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 Animals Lament –
The Prophet Denounces
Dear reader, what you will now read will oblige you to make a decision – depending on whether you have a heart for the animals: for God or for the church institutions; one cannot serve two masters.
In the name of God or in the name of the church institutions.
To the degree that people have exaggerated notions of themselves, they fail to appreciate the animals.
Many people believe that they are free people. The so-called freedom of a person, however, corresponds to his state of consciousness which is often like a wall beyond which he cannot see.
According to the cosmic laws, man is the microcosm within the macrocosm.
In our innermost being we are beings of the light, fully mature spirit beings that we people should once again become, for Jesus of Nazareth said: You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. (Mt. 5:48) The animals also bear the life of God, but in their spiritual body the forces of life, of the law, God, are not yet fully developed and active. Animals are on a lower evolutionary step in the process of growth toward the filiation of God.
On our way to becoming man, we have shadowed ourselves through unlawful sensing, feeling, thinking, speaking and acting, enveloping ourselves with a cloak of transformed-down energies and our own self-created burdens. But the connection to the eternal Being, the pure spiritual macrocosm, remains despite its weakened state. The life, God, to which we once belonged, is unity, freedom, cosmic boundlessness.
The animals, our second neighbors, cannot burden themselves. Unlike human beings, they live according to their spiritual degree of development.
Those who become aware of the cosmic realities will realize that the microcosm, man, not only lives in limitation, but whiles away his days in a dungeon that is nothing but his narrow world of desires and needs. According to the individual’s capacity to comprehend, he looks only to his limitation, which he calls “the world.”
A person speaks of “freedom” by referring to his greater or smaller possessions, which he calls his property. His “property” is his little world – and ultimately his “personality” with its opinions and notions, prejudices, envy, conceit, self-righteousness and the belittlement of others – which he desperately defends. Metaphorically, man erects thick walls of defensiveness and rejection around himself, and through the narrow embrasures he distrustfully shoots thought-energies and emotions at anyone who might contest the one thing or the other. His “free space,” his so-called “property” is restricted by him with corresponding stop signs like field markers, fences and hedges. His “property” gives him a “sense of freedom”; but this “freedom” has nothing to do with the cosmic freedom.
Animals, on the other hand, are free. The Creator left to them the entire Earth, nature, which knows no demarcations. The objection might be made that animals, especially the more highly developed living beings, mark their territory and limit themselves to a particular area. But consider the following: On the one hand, the markings of animals are messages to others of their kind. An animal’s territory is at the same time the habitat of many other species of animals. On the other hand, not all potential aptitudes from creation have developed in the spiritual animal form, that is, not all aspects of the spiritual consciousness of life, we could also say, of the divine law. The degree of unfoldment of consciousness we might call the state of consciousness. The territories and habitats of animals, including the animals in their physical bodies, correspond to their current state of consciousness, which carries within itself further evolutionary steps.
Each evolutionary step of an animal therefore corresponds to its state of consciousness, which the macrocosm, the All-Law, slowly builds up and expands in the animal. This means that each animal continues to develop according to its life cycles, which are active in the macrocosm and accompany the animal’s evolutionary steps.
God, the All-Spirit is life, and life is constant evolution. Because God is infinity, there can be no standstill, but continuous evolution. This means that infinity is constantly in motion, in never-abating evolution.
If the behavior of animals is the subject matter here, then it is a description of the fundamental, natural conditions. What is meant is the animal which is still unspoiled and not yet wrongly programmed by people. No further mention need be made in this context of the fact that in terms of energy and from the very beginning man has affected the animals, imposing upon them his own negative programs – not only directly through training, and breeding and cross-breeding, but also indirectly through his “example,” through his whole behavior, his sensing, feeling, thinking, speaking and acting.
We human beings call the animals’ state of consciousness which imposes certain limits on them “instinct.” But the state of consciousness of animals has not developed through wrong behavior, as it did in human beings. Instead, it is the natural present state of evolution, the evolutionary step, of this life form.
