Note: This petition begins with an accompanying letter to the Spanish King Felipe VI, adapted for the internet, which was delivered to the Spanish Embassy in The Hague on February 3 (At this time of writing, however, it is not certain that he will indeed open the Hieronymus Bosch exhibition on February 12 as originally announced last year in the Dutch press.) An accompanying letter to King William-Alexander was delivered on that day as well to his palace Noordeinde in The Hague.
Robert Jan Kelder
Willehalm Foundation
Kerkstraat 386a
NL-1017 JB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel. 0031(0)20 6944572
Amsterdam February 1, 2016
To His Majesty King Felipe VI
c/o The Spanish Embassy
Lange Voorhout 50
2514 EG Den Haag
Majesty,
Please allow me to present to you a petition in English entitled “Social Organics – Turning our Mother Earth into a Garden of Heavenly Joys” and the motivation thereof, as well as a German one with the same content (see enclosures) that I have also directed to your Dutch counterpart, his Majesty King William-Alexander on the occasion of your joint opening of the international Hieronymus Bosch Exposition “Visions of a Genius” in the North-Brabant Museum in the city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch.
On January 27, the petition in English was introduced in front of the Royal Palace on Dam Square in Amsterdam. A film of it can be seen on You Tube.
I truly hope that you are able to connect in some way with these two petitions that have so far been countersigned, in the short time that they have been online, by 14 persons from 5 different countries, mostly from Portugal.
I have also directed two Dutch petition to William-Alexander (see enclosures), the first one which entails a request to discuss with you the return of the triptych “The garden of Heavenly Joys” that, as you may know, once was the property of William of Orange, until it was confiscated by the Duke of Alva and taken out of the palace in Brussels of the fugitive prince and eventually brought to Spain where it has since remained. This request is not to be taken absolutely, but in the sense that, considering our common spiritual heritage, it be rotated and exhibited alternately e.g. one year here and one year in Spain. I will be submitting these petitions tomorrow, February 1, which as Candlemas marks the day of the Purification of our Lord.
On behalf of the signers, I wish you much wisdom with your opening remarks at the said petition and that in the spirit of Hieronymus Bosch, it may lend this festive occasion a truly Christian note, that it otherwise probably would not be accorded ( a symptomatic foreshadowing thereof is the press release by the Dutch Rijksvoorlichtingsdienst announcing the opening by of our King of the Hieronymus Bosch exhibition, which typifies him as a painter of “illusions and hallucinations”, while in effect he pictures real imaginations of sub- and supernatural worlds and beings.)
I am,
Yours very sincerely,
Robert Jan Kelder
Dir. Willehalm Foundation
Enclosures:
1. The English petition with the motivation (see below)
3. The two Dutch petitions and the letter to King William-Alexander
Copy to King William-Alexander and Queen Máxima
The Petition
We hereby humbly request your Majesties in your opening remarks at the Hieronymus Bosch exhibition “Visions of a Genius” on February 12 coming in the city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch not to restrict yourselves to the usual diplomatic niceties, but to make use of your cultural royal freedom and as defenders of the faith to lend your support in one way or another to the cultural, non-political mission of the Willehalm Order Knights of the Word (i.s.n.) to achieve through the application of the new principle of civilization, known as Social Organics, a World Peace Union of Oases of Humanity with the triptych “The Garden of Heavenly Joys” by Hieronymus Bosch as its inspiring figurehead and thereby to make a contribution to the further realization of God’s Kingdom on earth as originally established by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
In this way, a truly Christian spiritual note will mark this event in honour and recognition of the Christian spiritual nature underlying the visions of this genius known as Hieronymus Bosch.
I.
It is generally acknowledged that humanity on earth is facing a serious social-economic crisis and that the symptomatic solutions offered so far to solve it are not really working and in some cases have even made matters worse. Less acknowledged is the fact that humanity is also suffering from a severe cultural-spiritual estrangement from itself, the earth and the cosmos, and that the therapies applied to cure this wide-spread malaise are not really working either. Therefore it is vitally important that, considering the worsening state of mankind and the earth, new ideas be brought forward and that they be met with an open mind, how unusual at first sight they may appear to be.
