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Dear Friends all over the world,
you have a Gabriele Letter in your hand and are surely asking yourself: Where are the others? – They will reach you one after the other.
The Gabriele Letters are meant to make alert people aware of how weak in character and schizophrenic our society has become and that the majority of people, thoughtlessly and with dulled senses, accept everything that the upper ranks of society prescribe. Unfortunately, few people practice self-criticism. This is why they cannot view their environment critically and see through those who are literally pulling the wool over their eyes.
The Gabriele Letters do not want to influence any person – they stimulate a
person to find himself and then to evaluate what he finds, so that the one who
views the doings in this world with more alert eyes can give his life an
orientation.
Please do not shrug your shoulders too soon; do not, in a way that is resigned
and accepting of your fate, join in the gloomy laments of submissive
subordinates with the argument: “We can’t change anything, anyway.”
It is true that no one can change another. However, the individual does not have to remain naive. Everyone can start with himself, to question his deep-rooted thought patterns, to put an end to traditional, pagan customs, thus contributing that ever more people awaken, so that ultimately things will go better for Mother Earth and her plants and animals, which have been violated by human beings.
It is Advent. Once more, Christmas is drawing near, that church celebration that
takes place with the greatest extravagance and fuss by everyone, whether
church-oriented or not. So, let us take a closer look at the traditional
Christmas celebration and the time of Advent.
The church institutions place great value on tradition. In the German edition of
Bertlemann’s Hand Encyclopedia, we read the following about tradition:
“Religion: for many religions the oral or written foundation is the basis of
their teachings. In Catholicism, oral tradition and the Bible are considered a
common source of divine revelation. The Protestant Lutheran Churches consider
tradition to be merely a collection of sources in addition to the Bible.
The basic teachings of the Catholic Church are predominately its dogmas and
customs.”
In the encyclopedia we read: “In Catholicism, oral tradition and the Bible are
considered a common source of divine revelation.” To think about this in detail
would be a waste of time. But we know that for many churches, the Bible is
merely a book for show, where it is read from, but which contents and statements
ecclesiastic “dignitaries” do not live according to. So why should the faithful
keep to it?
The churches consist of tradition and custom. The cloak, or guise, that they
drape over these is then called “Christian” and “Biblical.”
Advent and Christmas have become traditional pagan customs. The Christian western world, which has sunk into a Christmas frenzy, into an intoxication of gifts, glitter and tinsel, has forgotten that unique event that happened 2000 years ago: the birth of the Son of God into a human body. The Son of God came to us humans. Today, however, Advent and Christmas no longer have anything to do with the coming of the Lord and His teachings. The church “flock of Christians,” which has become dull and apathetic, celebrates a traditionally ecclesiastical pagan feast, whose roots can be found in the belief in the gods of times past.
But only the fewest want to be reminded of this. For it is all so nicely festive
and sentimental. After all, it is a family celebration!
It would be nice if it were the celebration of an intact family; especially
since the family of Joseph and Mary symbolize a truly peaceable family. Any yet,
how is it in many traditional families today? Perhaps – but only perhaps – one
feigns a perfect world for a few hours, especially when eating together the
turkey, the goose, the duck or a piece of venison, a roast of wild pig, a cod
fish or some other kind of meat delicacy. But while unwrapping the presents,
things already begin to “crackle.” Nothing against presents – as long as they
come from the heart and the “good luck charm” of happy expectation does not
already hang over the present.
Millions of animals are slaughtered on the altar of ecclesiastical tradition for
the “holy” feasts, in order to observe, at best, for three to four hours, the
sentimental pretense of a sense of family. After all, it is “Christmas.”
Christmas is no longer the celebration of the birth of the Lord, of the Christ of God, into the temporal. It is no longer the family celebration to commemorate Mary and Joseph, but it is the worship of the church’s sun god who has draped the cloak of “Christian” about himself – it is the same one the Catholic Church personifies by its “Holy Father” in Rome and the Protestant-Lutheran Church worships in the “shrine” of Luther.
The sun god is a male divinity, which the people of early times revered in the
sun very naturally and as a matter of fact. Today the churches have established
a symbolic figure, to whom one should bring sacrifices, and at that, not only by
offering oneself in faithful devotion, but also in the form of church taxes, and
on top of it, by slaughtering countless animals.
