Blood Atonement

"Moses then said to Aaron, “Come near to the altar and offer your sin offering and your burnt offering, so that you may make atonement for yourself and for the people; then make the offering for the people, so that you may make atonement for them, just as the Lord has commanded.” ~ Leviticus 9:7 (New American Standard)

Why should the process of becoming one with someone or something have come to denote in English what atonement is understood to mean today — namely, making amends or reparation for a mistake or sin? This is not a difficult process to reconstruct. To be “at one” in the sense of to be “in harmony” or “in concord” is an English idiom going back at least to the late 13th century, and “to atone” as a transitive verb meaning “to achieve a state of at-oneness, or reconciliation, between two parties” first crops up in English in the late 16th century.

"In what sense did Jesus the Christ redeem and make vicarious atonement for the race? They have taken the old Mosaic writings literally and believed that the Christ was sacrificed to appease an angry God. That is a horrible way to interpret a marvelous doctrine. It is horrible to think that the most righteous man, the most blessed man, the One without stain or blemish had to be offered as a sacrifice to an angry Deity to save the rest of the world. Those who so believe have missed entirely the inner significance of the doctrine of the vicarious atonement of the redeemer of the world. One who stands in the great power of an Avatar--the focal point of the Logos made flesh--becomes the redeemer of the world by taking upon himself the load of karmic conditions resulting from the destructive acts of all the race, and lifts that load by the great power of his illumined Spirit. In this inner sense, the doctrine of vicarious atonement is a true doctrine..." ~ Vitvan, Bible Lessons

We now begin to get the sense that the Old Testament rituals, as interpreted by those operating in objective identity, distorted or perverted the actual intention of the teachings received from a much 'higher' level. In fact, this important ritual was an acted parable, a copy of what the Christos Power was expected to do on that great day when He made at-one-ment, because the blood of animals is both inappropriate and inadequate to provide the cleansing necessary to approach Light's Regions. Animal sacrifice could never atone for human sin.* Neither could any finite individual atone for sin against an infinite God. Only the regenerated and cleansed psyche, purified by the fires of the First Crossing and operating as the Logos power, could cleanse our sin and enable us to enter safely into the presence of God, who is a consuming fire...

*Think of this meaning of Sin: "falling short of a high mark"

"Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let’s show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire..." ~ Hebrews 12:28-29 (NAS)

Understood in this way, the state of At-One-Ment is the ultimate purpose of our journey on the roadmap as presented by Vitvan in the School of the Natural Order -- this is the pathway that leads an individual into the presence of God.

"Now I go back to the fundamental that I developed a little while ago that there is nothing without, nothing without the Father in Heaven. God isn't up there in the stratosphere, riding around on a cloud bank looking down your shirt collar. Father in Heaven, to our lower states of consciousness, even down to the objective self conscious level, is your own higher self, your own Father in Heaven. So when you pray to the Father in Heaven, Thy will be done on earth (in this objective level), think of your own higher self, your own Logos, because you're invoking it by that prayer. You're invoking its influence to come into your consciousness, and therefore transform the so-called lower states. Your meditation is to lift your forces up to the Father in Heaven (to your own True Higher Self)." ~ Vitvan, Steps in Self-Unfoldment, Lesson 1

Image: Henry John Stock, Death Turning away from an Innocent Child