You, the Animal - You, the Human Being
Which Has Higher Values?
The New Era—the new life in communion with animals,
plants and minerals. The ennobled person in dealing with
his animal brothers and sisters
The new man, however, stands in the cosmic Spring of the “Let there be.” For more and more people recognize the great deed of the Son of God and are grateful to the Eternal that He guides them and shows them, through messengers of light and through enlightened people, how they should sense, think, live and act at present and in the future, in order to escape the influence of the darkness. The neighbor and the second neighbor, the world of animals, plants and minerals, are a part of the all-encompassing, lawful life. All life forms are in God, for all Being is in God.
Just as the spirit beings are with the nature kingdoms, the people of the New Era will live in a similar way with the animals, plants and minerals. They will understand one another, because they speak one language: the language of selfless love. What the prophets of the Old Covenant have already announced becomes reality. From the darkness of this materialistic world the New Era rises, the Era of Christ, His Kingdom of Peace.
In the Kingdom of Peace of Jesus Christ, what God has announced through
the prophet Isaiah will be fulfilled: The wolf will lie with the lamb, the
panther with the kid. Calf and lion are friends; they lie together, and
children will take care of them. Cow and bear become friends, because in
their consciousness there is no longer any meanness, no longer the enmity
that was transmitted to them by men. Their young lie together, because their
parents also convey to them the peace of men. The lion no longer tears up
his neighbor, the animals under him, or even men, because men no longer have
carnal desires either, nor crave anymore the consumption of meat. All
animals live on grass and straw. The nursing child plays over the hole of
the asp; the weaned child puts his hand into the adder’s den. Neither the
asp nor the adder are hostile toward man, for men and animals have become
one, because there is neither fear nor evil and deceit in the human being.
The Earth then carries the life from God, and those who live on it are
unified in and with God, because they fulfill the laws of God. All this and
much more has already been foretold. God is truth, and His word will come
true, even when, seen from the human perspective, many years, even thousands
of years, go by.
In the change of time, man will be in communication with the nature kingdoms
and thus he will be in communion with all cosmic grades of consciousness.
The one who fulfills the will of God, thus attaining spiritual growth, stands in a friendly and brotherly communion—in communication—with his fellow men and with the nature kingdoms, as well.
Friends and brothers and sisters address each other by name. This also holds true for the second neighbors, the animal brothers and sisters.
As you have heard, all life forms have names that correspond to their respective consciousness. In the eternal Being all life forms address each other by name. The person, who has a name as well, and who wants to be addressed by his name, should also give names to the animals of the house and of the farm and address them with these names. Avoid speaking of the “animal” as such, as often as your language allows this. Someone who has given his second neighbor, his fellow occupant, a name should also use it, that is, he should address his companion by its name.
People who strive to attain spiritual values will ennoble themselves more and more. Through this their manners also become finer. This is apparent not only on the person himself, but also on his surroundings. The unpolished and crude behavior that many people who are oriented to the world still have changes into finer, nobler and selfless behavior. The person feels more deeply and finely, because his spiritual consciousness has become lighter and more radiating. He becomes sensitive, as well.
The sensitive person chooses nobler words, because he himself is ennobled. He behaves accordingly in all situations, also toward his second neighbors, including the plant and mineral worlds. The inner nobility can be noticed in everything that a sensitive person does. He will no longer devour his meals thoughtlessly, for he has learned how to eat, that is, to dine. Then, for him, the second neighbor will no longer “devour,” but “eat.”
If you truly have learned how to dine and did not simply impose it on yourself as acquired etiquette, which you forget as soon as you are not observed, then you will also get your second neighbor used to eating in a finer way. If it is an inner need for you to eat from a clean and neat dish, which is placed on a clean and neatly laid table, then you will also keep the bowl of your second neighbor clean and put it in a clean and neat spot.
If you are no longer greedy to eat the food, in order to perhaps get the biggest piece, instead eating your meal calmly and consciously, then your second neighbor, as well, will become used to behaving that way. If you do not throw bits of food to the second neighbor, instead placing its meal before it and not trying to take it away again, then it will gradually no longer crave it—that is, wolf it down greedily—but will eat it quietly and peacefully.
If you take care that your place of rest is clean and tidy, then, as a spiritually awakened person, you will also keep your second neighbor’s place of rest clean and tidy. Just as you, the order-loving person, air your bed and your bedcovers, so will you do it with the bedcovers of your second neighbor. If you see to it that you regularly wash your blankets and your sheets, then you will also remember that your second neighbor would also like it this way—and you will do this for it.
