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See symbol no. 19 in new window Table of Contents for The Eternal World Picture, vol. 2   

 

 
Explanation of symbol no. 19
19.14  Symbol no. 19 symbolises the culmination of darkness. The main principle in this culmination is the killing principle. This principle is to a predominant extent a vital necessity for the beings in the animal kingdom, but, from a cosmic point of view, not for the human beings. But because of ignorance and other circumstances of life, meat-eating has become a strong habit that follows the unfinished human being through evolution right up to the civilised human being's eminent stage in evolution. But it is not only nutrition that has been based on the killing principle; the killing principle applies also to the instinct for self-preservation itself, despite the fact that the great commandment "Thou shalt not kill" has resounded in people's ears for thousands of years. If this killing principle were not still connected to the unfinished human being's instinct of self-preservation, then war, murder, killing, acts of revenge and the death penalty would not exist within the epoch of life of these beings. But terrestrial mankind lives nonetheless in the great erroneous belief that the killing principle is the best protection against the killing principle. That is why governments all over the world spend billions upon billions of kroner* on the creation of the most terrible, murderous, deadly weapons with which they have multiplied a millionfold their ability to murder and kill. And the result of this is the fact that this same mankind has to live in a permanent "cold" war, which from time to time erupts and culminates in hell or Armageddon itself.
 
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* Translator's note: A krone (crown) is a Danish monetary unit.


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