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 The Suffering of Animals
Is the Grave of Mankind
“Animals are human beings, too,” this was recently the main headline of the well-known German newspaper, DIE ZEIT. In a plea for vegetarianism, the editor, Iris Radisch, went out on a limb with a revolutionary question: “May we kill animals, at all?” The lead picture already gave the answer: “Put an end to this!” was written on two bloody steaks.
She wrote: “We’ve answered the all-decisive question, ‘Are we allowed to kill animals to eat their carcasses,’ since time immemorial. Perhaps not with our head, but definitely with our teeth. The meat-eater is on the victors’ side of evolution. He is the king of the food chain.”
How does the king of the food chain act? – royally? Definitely not! The so-called subjects of the king of the food chain are not only kept, hunted, fished, killed, slaughtered – and permit me – devoured. They are also robbed of their means of subsistence, because Mother Earth – which brings forth life in such manifold ways and means – is being brought to the brink of collapse. This is the answer of man, the king of the food chain. Man, who – as the editor of DIE ZEIT and vegetarian, Iris Radisch, says, has answered with his teeth, not his head.
Would an answer from the head or even from the heart be so hard, then? In His commandments, did not God, the Eternal One, speak unmistakably through Moses the words for life? »You shall not kill!«
And did not Jesus of Nazareth say just as unmistakably: »As you have done to one of the least of my own, you have done to me«?
This is the commandment of life, no matter what the viewpoint of modern man may be, whose slaughter machinery is no less bloody when compared with former times; it is merely set up less visibly.
In the article, Iris Radisch points out various arguments that are usually cited in the intellectual pros and cons of discussions about vegetarianism, and then says herself: “But the arguments do not spare us the all-decisive question …: Who may kill whom and why? Human beings enjoy the right to physical integrity. But, in comparison, the rights we allow the animals consists of being cut into pieces and gutted by a metal tool that splits its head open, of being numbed or hung upside down on a hook or pulled through an electric water bath. We can’t help seeing the complete inequality of rights.”
Iris Radisch continued:
“This is the basis for what we call normality. But what if we have simply erred? Is it possible that what has been considered normal for thousands of years, is nevertheless, a dreadful injustice?”
And she continued: “Yes, it is possible. The reasons we claim for the blatant inequality of rights between man and animal are all totally feeble.
What arrogance to claim that a few minimal differences in genetic code should give us the right to be permitted to eat our close relatives, the cows, pigs, horses and sheep? The legend, cultivated in Christianity, says that an animal cannot think and has no soul. Its »want of reason,« according to the Father of the Church, Augustine, destines it to be an animal for slaughter. »… by the just appointment of the Creator, subjected to us to kill or keep alive for our own uses«.”
The mentality of the Father of the Church, Augustine, who is revered as a saint in the Catholic institution, has consequently influenced the so-called Christian western world throughout the centuries, a world in which the animal, based on the alleged “just appointment of the Creator,” is ruthlessly handed over to its slaughter. Billions of agonizing animal fates accuse the church institution and its fathers for being responsible for the misery of the animals and the brutalization of mankind that goes with it.
Let’s get back to Iris Radisch. She continued:
“What if the animals think we are just as soulless as we think they are, merely because we are so different? … Today we know that the human being, contrary to the pious wishes of the Christian philosophers, differs only slightly from other mammals in terms of genetic information. The nervous system, the processing of stimuli, emotions such as fear and panic, as well as the feeling of pain, are identical in human beings and animals … It may be impossible for us to do everything right in our living together with animals, but this, by far, does not give us the right to do everything wrong.”
A look at the world with its increasing disasters, which are taking on ever more gigantic proportions, shows us that we, mankind, the king of the food chain, have indeed done everything wrong in dealing with nature and our fellow creatures. Nature‘s reckoning for this has been presented. A receipt will soon follow. Where nature demands the payments for accrued debts, the call is heard again and again: “Why does God allow this?”
God, the Eternal, does not simply let His children slide into their self-made difficulties. Through the infringements against the law of life, mankind has distanced itself more and more from the very basis of all Being that is in each person, from God, who is able to lead His human children by way of subtle sensations, feelings and their conscience, if they want this.
If God cannot reach the individual, because he has deadened his feelings and conscience, then nevertheless He does not let His human children fall into the law of sowing and reaping without admonishment and warning. God, the Eternal, our heavenly Father, has given admonishments at all times through enlightened men and women and through the bearers of His word, the true prophets of God. He called and calls, upon mankind, who is entangled in guilt, to turn back and change his ways.
