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94 LIOHT ON THE PATH
In the same way that “tears" in the language of Occultists expresses the soul of emotion, not its material appearance, so blood expresses, not that blood which is an essential of physical life, but the vital creative principe in man's nature, which drives him into human life in order to experience pain and pleasure, joy anda sorrow. When he has let the blood flow from the heart, he stands before the Masters as a pure Spirit, which no longer wishes to incarnate for the sake of emotion and experience. Through great cycles of time successive incarnations in gross mattero may yet be his lot; but he no longer desires them, the crude wish to live has departed from him. When he takes upon him man's form in the flesh he does it in the pursuit of a divine object, to accomplish the work of "the Masters," and for no other end. He looks neither for pleasure nor pair, asks for no heaven, and fears nc hell; yet be
