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By John Eagles, August 8, 2006.
This page is part of an ERW course, Divine Principle.

Here i shall explain a little about resurrection. Resurrection should always be understood in a spiritual way. Physical bodies don't get resurrected. Once they have gone to dust, dust they remain. The term resurrection implies that a fall has taken place that makes resurrection necessary. The fall that is meant is downfall of the spirit.

In the spiritual world there have always been angels with the task to resurrect those spirits who entered spirit world after the death of their physical bodies. Just after physical death, most spirits are in need of resurrection, quite literally meant here. These people can just do nothing in the spiritual world because they were not aware of themselves as a spiritual being, they don't know the world they have entered and many of them just don't know how to do a thing there. Angels go to such spirits, speak to them, bring them to a specially protected place, give them energies and wait until these spirits can walk, talk and use their minds again. Only few spirits don't need this treatment, some need weeks, others years and again others need millenniums.

The word resurrection is also used in other ways. There is a general resurrection that takes place with the advancing of history. When certain internal and spiritual truth becomes known to large groups of people, for example because of the teachings of an elevated spiritual person on earth, a widespread resurrection takes place for many people at the same time. New realms in spirit world are opened then. With the coming of the New Age in this frame of time we can expect such a general resurrection to take place.

For each of us, eventually resurrection always means resurrection of myself and yourself. When everyone gets resurrected but i don't, the concept will be of no meaning to me. So, what is your resurrection and what can you do to make it happen?

There is an original growth of the spirit that goes through several stages. Everything that grows, grows through stages. A tree is first a seed, then a seedling, then a young tree and finally it bears fruit and produces new offspring. A human being is first just two combined cells, a sperm cell and an egg cell, then grows as a fetus in the womb, then is born in a new world, grows up as a baby and a child, eventually will unite with someone of the other gender to have new children. Finally, you get old, your body dies and you enter a new spiritual life.

The stages are distinct, they don't just flow smoothly from one into another. An important concept connected to resurrection is that of rebirth. Rebirth means to completely begin your life all over again. Resurrection of your spirit always begins with a rebirth of your spirit. Before you can be reborn, you must go through a process of dying. This dying is the dying of the old self. When the old self got used to ways of living that hampered or even destroyed your spiritual growth, you must get rid of these habits as they have taken root in your heart of desires, your mind of stuck ways of thinking and feeling and your body of bad ways of acting. To do that feels like dying and is dying. Once you have determined to make a new start and you are strong enough, you need to get some kind of rebirth. Rebirth must be given to you. It essentially comes from the Creator who gave birth to you in the first place. Other people must have a role as well, functioning as a kind of spiritual father and mother. You cannot give rebirth to yourself. You can determine yourself to end your old ways if they are wrong, you can do a lot to grow up well after your rebirth, but rebirth is a gift of love that must be given to you by those in the position of spiritual parents.

In many religions, you get a new name as proof for your rebirth and your new identity. Not always such a rebirth leads to a satisfying resurrection afterward. Maybe your rebirth was not complete, maybe you didn't get good spiritual food in your stage as a spiritual baby, maybe you don't invest yourself enough and fall back in your old habits. At any rate, rebirth is the beginning of resurrection. It is the conclusion of a period of dying of the old self, but it is just the beginning of your new path of growth to become a spiritually adult and good person.

There is much more to be said about resurrection, about the character of the stages of spiritual growth that follow rebirth, about your own responsibility to live a life of faith and sacrifice for others so that you also really will grow, etc. For now i conclude with saying that resurrection of the spirits is taking place right now at a large scale.