As He does today. For over 35 years, God, the Eternal, has been calling into our time through His instrument, the prophetess and emissary of God, Gabriele. He admonishes and gives warning of the consequences of those actions that are against His law of life. Already in 1977, Christ admonished via the prophetic word: “It is the eleventh hour.” During the following years, the Spirit of the Christ of God admonished again and again in countless messages from the All, and called upon people to turn back.
In 1999, Gabriele published a book from the series, “The Prophet,” which worldwide became the precursor to a change in thinking about animals: “Animals Lament – the Prophet Denounces.” Soon after, followed another booklet in the series “The Prophet” entitled “The Murder of Animals Is the Death of Humans.”
In the most poignant of terms, the bestial treatment of animals – particularly by butchers, hunters and animal cannibals – is pointed out and pilloried. There Gabriele writes: “The disasters of the earth are the reflection of the disaster man.” In an unprecedented, clear analysis, the author of the disasters is tracked down. It is shown that at all times it was and is primarily the priestmen who not only allow the killing of animals, but through their bloody sacrificial cults, in fact, created the basis for the unspeakably cruel treatment of God’s creatures by human beings.
For over 3000 years, God, the Eternal, has admonished and called through His prophets. Through Moses, He gave us the commandment »You shall not kill.«
God spoke through Isaiah: (Is 1:11): »I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.«
God spoke through Hosea (Hosea 6:6) »…I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.«
And through Jeremiah: (Jer 6:20) »Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.«
Even though the household grill and frying pan have become a substitute for the sacrificial altar dripping with blood, and the kitchen table serves as a dissection table for gutting animal carcasses, nevertheless the basis for these blood-thirsty behavior patterns was always prescribed by the priestmen.
What did Jesus of Nazareth say?
(Mt 5:17) »I have not come to abolish the laws but to fulfill them.« And He admonished: (Mt 25:40) »As you did it to one of the least of my own, you did it to me.« Who then are the least ones? Usually we think of the children and people who live in the bitterest poverty and who die of hunger. There are hardly any possibilities of life and development for them in this globalized world. From the viewpoint of the rich, who sit at over-filled tables, they truly are a part of those considered to be the least. Besides that, many a one thinks of the children who are helplessly at the mercy of the perverse child-abuse criminals and have to endure unspeakable suffering, hardship and acts of violence. And many a priest sees in these weakest members of society grazing grounds for his craving to abuse one of these so-called least ones. Surely the words of Jesus, »As you did it to one of the least of my own, you did it to me« also apply to them.
But when we look at this statement from the viewpoint of the law of life, as God, the Eternal, explains to us through Gabriele, we understand that all life, all Being, bears the breath of God, and, consequently, is part of the great unity of Creation. Someone who wantonly harms the least component of Creation – be it a person, an animal, a plant or even part of the mineral kingdom – commits an offence against one of these least ones and thus, has also done this to Him, the Christ of God, who, as Co-Regent of Creation, is omnipresent Being, and thus, part of all things.
Let us consider a particular form of contempt for animals, namely, hunting. A person whom one normally assumes to have feelings and a mind, as well as being familiar with the commandments of God, such as »You shall not kill,« equips himself with lethal weapons and slinks around in the darkness of twilight in forest and field, the habitats of animals. Deceitfully and maliciously, he invades the habitat of deer, hares, foxes, wild pigs and many other living beings, to carry out his bloody trade. His victims are sentient beings, which have a markedly fine intuition and sensitive senses, which register everything around them in the finest nuances. They breathe the same breath as the human being that stalks them in order to murder them.
The behavior of the animals is oriented toward community. They live – insofar as they are not disturbed by people – in a social structure that is based on unity. The hunter breaks into this unity. He selects individual animals as he sees fit, playing judge over life and death and does not know his own origin. He kills his nearest relatives, as Iris Radisch calls them. As a sneaky predator, the “nice” hunter slips into the underbrush, sets up feeding places as bait, so that at a given time, he responds to the animals’ trustfulness with a fatal shot. As justification for this wanton killing, maintaining balance in nature is mentioned.
We can read the following about this in “The Prophet – The Murder of Animals Is the Death of Humans”:
“The animals in the forests and fields are homeless, because cunning catchers of prey lie in wait to slay the creatures. Many people are of the erroneous opinion that they have to preserve the balance in nature. … No species multiplies immoderately. Populations are not limited from without by fighting and death, but through an internal yardstick. And so, for this purpose, hunting is not only unsuitable but completely unnecessary.