In earlier times, the animals were sacrificed to the gods to make them kind and
friendly or “as a pleasing odor for the Lord,” as it says in Moses, or: “... and
you shall slaughter the ram, and shall take its blood and dash it against all
sides of the altar! Then you shall cut the ram into its parts, and wash its
entrails and its legs, and put them with its parts and its head, and turn the
whole ram into smoke on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the Lord; it is a
pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the Lord.” (Exodus 29:16-18)
In the old days, only the priests were allowed to feast on select portions of
the slaughtered creatures of God – today the respective “sun god” allows his
faithful to consume the carcass pieces themselves that are days old and have
been hung up to age. This is the Christmas celebration of the “Christians.”
Many an innocent trusting one could now again point out that it is a celebration
of the family which enjoys the particular protection of the state. For me, this
brings out the following picture:
It is correct that the family be protected by the state. A child should be born
of marriage and into a family. The father and mother should look after the child
or children and bring them up with love and care, similar to the family of Mary
and Joseph. Therefore, it is good that the family is justly protected by the
state. But if we think of the wars all over the world, this fact, like so many
others, is a paradox. In war, the fathers are called up and sacrificed for a
particular matter or asset, perhaps even for the oil of a country. The family is
broken, for instance, by the death of the father, and the mother and children
then have to get along on their own. When the main family provider is missing,
the mother is forced to work more for their support. She is then often so
overburdened that the children are largely left to fend for themselves. What
does this have to do with family spirit and the protection of family? And in the
event of an imminent war, where is the word of authority on the part of the
church institutions for preserving the family, when they so vehemently take a
stand for life not yet born, opposing every kind of abortion of a developing
life?
Anyone who looks into this world with alert senses knows that perversion is not
unlimited, but it is worldwide. Mother Earth is also suffering under this
perverted society, and animals, in particular, are suffering. Why should the
animals be the ones who have to suffer for every celebration? It’s very clear:
The animals, unlike the majority of people, have never allowed, nor will they
ever allow themselves to be indoctrinated. The animals did not become Catholic
or Lutheran; they don’t belong to any kind of church institution – they remain
faithful to the true God.
This is an abomination to the so-called sun gods. Either one sacrifices oneself
to pagan custom or one loses and remains without rights, like, for example, the
animals. They are creatures without rights, which are hunted in the woods and
raised in the fattening factories as meat commodities. And so, the pagan gods
demand their tribute, and the people sacrifice themselves by remaining
“faithful,” that is, by continuing to support the power position of the
sham-Christian institutions, by continuing to busily pay contributions (in
Germany these are taxes) into the more than bulging moneybags of the churches
and sacrificing the animal world without rights, by having them shot down and
slaughtered for the benefit of custom, of tradition, and for the benefit of
those who profit from this.
None of this has anything to do with Jesus, the Christ.
Christmas is thus purely pagan.
I would like to give you an example from hunting. At a grain farm, which lies
outside of the villages and towns, imbedded in woods and fields, once a week, if
not more often, grain is picked up by large grain trucks. From grain silos, it
is loaded into the trucks and in this process, some grain falls to the ground
and remains lying there. The wild pigs, which are often much cleverer than many
humans, have noticed this. Their hunger – for it is autumn and wintertime –
drives them to the farm and to the farmers. They retrieve the grain lying on the
ground. The farmers who work this farm see the hungry animals. For them, it is
clear they should leave for the animals the grain that was not taken by the
trucks. Aside from the wild pigs, the chickens are also interested in the grain.
They peck and take what they need. And so, the grain on the ground finds its
takers. The wild pigs see that these farmers do not chase them away. After all,
the animals are hungry.
During the time of Advent, the so-called time of love, the following took place:
These wild pigs no longer felt any “hunting pressure.” They became approachable.
Speaking from a spiritual point of view, they felt the unity between humans and
animals. Because animals are creatures of God and sense peace and unity as a
part of the divine inner life, they even did not run from people taking walks.
For the hunters of this area, who I assume are Catholic and Lutheran, this is a
dangerous matter. Wild animals, so it is said, are normal animals only when they
flee from people. This is perverse: If one cannot say they have swine fever,
which, please note, comes solely from the barns of factory farming, then one
says they are dangerous because they are supposedly acting tame. Then the motto
is: One has to hunt them; they should fear people and flee from them.
What is one of the many facts behind this? The hunters want the animals in hunting stress, because only then is shooting down the animals any fun. And so, they have to be chased until they are half dead, so that the Catholic or Lutheran hunter gets his thrill. “Killed” is then triumphantly called “good hunting.” And those who consume the carcass pieces of such a hunted animal convey the “hunter’s thanks” as they chew with great relish. Rabbits, deer and almost everything that moves in the woods and fields experience the same fate. This is Advent and Christmastime.
