Conclusion
Jesus said,
"I am the way, and the truth, and the life" (Jn 14,6, emphasis
mine). Moses said (see early topical listing herein), "The life
is in the blood." Ritualistically, through Moses Yahweh gave
his people a way to remain within their blood family by the sacrifice
of animal blood. But as Paul confirmed in Hebrews, this procedure was
superceded by the blood of Christ. Steiner has shown us how the human
blood, first cast to the "ground" in the fourth chapter of Genesis,
can, by a person's coming to an anthroposophical understanding of the
Mystery of Golgotha through the taking in of the true "I
AM" (Rev 19,12), transform the three bodies through his etherized
blood (Rev 19,13). Thereby the unisexual nature will be transformed
in time to the bisexual so that the larynx, in the image of its
Creator, will reproduce through its word (Rev 19,13). The larynx
will then be the earlier mentioned "rod of iron" (Rev 19,15). That is
when one will not want to be "with child" (Mt 24,19; Mk 13,17; Lk 21,23;
23,29), because the age of unisexuality will have ended along with the
process of reincarnation (see I-2).
But just as in the time of Moses those who did not properly avail themselves
of the sacrificial blood were expelled, so now those who remain in the
"flesh" (Rev 19,18) face its dire fate.
Then it can
be said that the egoism that could not see the fullness41
of the seven Elohim (of the sevenfold solar system) is on the way to
experiencing itself, its name, the "I
AM"—the last of the twelve kinds of fruit (Rev 22,2), the true
Ego sense, the Ego fully infused by the Christ, the fulfillment and
last of the twelve zodiacal senses (see I-20).
Then it can
be said that "this poor lisping, stammering tongue lies silent in the
grave," for it will have been transformed into the ruling "rod of iron"
by virtue of that etheric "fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's
veins."
Chapter
End Note (Continued from "Topical List" section above; italics
mine)
1. The shedding of another human's blood where it is: (a) Culpable:
Gen 4,10-11: (to Cain) 10And the Lord said, What have
you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from
the ground. 11And now you are cursed from the ground, which
has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your
hand.
Gen 37,22,26,31; 42,22; Num 35,19-21,33; Deut 19,11-13;
Josh 2,19; Judg 9,22-24; 1 Sam 19,4-5; 25,31; 2
Sam 1,16; 4,11; 14,11; 16,7-8; 20,12; 1 K 2,5,9,31,33,37;
21,19; 22,35,38; 2 K 9,7,26,33; 21,16; 24,4
1 Ch 22,6-8: 6Then he called for Solomon his son,
and charged him to build a house for the Lord, the God of Israel. 7David
said to Solomon, "My son, I had it in my heart to build a house to the
name of the Lord my God. 8But the word of the Lord came to
me, saying, 'You have shed much blood and have waged great wars;
you shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed so much
blood before me upon the earth.'"
1 Ch 28,3; 2 Ch 24,25; Ps 9,12; 55,23; 58,10; 68,23;
79,3,10; 106,38; 139,19; Prov 12,6; 28,17; Jer 7,6-7;
19,4-6; 22,3,17; 26,15; Ezek 3,18,20; 18,10,13; 23,37,45; 24,7-9;
33,4-6,8,25; 35,6; 36,18; Hos 1,4; Joel 3,19,21; Jon
1,14; Mic 7,2; Mt 23,30,34-35
Mt 27,4,6,8,24-25: 4saying, "I have sinned in betraying
innocent blood." They said, "What is that to us? See to it yourself."…
6But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said,
"It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since they are blood
money."… 24So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing,
but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands
before the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this man's blood;
see to it yourselves." 25And all the people answered, "His
blood be on us and on our children!"
Lk 11,50-51; Acts 1,19; 5,28; 18,6; 20,26; 22,20; Rev
6,10; 19,2
(b) Innocent or inadvertent:
Num 35,22-27: 22"But if he stabbed him suddenly without
enmity, or hurled anything on him without lying in wait, 23or
used a stone, by which a man may die, and without seeing him cast it
upon him, so that he died, though he was not his enemy, and did not
seek his harm; 24then the congregation shall judge between
the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these
ordinances; 25and the congregation shall rescue the manslayer
from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall
restore him to his city of refuge, to which he has fled, and he shall
live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with
the holy oil. 26But if the manslayer shall at any time go
beyond the bounds of his city of refuge to which he fled, 27and
the avenger of blood finds him outside the bounds of his city
of refuge, and the avenger of blood slays the manslayer, he shall
not be guilty of blood."
Deut 19,2-10; 21,1-9; 22,8; Josh 20; 2 Sam 3,27-28
2. The express indication that a creature's life is in its blood
(whether or not the eating of its blood is prohibited):
Gen 9,3-6: (to Noah) 3"Every moving thing that lives
shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you
everything. 4Only you shall not eat flesh with its life,
that is, its blood. 5For your lifeblood I will surely
require a reckoning; of every beast I will require it and of man; of
every man's brother I will require the life of man. 6Whoever
sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed;
for God made man in his own image."
