The Occult Significance of Blood

whose range of experience such matters may have entered.

Now man is in a state of evolution, and for this reason Theosophy A spiritual philosophy seeking direct knowledge of the divine and the mysteries of nature says: “If you remain as you are you will not see the etheric body The first invisible layer of the human constitution, responsible for life force and growth, and may therefore indeed speak of the ‘boundaries of knowledge’ and of ‘Ignorabimus’ Latin for "we shall not know," a famous 19th-century scientific claim regarding the limits of human understanding; but if you develop, and acquire, the necessary faculties for the cognition of spiritual things, you will no longer speak of the ‘boundaries of knowledge,’ for these only exist as long as man has not developed his inner senses.” It is for this reason that agnosticism constitutes so heavy a drag upon our civilisation; for it says: “Man is thus and thus, and being thus and thus he can know only this and that.” To such a doctrine we reply: “Though he be thus and thus to-day, he has to become different, and when different he will then know something else.”

So the second part of man is the etheric body, which he possesses in common with the vegetable kingdom.

The third part is the so-called astral body The vehicle of human emotions, desires, and feelings — a significant and beautiful name, the reason for which shall be explained later. Theosophists who are desirous of changing this name can have no idea of what is implied therein. To the astral body is assigned the task, both in