The negative behavior of people, on the contrary, is directed against our true consciousness and reduces this consciousness more and more. We limit ourselves though wanting to have that which we call our property, but which is only an illusion. This illusion is removed by death, because as souls we can take nothing earthly with us, neither goods, nor money nor other possessions.
Our ego, which is our little world, is our “property”; it has many variants.
Our so-called “property” might, for example, be our obsession for power, our avarice, brutality, tyranny, or delight in tormenting people and animals. Every person reacts according to what lies in the scale of his human predispositions, in his ego, which became his state of consciousness through his thinking and acting. Animals on the other hand live according to their evolutionary state, according to what is presently active in their consciousness. It is the animals’ present state of evolution or consciousness.
Man should be the image of God: love, kindness, unity, goodwill and freedom. In this consciousness, man would be one with animals and plants, with the entire nature kingdoms, including the elementary forces, the stars and planets, the cosmos, the All – and with himself. His egotistical attitude has made man discordant, perverse and unfree. Man seeks to tack onto the animals his own base behavior against nature. But the animal is free, because it is “normal” and lives according to the laws of nature, true to itself. Every animal consciously carries within itself the divine freedom, which continues to open up to it with each evolutionary step. The macrocosm guides the microcosm, the animal, in pre-determined cycles, no matter what the animal’s state of consciousness may be; this is why the animal feels free.
Man as well carries the cosmic freedom within himself. But it is covered up by the narrowness of the ego, by the world of the externalized senses, for example, and by the muddled labyrinth of thoughts that some call intelligence.
Love is the highest fount of Being. Love, which the Creator-Spirit also placed into the animals, can be recognized, for instance, in the maternal love of mammals. With how much care and consideration the cat cares for her young, or how much maternal instinct, how much tenderness and care a lioness has for her cubs, even though she might be hunting a gazelle! The cubs may climb all over her body, as much and as long as they like – the lioness remains still and is happy with the cubs’ liveliness. A blackbird as well shows her maternal feelings for a long, long time. She will feed the blackbird baby, without limitation, until it can find food itself. I am also thinking about the loyalty of animals, like horses which give themselves completely and may sacrifice their lives to carry people for miles and miles. Or the devotion of a dog which leads a blind person or tries to rescue someone buried in an avalanche.
You might object that we human beings have trained animals to perform these feats. But how come such training can succeed? Why can we train dogs as seeing-eye dogs? This is possible only because these animals and many others have an instinctive intelligence to do justice by man, to serve him. Anyone who is mindful of what the animals do for people, how they make many sacrifices in order to serve and help them, should be filled with gratitude. But all those who have fallen victim to the desires of their ego will merely use people and animals for their purposes. Whether they can be considered the image of God, must be placed in doubt.
In every animal, but in every plant as well, the mighty creator-force is present: God, the omnipresent universal eternal Spirit, the All-intelligence. Anyone who has a heart for nature may sense in the expression of an animal, or in the beauty of a plant, in the shape of a rock, or in liquid substances that Earth could be a paradise.
To justify the boundless exploitation of nature, the following words of the Creator are often quoted: Subdue the earth (Gen. 1:28). The word “subdue,” however does not mean that animals may be tormented, forests and plants annihilated, or that everything may be destroyed that is within mankind’s grasp. The word “subdue” means the commandment of preserving the nature kingdoms and the entire Earth. We are called upon to treat animals with love and to care for them. We are called upon to respect, cherish and love all life forms on Earth, even Earth as a whole, because everything in all things is the work of the Almighty – the love for mankind, animals, plants and rocks, for the entire Earth.
Anyone who has ever cared for an animal feels that he has grown internally richer and more conscious of nature. But anyone who builds meat factories and slaughterhouses, or who condones these by consuming the flesh of his second neighbors, such a person’s consciousness will grow more and more narrow because such a person is impoverished in his inner being.
