According to Rudolf Steiner, a truly theosophical and occult development in all sincerity, demands that we give up meat eating. It goes with the territory. You see, today, the human race lives in bodies that are quite unsuitable for spiritual development. What was once alive in the organism has died, and correspondingly, what was once conscious in the soul, has become unconscious. The realization of this fact becomes the Path of the Holy Grail. It is likened to the feeling the older we get that the physical body is carrying a beam of lignified wood on its back. And, we know that what rushes through the nervous system everyday is a process of death because we think 'dead thoughts'. Thank God for sleep, and the nightly regeneration process. And, Thank God for Spiritual Science, which would have us be active members in the quest of Parsifal and the Grail.
“Hence it comes about that progress in the inner theosophical life gradually produces a sort of disgust for animal food. It is not necessary to forbid animal food to Theosophists, for the healthy progressing life of instinct gradually turns against animal food, and no longer likes it; and this is much better than becoming a vegetarian from any abstract principle. It is best when Theosophy leads a man to have a sort of disgust and loathing for animal food; and it is not of much use, with respect to what may be called his higher development, if a man gives up animal food for other reasons. So that we may say: Animal food produces in man something that is a burden to his physical body, and this burden is felt. That is the occult fact of the matter looked at from one side”
According to Rudolf Steiner, a truly theosophical and occult development in all sincerity, demands that we give up meat eating. It goes with the territory. You see, today, the human race lives in bodies that are quite unsuitable for spiritual development. What was once alive in the organism has died, and correspondingly, what was once conscious in the soul, has become unconscious. The realization of this fact becomes the Path of the Holy Grail. It is likened to the feeling the older we get that the physical body is carrying a beam of lignified wood on its back. And, we know that what rushes through the nervous system everyday is a process of death because we think 'dead thoughts'. Thank God for sleep, and the nightly regeneration process. And, Thank God for Spiritual Science, which would have us be active members in the quest of Parsifal and the Grail.
“Hence it comes about that progress in the inner theosophical life gradually produces a sort of disgust for animal food. It is not necessary to forbid animal food to Theosophists, for the healthy progressing life of instinct gradually turns against animal food, and no longer likes it; and this is much better than becoming a vegetarian from any abstract principle. It is best when Theosophy leads a man to have a sort of disgust and loathing for animal food; and it is not of much use, with respect to what may be called his higher development, if a man gives up animal food for other reasons. So that we may say: Animal food produces in man something that is a burden to his physical body, and this burden is felt. That is the occult fact of the matter looked at from one side”
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