THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF BLOOD

it ready to perform this crowning act of evolution — the transforming and uplifting of all that had gone before into the “very special fluid” original: "ganz besonderer Saft," a reference to Goethe's Faust which we call Blood.

If we would study those mysterious laws of the spiritual universe which exist behind the blood, we must occupy ourselves a little with some of the most elementary concepts of Theosophy Theosophy: a system of esoteric philosophy seeking direct knowledge of the divine. These have often been set forth, and you will see that these elementary ideas of Theosophy are the “above,” and that this “above” is expressed in the important laws governing the blood — as well as the rest of life — as though in a facial expression or outward appearance.

Those present who are already well acquainted with the primary laws of Theosophy will, I trust, here permit a short repetition of them for the benefit of others who are here for the first time. Indeed, such repetition may serve to render these laws more and more clear to the former, by hearing them thus applied to new and special cases. To those, of course, who know nothing about Theosophy, who have not yet familiarized themselves with these conceptions of life and of the universe, that which I am about to say may seem little else than so many words strung together, of which they can make nothing. But the fault does not always consist in the lack of an idea behind