One such an idea, hitherto neglected or disregarded as being unscientific, unpractical or outdated, is the concept of social organics, i.e. the art and science of the threefold social organism that was inaugurated in the first quarter of the 20th century by the Austrian born philosopher and founder of anthroposophy or science of the Grail, Dr. Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). Since this seminal idea and its universal significance that he presented in several stages of development and in different contexts has hitherto remained practically unknown, it requires a short introduction in order for the whole petition to be fully grasped. Only then will it become clear why I am taking the liberty to submit this petition to your Majesties on the occasion of your scheduled joint opening on February 12 coming of the Hieronymus Bosch Exhibition “Visions of a Genius” in the city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch in the Dutch province of Brabant to mark the 500th anniversary of the death of this enigmatic painter. In this exhibition, almost all of his known works of art will be displayed, except his absolute masterpiece, the triptych “The Garden of Heavenly Joys”, also called “Grail”, which has been adopted as the figurehead of this petition for reasons that will be elaborated in the course of my argumentation.
Please permit me therefore to attempt to do this. I say attempt, because we are here dealing in essence with an unfathomable mystery, of which only a general outline can be given here with references to literary sources.
When all this was thus disregarded and to no avail, Rudolf Steiner presented this idea for social renewal to the public in 1919 with an “Appeal To The German People and the Civilized World”, which was signed by many prominent personalities, such as the writer Herman Hesse, and which was backed up by his book “Social Renewal - The Basic Issues of the Social Question”. Out of this, arose a movement in Western and Middle Europe, centered in Stuttgart, with a weekly newspaper and trained speakers for the realization of the Threefold Social Order, as this idea is also called, under the slogans: Freedom in the cultural sphere (art, science and religion), Equality in the rights sphere (state and politics) and Brotherhood in the economic sphere (through an association of producers, traders and consumers).
When also this attempt failed and the strong, overbearing economic forces that had contributed to the outbreak of the First World War began to take hold again, Rudolf Steiner presented in 1922 a whole new approach to the idea of the threefold social organism with his Course and Seminar entitled “World Economy”. No longer typifying the social organism as the social body consisting of the cultural, rights and economic spheres, he now viewed it as the whole earth and as such consisting of the economic production factors nature, labour and capital (a modern term for it would be the “environment”). The proper management by world-wide economic associations-to-be of these three production factors, out of which the two sorts of economic values are created (through manual and organizational labour), can then result in just or fair prices, with which the whole process of globalization, including the proper care of our endangered environment and its species, stands or falls. After all, just prices are the virtues of the world economy and world peace without a just world economy remains a pious wish.
This new science of world economy of course requires an institution of advanced learning to further develop and promote this discipline, and this constitutes in effect the fourth stage of social organic development. This took place during the so-called Christmas conference in 1923/24 in Dornach, Switzerland when, in the presence of some 700 - 800 members from the four corners of the world, Rudolf Steiner founded the Anthroposophical Society anew with as its center of spiritual research and development the Goetheanum (named after the German poet and scientist J. W. Goethe) by according it a constitution also based on a social organics. This idea was thereby raised to the status of a universal principle of civilization, because it does not only possess the intrinsic potentiality to reform the faltering world economy, but can also serve as an archetypal guide to establish and maintain human societies, economic, legal and cultural institutions on a mesosocial plane. From the many local anthroposophical societies that he had helped set up previously in practically all countries in Western en Middle Europa, including The Netherlands, but not yet Spain, he expected that they would model their own constitution on that of the newly constituted Anthroposophical Society founded on these new social organic statutes, so that in this way the new principle of civilization would be instituted world-wide by this process of multiplication. His premature death on March 30, 1925 put an end to these plans and left the Society in a state of disarray, from which it has not yet recovered.
II.
