 Jesus of Nazareth
on the Subject of “Animals” in the
Christ-Revelation “This Is My Word”
The Church is silent but Jesus, the Christ, speaks and is revealing Himself again today. In the book This Is My Word, He reveals among many other things the eternal law of love in relation to the animals. From the many remarks, teachings and instructions about animals, I choose only a few to pass on here.
Therefore be considerate, kind, sympathetic and friendly not only to your own kind, but also to every creature which is within your care, for you are as gods to them, whom they look up to in their need. Beware of anger, for many sin in anger and repent of it when their anger is past. (p. 180)
Never slaughter an animal for your personal use. Behold, nature, the life of creation, provides for you. The fruits of the fields, of the gardens and the forests should be sufficient for you. And never trample on life intentionally, neither that of the animals nor that of the plants. The one who intentionally tramples on life creates causes. It is as if he tramples on his own life, and he will suffer from it. (p. 181)
Blessed are you in the inner circle, who hear My word and to whom the mysteries are revealed, who do not imprison or kill any innocent creature, but seek the good in all, for to such belongs eternal life. (p. 195)
Only the soul and the person who are filled with My Spirit keep what I have commanded them. People of the Spirit will not take or hold captive innocent creatures, much less kill them. The one who lives in the truth knows that infinite love operates and is active in every creature. People in the Spirit of truth live with nature and all its creatures. (p. 197)
The egocentric person, the domineering man, expects his fellow man to serve him. He also demands that an animal serve him beyond its capacity and strength. He gives orders – and does not serve. For this reason, he inflicts unspeakable torment on people and animals. If a person makes his fellow men dependent on him – as if they were slaves – he will also enslave the animals. The one who no longer listens to his conscience becomes hard-hearted towards man and animal. … Nor does he sense anymore what his neighbor and the animal need. When a person’s senses have become brutal, the whole person is poor in feeling. (p. 202)
Jesus went to Jerusalem and came upon a camel with a heavy burden of wood. The camel could not haul its load up the hill and the driver beat it and treated it cruelly, but could not get the animal to move. And as Jesus saw it, He said to him, “Why do you beat your brother?” And the man retorted, “I did not know that it is my brother. Is it not a beast of burden, made to serve me?”
And Jesus said, “Has not the same God created this animal and your children who serve you from the same material and have you not both received the same breath from God?” (p. 420)
Is it not written in the prophets: Take your blood sacrifices and your burnt offerings, and away with them. Stop eating meat; for I did not speak of this to your forefathers, nor have I commanded them to do so when I led them out of Egypt … (p. 431)
In the law of God, nothing is written about blood sacrifice nor about burnt offering, nor about the deliberate killing of animals, nor even about the consumption of the flesh of animals …
It is a law that man should practice justice and mercy and walk humbly to the Kingdom of God of the inner being, where the true and eternal home of the soul is … From the beginning, God gave man the fruits, the seeds and the plants for nourishment … (p. 433)
The one who sheds innocent blood, who consumes flesh is merciless and will have to suffer his own lack of mercy on himself. (p. 434)
Jesus came into a village and saw there a stray kitten, and it suffered from hunger and cried out to Him. And He picked it up, wrapped it in His robe and let it rest at His breast.
And when He went through the village, He gave the cat to eat and to drink. And it ate and drank and showed Him its thanks. And He gave it to one of His disciples, a widow called Lorenza, and she took care of it. (pp. 337-438)
And some of His disciples came to Him and spoke to Him about an Egyptian, a son of Belial, who taught that it is not against the law to torment animals if their suffering brings profit to people … (p. 461)
The one who hunts animals will himself be hunted one day. The one who torments animals will himself be tormented one day ...
The hands of the one who torments or kills animals are stained with blood. The one who consumes the flesh of animals, who pollutes and violates nature is impure. Such people can neither deal with holy matters nor experience the so-called “mysteries” of the heavens, nor even teach or explain the law of the heavens. (p. 462)
The so-called clergy, which speaks against nature, against love for animals, which consumes meat and fish, cannot treat holy matters nor fathom the “mysteries” of the heavens nor teach the law of heaven and interpret it. They are the blind guides, who in turn lead other blind people into the pit. They are the spiritually dead, who in turn only deal with other spiritually dead who then surround them.
And again I say to you: Anyone who seeks to possess the body of any creature for food, for pleasure or for profit thereby defiles himself. (p. 543)
For the one who does violence to man or animal and disregards life sins against the life of the person or of the animal. The same holds true for plants, stones and minerals. All forms of life bear in themselves the life from God. They sense what their neighbors intend to do with them and feel it as joy or pain. What man does to his neighbor or to a form of life falls back on him. (pp. 543-544)
“Do you not know what is written? Obedience is better than sacrifice, and to hearken is better than the fat of rams. I, the Lord, am weary of your burnt sacrifices and your vain offerings, for your hands are full of blood. And is it not written: What is the true sacrifice? Wash and cleanse yourselves and remove the evil from before My eyes; stop doing evil and learn to do good. Do justice for the fatherless and the widows and to all those who are oppressed. And in this way, you will fulfill the law. The day will come when everything that is in the outer court and is part of the blood sacrifices will be taken away, and the pure worshippers will worship the Eternal in purity and in truth.” (p. 561)
The bloodthirsty one remains blood-thirsty and seeks revenge and wants to continue to shed the blood of his neighbor … In their madness, they even consider the shedding of the blood of others to be honorable, and do not hesitate to offer animals, too, as burnt sacrifices to the Eternal. Every blood sacrifice is satanic and is a desecration of the life from God. Through such revengeful darklings, the darkness wants to ridicule God. (p. 562)
I say to you: Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, give them light in their darkness, and let the Spirit of love dwell within your heart and overflow to all people. And once more, I say to you: Love one another and all the creatures of God. (p. 801)
People who have attained higher degrees of purity will love one another and all creatures of God, as I have loved and love them. (p. 802)
Jesus, the Christ, spoke out against the regulations and behavior patterns of the priest caste that are described in the “Books of Moses” and also spoke against the instructions of ecclesiastic authorities today. Nothing, but nothing, in the teachings of Jesus suggests that He wanted to fulfill the Old Testament in the New Testament. That is only the narrow thinking of today’s priest caste. Whoever subscribes to this way of thinking has sold his freedom to the egotistical church rulers of the pagan state religion of Constantine.
The Church not only kept slaves in the past but it also does so today. Today’s slavery is much more subtle. Those who do not do as the Church demands are subject to anathema and eternally damned. The common people are afraid of this and those in the upper echelons of the state sin publicly against what the Church has hitherto condemned. For those who are great in the eyes of the Church, the Church will turn not one but two blind eyes.
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