The dance of blood
The dance of blood
With the word blood, we reach at the beginning of creative actions. Proteins dance as they shake their bodies and wave their limbs, with the goal of optimizing their interaction with other molecules, including other proteins.
These tiny motions, called vibrations, enable the molecules to change shape quickly to bind to one another, which in turn facilitates tasks like absorbing oxygen and repairing cells. Studies show that, in biological courtship, dance moves matter.
A is clamping motion B is twisting motion
They found that the direction in which different parts of the protein move determines more how well a protein performs its biological function, than the energy of those vibrations.
We are born into the world in blood and tears, and all too often we leave the world in blood and tears. There is also an esoteric content that needs some clarification.
The blood transmits not merely that ancient figment, heredity, and that modern figment, the genes, but also that non-figment, karma – the accumulated debt of past sins which shape our lives.
The secret schools teach that, for our karma to unfold and for the debt to be wiped away, we must enter into the stream of humanity, and dip for a while into a blood-line.
This means that we must submit to the changing body which is subject to the multiplicity of mutations offered by the Earth.
The esoteric Gnostic texts suggest that the body and the blood are linked with redemption, by speculating that the name Adam meant both ‘red’ and ‘earth’. And that from the earth, through the Mysteries, the human ‘light’ might birth.
It is this etymology which explains why one sacred text could interpret the name Adam as meaning ‘virgin earth’, ‘earth the color of blood’, ‘earth red as fire’, and so on.
Our blood and tears are, like the sweat of our brow, the liquids we spill to redeem our karma whilst dwelling in the body. In the alchemical literature, blood is red, and tears are white.
Tears contain salt, which is one of the high Mysteries of alchemy. In the arcane texts, salt is the residue of fire, just as salt tears are a residue of an inner emotional burning.