OCCULT SIGNIFICANCE OF BLOOD

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that through suffering he has gained some measure of wisdom.

“The joys and pleasures of life, all that life can offer me in the way of satisfaction, all these things do I receive gratefully; yet were I far more loth to part with my past pain and suffering than with those pleasant gifts of life, for ‘it is to my pain and suffering that I owe my wisdom.’”

And so it is that in wisdom occult science The study of hidden spiritual realities and the laws underlying the visible world. has ever recognised what may be called crystallised pain — pain that has been conquered and thus changed into its opposite.

It is interesting to note that the more materialistic modern research has of late arrived at exactly the same conclusion. Quite recently a book has been published on “The Mimicry of Thought,” a book well worth reading. It is not the work of a theosophist A follower of Theosophy, a philosophy seeking direct knowledge of the divine and the mysteries of being and nature., but of a student of nature and of the human soul. The author endeavours to show how the inner life of man, his way of thinking, as it were, impresses itself upon his physiognomy The practice of assessing a person's character or personality from their outer appearance, especially the face.. This student of human nature draws attention to the fact that there is always something in the expression on the face of a thinker which is suggestive of what one might describe as “absorbed pain.”

Thus you see that this principle comes to light again in the more materialistic view of our own day, a brilliant confirmation of that im-