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 : ''By [[User:John|John Eagles]], August 8, 2006. <br>This page is part of an ERW course, [[Divine Principle]].''
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-Much has been said about the sins of man but little about the sins of angels. Like Adam and Eve committed an original sin, so also Lucifer committed an original sin. These original sins are not exactly the same.
+Here i shall explain a little about resurrection. Resurrection should always  be understood in a spiritual way. Physical bodies don't get resurrected. Once  they have gone to dust, dust they remain. The term resurrection implies that a  fall has taken place that makes resurrection necessary. The fall that is meant  is downfall of the spirit.
-The original sin of Adam and Eve was their spiritual fall under Lucifer and then their physical fall with each other, which both took place under the spiritual dominion of Lucifer. The essence of the original sin of man is that man fell under the dominion of Lucifer, that man began to accept Lucifer as their god and father and therefore lost faith in their own identity of being God’s children.
+In the spiritual world there have always been angels with the task to  resurrect those spirits who entered spirit world after the death of their  physical bodies. Just after physical death, most spirits are in need of  resurrection, quite literally meant here. These people can just do nothing in  the spiritual world because they were not aware of themselves as a spiritual  being, they don't know the world they have entered and many of them just don't  know how to do a thing there. Angels go to such spirits, speak to them, bring  them to a specially protected place, give them energies and wait until these  spirits can walk, talk and use their minds again. Only few spirits don't need  this treatment, some need weeks, others years and again others need millenniums.
-When we look at the original sin of Adam and Eve, we look at it from the viewpoint of man. But it is important to also look at the original sin of Lucifer.
+The word resurrection is also used in other ways. There is a general  resurrection that takes place with the advancing of history. When certain  internal and spiritual truth becomes known to large groups of people, for  example because of the teachings of an elevated spiritual person on earth, a  widespread resurrection takes place for many people at the same time. New realms  in spirit world are opened then. With the coming of the New Age in this frame of  time we can expect such a general resurrection to take place.
-When you are restoring yourself as Adam or Eve you must overcome all the type of sins that you yourself and your ancestors committed. You especially have to overcome the original sin of Adam and Eve.
+For each of us, eventually resurrection always means resurrection of myself  and yourself. When everyone gets resurrected but i don't, the concept will be of  no meaning to me. So, what is your resurrection and what can you do to  make it happen?
-But when you are restoring yourself in a position of archangel, or when you are an angel or archangel, you must overcome the sins committed by angels. It is therefore very important to have a good view on what is the main sin that the angels committed.
+There is an original growth of the spirit that goes through several stages.  Everything that grows, grows through stages. A tree is first a seed, then a  seedling, then a young tree and finally it bears fruit and produces new  offspring. A human being is first just two combined cells, a sperm cell and an  egg cell, then grows as a fetus in the womb, then is born in a new world, grows  up as a baby and a child, eventually will unite with someone of the other gender  to have new children. Finally, you get old, your body dies and you enter a new  spiritual life.
-The original sin of the angels is that they denied God’s identity as Parent of man, that they contested man’s right to have full dominion over the earth, and that they denied that man has an eternal spirit created as God’s child.
+The stages are distinct, they don't just flow smoothly from one into another.  An important concept connected to resurrection is that of rebirth. Rebirth means  to completely begin your life all over again. Resurrection of your spirit always  begins with a rebirth of your spirit. Before you can be reborn, you must go  through a process of dying. This dying is the dying of the old self. When the  old self got used to ways of living that hampered or even destroyed your  spiritual growth, you must get rid of these habits as they have taken root in  your heart of desires, your mind of stuck ways of thinking and feeling and your  body of bad ways of acting. To do that feels like dying and is dying. Once you  have determined to make a new start and you are strong enough, you need to get  some kind of rebirth. Rebirth must be given to you. It essentially comes from  the Creator who gave birth to you in the first place. Other people must have a  role as well, functioning as a kind of spiritual father and mother. You cannot  give rebirth to yourself. You can determine yourself to end your old ways if  they are wrong, you can do a lot to grow up well after your rebirth, but rebirth  is a gift of love that must be given to you by those in the position of  spiritual parents.
-We are not speaking here about the actual fall of man under Satan, we are speaking here about an internal attitude, an opinion, a way of desiring and thinking and feeling that was present in Lucifer and which he then expressed in relation to Eve and Adam.
+In many religions, you get a new name as proof for your rebirth and your new  identity. Not always such a rebirth leads to a satisfying resurrection  afterward. Maybe your rebirth was not complete, maybe you didn't get good  spiritual food in your stage as a spiritual baby, maybe you don't invest  yourself enough and fall back in your old habits. At any rate, rebirth is the  beginning of resurrection. It is the conclusion of a period of dying of the old  self, but it is just the beginning of your new path of growth to become a  spiritually adult and good person.
-One could say that the original sin of Lucifer was committed already before there came to pass the original sin of Adam and Eve.
-The original sin of Lucifer was invisible. There were no clear deeds connected yet to that sin. The original sin was taking place entirely in the spiritual heart and mind of Lucifer. Yet this was the worst sin that has ever been committed. That invisible sin, 'just' a way of looking at God and at God’s creation, became the cause of all misery in the world.
-The spiritual fall of Eve with Lucifer was already a kind of expression of the original sin of Lucifer. The spiritual fall of Eve was not the original sin of the angels. The original sin of the angels had already taken place before that spiritual fall of Eve with Lucifer. Eve had come under the influence from the spiritual efforts of Lucifer and those spiritual efforts did first exist only on the level of desires, thoughts and feelings.
-We must imagine that Lucifer had certain wishes or desires based on his not accepting the positions as God had installed them.
-Lucifer had known already for long that God planned for a higher creation. Lucifer knew very well that on one day there would walk on the earth God’s children and that those children would have a spirit elevated above the spirits of angels and that those new creations would one day rule the universe. But when the situation came about, Lucifer did not like it. He did not like it that the position that he had always had would now be transformed into a new one. Though Lucifer’s position did actually not go down after God created Adam and Eve, but Lucifer felt like this. Lucifer’s position after the birth of Adam and Eve even got elevated compared to his old position. But Lucifer also had to accept creations above him. That is what Lucifer resented and so Lucifer also resented God. He began to deny God because he denied the existence of spirit beings in a position of children of God above that of him. And so he also denied God’s real identity. Lucifer also denied the value of the spirit of man.
-Because Adam and Eve fell under Lucifer they did never find out what their real value was. People descending from Adam and Eve have only found out about the world of spirit as it was reigned by fallen angels.
-The future of spirit world dominated by original children of God will be completely new, completely different from what we have ever seen. It will be a world with creations going far beyond the creations that we know in the physical world. In the future, there will be such a unity between spirit world and the physical world, that people who deceased will be living among their descendants on earth almost just as if they had never lost their physical bodies. Such a world never came about and today we can only dream of it. But it is the world that the angels have blocked.
-The problem with the original sin of the angels is that everything takes place in the realm of the invisible. I don’t mean invisible because it is spiritual, but invisible because it is in the realm of the internal heart and mind. The original sin of the angels concerns desires of their heart and thoughts and feelings resulting from these evil desires. Those evil desires are mainly evil because they are expressions of a heart of creations that don’t want to take their correct position of object to God and man.
-All evil comes from beings who don’t want to accept their positions in the way God created them. In such people or angels do come up certain desires from that refusal to take the correct position. And it are those evil desires that destroy everything what is good and beautiful.
+There is much more to be said about resurrection, about the character of the  stages of spiritual growth that follow rebirth, about your own responsibility to  live a life of faith and sacrifice for others so that you also really will grow,  etc. For now i conclude with saying that resurrection of the spirits is taking  place right now at a large scale.
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