Dear friends, perhaps you have difficulty with the logic of this? That is not
surprising. Much of what we humans think and have as behavior patterns turns out
to be absurd when we finally begin to question what has become all too habitual
in us. A hunter could do this as well, insofar as he still has any pangs of
conscience. It is merely a question of whether he wants to.
In many cases, tradition serves as justification for many a thing which, when
looked at in the light, that is, when critically questioned, proves to be an
atrocity. And hunting has a long tradition...
Consequently, hunting is a “necessity” sanctioned by the state. It is said that
hunting must be done. It is called “care and protection.” The “care” is given by
the person who clears away the carrion like the fox does. The person then calls
it a delicious gourmet roast.
It is similar with all poultry, with all the animals that are fattened in the
barns of factory farming. The words “fattened in the barns” say it all. The
animals are kept in the most cramped quarters imaginable, so that their
slaughtering weight is not reduced by a lot of unnecessary movement. They are
fed a food that is unnaturally concentrated and rich in calories – clearly,
simply a “fattening feed.” On top of this, certain additives, cleverly devised
chemical substances, see to it that the body of the animal does not convert the
food primarily into fatty tissue, but into muscle, which later, when the animals
are dead, becomes the meat, the cutlet, the roast and the sausage. Since pale
meat is especially favored, the barns are kept as dark as possible.
In order to make the animal carcass pieces tasty, they are roasted, braised,
fried or simmered and seasoned from without, with spices of all kinds. Of
course, what the animal-carcass-lovers eat along with the meat are the chemical
ingredients mentioned before, the medications – hormones, anabolics, antibiotics
and many others – which the animal, while still living, stored in his flesh, as
well as the deposits that cannot be shown to exist chemically, but which are
energetically and specifically present as well: the precipitate produced by
fear, panic, aggression, dread, sadness, pain and suffering. All this is a
negative energy potential, which is active and has its effect in the one who
incorporates them into himself by eating meat.
Thus, the animals for slaughter are fattened before they are killed with the
underhanded tool that is called a gun, pistol, bolt-shot, slaughtering knife or
whatever, that is, they are transformed into animal carcasses; for only as such
do they bring the desired profit and the customary pleasures of the palate.
All of this is for the benefit of the “peaceable people” at Christmastime.
Joyfully ring the “bells,” the cash registers, into which the euphoric
meat-eater gives his money, in order to enjoy a feast of roast of animal
carcass. Bon appetite to a silent, holy night!
Now one could comment that there are predatory animals on the Earth, too, which
hunt and consume, that is, devour, animals, as it is called in the common
language of most people. We can ask ourselves how many other animals does a
predatory animal kill for itself in one year by using force, because it is
hungry? And how many creatures of God, how many animals – which are really the
little brothers and sisters of humans – are killed year after year by humans
without particular effort, and in simple ways made easier by ever more
technically advanced instruments of murder, often like piece-work on a conveyor
belt?
And how many people have long since lost their natural feeling for moderation in
eating their food, including and especially concerning eating meat?! The
so-called predatory animal never eats more than is good for it. It kills prey to
feed itself and its family. It has to run and fight for its prey, thus exposing
itself to many dangers.
No animal is created by God as a predatory animal. How it came to be a predatory
animal, we will discuss in another letter.
Hunters do not run after prey and do not expose themselves to danger.
Underhandedly, they take cover, either on a so-called shooting stand or in a
safe hiding place. They have their gun, enabling them to leisurely shoot the
animal, sometimes with immediate death, but unfortunately, mostly with delayed
death, which, for the poor creature, brings incredibly great suffering, pain,
fear and desperation.
Or they set traps, in which many animals unexpectedly get caught until, badly
injured and perhaps only after many hours, they die a horrible death, or until
finally, a brave hunter beats, stabs or shoots them as a “good sportsman”
should.
Many hunters even put feed out very close to their shooting stand – it is called
“bait” – in order to lure the hungry animals, so that they don’t have to exert
themselves too much when shooting the animal down.
As mentioned before, a predatory animal has to fight for its prey. How many
animals fall victim to hunters worldwide, how many in comparison to those that
fall to the so-called predatory animals? One is completely justified in saying
that the greatest, most unpredictable and wildest predators are humans! Using
rifle, pistol, bolt-shot, slaughtering knife and other things, they slaughter
millions upon millions of animals. They do not hunt their prey by physical
exertion, and certainly not by endangering their lives, nor by fighting, but
solely by underhandedly killing with a weapon.
