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 There are 17 paragraphs coming from the 1993 issue of Die Shere. They are
so close  to our times. Here are 3 of them.
About the scissors              Wilflingen March 14th 1991
#285 After the turning of the millenium, the man will still continue to
move away from the history. The great symbols of the crown and glaive will
still lose in significance; the sceptre changes. The historical borders
will grow blurred; the war will remain with the round of applause of
humanity, the deployments of force and the threats will become planetary
and universal.
#286 The next century belongs to the Titans; the gods will still lose
prestige. Being given that they will return as they always did, the XXI st
century, considered from a religious point of view, will be an intermediate
link, an interim. "Dieu se retire." (also in #175)
 The fact that Islam seems to constitute an exception should not induce in
error; that does not hold so that it would be higher than time but than
what it - from the titanic point of view - is adapted to time.
#292 The shipwreck of the Titanic, sinking against an iceberg, is a
prophetic sign as one usually finds any only in the myth. One can conclude
from it, inter alia, that in the case of progress, it is acted in fact of
an interim - of a phenomenon which has its beginning and its end. That the
trees do not push to the sky, it besides was always known... 


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