The triune idea of social organics was first offered in 1917 internally to the governments of the Emperors Wilhelm II of Germany and Francis Joseph of Austria as a comprehensive peace plan on the part of the Axis powers to end World War I. This even included an interview with crown prince Max von Baden in 1918, of whom Rudolf Steiner hoped that during his acceptance speech as State chancellor he would announce the idea of a threefold commonwealth as evidence for a new social beginning and a peace overture on the part of the German people. He thereby sought to prevent the oncoming bloodshed and revolution of a communist takeover and the signing of an unjust peace treaty at the conference of Versailles, where Germany was falsely accused of being solely responsible of starting the war and was consequently saddled with enormous reparations that laid the groundwork for the Second World War. Witnesses reported that after the crown prince neglected to include these pre-emptive measures in his speech, they had never seen a more disappointed and dejected expression on Rudolf Steiners countenance, as if he foresaw what disasters would befall the German and by extension also the peoples of the world; something which he later affirmed to friends and which, as we know all too wel, also did happen...When all this was thus disregarded and to no avail, Rudolf Steiner presented this idea for social renewal to the public in 1919 with an “Appeal To The German People and the Civilized World”, which was signed by many prominent personalities, such as the writer Herman Hesse, and which was backed up by his book “Social Renewal - The Basic Issues of the Social Question”. Out of this, arose a movement in Western and Middle Europe, centered in Stuttgart, with a weekly newspaper and trained speakers for the realization of the Threefold Social Order, as this idea is also called, under the slogans: Freedom in the cultural sphere (art, science and religion), Equality in the rights sphere (state and politics) and Brotherhood in the economic sphere (through an association of producers, traders and consumers).
When also this attempt failed and the strong, overbearing economic forces that had contributed to the outbreak of the First World War began to take hold again, Rudolf Steiner presented in 1922 a whole new approach to the idea of the threefold social organism with his Course and Seminar entitled “World Economy”. No longer typifying the social organism as the social body consisting of the cultural, rights and economic spheres, he now viewed it as the whole earth and as such consisting of the economic production factors nature, labour and capital (a modern term for it would be the “environment”). The proper management by world-wide economic associations-to-be of these three production factors, out of which the two sorts of economic values are created (through manual and organizational labour), can then result in just or fair prices, with which the whole process of globalization, including the proper care of our endangered environment and its species, stands or falls. After all, just prices are the virtues of the world economy and world peace without a just world economy remains a pious wish.
This new science of world economy of course requires an institution of advanced learning to further develop and promote this discipline, and this constitutes in effect the fourth stage of social organic development. This took place during the so-called Christmas conference in 1923/24 in Dornach, Switzerland when, in the presence of some 700 - 800 members from the four corners of the world, Rudolf Steiner founded the Anthroposophical Society anew with as its center of spiritual research and development the Goetheanum (named after the German poet and scientist J. W. Goethe) by according it a constitution also based on a social organics. This idea was thereby raised to the status of a universal principle of civilization, because it does not only possess the intrinsic potentiality to reform the faltering world economy, but can also serve as an archetypal guide to establish and maintain human societies, economic, legal and cultural institutions on a mesosocial plane. From the many local anthroposophical societies that he had helped set up previously in practically all countries in Western en Middle Europa, including The Netherlands, but not yet Spain, he expected that they would model their own constitution on that of the newly constituted Anthroposophical Society founded on these new social organic statutes, so that in this way the new principle of civilization would be instituted world-wide by this process of multiplication. His premature death on March 30, 1925 put an end to these plans and left the Society in a state of disarray, from which it has not yet recovered.
III.
To have demonstrated that social organics is indeed a universal principle of civilization applicable to both macro- and mesosociale planes of existence, is the great, yet until now insufficiently acknowledged, service the philosopher and anthroposophist Herbert Witzenmann (1905-1988), former head of the Social Science Section of the Goetheanum, has rendered with his books such as “The Just Price – World Economy as Social Organics” and “Charter of Humanity – The Principles of the General Anthroposophical Society as a Basis of Life and Path of Training”, which in translation are available on internet.
Now, in these and other, not yet translated writings, Herbert Witzenmann has enlarged in a profound way on what he has called a “World Peace Union of Oases of Humanity” during one of his social scientific conferences “Contributions to the World Situation” in 1979 in Arlesheim, Switzerland. This was exactly 33 years after the successor to Rudolf Steiner as president of the General Anthroposophical Society, the Swiss poet and writer Albert Steffen (1884-1963) together with the Swiss member of parliament Emil Anderegg in 1964 entered an appeal entitled “Oases of Humanity” to the Swiss parliament to transform Switzerland on the basis of the threefold social idea into an oasis of humanity, an appeal that was never fully realized, but that did lead to the further strengthening of the Geneva convention for the protection of civilians in war-torn areas. But neither Herbert Witzenmann nor Albert Steffen were the original architects of this idea, for that again was Rudolf Steiner, who during his course on biological-dynamic agriculture in the east of Germany (Koberwitz) in 1924 spoke of the urgent need to establish “oases of humanity”, spiritual centers for the preservation and development of Middle-European culture in remote areas sustained by the new farming method he was developing as a cure for the earth that already then was being poisoned by chemical pesticides. It was then Herbert Witzenmann, who broadened in 1979 this idea to a vision of a World Peace Union.
