Course XLII - Teaching 3: Red Magic

Blood is the most powerful magnetic agent in our system.
Its subtle structure, greatly composed of the furthermost atoms, converts it into a bridge between organic forces and astral forces; thence its enormous significance in magic operations throughout ages. From immemorial times, any operation in quest for supernatural things in human nature includes certain blood sacrifice.
The search of God by man is always exaltation of the human nature across the bridge of blood toward the subtlest plane.
Fine and soft offerings of flowers and fruits are just an introduction to the true offering, the blood immolation.
Thousands of animal victims are sacrificed on altars through the ages in all religions, and this offering becomes more and more demanding and powerful.
Human sacrifice is necessary to get a permanent and effective presence of God invoked through certain sculpted image.
Human blood, charged not only with magnetic and ethereal forces but also with thinking forces, operates in a permanent and lasting way.
Azteca sacrifices bear particular witness to it.
But man suffers of insatiable thirst for God and even sacrifices his adored God in order to feel united with Him, not only through an ideal tie, but also through a tie for life.
In the beginning, it is the sacrifice totem, later the chosen man, the pure man, the best of all, and finally, the man incarnating the divine on earth.
The ancient sages have observed this primordial importance of the blood for the achievement of supernatural forces. So, there were numberless schools and sects that have searched their whole science on astral elements taken by the blood and eventually reached the most obscene and lowest manifestations of this power.
Anyway, the blood us a holy store that the man should preserve with dignity and respect, and only the higher forces use.