Let us also hear what God, the Eternal, the All-wise Creator of the universe, had to say about this through His prophetess and emissary, Gabriele. He said:
»I Am the balance in all of infinity and also in the nature kingdoms of the Earth. I do not need heavy-handed humans who think they have to maintain the balance.«
What the hunters carry into forest and field in terms of suffering, fear and pain will bring its effects. It will become visible in the fields of eternity by way of the law of sowing and reaping, because the seed of cruelty, even when it is sown in the field of the soul during the darkness of night, will bring forth, in turn, the fruits of horror, which, however, will be reaped by the one who sowed the seeds through his life-destroying feelings, thoughts and actions.
Cruelty toward our fellow creatures enters the darkness of the night in the soul of the perpetrator. The individual will only come out of this shadowing of his soul through the path of recognition, by feeling remorse, by clearing things up and by no longer doing the same, as well as by making amends, insofar as this is still possible, at all. Recognition usually is possible only when the culprit is hit by blows of fate, which the individual, however equipped a centuries-old church indoctrination of an image of a cruel God – interprets as the punishment of God. The butcher and hunter is now at the mercy of his own depravity, the inputs of which now become his own torture. The hunter will become the hunted in the pictures of his soul. The slasher himself now bears the burdening shreds of his soul. In these, is stored all the suffering of the bitter torment and the fear that the “weighty” person once inflicted on his fellow creatures.
What does this suffering, which the hunter brings into forest and field, look like?
We can read the following in “The Prophet 16” by Gabriele:
The brave huntsman does not simply shoot deer and wild pigs with a cartridge, but with bullets that expand or break up or bend inside the hit animal. Why? So that as many “tracking marks” as possible are knocked out of the animal hit: blood, stomach and intestinal contents, clumps of fur, bone splinters, etc. This should make the search for the wounded, not yet dead, game easier. So that the game does not get away again and again during this “after-chase,” one lets it become “sick” for some hours, as the hunters say. Only then, does one track it down in order to finally kill the perishing animal with a coup de grâce. As an alternative to this way of killing, stabbing an animal is also considered good hunting. The majority of hoofed game dies in this way after hours of torture, for example, deer, stag, red deer, fallow deer, chamois and wild pigs. When the animal is at last dead, it is immediately “cut open.” The intestines and other entrails are torn out of the still warm body. The hunter’s behavior hardly differs from that of a bloodthirsty carnivore, which we tend to describe as “bestial.”
A small sampling of the thousand-fold suffering caused by hunters in the woods night after night.
On the scale of animal-killers, we could tell who this animal-killer was in previous incarnations: an animal killer – for as the tree falls so does it lie.
And those who consume the flesh are the accomplices of the animal-killer.
For every person, particularly in so-called Christianity, knows the commandment “You shall not kill.”
God, the Eternal, gave life to all His creatures. Someone who condones killing, no matter in which form and with which justification, is against the life; and the life is God. All pure forms of Being emerged from God, the Eternal One. All life came forth from Him. His breath vivifies all pure forms, all life, because He is the life, the breath, in all things. A person who takes the breath away from a creature orients himself against the giver of life, the Creator-God, the eternal Spirit, who is the everlasting eternal power of the Being in all life.
For us, human beings, life means to breathe. Who can give us breath? What breath does the animal have that is perfidiously killed in the woods? Which breath lives in the animal that fearfully faces its slaughter, that suffers under torture as an experimental animal and is killed? No person can give life, consequently we are not allowed to take it either, that is, to kill. Wanton killing is murder. When we wantonly, that is, intentionally, kill a living being, then we are against the life, that is, against God. The one who presumes to derive the right to kill for his purposes puts himself against God’s commandment that He gave us through Moses: “You shall not kill.” Can the mighty of this world, can governments, can church representatives give back the life, the breath of God? We can tell by the state of this world, which consequences the rejection of this one commandment has had.
What would this world, what would the earth – a beautiful dwelling planet – look like if this one commandment “You shall not kill” had been consistently fulfilled? This commandment has stood admonishingly before us human beings for over 3000 years. Where do we stand? Where do the mighty stand? Where do the nations stand? Where do the governments and the churches stand – above all, those who call themselves Christian? Do they stand in the fulfillment of this one fundamental commandment of God? And where do we stand? – each and every one of us – particularly when we look at our bill of fare?
We live in a society that has oriented its calendar to the birth of Jesus, the Christ. Isn’t it deplorable that 2000 years after the birth of Jesus, this society, and with it all of mankind, is standing at the edge of the abyss? Did Jesus, the Christ, come for this? The earth is suffering under the climate change caused by man. If the people who belong to so-called Christianity had changed since the earthly life of Jesus, the Christ, then the climate would not have changed for the worse.
