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Episode 9 - The Degradation of the Slaughterman · Vegetarianism and Occultism

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  Section nine, the degradation of the slaughter man. Yet another point to be
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  considered is the wickedness of causing degradation and sin and other men. If you,
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  yourselves had to use the knife or the pole axe and slaughter the animal
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  before you so you could feed upon its flesh, you would realize the sickening
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  nature of the task and would soon refuse to perform it. Would the delicate
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  ladies who devour sanguinary beef steaks like to see their sons working as slaughtermen.
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  If not, then they have no right to put this task upon some other
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  woman's son. We have no right to impose upon a fellow citizen work which
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  we ourselves should decline to do. It may be said that we force no
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  one to undertake this abominable means of livelihood, But that is a mere tragivisation,
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  For in eating this horrible food, we are making a demand that some
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  one shall brutalize himself, that some one shall degrade himself below the level of
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  humanity. You know that a class of men has been created by the demand
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  for this food, a class of men which has an exceedingly bad reputation.
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  Naturally, those who are brutalized by such unclean work as this, prove themselves
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  brutal and other relations as well. They are savage in their disposition and bloodthirsty
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  in their quarrels. And I have heard it stated that in many a murder
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  case, evidence has been found that the criminal employed the particular twist of the
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  knife which is characteristic of the slaughter man. You must surely recognize that here
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  is an unspeakably horrible work, and that if you take any part in this
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  terrible business, even that of helping to support it, you are putting another
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  man in the position of doing, not in the least for your need,
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  but merely for the gratification of your lusts and passions, work that you would,
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  under no circumstances, consent to do yourself. Then we should surely remember
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  that we are all of us hoping for the time of universal peace and kindness,
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  a golden age when war shall be no more, a time when man
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  shall be so far removed from strife and anger that the whole conditions of the
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  world will be different from those which now prevail. Do you not think that
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  the animal kingdom will also have its share in that good time coming, That
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  this horrible nightmare of wholesale slaughter will be removed from it. The really civilized
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  nations of the world no far better than this. It is only that we
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  of the West are as yet a young race, and still have many of
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  the crudities of youth. Otherwise we could not bear these things amongst us even
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  for a day. Beyond all question, the future is with the vegetarian.
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  It seems certain that in the future, and I hope it may be in
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  the near future, we shall be looking back upon this time with disgust and
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  with horror, in spite of all its wonderful discoveries, in spite of its
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  marvelous machinery, in spite of the enormous fortunes that had been made in it.
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  I am certain that our descendants will look back upon this age as one
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  of only partial civilization, and in fact, but little removed from savagery.
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  One of the arguments by which they will prove this will assuredly be that we
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  allowed among us this wholesale, unnecessary slaughter of innocent animals, that we actually
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  battened on it and made money out of it, and that we even created
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  a class of beings who did this dirty work for us, and that we
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  are not ashamed to profit by the result of their degradation. All of these
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  are considerations referring only to the physical plane. Now let me tell you something
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  of the occult side of all this. Up to the present I have made
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  to you many statements, strong and definite, I hope, but every one
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  of them statements which you can prove for yourself. You can read the testimony
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  of well known doctors and scientific men. You may test for yourselves the economic
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  side of the question. You may go and see, if you will,
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  how all these different types of men contrive to live so well upon vegetarian diet.
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  All that I have said hitherto is thus within your reach. But now
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  I am abandoning the field of ordinary physical reasoning and taking you up to the
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  level where you have naturally to take the word of those who have explored these
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  higher realms. Let us then turn now to the hidden side of all of
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  this, the occult. End of section nine