspective it’s said to be charged with spiritual energy and with an atypical opening of ‘energy portals’, which allows a more intense connection with the spiritual world.

True or not, it is thus celebrated by people of all cultures who recognize the importance of a natural reckoning of time. Now if you’re open to the idea, it is kind of interesting that a unique event happend 78 years back on this special day out of time!

And lo and behold, it was a full moon that day!

WEDNESDAY JULY 25th 1945

The unique event encompassed a lecture held in a small historical theatre called ‘Diligentia’. To give you an idea of the scenery, this building is located in the old center of The Hague, the Netherlands. At this moment of time when the lecture was given, two and a half months had passed after the end of the second world war (Dutch liberation day is on the fifth of May).

At the time there was no internet, nor television, nor a local radio broadcasting station (as during the war, free speech and music were forbidden). There was a tiny advertisement placed in a newspaper however, called ‘Telex’.

Probably other advertisements were made through window posters or flyers. Yet despite the little publicity, more than 700 people had gathered to attend a lecture held by Dutch author Jozef Rulof.
By the way, after this lecture, more advertisements were placed in other newspapers as well, such as ‘Het Parool’ (still existing today), ‘Het Algemeen Handelsblad’ (New Amsterdamsche Courant), and ‘De Waarheid’ (The Truth), at the time a resistance newspaper which was secretly mimeographed and distributed during the war, but was then distributed freely.

Josephus Gerhardus Rulof
(february 20, 1998 – november 3, 1952)

A HISTORICAL BUILDING

Not everybody could fit in the Diligentia theatre, a historical building constructed in the 16th century, which only had the capicity to hold 500 people. Thus there was a long cue outside of the building, spilling over into the wide avenue. This street is called ‘Lange Voorhout’.

The way Diligentia looks now in this day and age.
(Source picture: Joris, CC BY-SA 3.0
https :// creativecommons .org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
via Wikimedia Commons. The picture is altered to make its appearance neutral).

Actually, because the lecture took place in this building, where theatre Diligentia is still housed today, it is interesting to first elaborate a little bit more on this venue for it’s historical perspective.

The theatre is situated in the ‘Lange Voorhout’ street. In previous centuries, horse-drawn carriages drove here, where the nobility resided in the elegant ornamental city buildings on either side of the broad avenue, with a lane and stately trees in the middle.

Illustration of the Lange Voorhout street
in the year 1756, The Hague, Netherlands.
(Source: Antiquariaat Mefferat-de Jonge)

In 1793 Diligentia was called the ‘Society for the Practice of Experimental Philosophy’, later it became the ‘Society for Physics and Literature’. In 1953 the designation ‘Royal’ was granted. The building was originally a Patrician house from around 1645, with a building from 1561 behind it. The associated ‘Coach house’ was on the Hoge Nieuw street.

A ‘Coach house’ is a building in which carriages are kept, often belonging to a country house, a castle or as it is here to a city house. These often have stables or stables attachted to the Coach house.
(source: https :// nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Koetshuis)

In 1805, the sixteenth-century building and the outbuildings behind it on the Hoge Nieuw street, were demolished. The current building was then erected on this spot, which was given the name ‘Diligentia Society’. A second society named ‘Concert in Diligentia’ was founded in 1821 for larger musical performances, although concerts were given earlier.

857 LECTURES

But back to the lecture given by Jozef Rulof in Diligentia, it was the first of many to be held afterwards. 857 lectures to be precise! So let’s share first a little bit more of Jozef’s background. These lectures also took place in other venues and cities in the Netherlands and abroad. The latter included those held in the United States of America to which Rulof travelled several times, such as in the Carnegie Hall in New York, and the Hotel Barbizon-Plaza Art Gallery where he exhibited a few of his many paintings.

There was also an event in New-Hope for the benefit of a cancer control fund, and then Philadelphia (televison broadcast), and New Jersey (radio station), Herald Tribune (newspaper), the city Rochester, and Solon in Florida (where his brother Hendrik resided who owned a large hotel, Rulof held an exhibition there too).

Carnegie Hall in New York, where Jozef Rulof held a lecture advertised here in the building’s poster boards.

