The story of
Jos Mosmuller
Jos Mosmuller was born in Heerlen on January 17, 1950. His father Giel Mosmuller and mother Miep Snijders were both from Nieuwenhagen, Landgraaf, southern Limburg.
The father came from a business family who traded in furniture and the mother from a family of general practitioners.
After their marriage in1948, they went to live in Heerlen, the center of the eastern mining region. Jos was the oldest child.
Two more sisters and a little brother joined them. They grew up together on the outskirts of the small town of Heerlen with many meadows and woods behind their home. The mother performed more often as a singer at weddings and parties and sometimes in the theater. It was the time of the Catholic South with daily Holy Mass, Marian worship and processions through the fields, Everywhere still the brothers, fathers and sisters as teachers at the kindergarten, elementary and also high school. The coal mines were the source of life not only for the miners, but also for education, civil servants, caring professions and businessmen It was a wonderful, regulated, and protected time which, due to the death of the eldest sister after several years of illness, did lay a deep seriousness over Jos’s youth. Jos was confronted early on with the question of the meaning of illness and death. He felt very connected with nature around him, faith, so much so that he initially wanted to become a priest. But Jos’ great example and ideal became his grandfather who was a general practitioner in a pharmacy practice and also organist in the church and conductor and singer of the singing choir “The Voices of the Mining Region” .
Jos' great example and ideal was his grandfather
Biography
Jos was a quiet persistent student, who after elementary school went to HBS B with the Franciscan Fathers of Bernardinus College, which he attended with pleasure and good results. He passed the final exam with good grades in all subjects and decided to study medicine in Amsterdam.
Once in Amsterdam, he dove right into the merry student life and joined the Catholic student association Thomas Aquinas in 1968 and was admitted to the Vesta fraternity. With great pleasure he enjoyed student life for three years, but after that studies became more and more fascinating and demanded all his attention. Nevertheless, there was still time for trips to Italy and Greece which created a great interest in Greek antiquity, in the sculpture of the Korè and the temples in Athens and Ephesus, in the medicine of Hippocrates on the island of Kos. Rome and Pompei with next to it Assisi also made a deep impression.
During the junior residency in pediatrics at the Binnengasthuis in Amsterdam, he met Mieke Crull (his current wife, Mieke Mosmuller), also a medical student. The interest in classical music a.o. the St. Matthew Passion of JS Bach arose at this time, After their studies they settled in Limbricht (now municipality of Sittard) as dispensing general practitioners. They had three children.
homeopathy as an exceptionally effective method
In 1981 they discovered homeopathy as an extraordinarily effective method – despite all scientific prejudices. For the explanation of the working they found the knowledge-theoretical foundation in Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy. In 1985 they moved to The Hague, where they worked as doctors of homeopathy, and where they further investigated anthroposophy and its meaning for the world and man. In 1990 they both worked for a year as school doctors and teachers for Eurythmy students at the Academy of Eurythmy at Riouwstraat 1 in The Hague with Werner Barfod as director. They came into contact with anthroposophy working externally at this time through cooperation with anthroposophical general practitioners and priests of the Christian community. But this did not lead to a real agreement in conception of the core value of anthroposophy. The idea of the pursuit of pure wishful thinking as a basis for working in anthroposophy to be truly moral was not pursued by these groups.
Since 1993, Mieke Mosmuller has been writing books, which are published by Jos Mosmuller in the publishing house Occident, founded by Jos. Since 2003, due to Jos’ illness, they moved to Baarle-Nassau, where it was decided to quit the medical practice and continue the publishing business on their own. The first book to be published was “Search for the Light that Rises in the West” which Mieke wrote in 1993/1994, describing the core idea on which the whole of anthroposophy is founded as a method of knowing and working.
Anthroposophical Society
From 1984 to 1998 Mieke and Jos Mosmuller were members of the Anthropsophical Society and from 1986 of the ‘FreieHochschule für Geisteswissenschaft’. Through the study and meditation of Rudolf Steiner’s “Philosophie der Freiheit,” a completely independent inner development began. In her first book, “Seek the Light that Rises in the West,” she described this development, as it is to go for every human being in our time. It is the basis for all subsequent books, in each of which she tries to express the importance of the development of independent active thinking. She has also always experienced the need for this in her work as a physician. The training of the mind engenders a will-permeated thinking that becomes a living force and can then turn into the feeling and the will and creates an increase in harmony, peace, tranquility, health and psychic strength, based on the increasing activity of the mind. This development also prevents alcohol and drug addiction and is the best prevention against dementia. Mieke Mosmuller has inspired many people with her research.
Through the book' Find the Light that Rises in the West' Mieke was invited by the famous comedian Toon Hermans to have conversations with him over several years with her about his ideas about God and faith. In 1998, these talks appeared under the title, "Just God.