The first step he saw in the establishment a model oasis of humanity in which the occupants would make a threefold peace with themselves, with each other and with the earth (through bio-dynamic farming) and in which, among many other things, they would study, further develop and carry out this new principle of civilization called social organics, that was originally inaugurated as a peace program to end World War I by solving the so-called nationalities questions, i.e. the problem of cultural autonomy for nationalities living in foreign states that is still a threatening war mongering issue in countries such as Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Ireland, Israel and yes, thinking of the Basques, also Spain. Once such a model oasis would be established, it could, with the necessary moral fantasy and technique, be reproduced and, interconnected and spreading all over the world, they could then offer a hopeful perspective for the creation of a world peace union of oases of humanity.
There have been, to my knowledge, some attempts made in this direction, such as the SEKEM initiative in Egypt and the Camphill movement centered in England, but not exactly in the way as delineated here, i.e. centers of spiritual and social organic schooling sustained by biological-dynamic farming from which a strong impulse for world peace is forthcoming.
Now, in these and other, not yet translated writings, Herbert Witzenmann has enlarged in a profound way on what he has called a “World Peace Union of Oases of Humanity” during one of his social scientific conferences “Contributions to the World Situation” in 1979 in Arlesheim, Switzerland. This was exactly 33 years after the successor to Rudolf Steiner as president of the General Anthroposophical Society, the Swiss poet and writer Albert Steffen (1884-1963) together with the Swiss member of parliament Emil Anderegg in 1964 entered an appeal entitled “Oases of Humanity” to the Swiss parliament to transform Switzerland on the basis of the threefold social idea into an oasis of humanity, an appeal that was never fully realized, but that did lead to the further strengthening of the Geneva convention for the protection of civilians in war-torn areas. But neither Herbert Witzenmann nor Albert Steffen were the original architects of this idea, for that again was Rudolf Steiner, who during his course on biological-dynamic agriculture in the east of Germany (Koberwitz) in 1924 spoke of the urgent need to establish “oases of humanity”, spiritual centers for the preservation and development of Middle-European culture in remote areas sustained by the new farming method he was developing as a cure for the earth that already then was being poisoned by chemical pesticides. It was then Herbert Witzenmann, who broadened in 1979 this idea to a vision of a World Peace Union.
The first step he saw in the establishment a model oasis of humanity in which the occupants would make a threefold peace with themselves, with each other and with the earth (through bio-dynamic farming) and in which, among many other things, they would study, further develop and carry out this new principle of civilization called social organics, that was originally inaugurated as a peace program to end World War I by solving the so-called nationalities questions, i.e. the problem of cultural autonomy for nationalities living in foreign states that is still a threatening war mongering issue in countries such as Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Ireland, Israel and yes, thinking of the Basques, also Spain. Once such a model oasis would be established, it could, with the necessary moral fantasy and technique, be reproduced and, interconnected and spreading all over the world, they could then offer a hopeful perspective for the creation of a world peace union of oases of humanity.
There have been, to my knowledge, some attempts made in this direction, such as the SEKEM initiative in Egypt and the Camphill movement centered in England, but not exactly in the way as delineated here, i.e. centers of spiritual and social organic schooling sustained by biological-dynamic farming from which a strong impulse for world peace is forthcoming.
IV.
This having been said, brings us to the subtitle of this petition, i.e. “Turning Our Mother Earth Into A Garden of Heavenly Joys”.
