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5 Planes of Existence
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WASHED IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB
A symbol of the soul purified through the
involved Divine Life which rises up from within, restoring and
healing the soul.
Christ, the Divine Sacrifice, the incarnate Son of God, is latent or
potential in the lower nature (flesh) of every soul, and becomes the
Saviour as he is brought into actual being by the aspirations and
efforts of the personalities. Those egos who have eventually
transcended their lower selves are "washed," that is, cleansed, from
imperfection and become spiritual, so that they inherit eternal life
as a result of the previous sacrifice of Christ or involution of
Spirit in Matter.
"The blood of Christ' (that is, the given life, the sacrificial
spirit of Christ), who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself
without blemish unto God, shall cleanse your conscience from dead
works to serve the living God' (HEB. ix. 14). You notice that the
effect of the sacrifice of Christ is an effect in the conscience, in
the inner nature of man. Christ must live within us as a great
cleansing, sanctifying presence, and as a power of consecration to
the service of God. What are the merits of Jesus? His truth, His
faith, His tenderness, His mercy, His love. These must be in us,
they are no use anywhere else; they are healing streams from the
fountains of Eternal Purity, to carry life and health to our souls."
- T. RHONDDA WILLIAMS, Serm., Redemption.
"Even in Greece itself, though the doctrine (of the blood of God')
was utterly perverted, it was not entirely lost. As Servius tells us
that the grand purpose of the Bacchic orgies was the purification of
souls,' and as in these orgies there was regularly the tearing
asunder and shedding the blood of an animal, in memory of the
shedding of the life's blood of the great divinity commemorated in
them, could this symbolical shedding of the blood of that divinity
have no bearing on the 'purification from sin' these mystic rites
were intended to effect? We have seen that the sufferings of the
Babylonian Zoroaster and Belus were expressly represented as
voluntary, and as submitted to for the benefit of the world, and
that in connection with the crushing of the great serpent's head. If
the Grecian Bacchus was just another form of the Babylonian
divinity, then his sufferings and blood-shedding must have been
represented as having been undergone for the same purpose—viz. for
the purification of souls." - A. HISLOP, The Two Babylons, p. 71.
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