Just as you have a bed, a niche to sleep in, as it were, so you should also get your second neighbor used to his sleeping-niche. The second neighbor should not sleep right next to you, but should sleep in another room. You can leave the door to the room slightly open, so that he does not feel separated from the others who live there. However, this is not absolutely necessary—not when, for example, two or three second neighbors are together and rest and sleep together; for eventually there should no longer be single animals in the apartments and houses. However, it is important for the second neighbor to have access to the outside.
A neat and clean person cleanses his body daily, brushes and arranges his
hair. Remember: Your second neighbor—the dog or the cat you have with you as
a fellow occupant—also has a coat of hair. The second neighbor also likes to
be brushed and the dog brother or sister likes to be washed now and then.
Just as you need to move in fresh air and have oxygen for your body, so it
is with your second neighbor. It, too, likes to go for a walk and move in
fresh air.
The spiritual person knows that all of infinity is based on polarity.
Therefore, you, too, dear human brother or sister, love to socialize, and
want to have a good boyfriend or girlfriend or a family or people around you
with whom you can talk about things.
Remember: Your second neighbor, too, likes to have communication with his kind, for he also has the predisposition for polarity in him, which he radiates according to his state of consciousness and with which he seeks to communicate. Since everything rests on polarity, you also feel that being alone does not correspond to man’s nature. People who are alone a great deal and who have to depend on themselves, often become odd, because they lack communication, the exchange of feelings and thoughts.
And so, you do not like to live on your own, without anyone to talk to, separated from your fellow man, alone in a room or in an apartment or in a house, without communication with your neighbor. Your second neighbor as well, which you have taken as your fellow occupant, does not like to live without his kind. You both carry within the same eternal law of love, which is polarity, that is, communication.
If you have taken a second neighbor into your home, then you should know that it likes to communicate with you, the human being, because for it you are a big brother or sister. But at the same time, it wants to be with its kind and likes to communicate with them. For this reason, consider whether you want to follow the spiritual laws and whether you want to take two second neighbors or three or several second neighbors instead of one. Of course, the circumstances need to be considered as well. What helps your second neighbor in developing communication is if one of your friends agrees to take him a couple of times a week to his place, to his second neighbor, and vice versa, so that the degrees of consciousness have their communication, as well. A “place of communication for second neighbors” could also be a good facility, where they are taken care of and looked after in a similar way as, for example, the children in a kindergarten.
However, all these suggestions can bear good fruit only when people change and when they build up a positive communication to their fellow man and to all the forces of life.
In the Kingdom of Peace of Jesus Christ, the second neighbors, the animals, will be with the people. They will not belong to a particular person. It will be a unity and community between people and animal brothers and sisters.
Dear human brother or sister, I repeat an essential point of view. Remember: The second neighbor carries within the consciousness of unity. Therefore, it not only wants to be with you, the human being, but also with its kind. If it has a fellow brother or sister, then it no longer feels alone and lonely and solely dependent on a person. If there are two or three of them, then the longing to meet their kind is no longer as strong, because they can exchange their sensations of consciousness with each another. Then they feel themselves in the great unity, because they can communicate with each another. In time, the result is that they no longer sniff around so much on house corners, blades of grass, trees, bushes, stones and the like. They no longer need to confirm themselves and to search—they have one another. Only the second neighbor who feels lonely searches for his kind. He wants to make himself noticed and therefore marks places with his animal odor, or he wants to sniff his kind. For this purpose house corners, blades of grass, trees, bushes and the like are suitable signposts.
The person who is concerned for his own well-being has dissociated himself from others. He is his own closest neighbor. His brother is “the other one,” whom he observes only from without. The person has created his own plot, his house, his land and property, which he watches over and defends. In a broader sense, the world of animals also took on this human behavior. Dogs, cats and other life forms mark their so-called territory with their particular odors. In a figurative sense, man, too, marked and marks his territory with his human ego-vibration, which can also be called his odor.
If, for example, cats had had companions to play with—that is, of their
kind—in previous incarnations, then they would not catch as many mice and
birds in order to “play” with them so cruelly and torture them.
The behavior of the animals in the wild cannot be taken as a characteristic
criterion for their true, original nature. The behavior patterns of the
animals in the wild are also determined by what they have absorbed in their
part-souls —and possibly also by the aura of the country, the atmospheric
pictures of the country and by the magnets created by thought and leadership
patterns that are still effective in the countries where the animals live.
What a person emits is also absorbed by the animals. Since no energy is lost, whatever has been radiated by a person will eventually find expression, even if it is only in later generations, in the animal world.
And so, one should not assume that the behavior of the second neighbors in open nature is their true nature and that it corresponds to their particular species and breed. A great deal of what seems to determine the breed and species was transmitted to them by human beings.
The behavior of animals in the wild is often very similar to that of house pets and farm animals, because also the part-souls in those animals that presently live in the wild may once have been incarnated in house pets or farm animals.
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