From HomoExcelsior

1. Preservation or deliverance from destruction, difficulty, or evil. 2. A source, means, or cause of such preservation or deliverance. 3. Deliverance from the power or penalty of sin; redemption. 4. The agent or means that brings about such deliverance. 5. The realization and demonstration of Life, Truth, and Love as supreme over all, carrying with it the destruction of the illusions of sin, sickness, and death.

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