The Secret History of the World

José Ortega y Gasset, the Spanish philosopher, talks of the release of spirits that the spilling of blood brings. Blood is a frightening mystery, he says. It carries life. When it is spilled and the ground stained, the whole landscape is maddened and excited. Oculists know that humans can be killed in a particular way so that the human spirit is harnessed. We saw how great initiates like Elijah fashion their vegetable and animal selves in such a way that they can become chariots with which to travel through the spiritual worlds. In occult circles, it is also known that black magicians can use the souls and spirits of others, their sacrificial victims, as chariots.