That the hunter also includes dogs in his cruel and bloody business, that are
specially trained for this purpose – that is, forcefully programmed and thus
estranged from their true nature, misused for murderous doings – hardly anybody
in the honorable hunting society will feel paticularly burdened by this.
Presumably they know too little about the law of cause and effect. But quite a
few hunters, namely those who are pastors and priests, should certainly know the
statement in their Bible, in the Letter to the Galations (6:7): “Do not be
deceived; God is not to be mocked, for you reap whatever you sow.”
Hunting is apparently not in contradiction to the teachings of the “Christian”
churches. On the contrary, they hold masses in honor of St. Hubertus (the patron
saint of hunting) and publicly bless all the dead animal bodies laid out before
the hunters.
The motto of the Catholic and Lutheran hunters is: Hunting must be. So-called
“care and protection” must be taken, otherwise the animals will take over and
there would be too many. But no one asks why there would be too many.
For one, people have taken the land from the animals, their homeland. They
multiply in proportion to the land that is their due. The Creator does not say:
Because people have taken the land from the animals, I will reduce their
birthrate. The animals produce as many young as the land can support without the
human theft of land. Today, perhaps somewhat more young are born, but this, in
turn, can be traced back to the behavior of humans. The farmers, for instance,
who spray artificial odors made especially to stimulate reproduction, so that
the production of animals, that is, of meat, increases in the fattening barns of
factory farming. What is carried into the surrounding area via the air, via
liquid and solid manure, is then absorbed by the animals of the forests and
fields.
Of course, the “ hunting dialect” has another explanation for the noticeably
strong population increase of the wild pigs, for example. They say this is
related to the profusion of acorns and the mild climate. In “ hunter dialect,”
it is said that in severe winters young and weak animals starve. But who is to
blame for the present climatic changes – man or animal? One sooner counts on the
increasing severity of winters – which is ever more improbable – so that as many
animals as possible starve, rather than giving the animals land and food.
Without pangs of conscience, their breath is taken from the animals, which,
after all, have no rights. More and more are shot down, because the climate is
changing and the long, severe winters do not come. Those without rights, the
wild animals, whose homeland was taken from them, and the animals that are
crammed into fattening barns and serve the arbitrary production of meat are the
ones that suffer. Who thinks about this, anyway? After all, it is “Merry
Christmas” everywhere!
On Christmas Day the annual slogans are voiced. They are called “Christmas
speeches.” Before Christmastime there’s not much notice of this. But whoever
concerns himself much with politics and politicians soon notices how much they
“love” each other. The “Christian” political parties and all those who belong to
the Catholic and Lutheran clans have their own particular language of love. They
attribute to themselves everything that is a part of their special “Christian
ethics and morals.” Anyone who listens closely can hear that both parties have
no “Christian” concept at all.
The past “fat years” have not changed the validity of what F. M. Dostoevsky
wrote in his famous story “The Great Inquisitor.” Many people still have good
hopes that the mighty church institutions and politicians will find a way out,
so that the paradise of the “western world” will continue to make one “mentally”
and “physically” satiated. But the satiation has become over-acid and
over-satiating – and now the “lean years” are creeping up on us. Even though the
spirit of the times is gnawing on their purses, the majority of people have not
yet awakened. They continue to be subservient, believers of authority, lazy and
simple-minded. The hawks exploit this. They have consistently pushed through the
system of power and domination that Dostoevsky outlined. I quote the “Great
Inquisitor”:
“And then we shall finish building their tower [of Babel], for he finishes the
building who feeds them. And we alone shall feed them in Thy name, declaring
falsely that it is in Thy name. Oh, never, never can they feed themselves
without us! No science will give them bread so long as they remain free. In the
end they will lay their freedom at our feet, and say to us, “Make us your
slaves, but feed us.” They will understand themselves, at last, that freedom and
bread enough for all are inconceivable together, for never, never will they be
able to share between them! They will be convinced too, that they can never be
free, for they are weak, vicious, worthless and rebellious.
Thou didst promise them the bread of Heaven, but, I repeat again, can it compare
with earthly bread in the eyes of the weak, ever sinful and ignoble race of man?
