Gabriele Letter No. 4
The Word of God, the Law of Love and Unity
and Those of this Earth Without Right
Reading Sample 6
Humans kill animals. God is the life!
During the events of the day, whoever makes the effort to analyze what understanding actually means will very soon find himself asking the little question “why.” Why is this so and not another way? Why isn’t it as the intellect conceived it? Why has today’s society, which has become a society of intellectuals, become so brutal? Why is it so hard or impossible for us to understand people of other cultures? Why is the one sick, the other healthy? Why do we human beings consume pieces of animal carcasses, when we are supposedly the crown of creation? If we want to be the crown of creation, why can’t we create life? Why does the human always need a life base, a life substance, in order to be able to build upon it? Why can’t we, of ourselves, create a base, a life substance? There are still countless questions we could ask.
For many people questions still remain open, such as: Why do people take the life of other people? Why do people kill animals? Why do people destroy nature? Why can’t they create the base, the substance of life?
The big-mouthed intellectual person cannot create a small blade of grass, a flower, a tree, a bush, an animal – he always needs the basic substance of life, the basis of life. What is this life substance? It is solely God.
If God is the life – may a human being kill? Does a person believe he can kill people because the churches have allowed killing? Does a person believe he can kill animals because the churches allowed killing? Or is he of the point of view that since animals have no intellect, but only an »instinct«, he is allowed to kill them? The churches are for killing, because everything that does not follow in their footsteps, in the footsteps of the Fall-thought, is dangerous or could be dangerous to them. But God said through Moses: »You shall not kill«. The adversary said through the ecclesiastical leaders: »You may kill, just don’t murder«.
Whoever, without self-adulation, starts to explore the so-called instinct of animals will sooner or later reach the realization that "instinct« is much more far-reaching than the intellect.
The definition of instinct in the dictionary is as follows: "Stimulus of nature. Natural drive. Unconsciously controlled, without requiring practice, natural drive toward certain patterns of behavior. The capacity, particularly of animals, to react in certain situations in certain ways, including deliberately directed ways, to show a certain behavior (especially one that preserves the life or species): The animal instinct of caring for its brood, of reproduction and the mother’s instinct. Animals let themselves be guided by their instinct."
If we gather the facts on instinct and analyze them, we recognize that the behavior patterns of animals are embedded in nature’s course of events. The elements and Mother Earth, everything that is unburdened, that is, without ego drive, and that lives in and on the Earth, is guided by the All-Spirit, the life. The plants, minerals and animals are, therefore, permeated by the All-Spirit, the Spirit of nature. The eternal Spirit, the eternal law, God, is active and prevails in nature on Earth.
Let us recognize the difference between being guided and controlled. Control takes place via non-divine forces and always leads to weakness, decay, disintegration, spoilage, decline – and finally to death. This corresponds to the Fall-thought.
People are controlled by whom? Who has an effect on their ego-drive?
The birds fly thousands of kilometers; they know their flight route; they know the time to brood. At the same place where they bred a year ago, they build their nests in good time, or they move into their home from the previous year. One can observe the same or similar thing throughout the animal world.
For many animals, procreation and brooding takes place only two to three times a year. Now we raise the little word "why?" Why don’t human beings know their own limits? Why is it time for sex, day and night? Why is the human an egoistic show-off and a sexual show-off? Does his whole behavior come from his intellect because he is an intellectual person? Analyzing without bias, we can say that the intellect is inferior to instinct. Nature is directed by the All-Spirit, the human being is controlled by his intellectual drive, which is filled with ego-greed, with egoism, arrogance and sexual drive. The intellect lacks the love for God – nature lives in the love for God and thus in unity.
In a nutshell, one can say that if human beings had an instinct instead of an intellect, they would be smarter. Here are some statements regarding this from Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1869), a German philosopher:
"Whoever is cruel toward animals cannot be a good person."
"Christian morals have limited their guidelines totally to human beings, leaving the whole world of animals without rights. Just see how our Christian rabble treats the animals, how they kill or mutilate or torture them totally without purpose, and while laughing over it, they drive their horses to strain themselves to the utmost into old age in order to squeeze the last penny out of their poor bones until they succumb to their blows. One would truly want to say that human beings are the devils of the Earth and the animals its plagued souls."
"The world is not a shoddy effort and the animals are not a fabrication for our use. One owes the animals not pity but justice."
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) an Italian painter and universal genius, said the following:
"The day will come when people will be sentenced for killing an animal, just as today they are condemned for killing a person. There will come a time when we will condemn the eating of animals just as we condemn cannibalism today."
We can read what Günther Weizel, (1915-1984) a well-known German chemist, said:
"The Christian conscience cannot be content with the non-application of the 5th Commandment concerning the slaughter animals. Whoever visits a slaughterhouse only once will be shocked and disgusted by what he sees there. Almost everyone comes to the conclusion that the brutal slaughter of animals, which one has raised and fattened in order to finally eat them, is unworthy of mankind and especially of Christianity."
And Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), humanist and author, realized:
"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will also be battlefields."
"Vegetarianism is a criteria by which we can recognize whether the striving of people for moral perfection is earnestly meant or not."
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), medical doctor, musician and theologian, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1952, said the following:
"Reverence for life means to shy away from killing."
"Wherever an animal is forced into the service of man, the suffering that it endures concerns us all."
"My opinion is that we, who stand up for the defense of the animals, should completely renounce eating meat and speak out against it. This is how I do it. And in this way, perhaps many will realize this, although the problem is late in being shown."
"I allow myself to say that the habit of eating meat is not in agreement with awe-inspiring feelings."
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