Everything that we do out of egotism will take its revenge on us according to the law: Whatever a person sows is what he will reap. God is love. Out of love for us human beings, God gave us the Earth, the Mother, who nourishes us. Those who meet the Earth with love, that is, selflessly and with devotion and care, will receive in plenty and therefore will reap in plenty.
Feasting at St. Andrews:
Were people to understand the language of animals, they would hear, for instance, the lamentations of the pigs that were executed in the slaughterhouse for the renovation of the “St. Andrews” chapel. Their lamentation, which expresses their sorrow, could be the following: Why are you not content to ask for donations from the heart for your chapel? Why do you kill us for the renovation of your house of God?
What would the priest of the chapel reply to the animals, if he could understand them, who are repeating the following: Why are you not content to ask for donations from the heart for your chapel? Why do you kill us for the renovation of your house of God?
The heartlessness and unpredictability of human beings is our fear. We are terrified of the cruel two-legged man.
The prophet denounces:
The church authorities of “St. Andrews” sent out invitations for the barbecue feast which will take place after the church service. There will be blood and liver sausages, cabbage soup, barbecued fresh-killed pork and beer. Many will think: That is not unusual – it is what people are used to. Killing is permissible, both of people and of animals.
The one with a heart will consider. The blood sacrifice of pigs is made for the renovation of the chapel. On the one hand, the blood and cries of fear of the animals, who sense for what purpose they are being killed, will cling to the chapel “St. Andrews,” and on the other hand, the seasoned and prepared flesh, steeped in death-fright, is absorbed in the intestines of the believers. This means that the murderous death of the animals permeates both chapel and believers. They may be called spiritually dead, because whoever promotes such a thing for the renovation of a “house of God” can only be seen as spiritually dead.
They are truly great examples, the church leaders of “St. Andrews” and their believers. The church leaders have animals killed rather than simply asking for funds from the faithful to renovate their chapel. The culinary qualities of pigs apparently raises more money than the request for gifts from the heart for the chapel. The hearts of church leaders and of believers has been left behind. The pigs’ hearts bring in more money.
The animals lament:
Their eyes are broken by suffering, pain and fright. They sense why they are being held. Their gazes accuse human beings.
Why do you kill us? Why do you cook, fry and cut up our body? Did the Creator not give you the herbs and the fruits of the fields and forests? What have we done to you that you keep us in prisons and feed us your waste products?
Your hearts are poor in feeling and merciless. A stone contains life; but your hearts are made of stone by comparison. In your breasts there beats only a muscle for yourself and your welfare. Learn to be compassionate by putting yourself in our position. Even though we are animals, we live and feel, like you do, for life is feeling, sensing and perceiving. We perceive the purpose of your keeping animals.
The prophet denounces:
Man has become a brute, heartlessly butchering, tearing down and locking up everything that may serve his heartless avarice. He forgets that one day he, too, will live in the tightest and filthiest space or even in prison – for what a person sows, he will reap. The crimes against animals are the same as crimes against man, because man and animals have the same breath, which is the life, and it is God. The keeping of economically useful animals is like wanton killing. It is a sin against life, that is God.
The animal laments:
Why all this? Why do you torture me? Why do you want to train me for dogfights? I am the Creator’s creature, not an animal for the sake of your wantonness, for the sake of your games. My whole body aches, my muscles and bones are about to burst – pain, pain everywhere. Why all this, what have I done to you?
The prophet denounces:
Man, the murderous bull, has bred himself a “bull-terrier” to train for dogfights so that over-satiated, sensation-lusting people can be amused by dogfights. The many sad pictures, each and every one, all symbolize the execution of the person according to the law of sowing and reaping.
Jesus said: As you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me. (Mt. 25:40) Not only people are among His brethren, but also our fellow creatures, the animals, our animal brothers and sisters, because they also, like people, were given the life by God. What people do to fellow humans or animals, they do to Christ.
