Page 107 - Spirit and Mind. Vol 1

Nicolai Levashov. Spirit and mind. Vol.1

Meanwhile, changes occur in the astral body, so substantial that they become
irreversible. Why then, does murder by humans evoke such irreversible changes in
the cell's astral body, while killing an animal for food only blocks evolution? The
crux of the matter is that murder of one's own kind appears to be an unnatural act. a
violation of the law of nature. One who kills his own kind has to summon up the
necessary emotional state by stringently forcing himself.

This creates a reverse flow of primary matter from the first mental body to the
astral.

The additional reverse flow renders the astral body dysfunctional and forces it to
release its constituent primary matters — a process of reverse evolution. The urge
triggering one human being to kill another is artificially created by inventing some
nonexistent reason for the need to commit this unnatural act. Almost invariably this
has to do with persons who want to wrest a bigger "piece of the pie" from others who
possess more. Even if the situation is unjust, a further injustice does not remedy
it.

As one old Chinese legend has it — once upon a time many gallant knights tried
to free a country held captive by a dragon, but the dragon always triumphed —

because each time a "hero" slayed the dragon and took his place he too became a
"dragon." And this continued until one victor did not follow suit, but instead just
abandoned the dragon's castle with all of its treasures. And only then was the dragon
vanquished completely and irretrievably. "To kill the dragon" one must kill him
within oneself: only then will one injustice not be replaced by another.

And until this happens to all mankind, the dragon will not disappear — even if
some hero kills the "dragon within." There will always be some kind of shoddy
individual who will rush in to fill the "vacancy." Only if mankind evolves as a whole
can the problem with the "dragon" be solved. Most negative motivation and conduct
stems from the inferior evolutionary development of earth civilization as a whole and
its erroneous scale of values born of ignorance and perverted ide-ology. So, a just
organization of human society can only come about when realistic knowledge
replaces ignorance and the deceptive reflections of a distorted worldview are
destroyed. Then wealth will no longer determine a person's status in society, nor will
the "dragon" personae continue to prevail.

Until the day spirituality triumphs over greed and materialism, a sick society
will continue to motivate many unwary souls into a life of crime. And these
wrongdoers, in their ignorance, will pay dearly for their distorted values and end up
selling their souls to the "devil." It does not matter that they do not know or do not
believe in the existence of the soul — at the moment of transgression retribution
becomes inevitable and will follow as a consequence of their own actions. This is an
actual law of nature: the "devil" is born within each sinner and then slowly devours
him. And the devil is — precisely — an array of lower astral creatures that inhabit an
astral jungle filled with the spirits of dead animals. These feed on human spirits for
their sustenance, so that the hunters become the hunted — the prey of the more
powerful predators.

And all this occurs because at the instant one transgresses, the astral body
undergoes qualitative changes — which ultimately, at the moment of death, whether

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