Symbol no. 70 by Martinus (1890-1981) - The Digestion of Vegetarian Products - Ole Therkelsen

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1. From my book "Martinus, Darwin and Intelligent Design.
   What are the karmic consequences of eating meat?
   The law of karma is widely accepted in the Orient, while here in the West we talk about the law of fate and the Bible tells us that we shall reap what we sow and that we should do unto others as we wish them to do unto us. A Danish proverb says: “Smile at the world and the world will smile back at you”. Martinus also explains how the law of fate represents a mirror principle (LB4 §1262, LB6 §2128).
   
   In physics, Newton’s third law says that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, which implies that every action inevitably has specific consequences. We must bear the consequences of all our actions. If we as parents bring up our children to accept the consequences of their actions, it should be easy to understand that we adults must also assume the consequences of our own actions. Indeed, the whole of science is based on the law of cause and effect.
   
   Martinus tells us that eating meat has serious consequences for our fate, because by doing so we are the cause of animals being killed. But human beings don’t kill animals because they hate them. Because their slaughter does not involve any anger or hate, animals experience it more or less as an accident. As the law of fate acts as a kind of mirror principle, meat-eaters have no protection from being injured or killed in air or road accidents. Similarly serious consequences come from hunting, fishing and eating animal products from the sea. Meat-eating can also be the cause of drowning accidents or of major and minor accidents at home and at work.
   
   Martinus in no way reproached people for eating meat. He was everyone’s friend and loved everyone, irrespective of whether they ate meat, were smokers or drank alcohol, but he merely wished to inform them of the consequences of doing so. He recommended that we become vegetarians if we wished to have better health and to be protected from accidents.
   
   Time will tell if the science of nutrition will confirm Martinus’ analyses of the health-promoting effects of vegetarianism.
   
   The assertion that meat-eating is the cause of accidents may be confirmed empirically by carrying out a scientific study to identify any statistical correlations between cases of death and injury from accidents and factors such as being a hunter or angler, eating meat and being vegetarian. As far as I am aware, no such study has yet been carried out on the basis of the accident statistics. It should nevertheless be possible to obtain considerable information from hospitals and insurance companies to determine a possible correlation between the occurrence of accidents on the one hand and killing animals and eating meat on the other.
   
   23.9 Does Martinus have a logical explanation for the law of fate that says that we must reap what we have sown?
   Martinus argues that something lifeless cannot be the cause of a movement – only something living can (see §3.11). The “I” – the living core of the living being – must therefore be the cause of every movement. As every movement can only go in a curved or circular path, it must necessarily return to its origin – namely the “I”. The core of his argument for the law of fate is thus: As movements can only travel in circular paths, every energy impulse that is sent out must return to its sender – the eternally existing “I”.
   
   If someone commits a murder, for example, he carries out an action that represents a certain energy concentration, and this is transformed into spiritual matter that propagates out into space (Kosmos no. 2/1996). Thus the principle involved in eating meat is expressed as accidents. Animals experience being slaughtered as an accident. The electromagnet energy ray that is sent out does not represent the concrete action but the principle behind it. Due to the law of movement, no energy impulse can go in a straight line but must follow a curved or circular path. So it must inevitably return to its origin with an effect that corresponds to the one sent out. Against this background, the law of fate can be understood as a law of nature equivalent to the laws of gravity or electromagnetism.
   
   Martinus tells us that these circular paths can be so immeasurably large that the fate impulses may be on their way several hundreds of years, even though they move faster than light (The Ideal Food, Chapter 6). The fastest speed known in the physical world is that of light. As soon as this is exceeded, the moving body enters the spiritual world. Anything moving faster than light becomes dematerialised: it is converted from the three familiar states of matter, namely solids, liquids and gases, to a fourth state of matter that Martinus calls the spiritual or ray-formed state. And in the reverse direction too, something from the spiritual world that drops below the speed of light is materialised in the physical world. Martinus writes about materialisation in LB2 §361, LB5 §1936, The Road of Life, Book no. 22C and Kosmos no. 3/2005 and no. 8/2006.
   
