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Did Jesus Rise From The Dead?

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There is no death - not for any of us.

So-called death is but transition from one dimension to another; the shedding of the mortal frame to release an underlying, look-alike, energy-body of finer vibration.

No one dies. That's not possible. The stuff of which our true self is composed is indestructible.

Jesus did not die, but, like putting on a new suit of clothes - which is the apostle Paul's metaphor in II Cor. 5 - merely assumed his rightful and natural mode of existence, just as each of us will do when we exit this world.

"Resurrection," as taught by Orthodoxy, is a reconstitution of the flesh-and-blood body. This is gross error: "flesh and blood [which is of the Earth] cannot inherit the kingdom of God." In II Cor. 5 Paul explained that we have an inner, subtle body. Jesus enjoyed the same, and it is this spiritual body, resonating with the energies of the astral plane, that Jesus fitted himself with upon casting off the dregs of the mortal shell. 

The following is channeled information via the mediumship of William W. Aber, the Psychic Research Society, as reported in “Beyond The Veil” (1902), compiled by J.H. Nixon. Testimonies were offered by numerous spirit-persons by means of full-form visible materialization. A visiting spirit speaks:

"But  this,  you  say,  is  Easter  Sunday.  A  festal  day in  commemoration  of  some  one's  rising  from  the  ground  in prophecy  of  a  supposed  rising  of  all  people  from  the  ground. Friends,  we  do  not  rise  from  the  ground,  nor  have  we been  there  since  we  left  our  mortal  bodies  and  quit  gold-hunting. We  are  no  more  in  the  ground  than  you,  nor  have  our home  there,  but  above  ground.”

Father Benson:

"People who believe that after their ’death’ there will be a bodily ’resurrection’ are oftentimes puzzled in mind as to what will happen if they are not possessed of their full number of limbs, or, what is worse but more common, if their earthly body completely vanished in the course of time, or is instantaneously disintegrated. The trouble comes from the use of the word resurrection.

"Such people imagine that the normal procedure is for the
physical body to rise up from its grave if it should possess one, at some future and unspecified date, whereupon it would find itself in the spirit world. It is fondly supposed that missing limbs would be restored and impaired faculties renewed, or if necessary, the physical body would be reintegrated after the fragments, in some inconceivable manner, have been collected and reassembled after their total disappearance.

"The whole conception is, of course, fantastic. Once dissolution has taken place, the physical body is finished with as far as its former owner is concerned. It has no place whatever in the spirit world. It cannot enter there. And there is no magical process in existence that can so alter its constituents or form or mode of being as to be able to penetrate into spirit realms of any degree of weight or lowness, of light or darkness, whatsoever. A profession of faith that such a thing is possible is of no avail; it simply cannot happen because it is against the laws of the spirit world. And these are natural laws, not laws that have been enacted by someone and can therefore be suspended or annulled at will.

"To carry the matter still further, there is no such thing as resurrection of either the physical body or of the spirit body. As far as the spirit body is concerned, there is no ’rising’. There is simply a continuity of existence. From the moment that life is given to the physical body, the spirit body is also in existence. The earthly body comes to the end of its life; it ceases to function and so to provide an earthly vehicle for the spirit body, and the spirit body is released and continues its life in the spirit world, in its proper element and its true home. No resurrection has taken place. Nothing of the sort is needed. It has nothing to wait for, no Day of Judgment or other unpleasant prospect. The spirit body is free at last, unencumbered by its heavy earthly body; free to move and breathe, and enjoy the beauties of the realms of light."