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Episode 13 - Ghastly Unseen Results · Vegetarianism and Occultism

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  Section thirteen ghastly unseen results. The feelings of nervousness and profound depression which are
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  so common, are largely due to that awful influence which spreads over the city
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  like a plague cloud. I do not know how many thousands of creatures are
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  killed every day, but the number is very large. Remember that every one
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  of these creatures is a definite entity, not a permanent, reincarnating individuality like
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  yours or mine, but still an entity which has its life upon the astral
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  plane and persists there for a considerable time. Remember that every one of these
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  remains to pour out his feelings of indignation and horror at all the injustice and
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  torment which has been afflicted upon him. Realize for yourself the terrible atmosphere which
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  exists about those slaughter houses. Remember that a clairvoyance can see the vast hosts
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  of animal souls, that he knows how strong are their feelings of horror and
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  resentment, and how these recoil at all points upon the human race. They
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  react most of all upon those who are least able to resist them, upon
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  the children, who are more delicate and sensitive than the hardened adult. That
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  city is a terrible place in which to bring up children, a place where
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  the whole atmosphere, both physical and psychic, is charged with fumes of blood,
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  and with all that that means. I read an article only the other
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  day in which it was explained that the nauseating stench which rises from those Chicago
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  slaughter houses and settles like a fatal miasma over the city is by no means
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  the most deadly influence that comes up from that Christian hell for animals, though
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  it is the breath of certain death to many a mother's darling. The slaughter
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  houses not only a pest hole for the bodies of children, but for their
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  souls as well. Not only are the children employed in the most revolting and
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  cruel work, but the whole trend of their thoughts is directed towards killing.
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  Occasionally, one is found too sensitive to endure the sights and sounds of that
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  ceaseless, awful battle between man's cruel lust and the inalienable right of every creature
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  to its own life. I read how one boy for whom a minister had
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  secured a place in the slaughter house, returned day after day pale and sick
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  and unable to eat or sleep, and finally came to that minister of the
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  Gospel of the compassion at Christ and told him that he was willing to starve
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  if necessary, but that he could not wade in blood another day. The
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  horrors of the slaughter had so affected him that he could no longer sleep.
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  Yet this is what many a boy is doing and seeing from day to day,
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  until he becomes hardened to the taking of life. And then some day,
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  instead of cutting the throat of a lamb or a pig, he kills
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  a man, and straight away we turn our lust for slaughter upon him in
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  turn, and think that we have done justice. I read that a young
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  woman who does much philanthropic work in the neighborhood of these pest houses, declares
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  that what most impresses her about the children is that they seem to have no
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  games except games of killing. That they have no conception of any relation to
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  animals except the relation of the slaughterer to the victim. This is the education
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  which so called Christians are giving to the children of the slaughter house, a
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  daily education and murder. And then they express surprise at the number and brutality
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  of the murders in that district. Yet your Christian public goes on serenely saying
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  its prayers and singing its psalms and listening to its as if no such outrages
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  were being perpetrated against God's children, and that sinkhole of pestilence and crime.
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  Surely the habit of eating dead flesh has produced a moral apathy among us.
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  Are you doing well do you think in rearing your future citizens among surroundings of
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  such utter brutality as this? Even on the physical plane, this is a
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  terribly serious matter, and from the occult point of view, it is unfortunately
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  far more serious still, for the occultist sees the psychic result of all this,
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  sees how these forces are acting upon the people, and how they intensify
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  brutality and unscrupulousness. He sees what a center of vice and of crime you
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  have created, and how from it the infection is gradually spreading until it affects
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  the whole country and even the whole world of what is called civilized humanity.
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  The world is being affected by it any ways, which most people do not
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  in the least realize. There are constant feelings of causeless terror in the air.
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  Many of your children are unnecessarily and inexplicably afraid. They feel terror of
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  they know not what terror of the dark, or when they are alone for
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  a few moments, strong forces are playing about us for which you cannot account,
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  And you do not realize that this all comes from the fact that the
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  whole atmosphere is charged with the hostility of these murdered creatures. The stages of
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  evolution are closely interrelated, and you cannot do wholesale murder in this way upon
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  your younger brothers without feeling the effect terribly among your own innocent children. Surely
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  a better time shall come when we shall be free from this horrible blot upon
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  our civilization, this awful reproach upon our compassion and our sympathy. And when
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  that comes, we shall find presently that there will be a vast improvement in
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  these matters, and by degrees we shall all rise to a higher level and
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  be freed from all these instinctive terrors and hatreds end of Section thirteen.