“The primal interest of the U.S., what we fought the wars for centuries—World War I, World War II, and the Cold War—was the relationship between Germany and Russia. Because united, they are the only power that can threaten us, and our interest was to make sure that didn’t happen.”
~ George Friedman, speech at Chicago Council of Global Affairs, 2015

By Catherine Austin Fitts

This week, Thomas Meyer returns to help us place current events in their broader historical context. The interview was filmed in Thomas’s garden, where his pink magnolia tree was in full blossom.

Thomas traces the parallels between the lead-up to World War I and events contributing to the present Russia-Ukraine conflict. He also revisits Rudolf Steiner’s idea of a Threefold Social Order encompassing three central domains of human social activity: the economic, legal, and cultural. Steiner’s vision was of a society structured so that each of these domains could enjoy independence and autonomy from the other.

To understand the parallels between current events in Ukraine and World War I, Thomas recommends Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War by Scottish historians Gerry Docherty and Jim MacGregor, a book that highlights, in Thomas’s words, the “intrigues, tricks, and deceptions” that British elites used to draw a reluctant Germany into war. The Scottish press roundly ignored the book’s publication in 2014, just as the old media now fail to mention U.S. and NATO aggression in crossing Russia’s clear “line in the sand” in Ukraine.

In both centuries, Western elites have been committed to preventing Germany and Russia from combining forces. The West’s dread of a German-Russian cultural and industrial juggernaut came across loud and clear when NATO’s first secretary-general, Lord Ismay, was asked why NATO was needed: “To keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.” (Thomas points out that NATO is shameless enough to still feature this quote on its website.) In more recent times, geopolitical forecaster George Friedman has asserted that German-Russian collaboration would pose an existential threat to the U.S.

In Part 2 of the interview—accessible to Solari subscribers only (Part I has been published seperately as a public Solari Report)—Thomas discusses the pivotal historical role and spiritual journey of Helmuth von Moltke, who served as Chief of the Great German General Staff in the early part of World War I, until the Kaiser dismissed him after the Battle of the Marne. Moltke’s extensive correspondence and communications with Rudolf Steiner provide revealing insights on hidden causes of WWI that are still relevant today.

As a curious historical coincidence, Putin’s KGB office during his sojourn in Dresden (then part of East Germany) in the 1980s also served at one time as the headquarters of the German Anthroposophical Society. Thomas notes that Putin “knows more about German culture than most current German politicians.”

On May 5, we will resume publication of our 1st Quarter 2022 Wrap Up with the Equity Overview & Rambus Chartology. On May 12, attorney Carolyn Betts will join me to discuss our 1st Quarter 2022 Wrap Up theme—Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs): Investment Craze or Reset Laundry?

In Money & Markets this week, John Titus and I will cover the latest events and continue to discuss the financial and geopolitical trends we are tracking in 2022. E-mail your questions for Ask Catherine or post at the Money & Markets commentary here.

Please join us this Thursday, April 21 for this timely reflection by Thomas Meyer.

Talk to you Thursday!

Related Solari Reports:

Spiritual Science Academy with Thomas H. Meyer

Special Solari Report: The Three Fold Social Order with Thomas Meyer

Related Reading:

Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War

NATO leaders: Lord Ismay

Foreword and Introduction by T.H. Meyer to first English edition of Light for the New Millennium (correspondence between Rudolf Steiner, Helmuth von Moltke, and Eliza von Moltke)

Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (Wikipedia)

Perseus Publishing

Text of R. Steiner about Anglo-American Pluto-Autocrats

48 Comments

  1. Thank you for another magnificent presentation by Thomas Meyer. His larger historical and spiritual perspective brings such coherence and clarity to our world situation, illuminating realities I have failed to comprehend during my sixty five years on earth. Of course it’s painful to acknowledge the evil done in the name of American foreign policy and to grapple with one’s own guilt as one of millions of stupid and stupefied Americans who have allowed all this to happen. I would love to hear Thomas talk more about what he thinks might be the karma of the American people in all of this.

    1. Hello Susan, I hear you and understand and I have been grappling with a similar question and have come to the place where I have resolved myself to moving forward with as much Spirit as I can bring to our current situation. It’s tough, to be sure. You are not alone. My best to you for your courage and consciousness.

    2. I, too, would appreciate a commentary on the deeper, karmic role of the US in this historical and current circumstance.

      1. Then worthwhile reading amongst others : the karma of untruthfulness.
        Lectures by R. Steiner during WW 1 translated by Terry Boardman and published by R. Steiner Press.

      2. Indeed worth reading is “The Karma of Untruthfulness” a comprehensive work on propaganda, secret brotherhoods of the West, and the effect of lies in politics and society, among other things. Here an introducing documentary:

        https://youtu.be/nVb2ky9qYKk

      3. Michael as the time spirit can guide us out of the confusion created by one-siding clingings to nationalities. That might be the solution for Americans when they rise out of illusions
        Thomas

    4. The karma fo the American people seems to lie in the direction of waking up for the real Spirit of the Time … Michael, who is acting beyond the conflicting folk spirits.
      Thomas

  2. There is another book that has to be mentioned together with, or even before, the book of Docherty & MacGregor, a masterpiece, written by Guido Giacomo Preparata that was published in 2005:

    Guido Giacomo Preparata. 2005. Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America Made the Third Reich. London: Pluto Press.

    The German version, it seems, was published by the very Perseus Verlag:
    Wer Hitler mächtig machte
    Wie britisch-amerikanische Finanzeliten dem Dritten Reich den Weg bereiteten
    http://perseus.ch/produkt-kategorie/guido-giacomo-preparata
    see also: http://dosisnet.de/whmm.pdf

    3. Rolf, Thank you mentioning How Britain and America Made the Third Reich. It’s now on my list!

  3. Thanks Catherine, in these times the broader view of history and its spiritual roots are more important than ever!

  4. Hello Catherine.
    I would love to know the name of the artist in the painting behind you in the Thomas Meyer interview on the launch of the spiritual Science Academy. I believe it is
    archangel Michael. Any information would be helpful. I am beyond grateful for your brilliant light and clarity.

    1. It is a tapestry reproduction of Franz Anton Maulbertsch — Gideon Sketch for a fresco (1796) from the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. I have one and I also had one made for Thomas and his wife Orsolya as a Christmas present in 2020. Orsolya had discovered it earlier that year – she is Hungarian as was the artist. The original was destroyed and a reproduction hangs in the museum in Budapest, Hungary. The tapestry hangs in my office and also hangs in the Meyer’s living room. You can read about the painting on Page 44 in Visions of Freedom – Nina Heyn did a series on Gideon’s River Test https://home.solari.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/3rd-Quarter-2020-Wrap-Up-Visions-of-Freedom-single-page-view.pdf/ It depicts Gideon speaking with the Angel. According to Thomas, Archangel Michael was the angel that was present at Gideon’s victory. You can read the story in the Old Testament in the Bible in Judges Chpts 6-9. It is the basis of my notion of the “the Midianite thing”

  6. Tic-toc, can’t wait for publication. 6 PM CET insted of CST could fix my impatience!

  7. Thank you very much, for the many truth that you both talk about in Money and Markets.
    I have the book about the History that you mention. Its of course full of Conspiracy stuff…
    Could you also focus a little on the Manipulation in precious Metals?

    Sincerely, Jutta Woods

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