14 BOOK TITLES,
27 BOOKS

Jozef Rulof wrote 14 book titles, but a few of these consist of three volumes, resulting in a sum total of 27 books. There’s also a large book as a catalogue with many of his paintings depicted. This book is assembled by others, but it’s a wanna have and thus makes the collection into 28 books.

READ THE BOOKS ONLINE

Here you can read the books online in several languages: Nederlands (Dutch), English (English), Deutsch (German), Espano (Spanish), Francais (French) and Portugues (Portugese). It takes about a year to read all 27! The physical books can also be ordered online. It is predicted that in the future, all peoples will have these books on their bookshelves.

A VIEW INTO THE HEREAFTER

It should be mentioned that it is recommended to read Jozef Rulof’s books in the following order that they have been written. This is because there is a slow build up of information which enters ever deeper layers, that can be better understood when one follows Rulof’s own gradual development therein.

Thus it is best to start with his first book: ‘A View into the Hereafter’. This book is of such an incredible depth and beauty with profound revelations, that after reading it, many find their lives changed forever. And those 700 attendees in Diligentia had read this first book, and some of his other books.

One can download it as PDF for Computer or with E-READER for Mobile and Tablet:

A View into the Hereafter
(Click on link to open PDF on computer)
Here the layout of the text is fixed, best viewed on a computer screen.

A View into the Hereafter
(Click on link to open E-reader in ePub format for either Computer, Mobile and Tablet)
Here the layout of the text is not fixed, so the line length adapts to the width of your reader. If you wish to read an ePub on different devices such as Mobile and Tablet you will need a free ePub reader, like Calibre.

The printed books can also be bought by ordering them in your local bookshop or online through the
webshop of the publisher

PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW

Thus most of the people in the audience at Diligentia were curious to learn more about what mr. Rulof had to say. Especially because during the war, life had been very low key for everyone, and there was a lot of misery. The population had suffered from prolongued hunger and starvation during the long cold ‘hunger winter’ and the horrors of the war.

People wanted to know now: How or What and most of all Why?
Why did we have to suffer through this most horrible war?

But… there were also among the audience those only looking for sensation, because the content of Rulof’s books is rather unusual and for those thrill seekers of course controversial.

OPENING OF THE AGE OF CHRIST

Nevertheless, at this very first lecture that Jozef Rulof held, he introduced:
‘The Opening of The Age of Christ’.
And as the title suggests, this was a bit of an unusual topic but very special lecture. It probably should be mentioned, there were many bold statements made. Therefore it also should be explained at this point, that the author was inspired to write his books by those who live in the afterlife. These have evolved into a higher state of consiousness and evolution….. So yeah, that’s a bit unusual if you’ve never heard of this before.

And it could be the controversial part right there if you can’t accept we all are born at different times: at different years, epochs and even eras, and there’s such a thing as an afterlife in the first place!

In his books however it is thoroughly explained how Rulof was able to write in such a way, and how he was divinely led to also paint artisticly, hold lectures and much, much more.

Therefore it is stated in his books that his work encompasses spiritual scientific knowledge, which is given to us from the highest authority and mentor Jesus Christ. It is also explained how many people both on Earth and from Beyond are working together to bring about this great work, in order to uplift humanity.

SPIRITUAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY THE AGE OF CHRIST

For that purpose, Jozef Rulof also founded
The Spiritual Scientific Society
‘THE AGE OF CHRIST’.
The foundation has been officially registered
on the 13th of September 1946 at
The Hague in the Netherlands, Europe.

The original document of the registration of the foundation
was signed by Jozef Rulof (chair),
Leonard Uittenbogaard (secretary),
the two witnesses
Jan Hendrik Meijer (house-painter)
Johannes Schouten (garage, car-washer),
and (civil-law notary in The Hague)
Gerard Cornelis Corporaal
Also approved by inspector Smit
and a stamp and signature of
civil-law notary J.J. van Heyst (or Leyst?) at ‘s-Gravenhage (The Hague).

