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And in the future lies the point in time when man, through his expanded consciousness will be able to transform the blue blood into the red blood; then he will have within himself the source for the blue blood tree to be a tree of life. Today it is a tree of death. In this image, there is both a retrospective and a prospective view! You see that in man a red blood tree and a red-blue blood tree are entwined. The red blood is the expression of the I, it is the lower part of the knowledge of the I. The blue blood is the expression of death. As a punishment, the blue blood tree was added to the red tree of knowledge as the tree of death. In the distant future, this tree of death will be transformed into the tree of life, just as it was originally a tree of life. 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Als der Mensch im Schoße der Gottheit ruhte, da war die Gottheit in ihm fähig, das, was sein Leben und seine Erkenntnis bedeutet, ineinander zu verschlingen — und in der Zukunft liegt der Zeitpunkt, wo der Mensch durch sein erweitertes Bewußtsein in sich selbst fähig sein wird, das blaue Blut umzuwandeln in das rote; dann wird in ihm selbst der Quell sein dafür, daß der blaue Blutbaum ein Baum des Lebens ist. Heute ist er ein Baum des Todes. - So lebt in diesem Bilde ein Rückblick und ein Vorausblick! Sie sehen, daß im Menschen ein roter und ein rotblauer Blutbaum verschlungen sind. Das rote Blut ist der Ausdruck des Ich, ist das Untere der Ich-Erkenntnis, das blaue Blut ist der Ausdruck des Todes. Als Strafe wurde zu dem roten Erkenntnisbaum der blaue Blutbaum als der Baum des Todes hinzugefügt. 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