WHAT IS UNDERSTOOD BY SIN AND REDEMPTION?

Sin is a voluntary inversion of eternal laws. This inversion happens only through the illusion that the tyrannical ego causes in man. But when the truth of the divine Self in him overcomes the illusion of the ego, then the redemption of man arises; therefore, sin is the victory of our Luciferlike ego and the defeat of our Christlike Self... the serpent's wheezing, defeating the breath of God. When in man, the symbolism of the serpent of the ego defeated the divine breath of the Self, the man committed the first sin because the immutable Cosmic Laws require the victory of the Self over the ego.

Sin and redemption is an attribute of human nature itself; man is defeated by his ego and is victorious by his Self. Thanks to his free will, man is responsible for either his defeat or sin or for his victory or redemption. Both Lucifer and Logos, the Devil of Perdition and the Christ of Redemption, are within man, and it is incumbent on man to make his Christlike self triumph over his Luciferlike ego. The inner Lucifer and the inner Christ of the man himself are the factors of sin and redemption.

The sinful ego must suffer through the inversion of divine laws in its human nature; must integrate itself voluntarily into the Divine Self, and since all ego-integration into the Self is equivalent to a disintegration of the ego, man cannot redeem himself without the death of the ego.

--- “Very truly, I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies (ego), it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds (Self).” John 12:24

--- “He who has no idea of “me” and “my” both for his mind and body, he who does not grieve for what he does not have, he is called the one who lives a holy life, transcending both merit and demerit, and walks with comprehension in this world.” Dhammapada 367

--- “Everyone who renounces selfish desires and breaks with the ego-cage of “I am” or “this is mine” will be united with the Lord forever. To achieve this is to pass from death to immortality.” Bhagavad Gita 2,71