THE TRUE SIGNIFICANCE OF EASTER -- PART TWO

 
Every year the Christian Churches mourn the death of the Nazarene. On Good Friday the aura around the Earth is filled with the black clouds of wrong emotion, of wrong thoughts, of wrong beliefs, of erroneousness in every way.

From the Unreal to the Real

The Nazarene in his moment of death was passing from unreality, which is physical life, to reality, which is spiritual life!! He was simply returning from the unreal to the real. He was throwing off the limitations of physical life, of this school of life which Humanity comes to experience, and was returning to his natural existence. In that crucifixion the Master Jesus shed the restrictions, the sorrows, the trials and the turmoils of physical life. In that crucifixion he gave to Humanity the "key" which could open the doorway to its own resurrection.

Death really is a birth!! For as you die so you are being born again and, therefore, as you celebrate birth with joy and festivity so you should celebrate death in a like manner. By his act of death the Nazarene was demonstrating the return to a normal spiritual existence which awaits you all, and therefore all the sorrow that you express for his death is wasted energy caused by your misunderstanding of what he was doing.

Intended Demonstrations

From the Bible you read that the Nazarene, knowing that he was to go to Jerusalem, told his diciples that certain events were to happen, that certain plans had been made. In all the Gospels of the New Testament you may read where Jesus told his disciples of what was to happen, on every level of existence from the providing of a donkey to the room where the ceremony which you call the Last Supper was to take place, from his disciple Peter denying him three times to his trial and eventual death. If all these incidents were fixed in time and were destined to happen, were they not intended as demonstrations to Humanity of certain spiritual principles??

Looking Behind Recorded Events

Try to look behind the story of Easter and see more than that which is demonstrated by the recorded events. You can read the story of the Nazarene´s death as you read any other book and can say that a man went to Jerusalem, was betrayed and falsely arrested, was given a mockery of a trial and, although innocent, was condemned to die a most painful death. But let us examine a little of the significance behind those events.

This Master went to Jerusalem. Even though he knew that a painful death awaited him he still proceeded towards Jerusalem because he wished to carry out the Will of his Creator. He knew that he had to go there, not for himself, but for Humanity as a whole. He was a teacher demonstrating certain facts of existence for the benefit of his pupils. He knew who was to betray him. He knew how that man was to betray him.

Exemplifying the Christ Principle

Remember now, that a less evolved soul can never take away the life of a more evolved soul, so you can deduce that Judas Iscariot who betrayed the Nazarene must have been of equal soul evolution to him. They were, indeed, true affinites, and in that incarnation they both came into matter at the same time, the one to exemplify the Christ Principle and the other to be the cause of the Nazarene´s physical death in order that Humanity could be awakened and the Christ Knowledge spread as It has spread to this day. So, by betraying the Nazarene, Judas too was performing the Will of his Creator.

It was not an act of evil. No other disciple but Judas was of the evolution to betray the Master Jesus, to deliver him to death for, ultimately, it was the act of Judas which resulted in the Nazarene´s arrest and death. Although the soldiers who crucified him carried out the physical process of death, it is the one who is responsible who bears the ultimate responsibilty.

A Major Creed

Consider the fact that the Nazarene was convicted and sentenced to death for demonstrating and exemplifying the Christ Principle which Humanity has since developed into a major creed in the World today. The religious men of his time, suspicious and bound by there own dogma, would not accept his teachings, and so the mockery of his trial took place. You also have the civil leaders of the time, exemplified by Pontius Pilate, who washed their hands of the whole affair and, knowing his innocence, still allowed him to be crucified. There is symbology in that for your modern World.

Part Three follows....

This article is from "The Fantastic Teachings of Ramala"