The aim of the Spiritual Scientific Society
‘The Age Of Christ’ has been given to
Jozef Rulof by his spiritual leaders.
It is formulated in the statutes of the Society as follows:

The aim of
The Spiritual Scientific Society
‘The Age Of Christ’:

*******

The spreading of the teachings in word and scriptures through the astral Masters by means of their instrument Josephus Gerhardus Rulof -or others designated by those masters’ appointed and build-up contacts-, which has been and will be donated to the Earth,
. . .
And through urging the masses to indeed profess these teachings in The Age of Christ,
which has now started after the most devastating war ever,
. . .
To deliver a fiery and valuable contribution
to the establishment of the Kingdom of God on Earth.

*******

Read that again. Amen!


Also in the statutes one can read the following:

“The foundation will try to achieve the goal by publishing books, brochures and magazines, organizing lectures, lectures and other gatherings, exhibiting paintings and (porcelain) plates and distributing or selling them, and in general by all lawful means that may be conducive to the purpose of the foundation.

The funds of the foundation will consist, in addition to the previously described downpayment of  f100,- guldens (previous valuta in the Netherlands), of the proceeds of the books, brochures and magazines to be published by the foundation, of the proceeds of the lectures, recitations or other meetings to be organized by the foundation, the proceeds of the exhibitions of paintings and (porcelain) plates to be organized by the foundation and the proceeds from the sale of paintings and plates, and also in gifts, bequests and/or legacies of interested parties, and from any other income of the foundation. The board decides on the funds.”

After Jozef Rulof passed over to the other realm, a new board had been formed. Up to today there have been three succesive boards. They have altered the original aim of the foundation, as well as some other aspects in the statutes of the society. They have been succesfull though in running the foundation with its aims. It is predicted in the books however that the society will be managed by the Dutch government in the future.

THE PAINTINGS

Jozef painted hundreds of paintings, oil on large canvasses, but also on small porcelain plates. Below is some footage of an exhibition in 2012 in the city ‘Vlissingen’ in the southern province ‘Zeeland’ of the Netherlands. Among those paintings were 77 paintings that recently came back to the society from several sources in the USA.

(I have attended this exhibition together with friends and the work is truly mesmerizing, very impressive! Even more so when one knows what was behind it all. Also the restauration work has very skillfully been done (as these paintings have been stored in several places for around 74 years (or a part of that timeframe), some of these spaces were damp sheds or dusty rooms. Now not even a huge sum of money can buy them, not even for a Rembrandt or Van Gogh!).

‘CENTURY’ OR ‘AGE’?

The Dutch name giving of the Society is:

Geestelijk Wetenschappelijk Genootschap-
“De Eeuw van Christus”.

The Dutch word ‘Eeuw’ has been translated as ‘Age’, also in one of Jozef’s books in Dutch language. However, an ‘eeuw’ stands for a century of 100 years. Interestingly, the English word ‘century’ even stems from the French ‘cent’ which means hundred!

But an age is a certain period of history (such as ‘the Dutch golden age’ spanning from 1588 to 1672, thus not necessarily 100 years, or ‘the iron age’ which has no clear definition of beginning or ending and spans hundreds of years based on archeological finds of primitive wrought iron objects worldwide).

Than also the word ‘era’ comes to mind. Is there a difference between ‘age’ and ‘era’?  They can be interpreted the same, or can’t they?

An era is a set of years which is counted from a particular point in time and covers a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography. These can be for regnal eras, or a celendar era, or geoglogical eras. For instance: The Christian era is counted from the birth of Christ, on which our current era or calendar is based in the sense of the numbering of all years since.

Thus an era is considered a very long period of time in the history of Earth or of human society, especially as marked by events or developments of a particular kind, into which an eon can be divided into epochs.

An eon or aeon is a period of time too long to be measured (such as the Phaneroxoic eon which is divided into the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras). But it can also be translated as era, age, epoch, and eternity. Go figure!

In Dutch language. For ‘era’ or ‘age’ we would use the word ‘tijdperk’. So this can be a period much longer than 100 years.

And thus many readers of Jozef Rulof’s books have been debating over the proper translation of the word ‘eeuw’, although in one of his books in original Dutch language the English naming of ‘the age of Christ’ was included. However, this English naming wasn’t translated in the Dutch name of the society where age is written as eeuw (thus century), which Jozef Rulof founded himself.

