John 19:38-20:2 EventsBetweenDeathAndResurrection

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³⁸ And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.

³⁹ And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.

⁴⁰ Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

⁴¹ Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.

⁴² There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.

20 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

² Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him. -John 19:38-20:2 (Bible, King James Version)

The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ

by Levi H. Dowling  

CHAPTER 172.

Pilate places the Roman seal upon the stone door of the tomb. At mid­night a company of the silent brothers march about the tomb. The soldiers are alarmed. Jesus preaches to the spirits in prison. Early Sunday morning he rises from the tomb. The soldiers are bribed by the priests to say that the disciples had stolen the body.

¹The tomb in which they laid the body of the Lord was in a gar­den, rich with flowers, the garden of Siloam, and Joseph’s home was near.

²Before the watch began Caia­phas sent a company of priests out to the garden of Siloam that they might be assured that Jesus’ body was within the tomb.

³They rolled away the stone; they saw the body there, and then they placed the stone again before the door.

⁴And Pilate sent his scribe who placed upon the stone the seal of Rome, in such a way that he who moved the stone would break the seal.

⁵To break this Roman seal meant death to him who broke the seal.

⁶The Jewish soldiers all were sworn to faithfulness; and then the watch began.

⁷At midnight all was well, but suddenly the tomb became a blaze of light, and down the garden walk a troupe of white clad soldiers marched in single file.

⁸They came up to the tomb and marched and countermarched before the door.

⁹The Jewish soldiers were alert; they thought the friends had come to steal the body of the Nazarene. The captain of the guard cried out to charge.

¹⁰They charged; but not a white clad soldier fell. They did not even stop; they marched and countermarched among the fright­ened men.

¹¹They stood upon the Roman seal; they did not speak; they un­sheathed not their swords; it was the Silent Brotherhood.

¹²The Jewish soldiers fled in fear; they fell upon the ground.

¹³They stood apart until the white clad soldiers marched away, and then the light about the tomb grew dim.

¹⁴Then they returned; the stone was in its place; the seal was not disturbed, and they resumed their watch.

¹⁵Now, Jesus did not sleep within the tomb. The body is the manifest of soul; but soul is soul without its manifest.

¹⁶And in the realm of souls, unmanifest, the Lord went forth and taught.

¹⁷He opened up the prison doors and set the prisoners free;

¹⁸He broke the chains of cap­tive souls, and led the captives to the light;

¹⁹He sat in council with the patriarchs and prophets of the olden times;

²⁰The masters of all times and climes he met, and in the great as­semblies he stood forth and told the story of his life on earth, and of his death in sacrifice for man,

²¹And of his promises to clothe himself again in garb of flesh and walk with his disciples, just to prove the possibilities of man;

²²To give to them the key of life, of death, and of the resurrec­tion of the dead.

²³In council all the masters sat and talked about the revelations of the coming age,

²⁴When she, the Holy Breath, shall fill the earth and air with holy breath, and open up the way of man to perfectness and endless life.

²⁵The garden of Siloam was silent on the Sabbath day; the Jew­ish soldiers watched and no one else approached the tomb; but on the following night the scene was changed.

²⁶At midnight every Jewish soldier heard a voice which said, Adon Mashich Cumi, which meant, Lord Christ arise.

²⁷And they supposed again that friends of Jesus were alert, were coming up to take the body of their Lord away.

²⁸The soldiers were alert with swords unsheathed and drawn, and then they heard the words again.

²⁹It seemed as though the voice was everywhere, and yet they saw no man.

³⁰The soldiers blanched with fear, and still to flee meant death for cowardice, and so they stood and watched.

³¹Again, and this was just be­fore the sun arose, the heavens blazed with light, a distant thunder seemed to herald forth a coming storm;

³²And then the earth began to quake and in the rays of light they saw a form descend from heaven, They said, Behold an angel comes.

³³And then they heard again, Adon Mashich Cumi.

