Chapter 2 - The Laws Governing Spirit Communication with Material Creation

- 26 - Only those whom the Lord had authorized to enter the odic currents, namely Moses and Aaron, could do so before that without danger to their lives. In their case, ‘insulation’ not unlike the kind you use for persons who need to be exposed to high voltages had been provided. And when the Lord commanded further that people or animals should be killed for even attempting to come near the smoking mountain, this was not meant as a punishment for disobedience, since obviously in the case of animals the question of sinning could scarcely arise. This commandment was rather a measure for preventing any interruption of the power currents at all costs. Such an interruption would have resulted, had any material beings come into contact with the odic currents without authorization, that is to say, without being provided with proper means of ‘insulation’. This explanation of the events recorded in the Bible surprises you; the events may strike you as too mundane and material. But it is the truth, and it furnishes you with fresh proof of the universal validity of God-given laws, to which even the Creator Himself submits in His dealings with matter. He suspends not a single law, or, as the Holy Writ expresses it: Ecclesiastes 3: 14: ‘I know that whatever God has ordained has eternal validity.’ After this explanation you will also understand why Christ, immediately after his resurrection, forbade Mary Magdalene to touch him. The materialization of his spirit was then only beginning, and Mary Magdalene, by touching him, would not only have prevented any further progress of the process of materialization, but would have destroyed what had already taken effect. The explanation given in the Bible as the reason for Christ’s refusal to let her touch him was added later by an ignorant copyist who inserted the words: John 20: 17: ‘I have not yet ascended to the Father.’ That this could not have been the true reason for refusing to let Mary Magdalene touch his materialized odic body is evident from the fact that, somewhat later, Christ expressly invited his apostles to touch him, although at the time he had also not yet ascended to the Father. But the materialization of his body was then complete, and therefore any contact with him could not cause bodily harm to his disciples or interfere with the materialization. Let us take a few more examples from the New Testament. In the transfiguration on Mount Tabor, ‘a cloud came and overshadowed them, and a voice called from inside the cloud’. (Matthew 17: 5) Thus, the cloud of od was necessary here also, in order to produce a voice that could be heard by human ears. The same cloud was used by Moses and Elijah to make themselves visible in bodies of condensed od to the three apostles present. It was in a figure of materialized od that Christ appeared after his Resurrection and in which he stood before his disciples on Ascension Day. They saw his odic body dissolve into a cloud of od before their eyes, and when the cloud itself had become invisible by further dissolution, Christ had disappeared from their sight. • The general belief that it was an ordinary cloud in the sky that hid Christ from his disciples is utterly wrong. At Pentecost there appeared above the heads of the Apostles and of those who were with them

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