So could the Dutch word ‘eeuw’ as ‘century’ than be understood in more than one meaning? The marked beginning of this so called ‘Age of Christ’ can in fact be traced back to the opening date on the 25th of July in 1945. But as we know, Jezus Christ lived already longer before that, and came to Earth more than 2000 years ago in order to aid humanity. The Bible is still one of its artifacts of these events and His lifetime, as well as the counting of the years since then.
Yet this date of July 25 1945 was specifically chosen for the opening of this special century, or the start of this special age. So we probably might take note of that!

Jozef with his books and paintings in New York. His brother Antoon to the far right with wife and kids, and other visitors.

It is foretold in the books that many drastic changes will come in this century. For instance we have witnessed the technological revolution, and a number of technical wonders are still in the pipeline. But a number of other things have also been predicted, such as the current climate change and other events. It looks like we have learned and gained a lot of knowledge, but are we using this vast development for the benefit of all?

Somewhere in Jozef Rulof’s books is written that ‘this century will be remembered by humanity till the end of times on this planet’ (not the actual quote, not sure in which book).
This remembrance might be due to the impact of events and the evolution it’ll bring to our society, to humanity and our planet.

So yeah, in such a case this ‘century’ will have a long lasting effect and thus automatically evolves into an ‘age’ and would last much longer as a vast era, and seen from a spiritual perspective will last ‘ad infinitum’.

Hendrik, Jozef and Antoon

JOZEF’S BROTHERS IN USA

Three brothers of Jozef’s six siblings moved to the USA prior to the war. One of them, Gerrit, died during the war (it’s kind of odd, but while fishing in a small boat, a big fish pulled him under, and he drowned). When Jozef visited his two other brothers in the USA, Hendrik and Antoon (also named ‘Teun’), they hadn’t seen each other in 16 years.

It was right after the war and his brothers noticed how emaciated Jozef looked due to the ‘hunger winter’ he and his Austrian wife Anna Fuchs just went through. And then gradually his brothers learned about the books he’d written, the paintings he’d made and the lectures he gave, and they were both very impressed.

JEUS INFO

There’s a website named jeus.info where one can read more about
Jozef Rulof’s life and the many events therein. It doesn’t deal though with the actual content or message of the extensive work of Jozef Rulof. But a little bit of visual material can be seen such as pictures of himself, his wife and family members as well as other items such as documents and events and venues, all put in a chronological timeline (best viewed on a computer screen).

This can be helpful to clarify things and to place them in their historical context. The timeline itself hasn’t been translated in English.

The name ‘Jeus’ is a nickname by which Jozef’s mother ‘Crisje’ and his siblings used to call him in Dutch dialect language the ‘Gelders plat’, stemming from the province Gelderland where he was born, in a village called ‘s Heerenberg, south east of the Netherlands.

CONTRIBUTING TO THE CAUSE

Jozef’s brothers in the USA wanted to contribute to the cause and raised money from their own pockets. Teun used all his savings and Hendrik even sold his house together with his vast fruit orchard to fund the translation and printing of one of Jozef’s books ‘Peoples Of The Earth’ in English.

After they had accomplished this, they send the books to ‘all the great ones of the earth’ (as such written). A few were mentioned in Rulof’s books: Harry Truman (33th president of the USA at the time, Winston Churchill (British politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom), the Dutch queen Wilhelmina, and George Marshall (U.S. Secretary of State/Defence, Diplomat, wrote the Marshall recovery plan after the war).

But literally hundreds of books were send all over the world by Jozef’s brothers. They continued doing this after Jozef returned to the Netherlands. So by now, 78 years later, many many people internationally have read these amazing and sacred books.

KNOW THYSELF

Please do not think of this work lightly. One should read the entire book series in order to give an appropriate judgement. It might take time to understand it all and absorb the content on a spiritual level.
It also might be a challenge to understand ourselves more profoundly with the new insights we’ve gained through these books, for as far as we are capable of the mentioned ‘Know Thyself’ therein.

