Charles Fillmore…”If we are eating aggregations of life ideas hid within the material
forms, we should use discrimination in choosing those forms. Our food
should be full of life in its purity and vigor. There should be no idea
of death and decay connected with it in any degree. The vegetable should
be fresh and the fruit radiant in its sunny perfection.”
~From “As to Meat Eating” – 1903
…”I was shown that the food that entered the organism had to pass
through a process of regeneration every day before it was in condition
to be built into the new body of Christ.”
~From “As to Meat Eating” – 1903
…”We eat the flesh of the animal for the life it contains, yet the
fact is that life has disappeared in its highest degree---there is left
only a lot of corpse cells in various stages of corruption and decay.
These are really a burden to the organism…Yet ignorant man loads his
system with these elements of discord and decay and expects to get life
out of them.”
~From “As to Meat Eating” – 1903
…”The master on the spiritual plane is not a slave driver…He must
love every creature…His love must flow forth in protecting streams when
any creature is in danger of violence or destruction. He must recognize
all life as God’s life…Thus he cannot in any way sanction the killing of
animals for food, nor can he give passive assent by eating the flesh of
those slain by the hands of ignorant man.”
~From “Flesh-Eating Metaphysically Considered” – 1910
…”He who eats the flesh of animals is, by and through that process,
taking into his consciousness all the passions, desires, and emotions of
animals. Do not deceive yourself…that it makes no difference what you
eat. There is no absence of life, substance, or intelligence anywhere.”
~From “Flesh-Eating Metaphysically Considered” – 1910
…”In eating the flesh of animals, we are feeding and stimulating the
animal mentality that pervades our bodies. Instead of transforming the
flesh consciousness into Spirit, we are adding to its power to bind us
to the plane of sensation.”
~From “Flesh-Eating Metaphysically Considered” – 1910
…”It was the custom of Jesus to use familiar things for his
illustrations, and as the people he worked among were fishermen, it was
but natural that fish should figure prominently as illustrations in this
teaching. Instead of trying to change the customs of the people, he laid
down certain universal principles which would lead the people themselves
to change their customs. He knew that mere outward conformity to
righteousness did not fulfill the divine Law which requires man to
choose for himself the principles of Truth and work them out in his own
life. One of these principles is Love Universal.”
~From “Vegetarianism” – 1915
…”On one occasion, Jesus said to his disciples, ‘I have many things
to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.’ When he was in Palestine,
the race was not ready for the great revolution that was to accompany
the ushering in of the new race and the earth…He did not try to explain
to them the detail of ‘the restitution of all things’…Now the
understanding that life and love are to be demonstrated is becoming
general…Therefore, in the light of the Truth that God is love, and that
Jesus came to make his love manifest in the world, we cannot believe it
is his will for men to eat meat, or to do anything else that would cause
suffering to the innocent and helpless.”
~From “Vegetarianism” – 1915
…”Spirit has shown me repeatedly that I could not refine my body and
make it a harmonious instrument for the soul, so long as I continued to
fill it with the cells of dead animals.”
~From “The Vegetarian” – 1920
…”Undoubtedly the next great step forward in the reformation and
refinement of humanity will be the elimination of flesh food. We do not
anticipate a world-wide prohibition but a gradual adaptation of the best
foods by progressive people.”
~From “The Vegetarian” – 1920
…”We need never look for universal peace on this earth until men stop
killing animals for food.”
~From “The Vegetarian” – 1920
…”Physiologists tell us that beefsteak is a stimulant, and that
people get intoxicated with meat eating. Some persons become intoxicated
with coffee and tea; others with cocoa. All these things have an
intoxicating effect, and the system, if you cultivate it in that
direction, will keep calling more for such stimulants.”
~From “Eating and Drinking” – 1931
…”The invisible psychic agony of millions of cruelly slaughtered
animals saturates our earth’s atmosphere and the whole race suffers in
sympathy. We make intimate mental contact with these psychic terrors of
our little sisters and brothers of the animal world when we devour their
fear-shattered bodies. Out vague fear of impending danger, our troubled
sleep, our dread of the future, and numerous other unidentified mental
complexes may and often are the echo fears of the brutes whose flesh we
have entombed in our stomach.”
~From “Eating and Drinking” – 1931
…”If you find that you are a victim of the desire for stimulant in
any of its forms, say to the appetite: ‘I no longer desire those things;
I am no longer hypnotized or mesmerized by sense appetite…My stimulant
is Spirit, and I desire the stimulants of Spirit only. I live in the
life, the quickening energy, and the power of the Spirit.’
~From “Eating and Drinking” – 1931
…”We know that the drinking of intoxicants and the using of tobacco
in any form are dissipations of force. The natural energies of man are
set aside when he looks to stimulants of any kind as the source of
life.”
~From “Eating and Drinking” – 1931
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