If, as we have seen the social organism is, economically speaking, the whole earth, then it is from the point of view of “The New Christianity” that Rudolf Steiner revealed to humanity in 1924 as the inspirational source of his anthroposophy (although with many antecedents), nothing else than the body of Jesus Christ! For did He not say, whoever drinks wine partakes of My blood and whoever walks on the earth steps on My body? This justifies the bold and at first sight far-fetched statement that developing and practicing social organics, threefolding the social body either macro- or mesosocially as a service to humanity on earth is the new religion of taking care of the body of Jesus Christ!
This is now what is meant by “Turning Our Mother Earth Into A Garden of Heavenly Joys”. It is nothing less than attempting (thereby not excluding any other ways to do so) to further the establishment of God’s Kingdom on Earth as originally established two thousand years ago by Jesus Christ, to begin with by setting up a model oasis of humanity and then gradually extending it to envelop the whole earth as a World Peace Union. For realizing this, Jesus Christ has bequeathed us the Sermon on the Mount with its nine Beatitudes. And as the eminent Christian hermetist Valentin Tomberg (1900-1973), whom Rudolf Steiner envisaged as his spiritual successor as the apostle of the New Christianity, has shown in his book “Christ and Sophia - Anthroposophical Meditations on the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Apocalypse” there is a direct relation between the last three beatitudes and the so-called Foundation Stone Meditation. These mantra’s were given by Rudolf Steiner during the refounding of the Anthroposophical Society at the Christmas conference 1923/24 with which invoked the divine trinity, God the Father, God the Son and the Holy Spirit, the 9 celestial hierarchies and Jesus Christ as persona, and in which he called upon the soul of man that it may also hear it and take its divine message to heart, as have done the elemental beings in the East, West North and South.
On this occasion, during the lengthy discussion of the 15 statutes of the social organic constitution at this Christmas conference, later also called principles, he described the task of the new executive board as simply realizing these statutes that, according to him, would contain everything that the board, of course with necessary moral fantasy, would ever do. And as Herbert Witzenmann has shown in his above-mentioned spiritual scientific research on the universal significance of these statutes (“Charter of humanity”), realizing these statutes, or any others derived from the archetypal form in which Rudolf Steiner entrusted them to the local anthroposophical societies or for that matter any other group wishing to constitute itself in the spirit of them, is a renewal of the ancient Royal Art known in Freemasonry and could therefore be of special interest in modernizing the monarchy.
This requires a new spiritual knighthood of the Word, which both Rudolf Steiner, in 1905 in Berlin, and Valentin Tomberg, in 1938 in Rotterdam, suggested should come about and that would be founded on the Grail.
This then was an incentive for submitting on behalf of the Willehalm Institute for Anthroposophy, Grail research and Social Organics in Amsterdam a petition to your majesty King William-Alexander in 2014 to establish a Willehalm Order of Knights of the Word as a supplement to the already since 1815 existing Military Willems-Order established by King William I, and which your Majesty as its Grand Master are the only one in our Kingdom by virtue of our constitution privileged to do so by submitting a legislative proposal to the States General. Still pending, this petition was first announced to the public during the international art and book exhibition in Amsterdam’s city hall in the spring of 2013 entitled “The Virtues – Towards a New Courtesy” based on the book “The Virtues – Seasons of the Soul” by Herbert Witzenmann and the paintings of the Dutch artist Jan de Kok, a book that was presented there together with the book “How the Grail Sites Were Found – Wolfram von Eschenbach as a Historian” by the Swiss anthroposophist Werner Greub ( 1907-1997).
If, as we have seen the social organism is, economically speaking, the whole earth, then it is from the point of view of “The New Christianity” that Rudolf Steiner revealed to humanity in 1924 as the inspirational source of his anthroposophy (although with many antecedents), nothing else than the body of Jesus Christ! For did He not say, whoever drinks wine partakes of My blood and whoever walks on the earth steps on My body? This justifies the bold and at first sight far-fetched statement that developing and practicing social organics, threefolding the social body either macro- or mesosocially as a service to humanity on earth is the new religion of taking care of the body of Jesus Christ!
