Blood spilled requires more blood to pay the debt. The books must be balanced.
Thus, understood psychologically, blood represents the life of the soul, of transpersonal origin, exceedingly precious and potent.
It is to be reverenced as divine and any effort of the ego to manipulate, appropriate or destroy it for personal purposes provokes vengeance or retribution.
Blood spilled requires more blo0d to pay the debt. The books must be balanced.
Such thinking illustrates the law of the conservation of psychic energy.
There is so much psychic life to be lived.
If it is denied fulfillment in one area, it must be made up elsewhere.
There must be blo0d for blo0d. Repression, which is internal murder, will out.
It is a crime against life for which payment will be extracted.
Jung has this fact in mind when he says:
. . . nature seems to bear us a grudge … if we withhold our emotions from our fellow men. … To cherish secrets and hold back emotion is a psychic misdemeanour for which nature finally visits us with sickness—that is, when we do these things in private. ~Edward F. Edinger, Ego and Archetype, Page 228