The point of separation from the anthroposophical society
In 1998, Mieke and Jos Mosmuller left the anthroposophical society. In 1998 Mieke and Jos Mosmuller left the Anthroposophical Society. The cause was the Board’s point of view in relation to the question of Rudolf Steiner’s alleged racism.
In her book ‘Der lebendige Rudolf Steiner. Eine Apologie’ (The living Rudolf Steiner), Mieke Mosmuller has tried to prove that a racist position with Rudolf Steiner was and is a complete impossibility.
In the course of time the essential point of separation has been brought to light in ever more publications. This point lies in the understanding of the third chapter of Rudolf Steiner’s “Die Philosophie der Freiheit. The concept of the “state of exception” used there has been the subject of much discussion and debate. Through perception and thinking, contemplation and thinking, the human being comes to know things, facts and himself. However, the thinking itself as an activity is never seen, one sees only the content of thinking. Trying to observe the activity of thinking is, so to speak, an exceptional situation because you never come that far in normal life. In this third chapter, Rudolf Steiner describes how this is for the mind and says, that it would never be possible to contemplate thinking actual, while it is active – the two processes thinking and contemplating thinking must always take place one after the other.
By intensively investigating this “Beobachtung des Denkens,” Mieke Mosmuller found that while this “never” applies to rational thinking, it is quite possible to contemplate thinking presently, to contemplate thinking, when it engages in metamorphosis. Precisely such a metamorphosis brought her to the sight of the spirit, to a contemplating consciousness. Thus, she began by placing this “never” in a different light.
Exactly this point of thinking – contemplation – of thinking, Mieke Mosmuller came to know as the foundation of anthroposophy. It became the philosophical primer for her book “Find the Light…
Jos Mosmuller spent years researching with Mieke the significance of self-awareness of thinking while thinking. And its continuation to the will in trying to become conscious of thinking in the will. In the book of essays “Philosophy and Anthroposophy GA 35 by Rudolf Steiner, these two sides of man, thinking and willing, are described in detail and clearly in each other’s relationship.
Through the path of meditation that can lead to this point of actual contemplation of thought, it becomes possible to perceive the thinking activity knowingly in the same instant, as one unfolds it. It is perception, knowing and experiencing at the same time! It is the experience of ultimate freedom, because you can think freely from and outside your body and from there make free will decisions independent of all churches, state and outer or inner compulsions.
Living thinking gives the ability to think pictorially and artistically and also to experience a sense of harmony in feeling which creates the intention for acting morally and in love. The three values of the French Revolution liberty, equality and fraternity will arise again in a free inner sense, but truly, without struggle.
Let us work hard in bringing thinking to life, then everything will become new.
Lectures and Seminars
From 2009 to 2021, Mieke was increasingly asked to give lectures and multi-day seminars in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Denmark. Highlights were Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Groningen, Zeist, Samaya in Werkhoven, Bruges,,Antwerp, Nuremberg, Hamburg, Berlin, Baden Baden, Freiburg, Überlingen. Zurich, Bern and Basel in addition to Kiental and Parpan in Graubünden, not to mention the excursions to Chartres Cathedral.
Jos accompanied her on all these trips and personally organized the various annual spring, summer and Christmas seminars in Kiental and Parpan in Graubünden.
In 2021 in the middle of corona time, Jos fell ill again during a vacation in France. This was now so serious that he had to turn the publishing business over to their daughter Ruth, who was able to continue the business with great enthusiasm.
Fortunately, he gradually recovered and decided to continue living in France with his wife Mieke. Here, in 2023, he wrote the book “The Seven Metals,” which describes in detail the metals used in homeopathic and anthroposophic practice. A year later in 2024, he published the book, “A Hospital That Heals Like Construction,” describing his experiences in a contemporary modern hospital and a possible resurrection of hospital medicine.
The main theme that Jos lives for and is committed to is the insight and certainty that as we as humans spiritualize thinking by connecting it with the uplifted will, thinking is freed from its deadness and comes to living reality that is experienceable. We can then see that as connecting with the cosmopolitan solar archangel Michael who connects all people around the world in freedom and free morality. In addition, as we come out of dead physical thinking into living thinking, we find access to the ether world in which we find the Christ who has risen therein since 1933 to great support, help and healing for all who can ask him there.
Related to this is the survival of our culture. Rudolf Steiner clearly said that if humanity will not bring it up to connect the will with thought, our culture will perish in materialism and decadence, because a passage to a new spiritual culture without the cooperation with the risen Christ in the ether world will not be possible. The dead reasoning used by natural science will be used by the dark powers to turn the earth with the people into a wasteland, both in the outer world and in the souls of the people, under the dictatorship of the antimens lived by the ahrimanic and luziferic counterpowers.
Bibliography
- The Seven Metals, 2023 (German and Dutch)
- A hospital that heals as a building, 2024 (German and Dutch)
