Lies, Lies, Lies…
…tell me no more lies…
In the last five or six years more lies have been told among civilized humanity than in any other period of world history; in public life the truth has scarcely been spoken at all; hardly a word that has passed through the world was true.
While this stream empties into lies (see drawing), the middle stream empties into self-seeking; and an economic life like the Anglo-American, which should end in world-dominion — if the effort is not made to bring about its permeation by the independent spiritual life and the independent political life, it will flow into the third of the abysses of human life, into the third of these three.
The first abyss is lies, the degeneration of humanity through Ahriman;
the second is self-seeking, the degeneration of humanity through Lucifer;
the third is, in the physical realm, illness and death; in the cultural realm, the illness and death of culture.
The above was stated in 1919 by Rudolf Steiner (the first paragraph in reference to World War One). And now I am stating this about our time right:
In the last four or five years more lies have been told among civilized humanity than in any other period of world history – including those that led to, and fostered, World Wars One and Two; in public life the truth has scarcely been spoken at all; hardly a word that has passed through the world was true. And this fact seems to continue ad nauseam.
This only stops when we stop – lying to ourselves first of all.
In all the insanity coloring our world today are you at all afraid of death? If you believe that you have only one life, that what you do – whether good, bad or indifferent – means nothing once you are dead, you are very mistaken. Death is a myth. That is, death is not an end of anything. Our lies endure, they harm. They harm you, me, all of life.
Our lies are the height of egoism, egoism drives humanity lower than what it is meant to be, into the abyss.
Aren’t you tired of all of this yet? I am…