OCCULT SIGNIFICANCE OF BLOOD

world of the senses, sees in it nothing final, but rather a kind of physiognomy physiognomy: the practice of assessing a person's character or personality from their outer appearance which he recognises as the expression of a world of soul and spirit; just as, when you gaze upon a human countenance, you must not stop at the form of the face and the gestures, paying attention only to them, but must pass, as a matter of course, from the physiognomy and the gestures to the spiritual element which is expressed in them.

What every person does instinctively when confronted by any being possessed of a soul, is what the occultist occultist: a student of hidden or "occult" spiritual realities that are not immediately visible to the physical senses, or spiritual scientist, does in respect of the entire world; and “as above, so below” original: "as above, so below" — a central Hermetic maxim suggesting that the laws governing the macrocosm (the universe) also govern the microcosm (the individual) would, when referring to man, be thus explained: “Every impulse animating his soul is expressed in his face.” A hard and coarse countenance expresses coarseness of soul, a smile tells of inward joy, a tear betrays a suffering soul.

I will here apply the Hermetic Axiom The "Hermetic Axiom" refers to the teachings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, emphasizing the correspondence between different planes of existence. to the question: What actually constitutes wisdom? Spiritual science has always maintained that human wisdom has something to do with experience, and that painful experience. He who is actually in the throes of suffering manifests in this suffering something that is an inward lack of harmony. He, however, who has overcome the pain and suffering and bears their fruits within him, will always tell you