The Shedding Of The Blood

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No one can gird himself with a truth that does not issue from the blood. At most one can force it for a certain length of time, but there is no human being who can keep it up indefinitely. So one can only walk the Rose-Path to the full if one does so on the basis of a blood-certainty, on the basis of "girding the loins with Truth". For the pupil of a Spiritual School, then, the first concern must be to ensure that he really is capable of "girding himself" with Truth. He who possesses the Truth in the blood can bear it out by means of this blood-impetus. He or she can work through, and on the basis of, the blood. The activities of the blood render such a person capable of reaching his goal.

When we perform our task on the basis of the blood, we are making use of a power -- blood power. In this way we shed our blood. That is why it is said that Jesus the Lord and other great ones of the Gnosis shed their blood for mankind. They used, they spent their blood-power in which the Divine Truth was living and vibrating. They spent this power for a sinful, hostile mankind

So the cause of this bloodshed, of this most profound manifestation of the soul, must be sought in man himself. To the extent that a human being lives outside the Truth, others who possess the Truth from within will have to shed their blood-power for him. The shedding of their blood then becomes a blessing for him, a saving grace. Their soul-wounds become healing for him. He nails them to the cross of bloodshed, on which they willingly sacrifice themselves. And by this sacrificial death they conquer the world.

We are trying to make clear to you the truth about the divine revelation of salvation, to explain the facts of salvation about which dogmatists and theologians can only babble, because they derive their knowledge from documents and historical data.

We are trying to make you see how right the seventeenth-century poet Paul Gerhardt was when he sang:

A great burden of affliction

Thou hast borne, Lord, in my name,

yet tis I, O Lord, tis I

who am to blame.

 

Behold then, Lord, this sinner

who now stands before your face,

and give him, in compassion,

of your Grace.

He who possesses the Truth in the blood, is bound to shed his blood for entities who do not yet live in such a blood-state.

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

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It is hoped that this post and the previous one have been received with understanding. If so, then one should now understand what was truly meant (as opposed to what the churches preach) when it is said that the Christed One "shed" his blood for mankind.

The five soul fluids culminate in the blood and spur the personality to action. If the blood is of a certain nature, the human being will demonstrate that nature by his actions. If the blood has been purified by the Gnosis, that result will also show in the actions of one so blessed. For that person will act not out of self-interest, but in self-forgetfulness and service to all others. The Christ-power will work through him.

He will shed his blood for mankind.

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