We wish each of you a happy Easter! You probably know the story of Easter, the story that Jesus resurrected after dying on the cross. But there is a secret meaning to the resurrection. If you can understand this meaning, you can experience the resurrection even now, before you die. Then you will know the real celebration of Easter.
To start our investigation let’s quote The Gospel of Philip from the The Nag Hammadi Library. This was from a cache of books, found in Nag Hammadi Egypt in the twentieth century. Among other works, these books contained Gospels from other disciples of Jesus that never made it into the New Testament. As for the validity of these Gospels, I’ll let you judge this for yourself, right from your direct experience.
Now let’s get started:
The Nag Hammadi Library
Translation by Wesley W Isenberg
Published by Harper & Row
If the resurrection was not something that happened after Jesus’ death then what exactly is the resurrection? It is dying to limitation so that we can wake up and be free.
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How can I die to limitation?
But you may wonder: “How can I die to limitation?” Objects by their nature are limited. But when we look into our heart of hearts we do not feel like a limited object. And yet it seems like we are the body, which is an object that we see, isn’t it?
Bodies, by their nature, are born, live for a little while, and then pass away. In our experience we have never seen a dead body resurrect and we cannot reasonably expect that this will happen in the future. So what could the secret of the resurrection possibly be?
By our nature, we are free of the body
When we see the changes to the body, what we are actually doing is standing free of its limitations as the seer. In fact we were always the Consciousness that sees limitation. But we took our self to be the limitation that we see, and now we seemed to suffer the fate of the body. Resurrection is returning to what we really are.
Here is a quote from Thomas in the The Gospel of Thomas that says this beautifully.
He said to them, “What you look forward to has already come, but you do not recognize it.”
The Nag Hammadi Library
Translation by Thomas O. Lambdin
Published by Harper & Row
The resurrection isn‘t something that happens to us. It is the realization of what’s already true. It is actually the realization of who we really are, a return to our original nature.
Easter is a celebration of Jesus’ realization
In short Easter is not the celebration of Jesus’ resurrection from physical death. It is rather the celebration of his realization, where he stepped beyond limitation, including the limitation of the body, and into his original state of infinite glory.
The joy here is that we too can also wake up and join him in that state which is always one. We can return to the joy that is not contained in any limitation that we see.
Feel free to ask questions
Please
feel free to continue asking questions. I’m always glad to hear your
reactions and clarify my answers. Unlike the path of faith, on the path
of Self-Knowledge it is curiosity that destroys limitation and allows
you to abide in your natural freedom.
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Michael Gluckman
