70. About The War - What Happens Behind The Appearance Of Maya. Appearance of the Christ in the Ethereal
The one who lives in the consciousness soul perceives strangers as competitors, as rivals. The one who has the ego sees the enemy in the opponent, where the other sees the barbarian, the rival, the stranger. The enemy is also the one you face in a duel. The basic character of the German is to see the enemy in the other, whom one respects equally. And the Russian sees the heretic everywhere, he sees religion everywhere, so every war has to be reinterpreted as a religious war. That's how it was in the Balkans. He wanted to bring Christianity to the Balkan peoples. The Russians in today's war have the awareness that they are fighting against evil.
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