Morontia Appearances of Jesus

190:0.1The res­ur­rected Je­sus now pre­pares to spend a short pe­riod on Uran­tia for the pur­pose of ex­pe­ri­enc­ing the as­cend­ing mor­ontia ca­reer of a mor­tal of the realms. Al­though this time of the mor­ontia life is to be spent on the world of his mor­tal in­car­na­tion, it will, how­ever, be in all re­spects the coun­ter­part of the ex­pe­ri­ence of Sa­ta­nia mor­tals who pass through the pro­gres­sive mor­ontia life of the seven man­sion worlds of Je­ru­sem.

190:0.2All this power which is in­her­ent in Je­sus—the en­dow­ment of life—and which en­abled him to rise from the dead, is the very gift of eter­nal life which he be­stows upon king­dom be­liev­ers, and which even now makes cer­tain their res­ur­rec­tion from the bonds of nat­u­ral death.

190:0.3The mor­tals of the realms will arise in the morn­ing of the res­ur­rec­tion with the same type of tran­si­tion or mor­ontia body that Je­sus had when he arose from the tomb on this Sun­day morn­ing. These bod­ies do not have cir­cu­lat­ing blood, and such be­ings do not par­take of or­di­nary ma­te­rial food; nev­er­the­less, these mor­ontia forms are real. When the var­i­ous be­liev­ers saw Je­sus af­ter his res­ur­rec­tion, they re­ally saw him; they were not the self-de­ceived vic­tims of vi­sions or hal­lu­ci­na­tions.

190:0.4Abid­ing faith in the res­ur­rec­tion of Je­sus was the car­di­nal fea­ture of the faith of all branches of the early gospel teach­ing. In Je­ru­sa­lem, Alexan­dria, An­ti­och, and Phil­a­del­phia all the gospel teach­ers united in this im­plicit faith in the Mas­ter’s res­ur­rec­tion.

190:0.5In view­ing the promi­nent part which Mary Mag­da­lene took in pro­claim­ing the Mas­ter’s res­ur­rec­tion, it should be re­corded that Mary was the chief spokesman for the women’s corps, as was Pe­ter for the apos­tles. Mary was not chief of the women work­ers, but she was their chief teacher and pub­lic spokesman. Mary had be­come a woman of great cir­cum­spec­tion, so that her bold­ness in speak­ing to a man whom she con­sid­ered to be the care­taker of Joseph’s gar­den only in­di­cates how hor­ri­fied she was to find the tomb empty. It was the depth and agony of her love, the full­ness of her de­vo­tion, that caused her to for­get, for a mo­ment, the con­ven­tional re­straints of a Jew­ish woman’s ap­proach to a strange man.