³⁴And then the white-robed form tramped on the Roman seal, and then he tore it into shreds; he took the mighty stone in hand as though it were a pebble from the brook, and cast it to the side.

³⁵And Jesus opened up his eyes and said, All hail the rising sun! the coming of the day of right­eousness!

³⁶And then he folded up his burial gown, his head bands and his coverings and laid them all aside.

³⁷He rose, and for a moment stood beside the white-robed form.

³⁸The weaker soldiers fell upon the ground, and hid their faces in their hands; the stronger stood and watched.

³⁹They saw the body of the Nazarene transmute; they saw it change from mortal to immortal form, and then it disappeared.

⁴⁰The soldiers heard a voice from somewhere; yea, from every­where, it said,

⁴¹Peace, peace on earth; good will to men.

⁴²They looked, the tomb was empty and the Lord had risen as he said.

⁴³The soldiers hastened to Jerusalem, and to the priests, and said,

⁴⁴Behold, the Nazarene has risen as he said; the tomb is empty and the body of the man is gone; we know not where it is. And then they told about the wonders of the night.

⁴⁵Caiaphas called a council of the Jews; he said, the news must not go forth that Jesus has arisen from the dead;

⁴⁶For if it does all men will say, He is the son of God, and all our testimonies will be proven false.

⁴⁷And then they called the hundred soldiers in and said to them,

⁴⁸You know not where the body of the Nazarene is resting now, so if you will go forth and say that his disciples came and stole the body while you slept,

⁴⁹Each one of you shall have a silver piece, and we will make it right with Pilate for the breaking of the Roman seal.

⁵⁰The soldiers did as they were paid to do.

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Materialization of the Spiritual Body of Jesus.

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CHAPTER 173.

(Jesus appears, fully materialized, to his mother, Miriam, Mary of Mag­dala and to Peter, James and John.)

¹Now, when the rabbis took the body of the Lord and laid it in the tomb the mother of the Lord, and Mary Magdalene, and Miriam were there.

²And when the body was en­tombed they went to Joseph’s home and there abode.

³They did not know that Jew­ish soldiers had been sent to guard the tomb, nor that the Roman seal was placed upon the stone;

⁴So in the morning of the first day of the week they hastened to the tomb with spices to embalm the Lord.

⁵But when they reached the tomb they found the terror-stricken soldiers running frantically about.

⁶The women did not know the cause; but when they found an empty tomb they were excited and aggrieved.

⁷The soldiers did not know what had transpired; they could not tell who took the body of the Lord away.

⁸And Mary Magdalene ran with haste toward Jerusalem to tell the news to Peter and the rest.

What of course the Bible does not tell us is how Jesus was able to rise from the dead. To understand this mystery I will turn to the teachings of the Ascended Masters: During the time Jesus’ body lay in the tomb, the faculties of His outer consciousness were drawn into his Higher Mental Body and from within It’s Light and Substance he poured the Flame of his own Life Stream from his Higher Mental Body’s Heart, Head and Hands into the flesh structure of his physical body and at the same time the Ascended Master known as the Great Divine Director also poured the Flame from his Heart and the Ascended Masters Octave of Light upon the flesh body of Jesus. The Great Divine Director drew the Cosmic Light Ray from his Octave and held that protected and undisturbed by the vibratory action of the atmosphere of this earth until all the Points of Light in the flesh body were drawn into Jesus’ Higher Mental Body. When that was completed Jesus came forth from the tomb on Easter Morning in his Higher Mental Body. (The Voice of the I AM 1941 November p22-23) The Higher Mental Body can be raised or lowered in vibration to appear physically or disappear up into the higher Planes.

Beloved Saint Germain teaches: "Even the Mighty Master Jesus and every Being who ever Ascended, could not go into that Higher Mental Body without being taught and seeing the use of the Violet Consuming Flame." ('The Voice of the I AM' 1947 August p20)