   Martinus pointed out that these were neither speculations nor theories. For him they were real facts, because the circular paths of the fate-forming rays can be followed by the cosmic consciousness through space and observed just as easily as physical realities are accessible to the physical senses (The Ideal Food, Chapter 6). The emitted fate energies form part of a being’s body of eternity. More on this topic may be found in EWP1 Chapter 16, where Martinus also explains the symbol of the body of eternity. See also his analyses of this topic in EWP3 §32.13 and LB3 §750–751.
   
   23.10 Explanation of the symbol “The law of movement”
   The symbol shows that all energies or movements go in circles. The round white figure in the foreground symbolises the spherical form that represents the basic cosmic balance of all movements. The uppermost white line shows what appears to be a straight line. From a cosmic perspective, however, a perfectly straight line cannot exist, and this line is in reality a segment of a circle with a diameter of 40 metres. The other thick white lines are also parts of circles, but these are so small that their curvature can be clearly seen. So from a particular perspective, the curvature of any circle is so microscopic that it cannot be seen. A square is also an illusion to a certain degree, because every apparently plane surface is always part of a curved surface. The earth was once also believed to be flat. (see The Eternal World Picture 1, Symbol no. 15).
   
   23.12 Is it true that the universe is curved?
   I personally had the opportunity to ask Martinus this question. In summer 1980, a little more than six months before his death, I had held my first lecture at the Martinus Center in Klint and was consequently invited one Thursday evening a few months later, to the weekly tea party with Martinus. I had recently passed my examinations in astronomy at Copenhagen University, where I had to answer a question about the Big Bang in connection with cosmological evolutionary models. If we compare Einstein’s theories of relativity with the cosmological principle that space is essentially the same in all directions, the consequence is that the universe is curved. We have to forgo plane geometry and instead use curved geometry in order to set up a mathematical model to describe the astronomical observations of the speeds of galactic flight. On the basis of this curved geometry, we obtain a model of the universe that contains neither straight lines nor plane surfaces. So energies can only propagate themselves along curved paths.
   
   At this tea party, I took the opportunity to ask Martinus: Is it correct that the universe is curved? The answer came immediately from the 90 year old: No, it’s the energies that go in circular paths!
   For me, it was a highly thought-provoking answer. After all, we should not confuse cause and effect. The universe curves because the energies can only travel in curved orbits or cycles. The curvature of the universe and Einstein’s relativity theories are perhaps the closest we can get to a scientific proof of Martinus’ analyses of the law of fate and the law of movement.
   
   
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2. Martinus and the New World Morality by Ole Therkelsen
   Chapter 8
   Vegetarianism and love for animals
   
   8.1 HOW HUMANS OF THE FUTURE WILL LOOK UPON MEAT EATING
   The morality of the world or the religious guidance in the past millennia has mainly been focused upon love for those within the same family, group, nation or religion. Most people think that neighbourly love only concerns love for humans, but not for animals and microbeings. But the new world impulse coming in over the earth represents a new world morality, which is also focused upon putting into practice love for the living beings in the microcosmos.
   By virtue of this coming “higher world morality” people will gradually move away from meat eating and eventually become vegetarians. Some will become vegetarian for ecological or economic reasons – perhaps wanting to limit CO2 emissions or conserve the earth’s resources. Within the CO2 debate it has been argued that if everyone on the planet was vegetarian then the quantity of CO2 would be reduced by an amount equal to the total CO2 emissions from the whole transport sector. Others become vegetarian for health or religious reasons. But according to the cosmic analyses everyone will finally become vegetarian, simply because they cannot assist in killing and bloodshed. They do not have the heart to do animals evil and be the cause of their being killed.
   The most important thing about evolution is not development and specialisation of the physical body, but rather the development of that consciousness which uses the body. The evolution of universal love and a perfect morality is the actual goal of human evolution. Human beings are indeed still mammals and belong to the animal kingdom, but according to Martinus’ analyses they will by virtue of a new world morality evolve to a new kingdom, the real human kingdom, from which they will look back upon the barbarism of the past.
   Martinus, “One will read with horror about man’s eating of corpses, about how the human beings’ love for animals on a large scale was merely a cannibal’s love of meat. In wonderful museums great axes, sheath knives, butcher’s knives, sporting-guns, fish-hooks and other instruments of murder will speak their silent language to people of the future about the primitive mentality of the past. In a disease-free existence one will, in historical works, read with a shudder of disgust about the sick mankind of today, its tuberculosis, cancer, kidney troubles, gall-stones, arteriosclerosis, organic heart disease, digestive troubles, nervousness and so on, and in truth have the words of Jesus confirmed – that his kingdom was not of this world.” (The Ideal Food, chap. 26).
   
