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RAM OF SACRIFICE
A symbol of the Second Logos, or the Divine Life
involved in matter.
"A ram caught in a thicket by his horns and Abraham went and took
the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his
son.". - GENESIS. xxii. 13.
The “thicket" signifies the matter in which the Divine Life is
caught but finally conquers (horns). A phase of the Divine (Abraham)
sacrifices involved Life for the sake of the evolved Life (the son)
which is to be the Divine life within every human soul to bring it
to perfection.
"The Kalmucks consecrate a ram as 'the ram of heaven' or the 'ram of
the spirit.' The animal is tended carefully and never shorn. When it
is old, and the owner bethinks him of consecrating a young ram, the
ram of heaven is slain, and its flesh eaten." - Ency. Religion and
Ethics, Vol. V. p. 137.
"In the New Year Festival the Jews sing a hymn whose refrain refers
to the story of Abraham and Isaac on Mount Moriah, and runs thus: 'O
remember in my favour the merits of him who bound, and of him who
was bound, and the altar.'" - T. RHONDDA WILLIAMS, Serm.,
Redemption.
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