1808. Having now gained detailed knowledge from the many pages of explanation in "Livets Bog" we know that this organic function of neighbourly love – a phenomenon that appears outside the sphere of the reproductive or procreative process – has already long since become evident in the terrestrial human being; indeed, we know that it is actually this that distinguishes the "human being" from the "animal" and causes the "animal" to be described as a "human being".He who really wants to attain initiation or the great birth, he who really wants to familiarise himself with the solution to the mystery of life and arrive at cosmic clarity with regard to the mystery of his own I, must understand that the road to this inevitably goes through him recognising that which is finished or completed in his own person, and that which is unfinished or incomplete, that which is "animal" in his consciousness and must therefore perish, and that which is "human" in his consciousness and must therefore endure or continue.If his preference for the phenomena of the animal nature in his consciousness is still so strong that it is impossible for him to acknowledge these as something that must perish, as something that belongs to a lower world, and which he therefore of necessity must grow or evolve out of, he has still not finished acting out these phenomena.This unfinished state in his consciousness will then become apparent as a more or less strong antipathy towards beings in whom these human phenomena are more or less to the fore and any assertion that these are a sign or expression of a more advanced stage of evolution or a higher moral step.This antipathy can even grow into hatred and persecution.
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