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REDEEMER OF THE SOUL
A symbol of the indwelling Self, who pays the
penalty attached to imperfection with His own Divine Life (His
blood). The souls are full of suffering and ignorance, and the price
of redemption from evil is the efflux of the Divine Life of the
incarnate Self, which, by being assimilated by the imperfect souls,
gradually makes perfect the qualities in them which are imperfect.
The Archetypal Man, or Christ incarnate within every soul, gives of
His own nature that which the individual soul lacks, in response to
the soul’s own efforts to prepare itself for accessions of higher
qualifications. The Redeemer is latent within until He is called
forth by sacrifice and aspiration to save the soul from its
captivity to its lower nature, and to raise it to its pristine state
of bliss.
“But I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand up at
the last upon the earth: And after my skin hath been thus destroyed,
yet from my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself, and
mine eyes shall behold, and not another.” — JOB xix. 25–27.
I know that the perfect Self liveth within me, and that at the end
of the cycle He shall overcome my lower nature (earth). And after my
lower vehicles (skin) have been thus destroyed, yet rising from my
lower self (flesh), I shall become one with the Self. I, the
individuality, shall unite with Him, and not the personality.
“If God then finds a passage from heaven to the grave, so must a way
be discoverable for man from the grave to heaven: the death of the
Prince of Life is the Life of mortals.” — D. F. STRAUSS, *Life of
Jesus*, p. 433.
“God is conceived of by the religious consciousness as not only the
creator of the world of things and men, but as the present Life of
the human soul. He is moral Ruler and Providence; He is Redeemer;
and He is the Revealer and Inspirer as well.” — G. T. LADD,
*Philosophy of Religion*, Vol. I, p. 612.
“The Divine Sufferer was God Himself, who in creating the universe
sacrificed Himself for it. The Cross, therefore, represents the
Greatest of all sacrifices, not something that happened once, and
once for all, but something that is eternal and timeless — the
sacrifice of God in and for His own creation that could not be
unless He poured His own life into it, and restricted Himself within
its forms and substance. Great is this mystery of Godliness:
unthinkable in its magnitude is this sacrifice, for it means nothing
less than the identification of the Infinite with the finite in its
lowest forms. Here is the profoundest mystery open to human
contemplation, to speak or think of which is possible only in forms
of symbol and parable. The literal truth is too vast, too
mysterious, too sublime to be made known to human comprehension.
Creation is none other than God’s primal and continual
self‑revelation: it is the Great Father coming down and voluntarily
incarnating Himself and being made man for us men and our
salvation.” — K. C. ANDERSON, Serm., *Cradle of the Christ*.
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