And although the books are written in a very loving language, with the deepest and most profound understanding and compassion for our human consiousness and evolution, it should be mentioned that the information touches ALL aspects of life. There’ll be deep insights in human suffering, including that of our own, which can be confrontational, saddening and scary at times.

For instance, spiritual laws have been explained such as the law of ‘Karma’ and the law of ‘Cause and Effect’. We’re all subject to it. And we need to accept it and work ourselves through it. Quite a challenge!

But there is also an amazing revelation regarding our ‘twin-souls’, as we all have one. Did you know that? It’s ‘the one and only’, but he or she might have been born on the other side of the planet among a different people, and we might not meet him or her for many lifetimes, as we have to serve others because of our cause and effect, which we have created ourselves. But one day those ‘twin-sparks’ will meet again and be united.

So it’s a journey, and we’re all on our way to live forever happily after, by learning more about our true nature and the cosmic laws described in the books. And by just doing the best we can. Like doing the right thing. Right!? But first and foremost:

Our hope is in Jesus Christ the Most High, Our Lord and Savior.

Margreet Otto Wilschut

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Below are copies of the original document of the founding of the Spiritual Scientific Society “The Age of Christ”. These consist of 1 cover page and 4 document pages.
(I requested these in person from the Chamber of Commerce on July 19th, 2007).

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FREE AT LAST

FREE AT LAST

May 5, 2021 | NEWS

Today the 5th of May was Liberation Day in The Netherlands. And yesterday I watched television with my mother at Remembrance Day on the Dam Square in Amsterdam. We had done the same the previous year, and both times it was a virtually empty Dam because of the alleged pandemic that is rife worldwide. Hence it gave a strange feeling, because many of us in The Netherlands don’t feel that free anymore, compared to, let’s say, just over a year ago.

Yet again, it was a special event, registered with beautiful camera footage, with an overview of part of the center around the Dam, filmed from a high point. And even a rainbow broke through the dark clouds and gave its edges a beautiful multiple coloured ‘silver-lining’. Had never seen it before this way! It felt as special, almost as a sign from above, as far as I am concerned: for the whole of the Netherlands, and perhaps even for the whole world…

However, for my mother and me it was doubly special, because we remember her father and my grandfather in particular. Sadly neither of us have known him.

A few days before, on April 29th, my mother had found his photo and farewell letter on the internet. This was already special itself, because that is also his birthday. And so we discovered that even though it is 80 years later, the loss is still there. Especially for my mother (and her brother). Because well, on December 29th, 1942, their father was executed in the Veluwe (a national park), after he had been in prison in Scheveningen for a year. Because he was in the resistance. And the farewell letter he was allowed to write that day for his wife and children, well it is truly heartbreaking!

And so I discovered for the first time today that this prison where he was located is called the ‘Oranjehotel’. Because that’s what it was called at the time, although it was far from being a hotel. You can read more about this here:  https://www.oranjehotel.org/en

What is special to me, is that I dreamed about him 10 to 15 years ago. He appeared in my dream, I didn’t recognize him (because I have not known him), but I knew he was my grandfather. And he showed me how he was persecuted. About five or seven men stood side by side against a wall. And opposite them was just as many soldiers, so it was one on one. I saw the scenery from behind the soldiers, so I looked at the wall. And when the command was issued, all the soldiers fired at the same time, and I saw the men collapse in front of the wall. After that, my grandfather said that he had not been scared at all, and that it was over very quickly.

What I find special is that I can deduce from his farewell letter, which I only saw for the first time last week, that he was indeed not afraid! He was more concerned about my grandmother and his children, than he was about himself. However, you can see his sad look from the photo.
I can imagine though that he was not afraid. Because perhaps he was even relieved at his forced surrender to the inescapable, after a year of imprisonment in horrible conditions. And also: for nothing! He had done nothing but defend his freedom and that of his loved ones.

After he was shot, the letter was delivered to my grandmother along with his bloody clothing. What a drama. And what a mentality to hand it over to her like that. And to shoot people like that in cold blood. How would those soldiers feel who simply obeyed orders? Did they feel just a little bit of conscience? Did they realize that they were not only taking the life of my grandfather -then 28 years old-, but also the father of his children, and the husband of his wife, and the grandfather of his four grandchildren? Probably not. But it has such a long term impact.

