Chapter 85222–224

soul, because moral and social rules can be no substitute for the inner law which each one must receive from his soul.

13 December 1969 228 – He who will not slay when God bids him, works in the world an incalculable havoc.

229 – Respect human life as long as you can; but respect more the life of humanity.

230 – Men slay out of uncontrollable anger, hatred or vengeance; they shall suffer the rebound now or hereafter; or they slay to serve a selfish end, coldly; God shall not pardon them. If thou slay, first let thy soul have known death for a reality and seen God in the smitten, the stroke and the striker.

In what kind of circumstances does God give the command to slay?

This is a question I cannot answer, because God has never asked me to slay.

14 December 1969 231 – Courage and love are the only indispensable virtues; even if all the others are eclipsed or fall asleep, these two will save the soul alive.

232 – Meanness and selfishness are the only sins that I find it difficult to pardon; yet they alone are almost universal. Therefore these also must not be hated in others, but in ourselves annihilated.