Blood that has been purified in this way will be able to receive and be a bearer of the essential being of man. The image has the following meaning: The lower is to be restrained or extinguished, so that the purified blood of the human being can flower in such a way that the soul can strive towards the spirit as chastely as a flower strives towards the sun (seven roses in bloom). The general principle of development is, therefore, the principle of the Rose-Cross: The black cross from whose central point bloom seven roses. (VT: Meditations on the TARO, Letter on IV. Cross and Rose, the Rose-Cross is the symbol for this process of the realization of the true human being.” This process is crucifixion for what in them is lower, and is at the same time a blossoming forth of what is their true being. human beings) are to become, again, what they are in their essential nature they must undergo the work-ing of sublimation. In order to become “a human being in the true sense” and an image and likeness of God, the lower in man’s nature needs to be restrained, so that his true being can blossom forth: What are the steps of the path, in concrete terms? The general principle of development is described at the end of the IV. The Arcana as mediator to the Hermetic stream A study of the Christian Hermeticism of Valentin Tomberg in the light of Rudolf Steiner's school of Initiation Science
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