At the bottom of this article the (now yellowed) letter (front and back), and directly below the letter typed in text. Reading that over, I thought, he was murdered 80 years ago, but in fact freed as well. Freed from imprisonment which was a spiritual torture. And who knows, maybe his execution at the time went pretty much as in my dream. Dreams are false, but still!! And perhaps my grandmother joined him many years later when her time had come too. That is why I am posting this article on Liberation Day.
Free at last!

Letter from Gerardus Wilschut:

                    Tuesday 12/29/’42
My darling
my dear guys (children),
It is Tuesday ± ten o’clock and I
just heard our verdict will be carried
out this afternoon at two o’clock.
My dearest darlings! My final thoughts
are with you.
I almost don’t know what to write,
but I hope Lida, that you
will overcome this major setback soon.
Darling, take good care of the children.
Search over time a good father for them.
Say, Lida, make sure to not have false hope
that I still may be alive, because
child (darling), that is not true, though!
When you receive this note, I’m no longer there!
For me this is not so bad but for you

(other side of letter)

it is worse. Yes my darling
1942 has been a bad year for you,
but I hope the new year will be better
for you and the children. (Gerard wrote this on the 29th of December, 2 days prior to the new year)
Be strong! Do well in the rest of your life.
Bye my darling, bye dear Patie, bye dear Bjoukje.
Lida greet all of mine. Your sisters and brothers
and also your mother, my mother,
my Sisters and Brothers,
All brothers-in-law and cousins.
Lida my darling!! In my thoughts I give you
a very last hug, from your loving husband Gerard.
I hope you will be able to read this,
for myhand trembles a little.
Now byebye Lida, bye sweetheart,
             bye dear Patie and Bjoukje

 

 

 

Margreet Wilschut

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BEAUTIFUL EASTER!

BEAUTIFUL EASTER!

April 4, 2021 | NEWS

It was a lovely day for my grandchildren to seek the chocolate easter eggs!

I’m not sure who had more fun, if it was me or them!
The easterbunny had put them in my fruit trees as well.
My 3 year old grandson was very quick to find them!
And my granddaughter (just one year) also!
She already walks herself… But mum & dad help sometimes!

 

 

APPLE SAUCE

APPLE SAUCE

November 1, 2020 | FRUIT TREES, NEWS

Early october I harvested some fruit from my fruit trees that I had planted 2 years ago at a very young stage. I had planted them with my grandchildren in mind. I did so in the hope that one day, in a far away future, they would be able to pick the apples and pears from it.

I planted grapes too and different berry bushes. Till my amazement I could harvest together with my son and grandson a few apples from the appletree the same year! It was nothing but a miracle. Not knowing that another year later, this year, I was able to harvest an apple for my 2nd grandchild as well! That is the apple I’m holding here. What a blessing to have a wish come true so fast twice!

Family Estate
Another wish is to have the fruit trees replanted on a hectare of land, which will be then my ‘kin-domain’. In Dutch language the word for kin is family. For us, family is both regarded as a so called ‘household family’ (gezin), and as the extended version of everything related to it, such as relatives (verwanten en aanverwanten), and also our ancestors (voorouders en stamboom) and future generations.

But kin in Dutch means chin. Thus we call such hectare of land a ‘family domain’, or family ‘estate’ as I call it also (In Dutch: familie ‘landgoed’ = land + good). Because it is for my children and grandchildren to live happily on such land, when them and God willing. Who knows, there might be even more generations to come.

The Painting
The picture you see above this article, is me with an apple in front of a painting in my livingroom. The painting has been there for almost two decades. I made the picture the same day that I had harvested the apple together with some pears. All of a sudden I saw a striking resemblance with the apples and pears on the painting. They looked exactly the same! And this brought back memories as well. I herited this painting from my grandmother, who had it in her livingroom for many years also.

 

Apple Sauce
Two weeks after I harvested the apple in particular, I made apple sauce from it at my son’s house. Then my son fed his son and daughter the apple sause, and I made a picture of them eating it. For future reference, heheheh.

