Rise above Death

As it’s Easter Sunday I think it appropriate to reflect on resurrection. This is important for all spiritual people, not just Christians.

For those who do not know what resurrection is, it typically refers to the rising back to life of Jesus Christ after he died from crucifixion. Why is this significant? Because it demonstrates that physical death of the human body is not a permanent end to life. The example provided by Jesus shows that the soul survives death of the human body and, in exceptional circumstances, the uncorrupted soul can return to the deceased body and revive that body to full life.

The uncorrupted soul is that which remains in the light of God’s Holy Spirit despite having to live in a corruptible human body. It is the soul that retains consciousness of its soul nature as ultimately created by the One true God. It is the energy that drives us (particularly during the living years in our human bodies) to be the will of God. I believe this is what Jesus was telling us when he taught us to pray (in Matthew 6: 9-13):

“Our Father in heaven you are holy; lead us into your kingdom. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven…”

Our enlightened souls are to be instruments – the will – of God. If we can do this, always, without faltering, as Jesus demonstrated when he lived as a human, we will enter God’s kingdom.

Some say that Jesus resurrected because he was God incarnate, but I no longer subscribe to that belief. Personally, I believe that Jesus was a human whose soul was endowed with the spirit of God – a human who held full soul consciousness with full awareness that his soul received the Holy Spirit of God; a human who, through his soul consciousness, lived the will of God every day of his earthly life. This is what set Jesus apart from all other humans.

Most humans (if not all) lose their soul consciousness and by extension they also lose their connection with the Holy Spirit. We mere mortals, as creations of the fallen, become so absorbed in this fallen world that we forget our connection to the One true God; we identify so fully and ignorantly with our fallen nature that we lose consciousness of our soul and the light our soul received from God’s Holy Spirit. I think this is what Jesus was referring to in John 3: 19, and John 8: 43-44.

Jesus did not come to earth to die for our sins; his death (and resurrection) will not save us from our sins. We have to accept full responsibility for our actions and we must choose to save ourselves from our sin. It is lazy, complacent, and extremely vain of us to think that we are automatically forgiven and purified from our evil because Jesus faced the human terror of being nailed to and dying on a cross. 

I believe that Jesus came to live on earth as a human to show us an example of how we humans can resist evil and be the will of God on earth. As we were created by the fallen we are not perfect but, despite our imperfection, we can still become fully soul conscious and reconnect with the light of the Holy Spirit so that we can be the will of God, save our souls, leave our bodies behind at death, and enter into God’s kingdom.

The resurrection of Jesus and his ascension – soul and body – into heaven is a demonstration to us of how the perfect enlightened soul can save humans from evil (symbolised by the physical body) and lead us into God’s heavenly kingdom.


Image: Sunset at Chelsea Beach, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Copyright - Michael Beaton

NOTE: I chose this picture because it symbolises how humanity - in the darkness of its own being - faces and receives (albeit unconsciously) the light of God's Holy Spirit every day. The beauty of God's light is upon us, there for us to embrace of our own free will, yet we look upon it, but we do not see it.

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