Jesus, the Christ, taught us: (Mt 5:48) »Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.«
So, each individual should have changed, and then, we would not have now the climate change and certainly not the climate disaster, for man would not have become a disaster. Then the climate, the atmosphere, among people as well as in their relationship to nature and animals would not be so disastrous. Man is the agent of disasters. And so, why do many people accuse God? Because the priestmen with their Roman dogmas project the causes into the mysteries of God instead of taking themselves to task as the cult-embellished mystery mongers.
If God really had secrets or mysteries, from which hardship, misery and suffering arise, then Jesus, the Christ, would have been a liar and His teaching that all of us – without exception – have a loving, heavenly Father, would be pure blasphemy.
Why did Christ announce the Comforter, who would lead us into all the truth, if God supposedly has mysteries or secrets? Is He betraying His heavenly Father? Or wasn’t it rather those who teach the mysteries of God who betrayed Him? And so, with what has Christianity, which bases its calendar on Jesus, the Christ, filled this time? With a fulfilled life in His following?
2000 years of so-called Christianity are filled with murder, plunder, rape, exploitation, the slavery of people, nature, animals, plants and the mineral kingdoms of the earth. It is filled with the ruthlessness and corruptness of armament and enmity between nations, with war, torture, brutalization and atrocity.
Did Jesus, the Christ, make a mistake? No! God is love, and His love knows no limits. It also belongs to the animals, to nature, to all of Mother Earth. Someone who tortures and kills, that is, murders animals, who violates the earth, hates God; he serves the god of the underworld, who is the god of horror. This god appointed priests to carry out his idolatry, priests who serve him, by attributing to all life the inferiority with which they have enveloped themselves. This is why they deny animals a soul and act bestially toward everything that is nobler, finer and purer than they are.
The one who hates God, the Eternal, fights against His Creation. He brings suffering and divisiveness into all spheres of life, including nature and the animal kingdom, according to the law of the god of the underworld: “Divide, bind and rule.” “Connect and be,” which stems from the law of God, is a thorn in his side, because it leads to unity, to God’s love, which encompasses everything, because God, the Eternal, is all-encompassing love.
2000 years after Jesus, the Christ, lived on earth, God has again sent a great prophet of God, Gabriele, through whom He again warned mankind of the consequences of its behavior. Jesus, the Christ, fulfilled His promise to us. He sent us the Spirit of truth, the Comforter, who led, and leads, us into all the truth. He calls to each individual and once more His call is: »Follow Me« – that is, Christ.
The following of the Son of God is what is called for, not cults, not rituals, not dogmas and ceremonies, for what have they accomplished? The state of the world is the reflection of the external cult-religions, of whitewashed facades, “which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness.” (Mt. 23:27) The offering plates of so-called Christianity are overfilled with the bones of entire peoples, races and nations, but also with billions of animal carcasses – animals which met and still meet with cruelty and destruction instead of receiving protection and care.
That is why it is high time to say: “Put an end to this!”
In the most urgent words, the Creator admonished through Gabriele on Feb. 27, 2001. The Creator spoke by way of the prophetic word:
I Am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. I Am the God of all true prophets.
I, God, the Almighty, raise My voice through My prophetess and emissary, and direct it to all mankind.
Stop consuming your fellow creatures, which are your animal brothers and sisters!
Stop torturing them in animal experiments and in taking away their freedom by keeping them in barns and pens which are unworthy of animals. Animals love freedom just as you, the human beings.
Stop killing the tiniest of animals, the microscopic life of the soil, through artificial fertilizers, and excrements and the like!
Stop cutting and burning down the forests and taking the living space of animals away from them in forests and fields. Give them back their habitats, the forests, fields and meadows; otherwise, your fate, which you have inflicted upon yourselves, will take away your house and home and your sources of food, through worldwide disasters, which you have created yourselves, through your behavior against the life, against the kingdoms of nature, including the animals.
Should human beings again toss My words to the wind, the storm, the fate that is worldwide, will begin and sweep away the people by the hundreds of thousands – on the one hand, through worldwide disasters, on the other, through illnesses which break in over them like the epidemics which, by turning their backs on every kind of spiritual ethics and morals, they have inflicted on the animals that they are presently burning by the thousands. Similar things will happen to the one who does not turn back and change his ways.
My word is spoken. The worldwide apocalypse is underway. The one who does not want to hear this, will feel his created causes as effects at ever shorter intervals. I have raised the Earth with its plants, animals and minerals to Me. The one who continues to raise his hand against Mother Earth with all its forms of life will feel the effects. Stop torturing, killing and murdering!
You human beings, stop with your bestial behavior, which only hits back at you and no other; for what you do to the least of your fellow creatures, you do to Me and to your self.
It is enough! Change your ways, otherwise the harvest, which is your seed, will move forward.
I AM the I AM, always the same, yesterday, today and tomorrow, in all eternity.
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