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LAMB OF GOD
A symbol of the Divine Sacrifice. The Logos
having been emanated from the Absolute limits his nature in the act
of manifestation through forms of matter.
"And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him (the beast),
every one whose name hath not been written in the book of life of
the Lamb that hath been slain from the foundation of the world." -
REV. xiii. 8.
And all the lower qualities shall serve the desire-mind; every
quality whose differentiation is not of the higher order and an
expression of the Life of the Divine sacrifices itself at the the
universe, shall be lower principle (beast) for a period.
On looking into the boat of the Sun-god we see that this deity has
transformed himself, and that he no longer appears as a fiery disk,
but as a Ram-headed man, who stands within a shrine; in other words
Rå has taken the form of Osiris in order that he may pass
successfully through the kingdom of the dead, whose lord and god is
Osiris. The name given to this form is Af, or Afu, which means
literally flesh,' and ' a dead body'; it was as a dead body that
Osiris first entered the Tuat, and those who wished to become what
he became subsequently, had to enter the Tuat as dead bodies and
with the attributes wherewith he entered it." - BUDGE, Egyyt. Heaven
and Hell, Vol. III. p. 106.
This refers to the Logos (Ra) entering the life-cycle (Tuat) in the
world-soul (boat). The symbolical imagery of the Ram's head
signifies that the Logos thereby sacrifices himself (as the Lamb)
and becomes hidden in matter, and as it were dead. The God cabined
within the shrine of the human heart is the Incarnate Deity (Afu,
flesh) crucified in matter, as all souls are crucified. For all
souls, or sparks of the Divine, who wished to become what He became
subsequently (when He rose triumphant from the dead), had also to
enter the lower nature as dead in Osiris (Christ) and with the
qualities and potencies wherewith He entered it.
"For if we have become united with him by the likeness of his death,
we shall be also by the likeness of his resurrection; knowing this,
that our old man crucified with him, that the body of sin might be
done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin; for he
that hath died is justified from sin. But if we died with Christ, we
believe that we shall also live with hm." - Rom. vi. 5-8.
It is through the Divine Life (the slain Lamb) within the soul that
the "body of sin," the desire-nature,- is gradually dissipated,
(washed away by the "blood of the Lamb "), and the soul freed from
bondage to matter.
"Looking back upon history, or down upon the brute creation, or into
the individual human heart today, it is impossible to avoid a
feeling of horror at the tragedy of it all. It is the passion of God
on the cross of the world; it is Deity being slain on the altar of
time to rise in power in the solemn splendour of the eternal
morning." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., God's Uses of Time.
"The universe is fundamentally spiritual; being what we are we can
come to no other conclusion; but in that very fact there lies a
stern and dreadful necessity, the necessity for the cross. It must
be as true of God as it is true of you that the cross is the
condition of highest self-realisation; the cross is eternally in the
heart of the Father or he could be neither love nor joy, nor would
his holiness have meaning and power. . .What one dimly perceives is
that God cannot help himself in this matter; it is written deep in
the nature of things; it has to be; omnipotence cannot alter it. The
lamb slain from the foundation of the world' is no figure of speech
but the very heart of all reality. The revealing of the glory of God
carries with it a cosmic calvary in which we, his children, are
individually called to share. This is as truly the nature of things
in their highest computation as it is true of the simplest modes in
which beauty and truth express themselves in or experience. It is an
unspeakable relief to me to think this. It is the august law which
governs life on all planes till it reaches perfect fulfilment and
satiety in the vast infinitude of its eternal home." - R. J.
CAMPBELL, Serm., Swelling of Jordan.
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