Translation from German by Robert Hutwohl[1]
It has not been long since that triad of malice, stupidity and megalomania, formerly known as the “devil,” appeared under the mask of religion and introduced [to the world] the Inquisition and heresy trials. Hundreds of thousands of people fell victim to this monster in a short space of time; Torquemada[2] alone burned more than ten thousand people alive in four years and condemned eighty thousand to torture. The innocent public, imagines that the spirit that gave birth to these abominations has disappeared from the scene forever and that the present “age of humanity” makes a repetition of similar atrocities impossible; but all signs indicate that the same devil has only rested a little and gathered fresh strength, and has now resumed his work, but this time under a different mask, under the guise of science.
It is known to the “initiates” that torture did not stop with the Church Inquisition, and that it was generally restricted to the animal kingdom, and only dogs and cats, rabbits, calves, etc. were subjected to vivisection. In the alleged “interest of science”, but in fact completely pointless and useless, or at most to satisfy the curiosity of this or that student and to show him what every reasonable person already knows, thousands of animals have been and are tortured to death today. For example, Professor Mantegazza proved that an animal can suffer extremely great pain by driving nails through its feet and nailing it to a board, because then every movement it tries to make increases the pain. It is useless to go into a more detailed description of similar aberrations of the “representatives of science,” where one does not know whether the madness of those who put them into practice or the ignorance of the authorities who tolerate them is greater. Baron Ernst von Weber brought the matter to light, but people have calmed themselves down by saying that they are only dealing with animals, and that perhaps one or the other experiment might be of use to the well-being of mankind.
But now, a Dr. Koch has published a pamphlet entitled “Medical Experiments on Living Beings,” [R.H.—“Medizinische Experimente an lebenden Wesen”] from which we see that vivisection is also being carried out on human beings and is becoming more and more fashionable every day. The fourth chapter of the pamphlet deals with the use made of orphans in this way because, as the doctors claim, “calves are too expensive,” and they are inoculated with the most hideous diseases, from which the majority die. Dr. Koch’s book contains the details of such experiments, along with photographs of the victims, so that there can be little doubt as to the truth of his claims. If we add to this the increasing transition of doctors to the formerly hostile camp of spiritualists and hypnotists, we are only a small step away from the kingdom of the devil, the realm of black magic. This does not represent progress, but a pernicious step backwards, which is diverting humanity from the path of knowledge and leading it to brutality, moral depravity and ruin.
The calf before which the representatives of modern science kneel adoringly is our own ephemeral self. Science will use no means too low to provide this self with every possible sensual pleasure and every possible well-being. Thus, the Marshal of France, Gilles de Laval, tortured more than two hundred women and children to death in the most cruel manner possible, in order, as he believed, to find a way to collect the life escaping from the dying and make an “elixir of life” out of it. Thus, in the last century, a Russian princess killed one of her serfs every day in order to bathe in their blood and thereby, as she believed, preserve her beauty.[3] Thus, today, vivisectors torture thousands of animals to death in the dubious hope of perhaps confirming this or that theory and thereby making a name for themselves in the world of scholarship, and people have already been sacrificed for this foolish purpose. Worse than this are the silly experiments with hypnotism carried out by “scholars” without reason, who know nothing of the fundamental laws on which so-called hypnotism is based, and cannot know anything, because they lack the key to them, the knowledge of the human psychic constitution. To hypnotize a person means to subject oneself to his will by paralyzing his willpower and substituting one’s own. By subjecting a person to this procedure so often, he gradually loses the power of his free will and becomes a helpless puppet with which any stronger person can do whatever he wants. Even a hypnotized morality would have no value for the person in question, since it does not arise from his free will and therefore does not promote his development. But how could the selfish scholar, whose morality is only artificial, hypnotize virtue into another person? His whole aim is to satisfy his scientific curiosity and to make his name shine before the world. In the past it was the lie under the mask of religion that deceived mankind; now it is the same lie under the mask of science that deceives the whole world, and there is no other remedy against it than reason.
Reason teaches us that the true cure of disease and the preservation of health consists in freeing the body from all impurities and keeping it pure; “science”, on the other hand, has discovered how to make the body “immune” to contagion by means of a “method of contamination”, i.e. by poisoning the life-ether (prana [prāṇa]), the body is so contaminated that it appears to be hardened against even further contamination.
If we go a step further, the same principle could be applied to morality and religion, and perhaps the philosophers of the future will come to the conclusion that, in order to avoid pangs of conscience, it is more convenient to harden oneself against the warnings of a bad conscience by an immoral lifestyle than to take the trouble to overcome one’s moral weaknesses.
But just as dulling the senses does not lead to a greater sensitivity to sensory perceptions, and hardening oneself against the whisperings of conscience does lead to a lack of conscience but does not lead to an increased ability to distinguish between good and evil, so infection with animal poisons cannot produce a normal state of physical health. The laws of nature are immutable. Their effects can perhaps be delayed for a while, but not averted. The poison accumulated in the body by the infection method will sooner or later cause devastation which, as a result of the delay, is worse than that which was prevented by the infection. The reason that modern “science” knows nothing of all this is that it is itself only a pseudo-science, and its dogma is based only on a superficial assessment of external appearances, not on a true knowledge of the real nature of man.
Notes:
[1] Little things. The coming Inquisition, torture and vivisection. Franz Hartmann, M.D. Lotusblüten 5, no. 30 (March 1895), 224-231. [Kleinigkeiten. Die kommende Inquisition, Folter und Vivisektion.] This article was reformatted from the original but with the content unchanged other than minor typos, translation from German by Robert Hutwohl, ©2025
[2] R.H.—The first Grand Inquisitor, Tomás de Torquemada, of the Catholic Church.
[3] R.H.—This is still being done today by the manufacture of Adrenochrome using, mainly children, in the state of Texas, Ukraine and other places. Wealthy people pay large sums of money for the liquid, under the delusion that their youth and beauty will be maintained. I will not enter details here. This practice parallels, but just as worse, the exceedingly evil use of the mRNA vaccine on millions of innocent humans around the world and the practice of using puberty blockers on children. Doctors now no longer practice the Hippocratic oath. They have become the promoters of evil.