Speculation in Colors

“Throughout an immeasurable series of centuries, hell reigned in the world—in the form of a fateful necessity of death and killing. So what did a man do in the world—this bearer of hope for all creatures, witness to another higher design? Instead of struggling against this ‘realm of death,’ he pronounced his own ‘amen’ upon it. And thus, hell rules in the world with the approval and consent of man—the only creature appointed to fight against it: he is armed with all the means of human technology. Peoples swallow one another alive: a people armed for the universal annihilation—that is the ideal which periodically triumphs in history. And each time its triumph is proclaimed by the same hymn in honor of the victor: ‘Who is like this beast!’…”