Was there a Physical
Resurrection?
October 2, 1976
My body disappeared because
I had no illusion about it. The last one had gone. It was laid in the
tomb, but there was nothing left to bury. It did not disintegrate
because the unreal cannot die. It merely became what it always was.
And that is what “rolling the stone
away” means. The body disappears,
and no longer hides what lies beyond. It merely ceases to interfere
with Vision. To roll the stone away is to see beyond the tomb, beyond
death, and to understand the body’s nothingness. What is understood
as nothing must
disappear.
I did assume a human form
with human attributes afterwards, to speak to Those Who were to prove
the body’s worthlessness to the world. This has been much
misunderstood. I came to tell Them that death is illusion, and the
Mind That made the body can make another since form itself is an
illusion. They did not understand. But now I talk to You and give You
the same message. The death of an illusion means nothing. It
disappears when You awaken and decide to dream no more. And You still
do have the power to make this decision as I did.
God holds out His hand to
His Son to help Him rise and return to Him. I can help because the
world is illusion, and I have overcome the world. Look past the tomb,
the body, the illusion. Have faith in nothing but the Spirit and the
guidance God gives You. He could not have created the body because it
is a limit. He must have created the Spirit because it is immortal.
Can Those Who are created like Him be limited? The body is the symbol
of the world. Leave it behind. It cannot enter Heaven. But I can take
You there anytime You choose. Together We can watch the world
disappear and its symbol vanish as it does so. And then, and then…
I cannot speak of that.
A body cannot stay without
illusions, and the last one to be overcome is death.
This
is the message of the crucifixion: There
is no order of difficulty in Miracles.
This is the
message of the Resurrection:
Illusions
are illusions.
Truth is True.
Illusions vanish.
Only
Truth remains.
These lessons needed to be
taught but once, for when the stone of death is rolled away, what can
be seen except an empty tomb? And that is what You see Who follow Me
into the sunlight and away from death, past All illusions, on to
Heaven’s gate, where God will come Himself to take You home.
AciM
urText
"Teach
not that I died in vain. Teach rather that I did not die by
demonstrating that I live in you"
(T.11.VI.7:3,4).
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