Daily Meditation: Saturday, May 1, 2004

Blood - is that in us which is closest to the light

05/01/2004

In one drop of blood an initiate can discover the quintessence of matter, the principles of the four elements: earth, water, air and fire. Blood represents the life that circulates in the universe. If we know how to consider it, we come to sense that, within us, it is blood which most resembles light. Blood is life, ‘and the life is the light of all people', says St John at the beginning of his Gospel. This light is the very substance that God first called upon when creating the world, saying, ‘Let there be light!', and it is this light which is condensed in our blood. So we must be vigilant and treat with the greatest respect this blood which is a condensation of light, of divine life. And in the same way that blood always returns to the heart, our life must return to the heart of the universe: to the Creator.