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Second Birth

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noun

Theology.
  1. spiritual rebirth.


Etymology

Origin of Second Birth

First recorded in 1505–15


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Such then—though only very scantily described—were some of the rites of Initiation and Second Birth celebrated in the old Pagan world.

From Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning by Edward Carpenter

For thou art gone away from earth, And place with those dost claim, The Children of the Second Birth, Whom the world could not tame.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Hamilton Wright Mabie

It recast in various ways the myth of Dionysus, and especially the story of his Second Birth.

From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes

A Spring song, a song of Bull-driving, a song and dance of Second Birth; but all this seems, perhaps, not to bring us nearer to Greek drama, rather to put us farther away.

From Ancient Art and Ritual by Jane Ellen Harrison

After the Second Birth, the birth of the Christ in man, begins the building of the Bliss Body "in the heavens."

From Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries by Annie Wood Besant

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