The True Meaning of Easter

Since time began on this rock this time period in the year, spring, is about birth. Easter is not a historical day when some man was crucified by the Romans and Jews some 2000 years ago. The day changes each year. It is not a set date. This is a mystery but it can be solved.

The Encyclopedia Britannica states: “There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament, or in the writings of the apostolic Fathers. The sanctity of special times was an idea absent from the minds of the first Christians.”—(1910), Vol. VIII, p. 828.

The Catholic Encyclopedia tells us: “A great many pagan customs, celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter. The egg is the emblem of the germinating life of early spring. . . . The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility.”—(1913), Vol. V, p. 227.

We all know the story of Good Friday . A man is in a garden and it is night time.  Judas comes in search of him, allegedly to betray him. He comes into the garden, and its dark, so he asks the question, "Where is Jesus?" The voice in the dark answered, "I AM HE."

We are told all fell to the ground. When they regained their composure they asked the same question, "Where is Jesus?" Again the voice answered, "I have told you that I AM HE." This time Judas kisses him and the voice said to him, "Now that you have found me, let all else go, but do not let Me go, and what you have to do, do quickly."  Then Judas goes out and commits suicide.

Now when you read the story you might think that drama took place in a garden. In a way it does because it is a drama that takes place in the mind of man. For this story is all about rebirth. Because it is about rebirth it is celebrated at this time.

It takes a man, a normal man of the senses, and buried in that man, nailed to the cross of flesh and blood with the five senses, is the second man that rebirth loosens and lifts up, and the second man is God. The mystery is self, and John uses the word "mystery" no less than 18 times. The bible says,

"Great is the mystery, God was manifest in the flesh."

Then it tells of the greatest of all mysteries, the one hidden from the foundation of the world,

"Christ in you is the hope of glory."

Christ IN man. Not Christ in the pages of history, but God IN man must be awakened.

How do we do that? Go into the garden of your own mind. Imagine you are in a room of some hospital. You see the case history and you hear the verdict of the doctor, and the man, seemingly, is dying. What would save that man from such a judgment? What would save him? A state of health by which he would rise from that bed and become a normal, healthy person in this world; that would save him.

Look inside you and define carefully the solution of a particular problem. When you define the solution to the problem in your mind's eye or imagination, do you know what you are seeing? You are seeing Jesus, for Jesus means "I AM Saves." So the state that would save that man from what he is, is the state of health. That is his savior.

The story is,

"Now that you have found ME, let all else go, but do not let ME go."

In other words, let go of everything you have ever believed, but do not let go of this concept, that the man is well in spite of the evidence of your senses to the contrary. No matter what reason tells you, you hold onto Jesus, Jesus being that the man is healthy. You hold onto it, and you touch it by becoming intensely aware of it. You feel it. You consciously accept you have it in your imagination. That's the only way to touch a thing.

Look into your own mind's eye and know exactly what you want in this world. When you know what you want in place of what you are, then you are seeing your savior, your Jesus. The story is,

Don't let Him go, but let all else go.

Remove yourself from the belief that you formerly believed, and hold on in your imagination to the concept that you ARE the man that you want to be. You are on the road of Calvary. You carry the cross of flesh and blood. Calvary means a great ordeal, and that will lead you towards Easter, Rebirth.

Resurrection is not rebirth. You must die daily and be reborn to receive from grace the birth from above and resurrection. You walk the road of Calvary and to leave this road you must forgive and love yourself and you must die for another and you do it with loving imagination.

You will be reborn and make alive the state that you imagined the end result being. The person who believed the man was dying dies and the person who believes he is well is born. If you remain faithful to the concept you are the state desired you will be led right into the fulfillment of that state. It is called, in the Bible, rebirth.

I must learn the art of dying that I may live. I die, by laying down all that I now believe, and I lift myself up to the belief that I am what I want to be.There is no greater love than to 'die' for another.

An expectation or assumption, even if it is false, if persisted in, will become fact, that is a truth. If I know that if I assume that I am the man I want to be and persist in that assumption, I would gradually become that. If I have that knowledge, that's fantastic. But not to DO it is to try to bring this being to birth by water only. We are told this is the one who came by water and the blood. Not by water only, but by water and the blood. In other words, I have the knowledge, but I cannot bring to birth my ideal by knowledge alone. I must put it into action, I must DO it in imagination. Then when I DO it, I die and hold on to my savior and I am reborn by the doing. This is the story of Easter.

Because you are who you are, the universe moves upon your request to bring to you what you need to become what you asked. Faith is knowing it is coming despite the facts saying otherwise. Then it comes. Doubt will stop it in its tracks so you hold on. In the bible, to act means to consciously go imagine the end you wish to see and know it is yours so the secret talks you have with yourself must reflect you have your desire. You will not know how that end will be obtained but you will get it. The universe is filling in the details matching like to like to bring you your wish.

On Easter, churches will be full of new decorations, but not new men, and we are told in the story,

"Put on the Lord Jesus Christ. Put on the New Man."

It comes from within. You can't put it on from the outside, for He is within you. Christ in YOU is the hope of glory. Not some Christ external to yourself, but the one in you, that is your hope; that is your only glory.

When you walk the earth and you see anyone in need, ask yourself what would be the solution to that individual's problem, just what would it be? Help him carry his cross of flesh and blood on the road of Calvary. You can grant it. If you know who you REALLY are, you can give it in your imagination. You don't have to raise one finger to help him carry his cross. You simply turn to your imagination.

When you do it daily, you die daily as the prophet said, "I die daily." Man waits for some little event called death, and he thinks that is dying. That isn't dying for the simple reason that that kind of death does not bring about a transformation. For there is no transformation in a physical death, but there is transformation in mentally dying and dying daily. If you have learned the art of dying, you have learned the art of living. For man is immortal and he must die endlessly. Life was a creative idea, and it will find itself only in changing form. If I do not change and grow and outgrow, and grow and outgrow, like a snake shedding it's skin as it grows, then I know nothing of the mystery of Easter, for Easter is really the greatest of all mysteries. It's the story of how man awakens within himself and he awakens as God.

So, unless we be born of this knowledge and the application of this knowledge, we cannot enter this eternal state called the Kingdom of Heaven. So, now you have a little of the knowledge, go out and apply it. Give it a test.

This is Easter, and Easter comes not once a year, Easter is a daily opportunity to simply die that you may live.

"If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me."

So how would I take up my cross and follow after this idea? First, I am told I must deny myself. Usually man thinks that means giving up something he loves, giving up the pleasures of the table, or giving up something of which he is especially fond. Man calls this Lent. It hasn't a thing to do with giving up external things. It is that man must deny himself and a mans true self is made up of the sum total of all that he believes, all that he accepts as true, all that he consents to. So, if I consent to a man dying, then I must deny that concept, that self, and put in its place the embodiment of a healthy being. When I do that, I can follow after this idea. You can take this principle and apply it to everything in this world. If it's not some tangible thing on earth you want, take some noble concept of a man, take a man that you would love to see in this world. Dream of that man actually walking this earth and identify yourself with that man. Associate yourself in your own imagination with that as if you were he. When you actually feel that I am he, and continue in that state, then things begin to unfold to bear witness to the truth of your assumption. You try it.

Easter is the art of dying that you may live.

This reminds me of that wonderful poem of the death of Abdullah and what he said at the end of it all. He appeared among all the mortals and they were weeping and kissing his worn out body and he turned to them and said, "I am not the thing you kiss, cease your tears and let it lie. It was mine, it is not I."

Happy Easter!

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