For your information: my granddaughter at the age of 7 months ate the whole plate, and my 2 ½ year old grandson fed part of it to a great dinosaurus in some sort of teddybear style, a toy almost as tall as himself. The innocent look in my granddaughters and grandson’s eyes, oh my! And what a cutiepies both my grandchildren are. It was all good.

Memories
Back to the painting. I vividly remember how I as a child would look at the painting, and actually like it a lot. It hang above the sofa, and I remember a niche in the corner of the wall which was colored a bright orange. There were also aimed a few nice spots on it, I’m not sure if there was another painting in it, or if it had been removed later.

Obviously I remember this because it was quite unusual to have such colors in the house back in the days. But my grandma’s boyfriend was an interior architect and loved bold color combinations and modern design. In fact, he was way ahead of his time!

The Painter
My grandma told me how her second husband made the painting. They had very little budget to do so (a few years after the 2nd worldwar there was still a lot of austerity). So he portrayed the fruit that was with them on the fruit bowl. And he also chose the pink and purple flowers my grandma used to have in her window sills for many years.

Last Dollars
They spend literally their last dollars* on the paint and the canvas. (*Dutch valuta back then: ‘Guldens’, now Euros). They had no money left for a fancy frame, which still has a gray base paint today. (I hope one day to put it in a beautiful mother-of-pearl frame, which would suit the painting well). My 2nd granddad made more paintings of which a few are still in the family, and a bit of poetry. But I wasn’t very close to him, because we lived two hours drive away and in that episode I didn’t visit them often.

More Details
If the bottle on the painting is filled with water or wine, I can’t remember, although I remember asking my grandma about it. But the curtains behind them he just made them up, she told me. And interestingly, the violets flowers depicted were of a different quality compared to how we see them today. I think they were called African violets and had thick leaves with a velvet texture. She took care of them for many years. Watered them every day. My grandma loved flowers a lot, just like I do.

And if their apples and pears tasted as good? I think yes. Many of those were still organically grown on the country side in those times. But mine were homegrown from my yard and tasted absolutely fabulous!

Loss
My grandma wasn’t actually very fortunate in life, because she lost her first husband during 2nd worldwar while he was 28 years young. He was assassinated by German soldiers at the time. They arrested him I think two weeks after my mum was born. OMG, at least he has kept her in his arms! But after his arrest, they put him in prison for one year (in Scheveningen) and then shot him somehwere in a national park and forest (called the ‘Veluwe’).

Resistance
It was because he and also my grandma were in the resistance. A huge movement against the german invasion and occupation. Well, we know now what happend to millions of people in this war! And as we all know, at the time, nobody knew it was going to be so bad.

By the way, my grandma never ever spoke one single bad word about the Germans. I asked her about that. ‘How come you’re never upset with them?’. She told me there were many good ones too.

Scenery
My mum was born in Schiedam (the Netherlands) while they were bombarding the nearby city Rotterdam in 1941. My grandma told me that was quite an experience, going through labor while she heard the extreme loud noise of the bombs and missiles being dropped on the city which was close to were they lived. Just to depict some of the scenery here.

Carwreck
My grandma’s 2nd husband (the painter) had a carwreck. He accidentally went up the highway in the wrong direction. He died on the spot or in hospital shortly after. He had negative memories of the war, and had difficulty coping with them. But after the war he had a good position in a company as a cardealer.

Challenges
My grandma told me she cried for two years after his accident non stop, and smoked two packages of cigarettes a day, lighting one cigarette in the living room, while another cigarette was still in the kitchen burning on an ashtray.

Thankfully she quit smoking (from one day to the other) after she realised it wasn’t helping her much. And she no longer wanted to feel pity for herself. (Quite a challenge though).

My grandma’s third partner in life (the architect) to which she wasn’t married, died due to cancer. It was kind of tragic to see him suffer, but also to watch her going through all this sadness again.

Sweetest Grandma Ever
Nevertheless, despite it all, my grandma was the most sweet and loving person on the planet. She would help everybody. For instance, as a single mum of her son (my uncle) and her daughter (my mother), she secretly housed three Jewish people in the war.

