Blood

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The warm blood (Latin: sanguis; Greek: αἷμα haima; Hebrew: דָּם dam) is the direct physical expression of the human I. The prerequisite for the formation of the red blood was the iron which Mars gave to the Earth in its first half of development. It is a pure product of the earth evolution and did not yet exist in this form in the preceding planetary stages of world evolution. The warm red blood arose in the Lemurian period and is connected with the Luciferic influence. Lucifer has direct influence on the blood ("blood is a very special juice" - Faust). The average blood temperature of humans today is about 36-37 °C.

The blood as a pure product of the earth's evolution

„The blood - I am speaking of the human being - presents itself to us as that which has come into the human organisation through the processes which are, in particular, earth processes. The blood is by all means an earth being. You know that long before there was an earth, man was prepared by the existence of Saturn, the sun and the moon. What has been prepared there, the blood does not yet have in itself. The blood, as it flows through our veins today as human blood, was added through the earth organisation. On the other hand, in the construction, in the whole shaping and formation of the nervous system, is contained that which has long, long been prepared by the Saturn, Sun and Moon processes, by the preliminary processes of our earth organisation.“ (Lit.:GA 169, p. 37)

Etherisation of the blood

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To the clairvoyant eye, it is evident how the blood in its finest parts is constantly etherised in the heart, i.e., passes again into the etheric state from which it originally condensed. This etherised blood flows continually from the heart towards the head. These etheric powers of the heart penetrate the brain and radiate even beyond the head (if sufficiently strong, this appears to the imaginative gaze in the aura of the head as a halo). Only through these etheric forces are we at all able to grasp thoughts that are not completely bound to the egoistic needs of the organism. Aristotle still had an inkling of this. Since the blood of the Christ was shed on Golgotha, the Christ force can unite with this etheric current.

Literature
References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated.
Email: verlag@steinerverlag.com URL: www.steinerverlag.com.
Index to the Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner - Aelzina Books
A complete list by Volume Number and a full list of known English translations you may also find at Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works
Rudolf Steiner Archive - The largest online collection of Rudolf Steiner's books, lectures and articles in English.
Rudolf Steiner Audio - Recorded and Read by Dale Brunsvold
steinerbooks.org - Anthroposophic Press Inc. (USA)
Rudolf Steiner Handbook - Christian Karl's proven standard work for orientation in Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works for free download as PDF.
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