"...potassium cyanide will take the soul with it and then,
instead of continuing to live in the soul, we will be diffused
throughout the whole world, particularly in the sunlight."

Those at the very top are conscious of the occult laws which govern
existence and exploit them for their own perverted aims. They are
only able to retain their power, however, for as long as they are
able to keep this knowledge 'occult' (hidden) and 'esoteric' (for the
few).

Here is an example from Peter Tradowosky's 'Christ and Antichrist'

which illustrates how genuinely evil people are aware of and exploit
occult laws, on the use of cyanide in the concentration camps of Nazi
Germany.

'... not only were there death-factories, the technically organized
mass slaughter of human beings, but the death of these people was
brought about by the use of potassium cyanide. In a lecture to
workmen at the Goetheanum on 10 October 1923, which course must be
read in its entirety, Rudolf Steiner made grave statements about
death caused by cyanide:

"But now, as we are on earth today, if we introduce potassium cyanide
into our body we destroy all our movements and life forces. And the
bad thing is that there is always the danger that, by so poisoning
ourselves, potassium cyanide will take the soul with it and then,
instead of continuing to live in the soul, we will be diffused
throughout the whole world, particularly in the sunlight.

"If anthroposophical knowledge could be more widely known, no one
would poison himself with potassium cyanide. One would not dream of
it! It is only through a materialistic view of life that people
poison themselves with potassium cyanide, because they think 'dead is
dead', quite irrespective of whether one dies of cyanide poisoning or
by an inner process of dissipation. But that is not a matter of
indifference! If one dies through inner dispersion then the soul and
spirit pass into the spiritual world in the usual way; they continue
to live on. But when one is poisoned by cyanide one's soul tends to
accompany each little piece of one's body, namely, to expand with the
nitrogen and to dissolve into the cosmos. That is the true death of
soul and spirit. If people would only know that soul and spirit are
the real human being, they would say: It is quite impossible that we
should cause the terrible explosion which, in a delicate way has its
repercussion throughout the whole of the cosmos, when somebody
poisons himself with cyanide. For every person who poisons himself
with potassium cyanide joins himself in a wrong way to the current
which flows from the earth to the sun. And it should be possible, if
one had the right instruments, to see a small explosion in the sun
every time that a person poisons himself with cyanide. And the sun
deteriorates through that. A human being spoils the cosmos and also
the force which comes from the sun to the earth if he poisons himself
with cyanide. If a person poisons himself with cyanide then it is
true that he actually ruins the sun! And that is the case with every
cyanide poisoning."

One should remember that the perpetrators (Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler,
Goering and others), as well as the millions of their victims, died
by this method. That must be seen as the most terrible attack of the
Sun Demon against humanity. When considering the incalculable
consequences which will result, according to Rudolf Steiner, we
should be careful to do no more than pose questions. Does the
ruination of the sun oppose the etherization through Christ? How does
death by cyanide affect the victims? How can one work in a
spiritually realistic way to help to heal these human beings? Should
one not feel the greatest compassion for the perpetrators of these
deeds? How can both perpetrators and victims alike find the way to
the next incarnation they are looking for? ...'

Note: Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) was a renowned seer and advocate for
the public dissemination of 'occult knowledge'. He was effectively
exiled from Germany after an attempt on his life by Hitlerguards
whilst giving a lecture in Munich in May 1922.