A Bethlehem Request
	Contents: In Accompaniment The Divine Breath also Streams through Nature and Animals Tradition does not justify cruelty Materialism is drawing to an end Animals Need a Habitat The emergence of a modern “cultivated landscape” Peaceable Cultivation The unity of life Humans and animals again become friends The Laws of the Eternal Creator are Against the Arbitrary Hunt and Chase of Animals The Kingdom of Peace Becomes Visible How can you help?
	Further literature and links
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	Collecting signatures for animal protection and against hunting
	Contacts, Ordering Information
	How can you help?
	“Even $1,- helps!”
	Impressum

We encounter a hilly landscape of fields and woods that invites one to a tranquil experience of nature. It is quiet here. On the edge of the path a grain field is waving in the wind, picturesquely surrounded by shining red poppy flowers. Perhaps a hare hops along the way in greeting, or a deer family is grazing above, at the edge of the woods. Further down, behind trees and bushes one can recognize a farmstead. And on the other side of the valley between two woodlands, a wide field spreads out slowly rising and leading your eyes upward – to a mighty wooden cross standing on the hilltop. From the distance it seems relatively small, but one can feel its true greatness and grandeur. The symbol of the Resurrected One shines over the isle of the Kingdom of Peace in coming.

Whoever looks around can see that much is in development and some things have already been completed. For example, the Bird Paradise – a small woods filled with the many voices of the life of its inhabitants. A colorful multitude of birds settled into the numerous nesting boxes during the Spring and raised their young: nuthatch and spotted woodpecker, robin and finch, thrush and jay and many others; the cuckoo and even the seldom seen oriole are there. Migrating birds also stop for a rest here. It’s gotten around that in this small woods there are plenty of seeds and always fresh water.

Other animals also get a sense of well-being in the Bird Paradise: wood mice, weasels and rabbits, butterflies, wild bees and bumblebees are at home here. A woods community filled with life that thankfully accepts the care offered by its human caretakers. On the ground of the woods that is free of deadwood, a richly varied flora sprouts: St. John’s wort, woodruff, the blue Italian asters and a wild orchid turns the bird paradise into a plant paradise as well.

In the hollow of the valley a couple of hundred meters distant, two wetlands have been created with different zones of vegetation as a source of food and dwelling places for the most varying kinds of inhabitants: great crested grebes, coots, dwarf bittern, thrush reed warblers, reed bunting ... Most of them have lost their natural habitats through the over-development of land, sinking groundwater levels and the reallocation of farmland. Here they find a new home in herbaceous wetland zones and belts of reeds among alder, willow and ash. Next to the reeds, cattails, marsh iris, rushes, sedges and many different grasses good for spawning grow there. Frogs and pond newts will also settle at home there.

A very essential renewal of farmland results from laying out extended hedge complexes.

Different kinds of trees like oak, sycamore and field maple, hornbeam, beech, linden, sorb tree, service tree and many others were planted. High hedges will form with plantings of shrubs along the sides, consisting, for example, of hazelnut, privet, sloe, dogwood, black elderberries and spindle tree. These offer the animals shelter, give shade and also give humans a high measure of natural experiences. Earlier forms of cultured landscapes are being created again. Particularly many kinds of animals settle into these transition areas from the layers of trees and shrubs on the one hand, and the open farming fields on the other.

Whitethroat, hedge sparrow, magpie, yellow hammer, red-backed shrike, nightingale, partridge and pheasant are only a few of the bird species that are breeding there. The area of plants and herbs beside these hedges is a particular source of food for many butterfly species.

Benjes hedges help plants to settle and spread in a natural way. Here, cut brush is placed in layers to form hedges. After a few years, trees and bushes settle in through seeds, mostly dropped by birds. The dead twigs and branches keep the soil from drying out and as they disintegrate, form a rich humus for the plants.

Of course, the hedges are also great for turtles, hedgehogs, lizards and field hares, polecats and weasels.

At the same time, tree islands are developed, here and there small copses in the midst of the farmlands. The tree groups are enclosed by diverse bushes and wild herbaceous growth. Various kinds of oak and hornbeam have been planted, field maple, birch, winter linden, red beech, cherry and many others, too. Where bushes are planted, hazelnut, red hedge cherries, black elderberries, blackberries, wild roses, cranberry bushes and sea buckthorn grow. Such tree islands have almost fully disappeared from conventional farmland, since every square meter of soil should bring in a profit. In the peaceable farming that takes place here, it is different: In the field copses many wild animals find protection and food – field hares and foxes, pheasant, polecats and partridges. They all find shelter here. Red-backed shrikes, kestrels, owls and other bird species brood in the security of the trees and bushes.

