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Thou shalt die out of death into life.
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“Thou shalt die out of death into life.”

George MacDonald

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Lilith: A Romance
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1895
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Fictional character · Mara
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Meaning of “Thou shalt die out of death into life.”

Mara reframes death as movement toward life within the novel’s Christian-symbolic world, offering transformation rather than annihilation as the imagined answer to despair.

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Lilith: A Romance; Project Gutenberg #1640. Spoken by Mara to Lilith in a theological fantasy scene; it is not presented as empirical evidence about death or an afterlife.

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Mara speaks to Lilith in the symbolic Christian fantasy.

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