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A symbol of the Higher Self triumphant over the soul's lower nature. The Spirit of Truth gives the death-blow to illusion and ignorance.
"The celestial man ' is engaged in no combat; and in case he is assaulted by evils and falses, he despiseth them, and is therefore called a conqueror: he hath no apparent restraints by which he is tied, but is free." - SWEDENBORG, Arc. Cel. to Genesis. ii.
"New light can only be got by a fight against darkness. The soul cannot be revolutionised except through battle. The elements of a new life can only be assimilated through resistance. Otherwise they would not be your own. They are woven with the fibres of the soul by daily struggle. Without struggle they would be mere surface things, which a breath of temptation would blow away. The darkness does not vanish all at once, nor the light flash upon us. But when in our contest with the gloom and in our patient feeling after God, there comes first a faint glimmering of the truth which we shall possess, we rejoice and make it our own, and go on in its strength." - STOPFORD A. BROOKE, Serm., Lord, Increase Our Faith.
"The kingdom of Christ advances by warfare as well as by growth. Every step of the road, you have to cut your way through opposing foes. Every step of the road is won by a tussle and a strife. There is no spiritual life without dying, there is no spiritual growth without putting off the old man with his affections and lusts.' The hands cannot move freely until the bonds be broken. If we fancy that we are to get to heaven by a process of persistent growth, without painful self-sacrifice and martyrdom, we know nothing about it. For every progress in knowledge there must have been a sacrifice and martyrdom of our indolence, of our own pride, of our own blindness of heart, of our own perverseness of will. . . . For every progress in strenuous work for God, there must have been a slaying of the selfishness which urges us to work in our own strength and for our own sake." - A. MACLAREN, Sermons, 1st Series, pp. 255-6.
"I buffet my body and bring it into subjection.' He subdues himself, conquers the animal man through the grace of God in Christ in order to produce the spiritual man perfectly conformed to the likeness of his Lord." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., Warfare of Life.
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BATTLE
CONFLICT
HORSE (white)
LIBERATION
MAB
PILLAR (temple)
SALVATION
SPENDYAD
STRIFE
TANGAROA
VICTORY
WAR
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