In Scotland and the USA, 2 bio-tech firms have made another "breakthrough." They have altered the genetic make-up of piglets via genetic engineering in such a way that their organs can be transferred to human beings. The genetic engineers were able to turn off certain antigens in the cloned animals that are rejected by the human body. With this, it is now actually possible to transplant pig hearts, pig kidneys and other organs from the 4-legged animals into people. The National Medical Society is said to be already feverishly working on guidelines for these "xenotransplants." Virologist Ralf Tönjes of the national office for serums and vaccines assured the magazine Spiegel: "Xenotransplantion is a possibility that should be taken seriously as treatment for the many thousands of people who are waiting for organ donors." Whether this really works out is, of course, still a controversial issue. As the magazine also reported, Reinhard Kurth, the Director of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, views this latest development with skepticism: "We do not know how pig viruses will react in a human body." One cannot completely exclude the possibility that new forms of infections may develop. For this reason, it is necessary to have a "debate over a broad segment of society to decide whether the risks associated with xenotransplants are acceptable." Does this really have to do with just medical-technical "risks"?

Pigs are highly intelligent animals and- contrary to people - are extremely sensitive. Whoever greets them in a friendly manner is greeted by them like house pets, sniffing trustingly and grunting cheerfully. But we do not treat them as companions, as we do cats and dogs. Instead, we treat them like our foodstuff, whose only purpose in life is to be fattened and slaughtered for us - in part under such wretched conditions that not a few of the victims die of heart failure under shock of the treatment they receive from humans. Now we not only want to merely butcher the pigs in order to eat them, but to cut them up so that their organs can be transferred to us. No heart for pigs, but a pig heart for the heartless person. The insult "you pig" now finally makes sense: It loses its insulting character and becomes a matter-of-fact determination, especially when the person addressed carries not only a pig heart, but perhaps also a pig liver or a pig kidney.

That the animal-man , who develops from such transplants, is not in accord with the order of creation is seen not least of all in the reaction of the immune system in the human organism, which rejects genetically engineered animals organs, as well as foreign human organs. But man has not taken the natural order of things seriously for a long time. If it resists him, natural limits are manipulated away. This, of course, is done with a "high goal" in mind - the treatment of sick people, as they always say. Besides the already mentioned risks of this "treatment," there is also the question of whether one can even speak of "treatment" at all, when a mixture of man and animal is the result. It is not just particles of matter that are put together here; in every living organ, energies vibrate, these are soul-aspects of the whole organism. This has been proven many times over with transplants from humans to humans, through the fact that the organ receiver suddenly adopts the habits of the organ donor. There have been examples of drastic personality changes. Some suddenly felt: "I have two souls in my chest ..." The path of life and of purification of a person can be considerably disturbed when the seismographs soul and conscience are disturbed. What is true for organ transplants between human beings is especially true for transplanting organs from animals to humans. 
The one who ignores all this disregards the dignity of man. This consists of his being able to lead his life in free self-determination and to orient himself to ethical standards with the help of his conscience. This presumes that man is master in his own house and does not slip foreign energy fields between body, soul and spirit. The one whose only concern is to have the longest possible physical life can keep the vehicle of his soul going by hook or by crook via transplants of tissues and organs. However, he must realize that by doing this he turns against his own inner life clock as well as against his divine self. During the time on Earth given to him by God, he no longer lives in order to purify himself of the soul-burdens that he has inflicted upon himself in this or former lives. He vegetates in the rhythmic beat of his transplants as a mixture of his own and foreign soul programs - an apocalyptic being from the "Brave New World" of a monstrous medicine. 

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