Vegetarianism and Occultism Quotes

“Vegetarianism”

“Charles W. Leadbeater”

“Ageless Wisdom teachings”

“Beyond all question the future is with the vegetarian.”

“Let us see how this difference will affect the man’s evolution.”

“A plea for vegetarianism, and other essays by Henry Stephens Salt (1886)”

“The more flesh is consumed, the more serious is the danger of confirmed alcoholism.”

“The physical, body and its sense perceptions can never be at their best unless the food is pure.”

“How does Occultism regard Vegetarianism? It regards it very favorably, and that for many reasons.”

“I am certain that our descendants will look back upon this age as one of only partial civilisation, and in fact but little removed from savagery.”

“The Pythagorean diet, of vegetables only, conducive to the preservation of health, and the cure of diseases, by Antonio Cocchi (August 1743)”

“It seems certain that in the future — and I hope it may be in the near future — we shall be looking back upon this time with disgust and with horror.”

“It is not only those who do the obscene work, but those who by feeding upon this dead flesh encourage them and make their crime remunerative, who are guilty... of this awful thing.”

“The same thing is true to a still greater extent with regard to the higher bodies. Their senses cannot be clear if impure or coarse matter is drawn into them; anything of this nature clogs and dulls them”

“The purity of the heart and of the soul is more important to a man than that of the body. Yet there is surely no reason why we should not have both; indeed, the one suggests the other, and the higher should include the lower.”

“I am abandoning the field of ordinary physical reasoning, and taking you up to the level where you have, naturally, to take the word of those who have explored these higher realms. Let us then turn now to the hidden side of all this — the occult.”

“The man who learns to see these higher vehicles sees at once the effects on the higher bodies produced by impurity in the lower; he sees at once the difference between the man who feeds his physical vehicle with pure food and the man who puts into it this loathsome decaying flesh.”

“Let us at least make the experiment; let us free ourselves from complicity in these awful crimes, let us set ourselves to try, each in our own small circle, to bring nearer that bright time of peace and love which is the dream and the earnest desire of every true-hearted and thinking man.”

“Anyone who adopts vegetarian diet will speedily begin to notice that his sense of taste or of smell is far keener than it was when he fed upon flesh, and that he is now able to discern a delicate difference of flavor in foods which before he had thought of as tasteless, such as rice and wheat.”

“We all know what is meant by Vegetarianism; and although there are several varieties of it... We need not concern ourselves with these divisions, but simply define the vegetarian as one who abstains from any food which is obtained by the slaughter of animals—of course including birds and fish.”