People intrude in the omnipotence of God and torment the animal world. This means that all those who torture animals, train them, or let them run on a treadmill like the dog-brother in the picture, will one day suffer the same or similar things on their own bodies.
Do not complain, you heartless, cruel tormentors of animals, when one day you will be chased for miles, as if hunted through the desert, when you will be attacked and torn apart by an animal that you have trained to tear apart its kind. Do not complain when your limbs ache and your body is covered with wounds and pustules. Do not complain when your fellow men have no compassion for you because they treat you as you have treated and treat the animals. Do not accuse God; you have caused it; you suffer as you have made people and animals to suffer.
The animal lamented,
before it was forced to run in the murderous military horserace. I do not have the strength to go through what you people are demanding of me. I do not have the bones or muscles in my body to sustain this!
Have mercy! The Creator of all beings has entrusted us animals to you so that you may give us the love which the Creator also breathed into you. Where has the compassionate love for your fellow creatures gone? Have you traded love and compassion for cruelty, brutality and murder?
I go to an early death because of your murderous behavior. How will you end one day and where will you be one day when life has passed from you, the human being?
The prophet denounces:
Where will all those be one day who have ridden an animal to death in such a manner? When and how will they meet death on the racetrack of their lives? According to the law of cause and effect, those who have produced such causes will have to feel the pain of the animals in their own body or on the body of their soul after their physical death. All our actions, preceded by our thoughts and desires, are recorded in our soul and in the cells of our body.
Do not be surprised, you fellow men, when your back is broken for no apparent reason. Do not be surprised, and do not accuse God, when you suffer a complicated fractured leg that will not heal. Do not be surprised when, as souls, you are hunted by the world of your desires just as you rode animals to death. Do not be surprised when, as human beings or as souls, you have to suffer and bear the pain of those whom you have tormented, chased and murdered, whether they were animals or humans. Do not be surprised and do not accuse God, or human beings, or animals – you yourself are the accused, for it is only the seed sprouting in your body and in your soul, which you have sown yourself.
And if you should call upon God’s mercy and compassion, then remember the Our Father, which you prayed from time to time. There it says: … and forgive us our debt as we forgive our debtors. But if the person does not achieve forgiveness, because he does not feel remorse for his cruelty, what will be his lot? Only what he has sown. God’s mercy and compassion can be received only by those who are remorseful and ask for forgiveness and no longer do the same or similar things. Those who believe that they suffer innocently will remain in their suffering, even as a soul after death.
The animals lament:
I do not accuse my fellow creatures who have hurt my coat of feathers. Desperation and suffering and the confinement of the cages drive every animal to vie for more space. It is deceptive. When one or the other fellow creature turns around, it seems as if there were more space.
Our life is nature. The life of nature gives us our food. We do not want your ghastly feed that is all doped-up to put on more weight, and for your craving for profit. We want to move freely under the open sky and eat – not devour – what nature gives us.
Do you human beings not know that whatever you do to us will come back to you? The Creator, who is the life and whose creatures we all are, has not arranged for you to treat us like this. Who called upon you to do so?
The prophet denounces:
Who has called on us people to commit such and similar atrocities? The Creator of infinity has not issued such a commandment, but Satan has. Evil crept into the heart and the senses of human beings. It is the Satan of the senses, who wants to torment and murderously kill God’s creation. For this purpose he uses heartless people who are like him, and their number is increasing. Because whoever no longer has a conscience also has no heart for people or animals.
When one day, the seeds they have sown sprout for such persons, the “master” of torment will let them fall. Then the “master” will no longer supply the orgies for the taste buds, the intoxication of gluttony and the sexual lust that has been enticed in exchange and as reward for further negativities. He, the Satan, the evil, uses people only as long as they are of service to his designs. Once the seed that was sown sprouts in such a person, he has become useless and worthless to evil. Then he sinks into oblivion.