   8.2 WHY EAT MEAT?
   Many say that it is not possible to get a complete diet as a vegetarian, but biochemistry and nutritional research show that it is not necessary for us to eat meat. When so many claim that one cannot live adequately without eating meat, this reflects perhaps more their own enjoyment with meat eating than modern nutritional science.
   Martinus could foresee that science would gradually come to show that meat eating is actually harmful for human beings. This research began back in the 1950’s, when it was discovered that the intake of animal fat could be the cause cardiovascular disease. Earlier cancer studies concluded that fruit and vegetables protect against cancer, while recent extensive studies show actually that the meat from four-legged animals in a certain amount is carcinogenic, while meat from poultry is less carcinogenic. In the autumn of 2007 the Danish Cancer Prevention Society published, in the light of these findings, new recommendations, advising meat eaters to, “limit your meat intake from pig, cattle, sheep and goat to 300-500 grams per week”.
   It is clear that it is necessary for certain animal species to eat meat. But if one is not in favour of killing and bloodshed, why eat meat when it is not necessary? A higher and more humane development is reflected in the fact that many people today would not eat meat, if they themselves had to slaughter the animals. More and more people get involved in campaigns for the welfare of animals. Inhumane forms of animal husbandry and animal transportation have been in focus in the media. Animal welfare comes up more often in political matters. This interest in animal welfare, which increases during the course of evolution, is a sign of people’s growing intelligence and humaneness.
   
   8.3 WHY DO WE HAVE SO MANY MISCONCEPTIONS IN THE AREA OF NUTRITION?
   The overcrowded hospitals are largely due to people’s mistaken nutrition and the taking of toxic stimulants. That it can go so far is because, according to Martinus, among other things, the instinct, inherited from the animal kingdom, for the selection of the healthy and natural food has degenerated, so that the natural ability to taste has been lost with the gradual habituation to strong spices and other products which have nothing to do with healthy and natural nutrition. From nature’s side, the job of the ability to taste is to create disgust or reluctance towards unnatural nourishment.
   Martinus writes: “People, through a great many generations, have so accustomed themselves to the taste of meat-products that, where previously they evoked natural disgust, they now evoke great unnatural pleasure. Just as the organism, through habitual use of tobacco, alcohol and other unnatural stimulants, loses its natural ability to react to these poisonous substances, these thereby becoming ‘stimulants’, so too does the organism, through habituation, lose its natural ability to react to the poisonous substances appearing in the form of animal food, whereby these, like tobacco and alcohol, evoke an unnatural feeling of pleasure. But even if the habituation to some degree hardens the organism against the effects of the poisonous substances, it cannot be denied that the organism in the long run becomes completely undermined. This undermining is visible mainly through occult sight, which can follow the individual through several incarnations.” (The Ideal Food, chap. 8).
   
   8.4 THE NARCOTIC-ANIMAL NUTRITION LEADS TO ILLNESS
   The narcotic-animal nutrition, which includes meat and other animal products, beer, wine and spirits and also tobacco and narcotics, is very harmful to health. Although most people regard it as natural and right to eat meat and drink beer and wine, Martinus thinks, that for the people of today it should be looked upon as a burden. The moving away from meat eating will come to consist of a habituation to natural products, so the warped ability to taste can be transformed to again being to react against those substances, which are harmful to the organism. Before becoming used to tobacco and alcohol the sense of taste reacted very strongly indeed against these products. (The Ideal Food, chap. 8-10).
   The transition to the right human food occurs, according to Martinus, not only with ordinary information in the form of the written and spoken word, but also with the learning from experience and the illnesses which come from the undermining of health with the narcotic-animal nutrition.
   Martinus, “And it is this undermining that, in the form of all existing organic illnesses, is the greatest instigator for people’s evolution towards the true human food. As the illnesses increase to the same extent as people’s nutritional aberrations increase, and as absolute health or an existence free of illness is thereby impossible as long as the vice or the narcotic-animal source of nutrition is maintained, all people, through their organic sufferings and illnesses, will ultimately be led to a purer source of nutrition, to absolute health.” (The Ideal Food, chap. 8).
   
   
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