Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

300 ON TilE BIBLE AND Scu:Nc~~tiu evnlntioni!lt
eannnt he otherwiRe than practically a Trinitariny with their 11pil·it. It ha.11 hAcmme
impoRsible to regard redemption as an afte•·thought, as a
plan devi11ecl by a re11onrceful Creator, in Miltonic fashion: tn
meet an emergency. It hilS heeome imposMihle to the evolutionist
to retain what wall cmC',e the nrcHuary view of the llnptwnaturalAA
an interference with the natural, as an interpollition
frum annthet· sphere. Snc~h clnalism is t·epngnant to him. To
the evolutionist again, all prog•·es11 heing the t't>Knlt uf 11truggle
and saeriflce. thH Atonl'ment i11 Goo's identiflmttion of Him~~el£
with the human race in that eea11eless stmggle. manifested espedally
in the snprenu~ sam·iflce of the 11inlt>ss Christ, hut also
in all human life livt>rl in the 11pi1·it o£ Chr·ist. This iclentification
iM the Atmwment. the t•ecmwiliatinn; and i•• it the evolutionist.
not le11s than the theologian, fintls new hope and
power, a release ft·om sin, a real forgiveness and redemption.
Fur in this Incarnation, this identiflclation by God of HiR ve•·y
self in the str·nggle of man, we have the pledge of ultimate
vint01·y. .Moreovet•, the I neamatinn resto1·es to 118 ju11t that
a.nthropomorphi11 el~ment whic~h is neclessary to us, and which
at fia·11t seemed lo11t. The divine Cht·iat in the form of man has
emablecl 1111 to realize the teudem~y ancl stream of imper·soruu
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