And if for the sake of the bread of Heaven thousands and tens of thousands shall
follow Thee, what is to become of the millions and tens of thousands of millions
of creatures who will not have the strength to forego the earthly bread for the
sake of the heavenly? Or dost Thou care only for the tens of thousands of the
great and strong, while the millions, numerous as the sands of the sea, who are
weak but love Thee, must exist only for the sake of the great and strong? No, we
are for the weak too. They are sinful and rebellious, but in the end they too
will become obedient. They will marvel at us and look on us as gods, because we
are ready to endure the freedom which they have found so dreadful to rule over
them – so awful it will seem to them to be free. But we shall tell them that we
are Thy servants and rule them in Thy name. We shall deceive them again, for we
will not let Thee come to us again.”
Dear friends, don’t go into opposition right away when you have read the statement from Dostoevsky. Opposition reminds me so much of the opposition of a Christian political party, which rejects everything but has no concept itself, no way out of the economic dilemma, to say nothing of the decline of all ethical and moral values that can be seen everywhere.
In the following I quote a song by Reinhard Mey, in which he calls his fellow man to be alert, to become aware of their own standards and values, to look and listen to things closely, in order to judge the phrases himself, which are served up to us by politicians, economists and not lastly, preached by the church institutions, especially on holidays like Christmas and Easter.
“Be alert,
an election poster, torn, lying on the wet grass –
They leer at me, the old soggy phrases,
senile faces made to look young,
that glorify the Medieval as progress...
See how they urge the people to prudence and sacrifice!
They call them the ‘people’ and mean the subjects.
All that sticky old slime we can bear no more.
Learn to translate what they really mean:
The minister takes the bishop aside and whispers:
You keep them stupid and I’ll keep them poor!
Be alert,
impress the words upon your mind!
Be alert,
and don’t fall for them!
Be sure to use your freedom well;
Freedom gets worn out with lack of use!
Be alert,
and note the faces well!
Be alert,
and preserve your courage, too.
Be alert,
and above all, be on your guard!
You switch on the TV – they lament the good, old values.
Their good, old values are almost always the wrong ones.
And those who shout so loudly in the talk shows,
are those who trample all the good values:
The media mogul and the newspaper czar,
the worst goats as gardeners, how great!
They call for the crucifix, for customs and good manners...
They call them the ‘people’ and mean the subjects.
All that sticky old slime we can bear no more.
Learn to translate what they really mean:
The minister takes the bishop aside and whispers:
You keep them stupid and I’ll keep them poor!
Be alert,
impress the words upon your mind!
Be alert,
and don’t fall for them!
Be sure to use your freedom well;
Freedom gets worn out with lack of use!
Be alert,
and note the faces well!
Be alert,
and preserve your courage, too.
Be alert,
and above all, be on your guard!
You switch on the TV – they lament the good, old values.
Their good, old values are almost always the wrong ones.
And those who shout so loudly in the talk shows,
are those who trample all the good values:
The media mogul and the newspaper czar,
the worst goats as gardeners, how great!
They call for the crucifix, for customs and good manners...
But tell the truth, and it’s no laughing matter...
Tell the truth but leave the motor running!
Tell it loud and quick, for as the saying goes:
He who tells the truth needs a mighty quick horse!
Be alert,
impress the words on your mind!
Be alert,
and don’t fall for them!
Be sure to use your freedom well;
Freedom gets worn out with lack of use!
Be alert,
and note the faces well!
Be alert,
and preserve your courage, too.
Be alert,
and above all, be on your guard!
Dear friends, be alert, and especially at this time when pagan rituals cover up the truth about Jesus, the Christ, ask yourself: Do you want to be true Christians, to celebrate Christmas in the spirit of the family of Mary and Joseph – or to participate in the deceptive intoxication of rituals, whose continued survival, considering the present economic situation, cannot last for very long?
The Earth with its disasters and wars will shake many a one awake, who today still believes that he can slumber in the bosom of politics and church.
Dear friends, I wish each of you a Christmas in the spirit of the family of Joseph and Mary – the Inner Christmas, the turning within into the stillness of the heart, which lets us feel and experience that we are not alone. The power of God, the light of our Redeemer, Christ, is present in us at every moment. Inner devotion to Christ means a conscious life in being watchful over ourselves. In this way, we gain confidence, stability and vigor and an overview as well, for the demands of daily life.
Christmas is also the celebration of peace. Let us all wish each other the peace of the heart, which means unity – peace with all people, with all beings and forms of life.
In this awareness,
I greet all my brothers and sisters
with all my heart
Gabriele
