The Fate of Mankind
Chapter 35
The killing principle becomes a vital necessity
As the nature of the energy of gravity is explosive and the energy of feeling is the opposite, having a restraining or binding effect on the energy of gravity, a consciousness in which these two energies have supremacy can almost be likened to a volcano.
If the energy of feeling preponderates it will restrain the energy of gravity and prevent explosions, but if the energy of gravity preponderates it will overcome the restraint of the energy of feeling and explosions will occur.
Such "explosions" in the consciousness are of course in a microscopic or spiritual form but are reflected in the thought-life or mental-life of the individual as hot temper, rage or bloodthirstiness.
Indeed, in brief, they are the deepest provoking factors for every form of urge towards the promoting of "the killing principle".
And as the energy of gravity has an entire zone, that is, a plane of existence where it cannot be totally bound by the energy of feeling, the I's experience of life on this plane of existence thus cannot take place except on the basis of these explosions.
And the previously mentioned factors of consciousness, hot temper, rage and bloodthirstiness, thus here predominate and turn "the killing principle" into a vital necessity.
This zone, where the individuals simply must kill in order to live, will thus be recognised as "the animal kingdom" or the second plane of existence in the spiral zone to which the terrestrial human being still belongs.
By killing must here be understood the destruction of the physical body and not an annihilation of the I, which is, as already shown, immortal.