This is now what is meant by “Turning Our Mother Earth Into A Garden of Heavenly Joys”. It is nothing less than attempting (thereby not excluding any other ways to do so) to further the establishment of God’s Kingdom on Earth as originally established two thousand years ago by Jesus Christ, to begin with by setting up a model oasis of humanity and then gradually extending it to envelop the whole earth as a World Peace Union. For realizing this, Jesus Christ has bequeathed us the Sermon on the Mount with its nine Beatitudes. And as the eminent Christian hermetist Valentin Tomberg (1900-1973), whom Rudolf Steiner envisaged as his spiritual successor as the apostle of the New Christianity, has shown in his book “Christ and Sophia - Anthroposophical Meditations on the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Apocalypse” there is a direct relation between the last three beatitudes and the so-called Foundation Stone Meditation. These mantra’s were given by Rudolf Steiner during the refounding of the Anthroposophical Society at the Christmas conference 1923/24 with which invoked the divine trinity, God the Father, God the Son and the Holy Spirit, the 9 celestial hierarchies and Jesus Christ as persona, and in which he called upon the soul of man that it may also hear it and take its divine message to heart, as have done the elemental beings in the East, West North and South.
On this occasion, during the lengthy discussion of the 15 statutes of the social organic constitution at this Christmas conference, later also called principles, he described the task of the new executive board as simply realizing these statutes that, according to him, would contain everything that the board, of course with necessary moral fantasy, would ever do. And as Herbert Witzenmann has shown in his above-mentioned spiritual scientific research on the universal significance of these statutes (“Charter of humanity”), realizing these statutes, or any others derived from the archetypal form in which Rudolf Steiner entrusted them to the local anthroposophical societies or for that matter any other group wishing to constitute itself in the spirit of them, is a renewal of the ancient Royal Art known in Freemasonry and could therefore be of special interest in modernizing the monarchy.
This requires a new spiritual knighthood of the Word, which both Rudolf Steiner, in 1905 in Berlin, and Valentin Tomberg, in 1938 in Rotterdam, suggested should come about and that would be founded on the Grail.
This then was an incentive for submitting on behalf of the Willehalm Institute for Anthroposophy, Grail research and Social Organics in Amsterdam a petition to your majesty King William-Alexander in 2014 to establish a Willehalm Order of Knights of the Word as a supplement to the already since 1815 existing Military Willems-Order established by King William I, and which your Majesty as its Grand Master are the only one in our Kingdom by virtue of our constitution privileged to do so by submitting a legislative proposal to the States General. Still pending, this petition was first announced to the public during the international art and book exhibition in Amsterdam’s city hall in the spring of 2013 entitled “The Virtues – Towards a New Courtesy” based on the book “The Virtues – Seasons of the Soul” by Herbert Witzenmann and the paintings of the Dutch artist Jan de Kok, a book that was presented there together with the book “How the Grail Sites Were Found – Wolfram von Eschenbach as a Historian” by the Swiss anthroposophist Werner Greub ( 1907-1997).
The first part of this erudite research report casts new light on the life and work of the one, after whom the proposed new Civil Order of Knights of the Word, like the Military one, is named: the main character of the epic poem “Willehalm” by Wolfram von Eschenbach. Known in French as Guillaume d’Orange, a paladin of Charles de Great and the original founder of the House of Orange in the South of France, he was one of the last protectors of Celtic Christianity. Moreover, by virtue of his heroic exploits and exemplary embodiment of the knightly virtues of courage, righteousness and loyalty as the supreme commander of the Carolingian army on the southern flank of the empire in halting the invasions of the Moors from occupied Spain, including the liberation of Barcelona in 802, he was in 1066 named patron saint of the knights by Pope Alexander II. But what Werner Greub has now added to his laudable biography is that after laying down his sword, i.e. retirement from the military, Willehalm became a knight of the Word by also embracing the vows made by the monks: obedience, chastity and poverty! As the enigmatic Master Kyot the Provençal, he not only served as the spiritus rector of the historic Grail kingship of Parzival, but as Kyot of Katelangen Catalonia) played a leading role it on the very Christian soil that he had previously secured from invasion and occupation by the Moors!
In order therefore to truly do justice to this new spiritual element in his biography, it stands to reason that a civil chivalric order be established and named after him. Originally given the task to reform the world economy on the basis of Rudolf Steiner’s Course World Economy, the mission of the new Order of Knights of the Word in status nascendi (i.s.n.) was aptly extended in 2015 to foster and protect the “New Christianity” that potentially has the depth, scope and power to re-Christianize the world, something that leaders of both Catholic and Protestant faiths are said to be striving for.
