27.3  The completely dark area framing the white rays symbolises the animal aspect of the combined consciousness of all unfinished terrestrial human beings. It symbolises everything we know that comes within the concepts of hatred, bitterness, anger, hot-temperedness, unkindness, egoism or selfishness, everything that we know as slander and persecution of one's neighbour, all evil towards living beings, animals as well as people, everything that comes within the concept of meat-eating or the consumption of animal products, everything that comes within the concept of the consumption of alcohol, drugs and other poisonous stimulants, everything that comes within the realm of unhappy marriages. To this must of course be added all forms of wars, world wars, industrial disputes, strikes, lock-outs and so on. The dark part of the aura around the white aura thus constitutes the darkness that gives rise to Armageddon or hell.