Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

LIBERATION

This term signifies the release of the ego or Self from captivity to the lower nature. The release comes about when the ego has entirely overcome the downward or outward attraction to the objects of desire and sensation, and has completely purified his lower nature, so that in fact it disappears, and his consciousness rises to union with God on the higher mental plane in the causal-body.

"The negation of the merely natural and sensual life, which is itself the negation of the spirit, is the sole way to true spiritual life."-D. F. STRAUSS, Life of Jesus, p. 438.

"If Christ does not rise within the soul of the believer, transforming everything there into his own spiritual likeness, our faith is vain, and we are yet in our sins. But then he does so rise; he does so gain the victory over our lower nature; he does conform us to his own risen life, and in so doing sets us free from sin." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., Christ Arisen.

"God's original plan comprehends a rising side, an economy supernatural, that shall complement the disorder and fall of nature, having power to roll back its currents of penal misery, and bring out souls into the established liberty and beauty of holiness. How manifest is it in the world's birth that God, from the first, designs it for a second birth; some grand palingenesia that shall raise the fall of nature and make existence fruitful." - H. BUSHNELL, Nature and the Supernatural, p. 148.

See Also

ASCENSION
ASCETIC
ATONEMENT
ATTACHMENT
BONDAGE
CAPTIVITY
CONQUEROR
CONSECRATION
COURSE
CRUCIFIXION
OF Jesus
DESTROYING EVILS
ESCAPE
EXILE
FALL
GUARDIAN SPIRITS
INCARNATION
KHEPERA
MANAS
PEACE
REBIRTH
REDEMPTION
REGENERATION
REMISSION
RESURRECTION
SAINTS
SALVATION
SCARABEUS
SIAMAK
SUN-SETTING
VIBHU
VICTORY
VISHNU
WORKS (Wisdom)