Do not complain, you human beings, when it is with you as has been with the many animals you have tormented and treated murderously. Do not be surprised when your body is overrun by boils and pustules. Do not be surprised when others show you no mercy. Do not be surprised when your clothing is torn from your body and you are violated. Did you not have the feathers plucked for you? Did you not have the cockerel killed and barbecued? Did you not tear the thighs from their dead, barbecued bodies and eat them, even noisily devour them? The question is, who eats, and who devours? Is “devouring” innate to animals or to human beings who think they personify higher values than animals do?
Dear fellow brothers and sisters, take time to watch a horse, a cow or a donkey as it grazes in the pasture. And then watch in the mirror as you tear the legs from the roasted bodies of ducks, geese, or barbecued chickens, and see whether you eat or “devour”? Whose ethics and morals are higher when it comes to eating or devouring – those of people or animals?
Who may claim in face of these facts that people are ethically or morally superior to animals? In view of these excesses, who has a higher quality of life, the obese human beings who “eat” the carcasses of their fellow creatures, or the animals who must be sacrificed in stables, slaughterhouses, grills, and frying pans for the pleasure and corpulence of “ethically-morally high-standing” human beings?
The animals lament:
Why, why these cruel deeds? Has the spirit of nature, the Creator-Spirit, taught you people this? We suffer in unspeakable agony, for who wants to be butchered or even hung yet living by the legs? When will human beings understand that we feel and because of this, suffer? You only ascribe instinct to us. But instinct also is a part of perception. We perceive what you do to us and who or what approaches us. It is not without knowing why that we flee from people. We instinctively perceive who the person is and what many of them intend.
The prophet denounces:
These turkeys are alive when they are hung by the legs. Dear fellow humans, to test how these your fellow creatures may feel, hang from the beams of your attic. You can see how it is for you and what you feel before unconsciousness sets in. If you then still want to eat the meat of turkeys and other fowl, do not call yourself a human being anymore, but a perverse two-legged animal of prey.
Now some may object by saying that human beings are in the image of God and not perverse two-legged animals of prey. One possible answer might be: Many of these “images of God” have subscribed to evil which has no purpose but to torment and kill God’s creatures and to alter animals and plants through cross-breeding. The so-called image of God, the human being, permitted himself to be changed by evil, so that the image of God became the image of evil, in the face of whom animals flee and plants turn away.
In the long run, evil will not prevail because the core of good remains, even in the evil. Good will overcome evil – even if it is only after a person has tasted his evil seed, for many earth lives, after wading through it, so to speak, to realize that he should become the image of God that he is deep in his soul, in the very basis of his soul. The one who realizes that he is the image of God will begin to love animals, plants and minerals, too; and then the Earth will sigh in relief.
The animals lament:
I am not a dumb goose, whatever they say about me. The spirit of nature equipped me with intelligence. I sense instinctively what happens to me. Often my kind is only “kept” to be slaughtered for the feeding trough of human beings. We animals ask time and again: Why do you humans torment your fellow creatures? Has evil entered into all the hearts of human beings? We animals also want to live our lives just as every person wants to.
You people receive many gifts from nature, through the entire year. Why do you have to fatten up geese, to eat their liver as liver pâté?
The cruelty of mankind is our lot. We do not fear death when our life is fulfilled and draws toward another existence. It is our terror to be killed indifferently and coldly by our fellow creatures, the human beings, who should preserve the Earth and love all that the Earth bears. We animals, your fellow creatures, want to meet you as friends, like brothers and sisters, so to speak. And you? We have done nothing to you. Why do you do this to us?
