1312. These two gospels or testaments thus provide us with an overview of the essence of terrestrial human mentality over about five thousand years. Through this overview we can thus see the trend in the mental transformation of terrestrial mankind through these millennia. This transformation or evolution of terrestrial human mentality is thus established as an irrefutable fact. "The Old Testament" thus shows us that the absolutely highest ideal was once to practice "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth", which in turn means, the practising or manifestation of absolute revenge. Stoning people to death or crucifying them for certain infringements of the above-mentioned law was thus an unalterable ideal, the practising of which was stimulated or prompted by the very highest authorities such as prophets, high priests, kings and warriors, just as warfare was also elevated to a sacred ideal, blessed and practised by the same authoritative beings. The crux of the entire terrestrial human attitude and perception was thus an almost complete protection of all the strongest, egoistic tendencies. The entire legal system of the past was thus to the very highest extent based on creating "right of ownership" and protection of this "right" to possess or own things as one's absolute "property" that cannot be touched by others. Objects of this possessiveness or "ownership" were phenomena ranging from one's spouse down to the simplest of material things. Did not "death by stoning" await the unfaithful spouse? Did not total expulsion from one's home or Jewish society await anyone who married a "non-Jew" or "heathen"?
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