186 OCCULT PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH & HEALING
ceremony of mixing blood to see if the transfusion of
the blood of the stranger into their family was
detrimental or otherwise. All this was because in
earlier times humanity was not as individualized as it
is today. They were more under the domination of the
Race or Family Spirit, which dwelt in their blood, as
the Group Spirit of animals does in the blood of
animals. Later the international marriages were given
to free humanity from that yoke and make every
separate Ego sole master of its own body without
outside interference.
Science has lately found that the blood of different
people has different crystals, so that it is now possible
to tell the blood of a Negro from the blood of a white
man; but there will come a day when they will know a
still greater difference, for just as there is a difference
in the crystals formed by the different races, so there is
also a difference in the crystals formed by each
individual man. The thumb-marks of no two people are
alike, and it will be found in time that the blood of
each human being is different from the blood of every
other individual. This difference is already evident to
the occult investigator and it is only a question of time
when science will make the discovery, for the
distinguishing features are becoming more marked as
the human being grows less and less dependent, more
and more self-sufficient.
This change in the blood is most important and in
time, when it has become more marked, it will be
productive of most far-reaching consequences. It is
said that “Nature geometrizes”, and Nature is but the
visible symbol of the invisible God whose offspring
and images we are. Being made in His likeness, we are