The prophet denounces:
Animals have done no harm to people. Why do people cause animals such unspeakable suffering? Most people today no longer have guiding examples. The church dignitaries, who ought to be examples of ethics and morality, became heinous and slid down the slippery slide of the ego. On Christmas, for example, they bless their faithful with goose liver in their bellies. They speak of exercising moderation in keeping animals, in slaughtering animals, but any measure is already too much when an animal suffers; then one cannot speak of exercising moderation. Who wants to justify the “moderation,” the suffering animal, before his Creator? The dignitary or the “Books of Moses”?
The “Books of Moses” contain in large part not the word of God through Moses, but cruel instructions of the priest caste of that time, who falsely attributed their excesses, their pagan rites to Moses. The bloodthirsty notions of the priest caste of that time are outdone by far by the notions of people today, including their examples, the ecclesiastic dignitaries. What ecclesiastic authorities revealed in their teachings and instructions, the catechism, exceeds in practice the measure of cruelty found in the Old Testament. The Old Testament, the Catholic Catechism teaches us, is fulfilled in the New; the Old Testament sheds light on the New, and the other way around. However, no person of character could imagine that shedding light could be so dark, of such gloom.
The animal laments:
You have implanted death into me, misery and ever greater misery, affliction, ever greater affliction, pain, pain and unbearable agony. What do you get from this? Do you humans not hear? Do you not see? Do you not feel? You humans, put yourself in my place; feel into me. I am not alone in my fate. Millions of rats and mice cry out with me. Do you not hear the crying, the screaming, the wailing, the pain of your animal brothers and sisters?
What will be your lament one day?
Remember that cruelty will bring people who are cruel nothing but cruelty in return. I am frightened by people with hard hearts.
Now you use my abused, skinned, dead body for your “research” to prove what you have thought up. What will the result of your life be?
The prophet denounces:
People should be the image of God. A large part of mankind has become the image of its fate, for the torment and suffering of the second neighbor, the animal, becomes the agony, the suffering and the often cruel deaths of people.
Those who have no conscience are spiritually dead. Their hearts have become unfeeling, deaf, and apathetic toward the life that is, in truth, a part of every person. The scales of life weigh very precisely and they weigh justly. Tomorrow, what will be the fate of the killers and tormenters of animals?
What drives people to act so inhumanely? Do people believe that cruelty will bear good fruit? Those who think that fame and honor in research will bring lasting benefit to their soul are deceiving themselves. Perhaps today the famous scientist will receive a doctorate degree, but tomorrow a black shroud – black as his soul has become.
Many have “sacrificed” the warmth of the heart to “science.” But if it were their own little kitten or lap dog that should be sacrificed for science, what would the “owners” say? They would certainly be outraged, because you cannot do that to these animals. Those who believe that the feelings of all animals are different from those of the kitten and the lap dog have left their hearts by the wayside for the sake of their self-centeredness.
Let us finally realize that every person will reap his fruit and will be forced to eat it as well. For many, it will be very, very bitter fruit.
The animal laments:
Do you human beings think that we do not sense what is about to happen to us when you cram us into wagons to take us to the slaughterhouse? Do you know the horror, the fright, the panic of that which surpasses all comprehension? Do you people think at all when you see an animal transport? Do you still feel at all what it means to be delivered into the hands of super-powerful domineering people in order to be killed?
Many people have become harbingers of horror, with brutal violence, coldness and mercilessness glittering in their eyes. We are afraid of those who ought to love the Earth and everything it bears – the life. What all will people perpetrate for a piece of meat? What is it like to consume my battered body for a meal? Have you no feeling at all? Do you not know that you are eating part of an animal that was tormented and tortured to death, that was forced by you to become an animal carcass, so that you could be delighted at a meal, with a hearty appetite and the urgings of the body to savor its taste? To your health!
You also consume all that still clings to the seasoned and well-prepared meat, for instance, fright, panic, suffering and pain. Whatever enters you will settle in your body. Someday our fright will be your fright, our suffering will be your suffering. You will someday feel what panic means. Perhaps then one or the other tormentor and killer of animals will understand what he today dismisses as mere objects.
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