The Blood Is A Peculiar Fluid

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"Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the day of evil, and having done all, to stand:

1, Gird your loins with Truth
2. Put on the breastplate of Righteousness
3. Shod your feet with the preparedness of the gospel of Peace
4.Take up the shield of Faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of evil
5. Put on the helmet of Salvation
6. and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God;
7. praying always in the Spirit, with all prayers and supplication
8. and taking care to remain praying, with great perseverance, for all the holy ones"

Ephesians 6

The Eightfold Path begins with "girding your loins with Truth". In a superficial sense, this might relate to getting dressed, to putting on clothes and preparing oneself for a journey. But the clear symbolism Paul employs here obliges us to look more deeply.

His words concern the liver-spleen system with its center in the solar plexus. This system is the primary blood production and control center. It is located in the region of the loins. So in this sense, "girding" oneself means proceeding from a certainty etched in the blood. All a persons actions, the invisible activity of his thoughts and feelings as well  as his outward actions, originate from or are controlled by the blood.

If one has girded oneself with a certain blood-certainty; if such a blood-certainty is emanating from the liver-spleen system; if, in the liver, the blood is continually replenished with such a certainty, so that the person actually lives out of such a state of the liver, then the inevitable result will be a life of corresponding actions. So if you want to experience and walk the Rose-Path in reality, then its aim, its essence, its absolute Truth  must be present in your blood.

It is easy to imagine how it is with those who do not possess this fundamental blood-state and yet seek to walk the Rose-Path. Their condition is always forced, to a greater or lesser extent. If the blood-certainty we have described is not present, difficulties always develop in one's pupilship.

How can we achieve such a blood-certainty? To understand this we will need to consider

The Five Fluids Of The Soul

First, there is an astral fluid. This fluid enters the human system via the magnetic faculty of the brain, filling the seven cerebral cavities, the seven-branched candelabrum, with its fire. This fluid is the ego-fire, the nucleus of consciousness from which the four other fluids are to be explained.

The astral fluid brings to life the twelve pairs of cranial nerves. With the aid of the nerve fluid, the second soul fluid, twelve faculties, twelve attributes are called into being. These twelve faculties can rightly be called the twelve disciples, the twelve eons of the human being. They condition the human being's organic life.

The third soul fluid is the serpent-fire, situated in the innermost canal of the spinal column. It connects the seven-branched candelabrum in the head with the sacral plexus situated at the lower end of the spinal column. These two points, the candelabrum in the head and the sacral plexus, form the two magnetic poles of the personality; thus the sacral plexus performs the same function as the south pole of our planet.

In the axis of the personality, the serpent-fire, the astral fire comes to expression, mixed with all the magnetic, karmic impulses from the microcosm's past. So you should see the serpent-fire as a co-mingling of past and present. Via the central nervous system, this essence too is transmitted throughout the system, so that the system will behave in keeping with the electromagnetic totality. However, this preparation is not sufficient to achieve such an aim. That is why the fourth soul fluid exists, the hormonal fluid, originating in the ductless glands. We can see these organs as transforming stations of electromagnetic fluid, each laden with magnetic fire, each with a special task, each producing a different hormone which is transmitted to the fifth soul fluid, the end-product of our soul's activities, the blood.

The whole being speaks, testifies and works in the blood. The entire soul is manifested in the blood. As the blood is, so is the human being. Thus it is in the blood, through the blood, that the state of consciousness becomes a state of life. So it is clear that, if a Truth is to live in us, if it is truly to be made free in us, it must be present in us as a state of the blood, as a blood-certainty, since it is the blood that actualizes the totality of the fivefold soul. That is why the blood is, as someone once said, "a very special fluid indeed" (Goethe's Faust, Act I, Scene 4).

From "The Shedding of  the Blood" The Mystery of Life and Death - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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The blood is the vehicle of the soul. Everything about the human being is contained in and explained from the blood and the other four soul fluids. This is why the call for purification of the blood is a key requirement for going the Path. It begins with the re-direction and purification of the thought-life.

When the Christ-radiation, the Gnosis, enters the heart and is continually attracted via a sincere yearning for salvation, it will begin to circulate throughout the body by way of the blood. If the candidate can continue to attract this other-wordly vibration then it becomes possible, after what is usually a long struggle, to overthrow the karmic and hereditary influences inherent in our blood. The reborn New Soul can then flourish and grow.

Not as easy as it sounds. The aeons of this nature-order have a tight grip on all of us, their influence is firmly anchored in our blood. With diligence and steadfastness we can pry their talons from us, one claw at a time.

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