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| Terrestrial mankind under the conditions of life of the animal kingdom and of the human kingdom. The heroic figures of the dark morality and the core of that morality | 70. In order to understand properly the state of consciousness of living beings, one will have to learn to understand the conditions of life under which they live. These can be of a greatly differing nature and (as shown later on in Livets Bog) will thus divide existence into various planes or kingdoms. Concerning this, we already know that terrestrial mankind still belongs to what we call the "animal kingdom" as well as in some degree also representing the future "real human kingdom". As terrestrial mankind thus finds itself in evolution, partly belonging to the animal kingdom and partly belonging to the human kingdom, it is also partly subject to the conditions of life of the animal kingdom and partly to those of the human kingdom. The daily life of terrestrial mankind thus comes to manifest itself as a struggle between these two conditions for maintaining life. Since the animal kingdom appears as the culmination of a material or physical state of being, each creature's conditions of life in the said kingdom will thus be dependent on its material or physical position, which again, in the case of animals, means the greatest physical strength, the sharpest teeth, claws or beak. In the case of terrestrial mankind, on the other hand, the animal position constitutes the largest armed forces, the best swords, rifles, guns, bombs and so on. This again means that where these realities are available or present to the greatest extent, there the strongest form of material power will exist. This power in the animal kingdom is a condition of life as only the strong can progress and be successful, but within that part of terrestrial mankind's consciousness still belonging to the animal kingdom this same power becomes the highest ideal, and hence at that same level of consciousness morally justified. The heroic figures representing this moral level are those who, by virtue of their strength, have triumphantly vanquished the weak in many ways, making them serfs, slaves or subjects, capturing their properties and subjugating their countries and their native soil. But when heroic figures with this kind of morality have this kind of nature, the fact demonstrates that the weak - still within the same level of consciousness - have no rights and that any concept of justice should be one invested with power alone. Thus, in the animal kingdom, "might" is the same as "right". Those people who have no power have no rights but are subjected to those who are in power. And now we are at the core of the dark radiation's morality. |
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