Christ Module 4 - Mystery of the Blood

keywords: special fluid, purified, etherization, link with higher ethers

Preamble

The reader is expected to be familiar with the seven elements/ethers.
Also required pre-material is what we denote as the 'blinders' topic, the fact that the Luciferic influences blocked chemical and life ethers, and the Christ Impulse brings these back to Earth. It is key to relate Buddhi to the chemical and life ethers streaming in with the Christ Impulse. Note: this also relates to the mineral body and the bones of Jesus' body.
Worthwhile is also to understand how the mineral is made up from the two etheric streams, and how these streams flow in Man's body.

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Blood is not just a mineral-material fluid, it also carries the higher ethers. In the heart, blood continuouisly dissolves into an ether with an upward stream to the pineal gland. Because of the Christ Impulse, the ether body of the Earth is also permeated with the higher ether which streams forth from the earth. These two streams can go into resonance when Man 'connects with' the MoG.

The blood of Christ was more than just mineral-material fluid, we have to consider the etherized blood that can and will purify the human blood from the excessive egoism.

Deepening: blood as instrument of Ithe I, the heart as union between comsos & earthly realm, two blood circuits, the damming up between heart and brain, the point between pineal and pituitary glans, matter is destroyed in the brain, and how the MoG (higher ethers) bring life to this process

Proposed lectures to start study on this theme:

1906-10-25-GA055 - blood special fluid
1911-10-01-GA130 - etherization blood
1922-05-26-GA212 - human heart
1916-06-13-GA169 - blood and nerves

after studying these four essential building blocks, I propose to study

1911-08-25/26-GA129 and 1911-03-23-GA128

Regarding etherization of blood, the GA130 lecture is most often given as the sole reference, but these lectures add essential aspects regarding the damming up of etheric and astral streams between blood/heart and brain, and the imprint of astral impressions on the etheric.

further study

In the lecture of 1920-05-16-GA201, Steiner refers to the principle of annihilation in man: that matter is destroyed in man, in the human head. It is nothing but a short and suprising reference here, to something which he never mentioned or explained before.

In Cosmosophy Vol. 1 (*) he goes into this and dedicates two lectures (of 1921-09-23 and 1921-09-24-GA207) on this topic of the ‘inner centre of destruction’. The concept is not easy to grasp and may need some meditating upon.

The above is mentioned here because in that same 1920-05-16-GA201 lecture is explained how the MoG transforms this process into enlivened embodied pictures with inner reality for the life to come. With pictures is meant, all that man has taken in as mineral substance on earth gets used and destroyed, so all that has taken place in earthly evolution. Man experiences this through the senses, and these astral images are then 'annihilated' or pass into nothingness.

Olive Whicher points to the empty sun-like ethereal space in the center of the head, surrounded by the brain and enclosed by the skull.

now 1911-03-23-GA128 can be the door-opener lecture, if we also consider this destruction of matter in the head, which is mentioned in the GA201 lecture

When one considers that picture of Whicher's empty sun-space .. in 1919-12-14-GA194 Steiner describes that the forces through which we finally die have their being in our head - are in our head, and he makes a sketch and points to: 'here is a void .. into this void, into what is being continuously destroyed, the soul and spirit enter .. in our head we are perpetually dying.