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SCAPEGOAT
A symbol of ignorance and error, that is, the
absence of the real, the true.
"And he shall take the two goats, and set them before the Lord at
the door of the tent of meeting. And Aaron shall cast lots upon the
two goats; one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for Azazel." -
LEV. xvi. 7, 8.
The two “he-goats" signify, (1) Desire for lower things, and (2)
Ignorance and error, which are negative and illusory conditions. The
first must be offered up to the Higher Self (the Lord), and the
second must bear, as an excuse, the sins of the qualities, and be
dismissed to nullity or negation (Azazel). Ignorance dissipated and
replaced by true knowledge atones for sin.
"This very circumstance of a word (Azazel) having been coined for
the occasion, suggests what seems to me the right view. To have the
iniquities ... conveyed by a symbolical action into that desert and
separate region, into a state of oblivion, was manifestly the whole
intention and design of the rite." - P. FAIRBAIRN, The Typology of
Scripture, Vol. II. p. 536.
"Azazel (in the Book of Enoch) was conceived as chained in the
wilderness into which the scapegoat was led. The Jerusalem Targum
(Ps. Jonathan) on Leviticus says that the goat was sent to die in a
hard and rough place in the wilderness of jagged rocks, i.e. Beth
Chaduda." - R. H. CHARLES, Book of Enoch, p. 72.
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AARON
AMMIT
ATONEMENT
GOATS
IGNORANCE
SACRIFICE
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