The Resurrection

189:0.1Soon af­ter the burial of Je­sus on Fri­day af­ter­noon, the chief of the arch­an­gels of Neb­a­don, then pres­ent on Uran­tia, sum­moned his coun­cil of the res­ur­rec­tion of sleep­ing will crea­tures and en­tered upon the con­sid­er­a­tion of a pos­si­ble tech­nique for the restora­tion of Je­sus. These as­sem­bled sons of the lo­cal uni­verse, the crea­tures of Mi­chael, did this on their own re­spon­si­bil­ity; Ga­briel had not as­sem­bled them. By mid­night they had ar­rived at the con­clu­sion that the crea­ture could do noth­ing to fa­cil­i­tate the res­ur­rec­tion of the Cre­ator. They were dis­posed to ac­cept the ad­vice of Ga­briel, who in­structed them that, since Mi­chael had “laid down his life of his own free will, he also had power to take it up again in ac­cor­dance with his own de­ter­mi­na­tion.” Shortly af­ter the ad­journ­ment of this coun­cil of the arch­an­gels, the Life Car­ri­ers, and their var­i­ous as­so­ciates in the work of crea­ture re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion and mor­ontia cre­ation, the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster of Je­sus, be­ing in per­sonal com­mand of the as­sem­bled ce­les­tial hosts then on Uran­tia, spoke these words to the anx­ious wait­ing watch­ers:

189:0.2“Not one of you can do aught to as­sist your Cre­ator-fa­ther in the re­turn to life. As a mor­tal of the realm he has ex­pe­ri­enced mor­tal death; as the Sov­er­eign of a uni­verse he still lives. That which you ob­serve is the mor­tal tran­sit of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth from life in the flesh to life in the mor­ontia. The spirit tran­sit of this Je­sus was com­pleted at the time I sep­a­rated my­self from his per­son­al­ity and be­came your tem­po­rary di­rec­tor. Your Cre­ator-fa­ther has elected to pass through the whole of the ex­pe­ri­ence of his mor­tal crea­tures, from birth on the ma­te­rial worlds, on through nat­u­ral death and the res­ur­rec­tion of the mor­ontia, into the sta­tus of true spirit ex­is­tence. A cer­tain phase of this ex­pe­ri­ence you are about to ob­serve, but you may not par­tic­i­pate in it. Those things which you or­di­nar­ily do for the crea­ture, you may not do for the Cre­ator. A Cre­ator Son has within him­self the power to be­stow him­self in the like­ness of any of his cre­ated sons; he has within him­self the power to lay down his ob­serv­able life and to take it up again; and he has this power be­cause of the di­rect com­mand of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther, and I know whereof I speak.”

189:0.3When they heard the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster so speak, they all as­sumed the at­ti­tude of anx­ious ex­pectancy, from Ga­briel down to the most hum­ble cheru­bim. They saw the mor­tal body of Je­sus in the tomb; they de­tected ev­i­dences of the uni­verse ac­tiv­ity of their beloved Sov­er­eign; and not un­der­stand­ing such phe­nom­ena, they waited pa­tiently for de­vel­op­ments.