Where Nothing seems to be

Author(s): Hermann Kuhn
Publisher: Hermann Kunh

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'Resurrection' One central insight that did not make it into our times was the initial meaning of 'resurrection'.
The early Christians saw resurrection simply as the 'awakening' of the soul - similarly as Buddha talks of becoming 'awake' - not of becoming 'enlightened'.
'Resurrection' is experienced by those waking up to their Oneness with the Exalted Awareness, to the realization that their awareness is eternal, even while living on earth, even while they experience their material body, - and also waking up to the assured certainty that after leaving their mortal frame, they will be free of being reborn in another confining body.
Those not experiencing this awakening - 'resurrection', oneness with the Grand Awareness on earth, in their present body, - will keep on incarnating in further restrictive bodies and circumstances.
Jesus the messenger clearly states in the 'Gospel of Philip' that resurrection is not a future event:
'Those who say they will first die and then arise, are mistaken. If they do not first gain resurrection while they are alive, once they have died they will gain nothing.'
In the Gospel of Thomas he is asked, 'When will the rest (resurrection) for the dead take place, and when will the new world come?'
And he answers, 'What you look for has come, but you do not see it.' - Resurrection and the new world are right before our eyes, but the ones who asked fail to realize this.