I remember her also being very hospitable whenever she received guests for coffee or meals. Her last name was called ‘De Goede’ and this means The Good One. And she truly was. I’ve never met anyone as sweet as her for the rest of my life. Or it should be my mum.

My Grandma’s Answer
One day, when I asked my grandma about it, she told me how she had handled everything. She said she was grateful to have known LOVE. She watched my mother struggle with new relationships after her divorce (I was 4 years old at the divorce). After this we had moved several times, sometimes because of a new relationship, or the ending of it. However, since I always witnessed the demise, I felt so sorry for my mother. I decided to consult my grandmother. She then answered for encouragement: “Margreet, it is better to have been loved and lost, than to have never been loved at all.”

Recognition
With this my grandmother acknowledged that my mother was not loved as much as she deserved. Because at the same time, my grandmother recognized how she was truly loved herself by her three partners in life, although she had tragically lost them all. And I felt very touched by her acknowlegement.

As a child, not having witnessed a good relationship of my parents, and having lived with my mum through other failing relationships (my eldest brother and I lived with her), I felt encouraged by it. Thankfully my mum and dad found their true partners later in life. My dad a year after their divorce -I’m blessed with a great 2nd mom and three halfbrothers as well-, and my mum later on at the age of 70. I now have a new stephdad as well.

Strong Women
I’m sharing this with you also because I’m very proud of the women in my familiy. They have all played a great but yet unseen role in life’s history. A role of lovers, heroines, mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers. They loved and were loved, suffered, and sacrificed, but they gave everything to their men, children and grandchildren.

Great Spirits
So yes my dear son, daughter in law (to be), and grandchildren, please remember what my grandma told me, because her great spirit has lived in our family and you are a descendant from her, and from your great grandfather and great great grandfather!

Yes, lets remember my courageous granddad as well, a grandfather I have never known myself (but surely missed), who was the father my mother also never knew (except for the first 2 weeks of her life).

By the way, later on in life, a (small) street was named after my grandfather, for being a hero and victim of 2nd worldwar. If it had been up to me, I would have chosen a large boulevard for them, both for my grandfather and grandmother. On the other hand, many heroes have died unprecedented. Thus to be honored doesn’t say everything. Great spirits never get lost I guess.

I only met my paternal grandparents a few times. The grandfather and grandmother on my father’s side saw me as a baby, but after that I hardly had any contact with them. My grandfather died relatively young and I saw my grandmother again at a later age. We were happy to meet.

My Mum’s Names
Oh and yes, because I have a strong bond with my mother, I also want to tell my descendants that she is named after her three grandmothers.

Her first name is ‘Bieuwkjen’. This is an old Dutch name. It stems from a language area of a northern part in Holland called ‘Drenthe’, where my grandma was born on the countryside.

And my mother inherited that name from her mother’s mother, who had inherited it from her mother and grandmother too! So the great-great-grandmother of my grandchildren also had that name! However, we called my mother by her callsign throughout her life.

The husband of that great-grandmother or the great great one, I can’t remember which one, was a peat farmer. He split through the Drenthe waters on a low barge with loads of peat for fuel. He moved it around with a long pole stick (my grandmother once told me).

And then my mum’s middle name. It belongs to her father’s mother. And unfortunately that mother died at a young age (even before my grandfather was assasinated at the age of 28). Her husband then remarried and that’s how my mother got her third name. This name belonged to her father’s stepmother (so my grandfather’s stepmother). By the way, my grandmother also lost a parent at a very young age. But her mother remarried with a neighbouring farmer and my grandma had many siblings.

Anyway, maybe I will go on with all those names later in bookform, also about my own, because there is much more to tell about them and I also have lots more to share. But for now, it is enough. Otherwise you will still be reading here tomorrow. In any case, there are enough offspring on both sides of te family from my side.

My Answer
That’s why I’m passing it on to you now. Also based on my own experiences. LOVE is the answer. It always has been and always will be. ALWAYS. Please don’t ever forget it.

To have loved and to be loved, to hold children and grandchildren in your arms, these are the most precious gifts there is.

Lover, Beloved, Mother and Grandma, Margreet.

I LOOOOOVVVVVEEEEEE YOU!