The Spiritual Mysteries of Blood by Christopher Vasey

Author:Christopher Vasey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Health/Spirituality
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2015-03-18T16:00:00+00:00

The Four Temperaments

The ancient concept of the four temperaments was a medical theory proposed by Hippocrates, who suggested that there are four fundamental personality types: sanguine (pleasure-seeking and sociable), choleric (ambitious and leaderlike), melancholic (analytical and quiet), and phlegmatic (relaxed and peaceful). Most formulations include the possibility of mixtures of the types. The association of these temperaments with blood has long been recognized and is found in such expressions as a person being “hot-blooded,” “cold-blooded,” and so on.

We each inherit a temperament or a combination of temperaments. However, during the course of life, every human being, because of changes in blood radiation, goes through four major stages in life that are colored by the characteristics of one or other of the four temperaments. The temperaments are then grouped into four age periods that, along with the different kinds of blood radiation that go along with them, offer the spirit different potentials for its sojourn on Earth.

The sanguine temperament corresponds to childhood. It is seen in the joy of life, enthusiasm, light-heartedness, spontaneity, and effervescence. It is life without cares, living from one day to the next. One could say that the spirit takes things lightly and without any sense of responsibility. And that is the way it really is, because childhood is the time when the spirit does nothing other than discover the world into which it finds itself incarnated. Before it has understood how everything works by living through life’s experiences, it can obviously not yet act with a true sense of responsibility. Only upon entering adolescence will its apprenticeship have been sufficient to enable it to begin to act more consciously, in preparation for adulthood.

Then the temperament changes and the spirit is bathed in the blood radiation of the melancholic temperament. The melancholic period of adolescence, with its nostalgic daydreams, leads young men and women to an awareness of the serious side of life and to bit by bit prepare for earthly activity. With the awakening of the sex glands in adolescence, the blood radiation changes substantially. By means of the new radiation bridge now offered to it, the spirit establishes a far closer contact with reality. It ceases to flit about in life the way it had done during childhood and sees ever more clearly the responsibility that it must assume for its actions. The ardent yearning and striving after high ideals typical of this phase of life helps the future adults to direct their actions in a harmonious and beneficial way.

Strictly speaking, true earthly activity does not begin until the end of adolescence and the beginning of the choleric temperament of the adult. With the period of learning and the awakening of consciousness complete, the spirit can now start to give concrete expression to its will in earthly life. It puts its own stamp on its environment, transforms it, and begins to achieve things of its own and see the results. The “excitable” blood of the choleric temperament pushes toward action and is eager to get going and get things done.

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