November 25, 2011
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Genealogy
I’m really excited because I found a biography of my Swiss great-great grandfather, Willi Aeppli (Waldorf school author), and discovered that he was born in Ghana when his parents were missionaries. His father died when he was a toddler of a tropical disease. Then his mother adopted another child, who then died at age 5 of Scarlet Fever. He was visited by this child’s spirit which changed the direction of his spiritual life, later making him open to anthroposophy. http://myjaneaology.blogspot.com/2010/06/ggp-aeppli.html
“Anthroposophy, a spiritual philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner, postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world accessible to direct experience through inner development—more specifically through cultivating conscientiously a form of thinking independent of sensory experience.
And by searching for more info. on the Basel Mission, I found pics of my great-great-great grandparents, Heinrich Aeppli and Jeanette Pluss-Aeppli.
