Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

ATONEMENT BY THE BLOOD

A symbol of the reparative effect of the Divine Life in the soul's growth. The forming and healing Life gradually making perfect the imperfect soul, in proportion as the soul aspires toward the ideal.

"For the life (or soul) of the flesh is in the blood and I (the Lord) have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life (or soul)."-LEV. xvii. 11.

For the power of upward growth of the lower nature (flesh) of humanity, resides in the recuperative Divine Life (blood) which the Higher Self sheds upon the highest part of the lower nature (the altar) in order that the souls shall have the means of development: for it is the Divine Life that maketh perfect by reason of the perfect Archetype within.

“Among the ancient Hindus an atonement was asserted to be through the sacrifice of Purusha the Great Hindu Universal Ideal Man."-MON. WILLIAMS, Indian Wisdom, p. 24.

ATONEMENT OF CHRIST

A symbol of the unfinished, continuous and progressive work of human perfectionment, by the substitution of the merits or perfection of the Redeemer for the imperfections of the redeemed. The indwelling Christ having laid down his life in Involution, takes it again in Evolution as he rises in the souls of humanity. In this process of spiritualisation he makes atonement for the sins of the world and unites man to God,-the made-perfect to the Perfect.

"For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement."-ROM. v. 10, 11.

For if, when we (the egos) were following only our natural desires, we were turned to God through the previous death of the Divine Life within the lower nature, and the consequent birth of the Christ in our souls ; much more, being turned thereby to God, shall we be saved by his Life within us. And not only so, but our souls in their innermost being now rejoice in the Ideal of Wisdom, Truth, and Love, through the growth of the indwelling Christ by whom we now receive a gradual perfectionment of being.

“William Law says,- Christ given for us, is neither more nor less than Christ given into us. He is in no other sense our full, perfect, and sufficient Atonement, than as His nature and spirit are born and formed in us."" - DR. INGE, Christian Mysticism, p. 281.

"The Atonement of Christ is the reconcilement of humanity in all the length and breadth of its complex duties and experiences. Hence he summons every man to a fellowship with His own life, not only to follow Him, but to become one with Him." - T. T. MUNGER, The Atonement, etc., p. 367.

"If Christ be the Eternal Son of God, that side of the Divine nature which has gone forth in creation; if He contains humanity, and is present in every act and article of human experience, then, indeed, we have a light upon the fact of redemption. For Jesus is thus seen to be associated with the existence of the primordial evil which has its origin in God. Evil is an experience for the sake of the far-off holiness it makes possible. The eternal Son, the going forth of God, must therefore be asociated with responsibility for the bias without which neither guilt nor sainthood could have come into being. He, and He only, therefore, can sever the entail between man and his responsibility for personal sin." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Ibid., p. 25.

"The Atonement that is a vital human need is no making up of a previous strife, but the fulfilment of the Divine idea of man. It is effected through self-development and self-realisation. Man comes to God as he comes to him- self; and to come to himself he must come to God. Atonement is, further, the reconciliation of the whole man, and his whole life and world, to God." - DR. J. HUNTER, Ibid., p. 312.

See Also

(BLOOD)
ALTAR
ARCHETYPAL MAN
BLOOD
FOOD
HOMA-JUICE
SCAPEGOAT
SOMA-JUICE

(CHRIST)
ADOPTION
ARCHETYPAL MAN
BLOOD
BLOOD OF THE LAMB
HOMA-JUICE
LIBERATION
PASSOVER
RANSOM
REDEMPTION
REGENERATION
REMISSION
RESURRECTION
SALVATION
SOMA-JUICE
TAUROBOLIUM
WASHED