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And it is this latter front that distinguishes the terrestrial human being from the animal.
It is this growing neighbourly love or humaneness in the being that is the incipient "human being".
It is the "animal" or "anti-humanistic" side of the being that gives rise to the human beings having to lock their doors, set up barbed wire and hoarding around their properties, just as it is this selfish* nature that determines that countries must have public authorities, police and judicial systems with prisons and jails as well as armed forces with their lethal machines, apparatuses for destruction and terrains of death.
And it is the animal side of the terrestrial human being that causes it to continue killing or slaughtering and eating the organisms of advanced animal beings.
Here in Livets Bog
it has thus become obvious to the advanced reader or researcher that the being is increasingly forced by all these circumstances and experiences in its daily life to combat the "anti-humanistic" part of its consciousness.
The terrestrial human being thus differs from the animal in that it can combat the animal or "anti-humanistic" part of its consciousness with the "humanistic" part of its consciousness.
Animals do not have this "humanistic" part in their consciousness except in relation to their mate and offspring.
For this reason the animal or "anti-humanistic" part of the consciousness is the dominant one in the wild animal that has not yet come into contact with human beings, and whose wild, animal, primordial state is therefore still intact.
It is thus obvious that terrestrial human beings are subject to other laws than animals, and that laws that are virtues for animals, and whose observance is "paradise" for them, are nothing less than "hell" for terrestrial human beings, indeed, a sabotage of their daily life.
It is not so surprising that the world's greatest sages or world redeemers have tried, through their words and way of being, to make people believe in the humanistic side of their consciousness or nature, just as it has been our mission or task here in Livets Bog
, by means of spiritual science or our cosmic analyses, to impart to the terrestrial human being an incipient understanding of this elevated or divine mental terrain in its nature.
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Translator's note: Authorised correction: Here the Danish misprint, "uselvisk", meaning "unselfish", has been corrected.
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