In order therefore to truly do justice to this new spiritual element in his biography, it stands to reason that a civil chivalric order be established and named after him. Originally given the task to reform the world economy on the basis of Rudolf Steiner’s Course World Economy, the mission of the new Order of Knights of the Word in status nascendi (i.s.n.) was aptly extended in 2015 to foster and protect the “New Christianity” that potentially has the depth, scope and power to re-Christianize the world, something that leaders of both Catholic and Protestant faiths are said to be striving for.
V.
The present petition is an extension of the one to your Majesty King William-Alexander in 2014 to establish a new Civil Order, which can no longer be signed, as well as a supplement to two petitions, which have recently been formulated and put on internet (petitions.nl) for public support (at this time of writing, January 25, they have gathered 29 signers.). We hereby extend these petitions, where applicable, also to your Majesty King Felipe VI.
The first (Dutch) petition is entitled (as translated into English) “The Garden of Heavenly Joys by Hieronymus Bosch Ought to be Returned to The Netherlands” (see here the Dutch version). This is not to be understood in an absolute sense, but in the sense of exhibiting the work of art alternately in appropriate venues in the kingdoms of Spain and The Netherlands.
The short description reads: “This triptych was as part of the possessions of William of Orange that at the beginning of the 80-year war [of liberation from Spain] confiscated and removed by the Duke of Alva from the palace of the fugitive prince in Brussels, was acquired by the Spanish King Philip II and ended up in the Prado museum in Madrid.
We: do not just want to see a reconstruction [being done presently by Henk Groenendaal] in Den Bosch but preferably the triptych itself.
Note: Anthroposophic, Christian-hermetic research by C. Wertheim-Aymès, K. Falk, W. Seiss and C. Barker, based on indications by Rudolf Steiner and Valentin Tomberg, has shown that the triptych of Hieronymus Bosch, also called "Grail", is a manual inspired by the two great world teachers Christian Rosenkreutz and Master Jesus to further realize the kingdom of God on earth, originally established by Jesus Christ, a true oasis of humanity.
And request: Your Majesty, as the successor to William of Orange the rightful owner of the triptych, to discuss in your meeting with the Spanish King Felipe VI on February 12 in Den Bosch, the return of looted "Grail" to the Netherlands so that it may serve as the figurehead and inspiration of apocalyptic wisdom for the conversion of our Kingdom of the Netherlands [and that of Spain] into an oases of humanity to launch a World Peace Union.”
The second petition is entitled: “Project World Peace Union of Oases Of Humanity” (see here the Dutch version)
The short description: This peace initiative with "The Garden of Heavenly Joys" by Hieronymus Bosch as a figurehead was announced by the petitioner on Epiphany, January 6 this year in front of the Royal Palace on Dam Square as a New Year's speech in the form of an Open Letter to, among others, your Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima.
We, people of good will are aware that there is an urgent need for new peace initiatives.
Note: In 2014 a petition was offered to your Majesty to make use of your privilege to submit a bill to the States-General to set up a new Knights of the Word to transform the current unjust world economy on the basis of Rudolf Steiner's course "World Economy". Meanwhile, the petition further substantiated in 2015, is in the hands of Chancellery of Dutch Orders, without there having been any substantive response. (Update: The petition was rejected by a letter received on November 30, 2016.)
And request: Your Majesty on the occasion of your opening on February 12 of the Hieronymus Bosch exhibition in the North Brabant Museum to respond to the open letter entitled "World Union of Oases of Humanity" that on January 5 last was sent to you, in which a further foundation is given to the petition to your Majesty to supplement the Military Willems-Orde with a Willehalm Knighthood of the Word towards achieving a World Peace Union.”
Post Script I
For a further foundation of these petitions, see the essay “The Secrets of Hieronymus Bosch II – Updated Commentary on the Film ‘Touched by the Devil’ Produced by Pieter Huystee”.
