A Time to Kill: Symbol of Blood in Bible and Liber Primus

Abstract Ecclesiastes 3: 3 states that there is “a time to kill and a time to heal”. Prior to healing, corruption and cleansing in terms of the blood alone has matured man’s experience of living. Sacrifice and spilling of the blood is foundational in the Bible: it is one of the significant symbols that have established the relationship between God, man and the world. The paper explains the symbolical virtues of the blood in the Old and the New Testaments, and attempts to extend its meaningfulness in the experience of Carl Jung as documented in the Liber Primus. Verily there is a time to shed the blood. According to Carl Jung, time ripens through the blood sacrifice. The prominent presence of the blood in the Bible and the Liber Primus necessarily request and compels objective and subjective reflections in the paper.