"Burning Rhapsody"

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Emmanuel Swedenborg, the Swedish scientist and mystic, held that the soul of a man was a 'spiritual fluid' diffused throughout the body, and that the medium for its diffusion was the blood, which was thus imbued with power from the divine source. On the other hand the French occultist Eliphas Levi spoke of blood as 'the astral light made manifest in matter', the astral light in this context being the vital principle of the etheric world.

Blood was regarded by all peoples throughout history as a magic substance of tremendous psychic potency and was therefore universally hedged in by taboos. It was the sign of supreme sacrifice; it sealed covenants; it betokened both maidenly virtue and the magic power of virgins. If split on the earth blood cried aloud for vengeance...'There is scarcely any natural object with so profoundly emotional an effect as blood'.

Benjamin Walker, Beyond the Body: The Human Double and the Astral Planes

The Moon’s path shown along the Earth’s orbit during the years 1888 and 1889.

The famous tattooed leg of Queen Vaikehu of the Marquesas Islands, from Atolls of the Sun by Frederick O'Brien,1922

Since the Torus is being simultaneously generated by matter in all the various phases of “time”, it reflects the development of the universe in the past, present and future. By reflecting on this model, it becomes possible to “see” how human consciousness brought to a sufficiently altered state could obtain information concerning the past, present and future since they all exist in the universal hologram simultaneously (in the case of the future because all of the consequences of the past and present can be seen coming together in the hologram such that the future can be predicted or “seen” with total accuracy). 

Moreover, it is possible to see how the implosion of energy patterns would cross and recross to create an incredibly complex four dimensional hologram or Torus, in spiral shape in movements of the energies which comprise the universe leave their mark and and hence tell their story throughout time.

—Declassified CIA document Gateway Process

In Gurdjieff’s cosmology, The Universe is represented by the symbol of the Enneagram. The Enneagram itself is composed of three symbols

Russell A. Smith, Gurdjieff: Cosmic Secrets