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A Series of Lessons in Mystic Christianity1042
To the popular mind the physical body was almost everything, as we have
shown in one of the earlier lessons of this series. So much was this so that the
mass of the people expected that all mankind would arise from the dead at
the Last Day clad in their former physical forms. And so, any other teaching
would have been unintelligible to them.
But to the occultists and mystics who understood the truth about the
more ethereal vehicles of the soul, such an idea appeared crude and
unscientific, and they readily grasped the Inner Teachings regarding the
Resurrection, and understood the reason why Jesus would use the Astral
Body as the vehicle of His reappearance.
The Gospel narrative informs us that a guard was placed around the
tomb to prevent the body being stolen and a consequent assertion of the
Resurrection which the priests well knew to be expected. It further states that
the tomb was sealed and guarded by a squad of Roman soldiers, but that
notwithstanding these precautions the body of the Master actually came to
life and emerged from the tomb, and that His followers were disturbed by
the evidences that His body had been stolen.
The occult traditions, however, state that the close friends of Jesus, aided
by a prominent Jew who was a secret believer, obtained from the willing
Pilate a secret order which enabled them to deposit the body in a safe
and secret resting place where it gradually resolved itself into the dust to
which all that is mortal must return. These men knew that the Resurrection
of the Master had naught to do with mortal fleshly form or body. They knew
that the immaterial soul of the Master still lived and would reappear to
them clad in the more ethereal body made manifest to their mortal senses.
Every occultist will understand this without further comment. To others we
advise that they read the occult teachings concerning the Astral Body and
its characteristics. This is no place in which to again describe at length the
phenomena of the Astral Body of Man.
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