The Resurrection

189:1.1At two forty-five Sun­day morn­ing, the Par­a­dise in­car­na­tion com­mis­sion, con­sist­ing of seven uniden­ti­fied Par­a­dise per­son­al­i­ties, ar­rived on the scene and im­me­di­ately de­ployed them­selves about the tomb. At ten min­utes be­fore three, in­tense vi­bra­tions of com­min­gled ma­te­rial and mor­ontia ac­tiv­i­ties be­gan to is­sue from Joseph’s new tomb, and at two min­utes past three o’clock, this Sun­day morn­ing, April 9, A.D. 30, the res­ur­rected mor­ontia form and per­son­al­ity of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth came forth from the tomb.

189:1.2Af­ter the res­ur­rected Je­sus emerged from his burial tomb, the body of flesh in which he had lived and wrought on earth for al­most thirty-six years was still ly­ing there in the sepul­chre niche, undis­turbed and wrapped in the linen sheet, just as it had been laid to rest by Joseph and his as­so­ciates on Fri­day af­ter­noon. Nei­ther was the stone be­fore the en­trance of the tomb in any way dis­turbed; the seal of Pi­late was still un­bro­ken; the sol­diers were still on guard. The tem­ple guards had been on con­tin­u­ous duty; the Ro­man guard had been changed at mid­night. None of these watch­ers sus­pected that the ob­ject of their vigil had risen to a new and higher form of ex­is­tence, and that the body which they were guard­ing was now a dis­carded outer cov­er­ing which had no fur­ther con­nec­tion with the de­liv­ered and res­ur­rected mor­ontia per­son­al­ity of Je­sus.

189:1.3Man­kind is slow to per­ceive that, in all that is per­sonal, mat­ter is the skele­ton of mor­ontia, and that both are the re­flected shadow of en­dur­ing spirit re­al­ity. How long be­fore you will re­gard time as the mov­ing im­age of eter­nity and space as the fleet­ing shadow of Par­a­dise re­al­i­ties?

189:1.4As far as we can judge, no crea­ture of this uni­verse nor any per­son­al­ity from an­other uni­verse had any­thing to do with this mor­ontia res­ur­rec­tion of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth. On Fri­day he laid down his life as a mor­tal of the realm; on Sun­day morn­ing he took it up again as a mor­ontia be­ing of the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia in Nor­la­ti­adek. There is much about the res­ur­rec­tion of Je­sus which we do not un­der­stand. But we know that it oc­curred as we have stated and at about the time in­di­cated. We can also re­cord that all known phe­nom­ena as­so­ci­ated with this mor­tal tran­sit, or mor­ontia res­ur­rec­tion, oc­curred right there in Joseph’s new tomb, where the mor­tal ma­te­rial re­mains of Je­sus lay wrapped in burial cloths.

189:1.5We know that no crea­ture of the lo­cal uni­verse par­tic­i­pated in this mor­ontia awak­en­ing. We per­ceived the seven per­son­al­i­ties of Par­a­dise sur­round the tomb, but we did not see them do any­thing in con­nec­tion with the Mas­ter’s awak­en­ing. Just as soon as Je­sus ap­peared be­side Ga­briel, just above the tomb, the seven per­son­al­i­ties from Par­a­dise sig­nal­ized their in­ten­tion of im­me­di­ate de­par­ture for Uversa.

189:1.6Let us for­ever clar­ify the con­cept of the res­ur­rec­tion of Je­sus by mak­ing the fol­low­ing state­ments:

189:1.71. His ma­te­rial or phys­i­cal body was not a part of the res­ur­rected per­son­al­ity. When Je­sus came forth from the tomb, his body of flesh re­mained undis­turbed in the sepul­chre. He emerged from the burial tomb with­out mov­ing the stones be­fore the en­trance and with­out dis­turb­ing the seals of Pi­late.

189:1.82. He did not emerge from the tomb as a spirit nor as Mi­chael of Neb­a­don; he did not ap­pear in the form of the Cre­ator Sov­er­eign, such as he had had be­fore his in­car­na­tion in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh on Uran­tia.

189:1.93. He did come forth from this tomb of Joseph in the very like­ness of the mor­ontia per­son­al­i­ties of those who, as res­ur­rected mor­ontia as­cen­dant be­ings, emerge from the res­ur­rec­tion halls of the first man­sion world of this lo­cal sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia. And the pres­ence of the Mi­chael memo­rial in the cen­ter of the vast court of the res­ur­rec­tion halls of man­so­nia num­ber one leads us to con­jec­ture that the Mas­ter’s res­ur­rec­tion on Uran­tia was in some way fos­tered on this, the first of the sys­tem man­sion worlds.

189:1.10The first act of Je­sus on aris­ing from the tomb was to greet Ga­briel and in­struct him to con­tinue in ex­ec­u­tive charge of uni­verse af­fairs un­der Im­manuel, and then he di­rected the chief of the Mel­chiz­e­deks to con­vey his broth­erly greet­ings to Im­manuel. He there­upon asked the Most High of Eden­tia for the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of the An­cients of Days as to his mor­tal tran­sit; and turn­ing to the as­sem­bled mor­ontia groups of the seven man­sion worlds, here gath­ered to­gether to greet and wel­come their Cre­ator as a crea­ture of their or­der, Je­sus spoke the first words of the post­mor­tal ca­reer. Said the mor­ontia Je­sus: “Hav­ing fin­ished my life in the flesh, I would tarry here for a short time in tran­si­tion form that I may more fully know the life of my as­cen­dant crea­tures and fur­ther re­veal the will of my Fa­ther in Par­a­dise.”

189:1.11Af­ter Je­sus had spo­ken, he sig­naled to the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster, and all uni­verse in­tel­li­gences who had been as­sem­bled on Uran­tia to wit­ness the res­ur­rec­tion were im­me­di­ately dis­patched to their re­spec­tive uni­verse as­sign­ments.

189:1.12Je­sus now be­gan the con­tacts of the mor­ontia level, be­ing in­tro­duced, as a crea­ture, to the re­quire­ments of the life he had cho­sen to live for a short time on Uran­tia. This ini­ti­a­tion into the mor­ontia world re­quired more than an hour of earth time and was twice in­ter­rupted by his de­sire to com­mu­ni­cate with his for­mer as­so­ciates in the flesh as they came out from Je­ru­sa­lem won­der­ingly to peer into the empty tomb to dis­cover what they con­sid­ered ev­i­dence of his res­ur­rec­tion.

189:1.13Now is the mor­tal tran­sit of Je­sus—the mor­ontia res­ur­rec­tion of the Son of Man—com­pleted. The tran­si­tory ex­pe­ri­ence of the Mas­ter as a per­son­al­ity mid­way be­tween the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual has be­gun. And he has done all this through power in­her­ent within him­self; no per­son­al­ity has ren­dered him any as­sis­tance. He now lives as Je­sus of mor­ontia, and as he be­gins this mor­ontia life, the ma­te­rial body of his flesh lies there undis­turbed in the tomb. The sol­diers are still on guard, and the seal of the gov­er­nor about the rocks has not yet been bro­ken.