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Ephesians 4:13-14
Until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God,
to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fulness of
Christ.

We must drink Christ’s blood if we are to have any life in us. We must become one
with Christ.

John 17:20-23
"I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their
word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You;
that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.
And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just
as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect
in one...”

The life is in the blood. All those who drink the cup of Christ’s communion are
symbolically testifying that they are partakers of the very life (psuche - soul) of Christ. He
is in them, and they are in Him.
In no other realm among man do we observe such imagery of two souls becoming one,
other than in sexual union. Indeed, we are made one with Christ by becoming partakers of
His seed. The seed of Christ is not received by physical union, but by spiritual union. “That
which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”

I Corinthians 6:16-17
Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a harlot is one body with her?
For He says, "The two will become one flesh." But the one who joins himself to the
Lord is one spirit with Him.

Yahweh has given us the physical union of a man and a woman to serve as a parable
of the spiritual union between God and man. He also uses the symbolism of a man drinking
the blood of another to speak of this mystical union of two beings. Seeing that He uses both
illustrations to reveal the same spiritual truth, we should understand that a union of the
soul occurs in both instances.
Many cultures from ancient times understood that the soul of an animal is in its blood.
The practice of certain American Indian tribes who would eat the beating heart of a wolf or
a buffalo was based upon this understanding. Some aboriginal tribes would also drink the
blood of some great warrior that they had slain in battle. By doing so they believed that they
were taking on the strength of the other animal or person.
The principle of the soul being in the blood is what Satan has focused upon as he stirs
up the present fascination with vampires. In the Twilight series Edward is portrayed as a
vampire who falls madly in love with Bella, who is human. The attraction of Bella’s blood
is so overpowering that Edward is at first repulsed by her, for he has committed himself to
abstain from drinking human blood.
The attraction between the two is very much sexual in nature. Even as a woman may
fantasize of being irresistible to a man, or to men in general, so Bella is cast as a character
who is lusted after by numerous individuals, some good and some evil.