Please note: This petition has also been posted on the AVAAZ website where it can still be signed. On the day of the opening of the Bosch-Exposition on February 12 by the Dutch and (perhaps) Spanish kings a sort of street theater happening is planned in the city of Den Bosch with a large banner displaying the figurehead “The Garden of Heavenly Joys”of these petitions and informing the citizens of and visitors to this town that these petitions have been submitted. Willehalm Foundation is cordially asking support for these plans and invites those who do so to possibly participate in them or else help finance them by sending an email to Robert Kelder at info@willehalm.nl or by depositing a contribution on the bank account of the Foundation: NL23 ABNA 0452 4829 33. Many thanks in
advance!
The short description reads: “This triptych was as part of the possessions of William of Orange that at the beginning of the 80-year war [of liberation from Spain] confiscated and removed by the Duke of Alva from the palace of the fugitive prince in Brussels, was acquired by the Spanish King Philip II and ended up in the Prado museum in Madrid.
We: do not just want to see a reconstruction [being done presently by Henk Groenendaal] in Den Bosch but preferably the triptych itself.
Note: Anthroposophic, Christian-hermetic research by C. Wertheim-Aymès, K. Falk, W. Seiss and C. Barker, based on indications by Rudolf Steiner and Valentin Tomberg, has shown that the triptych of Hieronymus Bosch, also called "Grail", is a manual inspired by the two great world teachers Christian Rosenkreutz and Master Jesus to further realize the kingdom of God on earth, originally established by Jesus Christ, a true oasis of humanity.
And request: Your Majesty, as the successor to William of Orange the rightful owner of the triptych, to discuss in your meeting with the Spanish King Felipe VI on February 12 in Den Bosch, the return of looted "Grail" to the Netherlands so that it may serve as the figurehead and inspiration of apocalyptic wisdom for the conversion of our Kingdom of the Netherlands [and that of Spain] into an oases of humanity to launch a World Peace Union.”
The second petition is entitled: “Project World Peace Union of Oases Of Humanity” (see here the Dutch version)
The short description: This peace initiative with "The Garden of Heavenly Joys" by Hieronymus Bosch as a figurehead was announced by the petitioner on Epiphany, January 6 this year in front of the Royal Palace on Dam Square as a New Year's speech in the form of an Open Letter to, among others, your Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima.
We, people of good will are aware that there is an urgent need for new peace initiatives.
Note: In 2014 a petition was offered to your Majesty to make use of your privilege to submit a bill to the States-General to set up a new Knights of the Word to transform the current unjust world economy on the basis of Rudolf Steiner's course "World Economy". Meanwhile, the petition further substantiated in 2015, is in the hands of Chancellery of Dutch Orders, without there having been any substantive response. (Update: The petition was rejected by a letter received on November 30, 2016.)
And request: Your Majesty on the occasion of your opening on February 12 of the Hieronymus Bosch exhibition in the North Brabant Museum to respond to the open letter entitled "World Union of Oases of Humanity" that on January 5 last was sent to you, in which a further foundation is given to the petition to your Majesty to supplement the Military Willems-Orde with a Willehalm Knighthood of the Word towards achieving a World Peace Union.”
Post Script I
For a further foundation of these petitions, see the essay “The Secrets of Hieronymus Bosch II – Updated Commentary on the Film ‘Touched by the Devil’ Produced by Pieter Huystee”.
Please note: This petition has also been posted on the AVAAZ website where it can still be signed. On the day of the opening of the Bosch-Exposition on February 12 by the Dutch and (perhaps) Spanish kings a sort of street theater happening is planned in the city of Den Bosch with a large banner displaying the figurehead “The Garden of Heavenly Joys”of these petitions and informing the citizens of and visitors to this town that these petitions have been submitted. Willehalm Foundation is cordially asking support for these plans and invites those who do so to possibly participate in them or else help finance them by sending an email to Robert Kelder at info@willehalm.nl or by depositing a contribution on the bank account of the Foundation: NL23 ABNA 0452 4829 33. Many thanks in
advance!
Post Script II
The above announced events in Den Bosch on that day took place in a somewhat modified form (see the image of the banner of the triptych The Garden of Heavenly Joys as the figure-head of the Project World Peace Union of Oases of Humanity placed before the statue of the painter on the market squre in Den Bosch). The Spanish king did not appear due to pressing state matters and the Dutch king held no opening speech at all for the exhibition, reducing his activities to a physical swing with a hammer to clear the entrance to the said exhibition. Both monarchs did however send, for what it is worth, a short letter of acknowledgement.
