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REDEMPTION OF THE SOUL
A symbol of the substitution of the Divine
perfection for the soul's imperfection, by paying the price of
involved potential perfection in order to make perfect the evolved
actual imperfection of qualities and souls. The price paid being the
Divine Self-limitation in matter.
"Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things... But with the
precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without
spot. Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the
world, but was manifest in these last times for you." - 1 PETER i.
18-20.
"Blood being a symbol of the Divine Life, the shedding of this Life
is the Divine Sacrifice.
'The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.'" - REV. xiii. 8.
It is the involution of Spirit into Matter. This is the origin of
the indwelling Christ, who becomes the redeemer as he rises in the
soul from a state of latency, or death, to a state of actuality or
life. The indwelling Christ is the Archetypal Man foreordained as
the Prototype within humanity becoming manifest in each soul at the
present period of evolution.
"There is an indwelling Christ who redeems the soul from sin and
fills it with his own life." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., Christ Arisen.
"The glaring contrast between earthly suffering and imperfection on
the one part, and heavenly bliss and purity on the other, lies at
the heart and core of the philosophy of the Orphics and
Pythagoreans. Hence came their longing for purification, for
atonement and final redemption. The goal they aimed at was hard to
attain; a single earthly existence was not enough to cleanse the
soul... A long series of palingenesis formed a kind of continuous
pilgrimage, extending through thousands of years, and interrupted
and embittered by the penalties suffered by the soul in the pool of
mire. Late, if at all, the soul was freed from its labours, and
returned to the starting point of its journey. As a pure spirit once
more, it re-entered its home and rejoined the brotherhood of the
gods." - T. GOMPERZ, Greek Thinkers, Vol. I. p. 129.
"Redemption is the full compensation both to God and to the universe
for all that is undergone and suffered by and through Creation. And
it is brought about by the return from Matter of Spirit to its
original condition of purity, but individuated and enriched by the
results of all that has been gained through the processes to which
it has been subjected; results which, but for Matter, could not have
been. That through which we are made perfect is experience, or
suffering; and we are only really alive and exist in so far as we
have felt. Now of this divine and indispensable ministry of
experience, Matter is the agent." - The Perfect Way, p. 43.
"I should like to be informed who was ever made spiritually rich by
notions of an outward Christ? No, Christ is the inward spiritual
Being or Life that God has sent now into us, to be the actual
Redeemer of this our natural being, from its low estate, and to
raise it up, I say, joint heirship with Himself." - JOHN WARD,
Zion's Works, Vol. VII. p. 3.
"Redemption is the making good of what we have made ill, and it
contains two necessary ingredients — relief and reinforcement — and
in Christ we have both. Here on earth we are immersed and stifled in
matter, and in moral darkness and stupor — all to a great end. And
we have to be got out and brought back somehow to that whence we
came. If we were left only to ourselves we never should get out or
up; it is because of our vital indefeasible relation to Christ that
we can hope to come victoriously through into divine liberty and
joy." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., The Divine Mystery.
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