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What Does Blood Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
What does blood mean in the Bible?
Blood: the life-force and vital energy moving in the body, the very charge that must be poured out for any inner change to take hold
Esoteric lens · Hebrews 9:22
Where blood appears in the Bible
Matthew 27:24
So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”
1 Chronicles 11:19
and said, “My God forbid me, that I should do this! Shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in jeopardy?” For they risked their lives to bring it. Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.
1 Corinthians 10:16
The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?
Blood through 2 lenses
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Christian Psychology · John 6:56
Christian Psychology
To take in the flesh and blood of the teacher is to make his way of seeing wholly one's own, so completely that no separation is left between the mind and what it has learned. This is not an act of the body, which can join with nothing, but a total sharing of purpose. When a mind stops holding love at a distance and lets it become the very thing it thinks with, the old sense of being alone dissolves.
Dwelling is mutual because love and the mind that accepts it are not two things. A mind that fully receives this teaching finds it was never outside, and that what it welcomed had been its own truth all along.
- Flesh: the living substance of the teacher's way of seeing, taken in and made one's own until it is no longer separate.
- Blood: the shared life beneath the teaching, the truth that flows into a mind willing to receive it completely.
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Esoteric · Matthew 27:24
Esoteric
Truth is used to excuse a man from the very work truth demands. The self, unable to quiet the uproar of religious minds around it, reaches for truth only to rinse its own energy clean of responsibility and step back. This is the churchgoer who attends outwardly while inwardly washing his hands of the inner life, the excuse dressed up as innocence.
The just person about to be handed over is the inner life force, and the hands that go through the motions of cleansing are the divine energy withdrawn just when it should have acted. Nothing is settled; the tumult wins because the one who could have stood aside chose to.
- Water: truth, the second stage of consciousness
- Hands: the divine energy of the body, drawn in and out
- Blood: the inner life force of the just one, given over
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What blood means in each story
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- Psychoanalysis'Whoever sheds man's blood...': Blood is protected because humans carry God's image. The Self in each person is sacred.Genesis 9:1-17
- PsychoanalysisBlood crying from the ground: The victim's blood cries from the earth. Repressed material doesn't disappear; it returns through symptoms and dreams.Genesis 4:1-16
- PsychoanalysisGoat's blood on the tunic: Jacob once deceived his father with goat skins; now his sons deceive him with goat blood. The shadow returns across generations.Genesis 37:31-36
- EsotericShed no blood (what Reuben says): the excuse we use to wash our hands and walk away.Genesis 37:12-30
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