Not unimportant are also the stone biotopes with their small and large holes, nooks and crannies that are particularly favored by certain species. A stone biotope offers many small mammals like mice and marten places of refuge and sleep. Lizards and snakes have their homes there and sun themselves comfortably on the warm stones during the Summer.

By creating these different habitats for plants and animals it is especially important that these biotopes are connected to one another, for example, through hedges. In the end, such a network of countryside features should draw through the fields. The animals can run along at the edge of these routes and always find protection and shelter. This connected biotope system is very important for the maintenance, creation and expansion of habitats for many animals and plants.

These are only a few examples of the development of nature and countryside that is taking place on the isle. It is constantly growing through new fields for cultivation, and new reforestation. Wooded areas, meadows and fields have been acquired to increase the size of the habitats of the animals and to decrease the hunting pressure on them. The animals feel the peaceful care and overcome their fear of the people who live here with them. This is why the caretakers see to it that not too many visitors and curious people disturb the tranquility of the fields and woods. The animals need a longer period of time to get used to humans, whom they have normally experienced only as enemies. In the animal world, it would seem that word of the existence of this oases has gotten around, for apparently the orphaned young, of animal parents that have fallen victim to a ruthless hunter who shot down a wild sow or a doe, are making their appearance.

The Saamlinic Work of Neighborly Love for Nature and Animals is a gift and a deed of cosmic proportions. Under the instructions of nature beings and spirit beings, a new relationship is developing between humans and their fellow creatures. Very quietly, a change is taking place toward a peaceable co-existence.

Ever more people feel addressed by this task. They want to grow into an awareness of the unity of life that encompasses humans, animals, plants and minerals. It is the path of the inner being which leads to this unity, and which is being taught today in all details – in connection with the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, deepened in the revelations of the Spirit of the Christ of God and transmitted through Gabriele in the prophetic word of God. Every one can contribute already now to the peace and friendship between humans and animals: first, through a positive communication with the plants and animals in their own surroundings. And if a person wants to, he can also support the work that is described here so that it can grow with his help and the Kingdom of Peace is born and becomes visible more and more on the isle, where it now lies hidden, just as Isaiah announced and the Spirit of the Christ of God revealed through the prophetic word for today.

To make all of this possible, the Saamlinic work was founded in the form of a foundation of legal capacity, whose purposes are written down in its statutes. There, we can read among other things:

(1) Purpose of the foundation is the creation of a habitat for animals and plants through the support of:
a) conservation, care and protection of land in the meaning of the law of conservation of Germany and the conservation laws of the states;

b) conservation, particularly in terms of the natural care and sustenance of the animals;

c) the natural development of plants;

d) environmental protection, particularly the promotion of an ecological, natural cultivation, above all by keeping the cultivating fields pure from environmentally polluting agents like fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides and other harmful substances as well as the promotion of pure air and water.

e) The foundation supports the care of people and animals that need help and are ill ...

(2) Purpose of the foundation is particularly developed through the following measures:

a) The foundation can acquire fields, meadows and woods, and keep and maintain them according to the purposes of the foundation ...

b) The means acquired for the foundation can also be used to create biotopes, protected areas and other facilities which have as a goal the natural care and restoration of plants and land. ...

f) By fulfilling the purposes of the statutes, a responsible treatment by humans of the divine creation entrusted to them, the animals, plants, nature and the environment, is promoted. This corresponds to the Original Christian principles of a flourishing collaboration of humans with the whole of Creation as is being taught in our time in the Original Christian teaching and as it is given in the Ten Commandments of God and in the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus of Nazareth.

Many have already begun helping to create the foundations for the Kingdom of peace between humans and animals because they have come to comprehend the great event and to feel in their innermost being: “Yes, I belong to this.” Many others will follow. The foundation has not set up the usual “contributions account,” but “gift accounts” that make it possible for every person to give according to his own feeling of mercy. A trustee administers these gifts of neighborly love so that they are used for the purpose for which they were given. The trustee Armin Grätzer is also very willing to advise you on the current possibilities of application of your gifts and any questions you may have on the best possible ways of handling your gift.* As long as we live in the world, this material help is necessary so that the plan of God for the Kingdom of Peace may be fulfilled.

The Eternal had entrusted to man the Earth, nature, animals and minerals, so that humans would take the Mother Earth and everything that she bears into their loving care and become one with her. But man has failed and violated creation. For this reason the rulership over the Earth has been taken from him and it has been placed under the care of spirit beings and divine beings of nature – until the Eternal can give it back to peaceable people, as it is written in the Sermon on the Mount: “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.” And on December 24, 2000, Gabriele added to this the following: “Dear brothers and sisters, we know from the divine beings of nature that in the cosmos a mighty fount of light is forming; it is the Eternal, the spirit of nature, in accord with the redeeming power of the Christ of God who is establishing His Kingdom of Peace.”