THE OCCULT SIGNIFICANCE OF BLOOD

memorial axiom of spiritual science The author refers to Anthroposophy, a philosophy suggesting that the human spirit can contact a spiritual world through disciplined inner development.. You will become more and more deeply sensible of this, and you will find that gradually, point for point, the ancient wisdom will reappear in the science of modern times.

Occult investigation shows decisively that all the things which surround us in this world — the mineral foundation, the vegetable covering, and the animal world — should be regarded as the physiognomical expression The outward physical appearance as a reflection of internal character or spirit., or the "below," of an "above" or spirit life lying behind them. From the point of view taken by occultism The study of hidden spiritual realities that are not visible to the ordinary senses., the things presented to us in the sense-world can only be rightly understood if our knowledge includes cognition of the "above," the spiritual archetype, the original Spiritual Beings, whence all things manifest have proceeded. And for this reason we will to-day apply our minds to a study of that which lies concealed behind the phenomenon of the blood, that which shaped for itself in the blood its physiognomical expression in the world of sense. When once you understand this "spiritual background" of blood, you will be able to realise how the knowledge of such matters is bound to react upon our whole mental outlook on life.

Questions of great importance are pressing upon us in these days; questions dealing with the education, not alone of the young, but of