What Does Resurrection Mean in the Bible Read through 3 lenses

Resurrection is not an event awaited at the end of time but the present power of the mind to wake from the dream of death. Love names itself as life because life is what love is, and the mind that joins with love finds that the death it feared was only a belief it held. To have died is to have slept in separation; to live is to remember the wholeness that was never lost. The change is entirely in the mind that looks, not in any grave.

What rises is not a body but the awareness that the self was never truly gone. The mind that trusts in love discovers it was alive all along, dreaming it had died.

• Resurrection and life: not addressed as symbols; they are love's own nature, which the reading unfolds directly rather than the key decoding.

• His coming is the resurrection: a man born a second time, lifted alive out of his own skull. No arrival on distant clouds is meant. The one God fell asleep in human form and is dreaming this life. He now wakes person by person from within, so the coming the doubters cannot find is the waking from that long sleep. Each of us reaches it at an appointed hour, the way a ripened thing is finally born.

To those still asleep, nothing seems to move. The fathers lay down and the world runs on unchanged, and from inside the dream that looks like proof that no one is coming. Yet the father asleep in each of us is rising, and every promise made ripens and is kept, one life at a time.

In the risen state of consciousness, the pairing and joining that belong to the flesh-bound life fall away. Marriage is the union of the divided halves at the level of the body, the reaching of one incomplete part toward another, and it belongs to the world of separation where a being feels itself a fragment seeking its match. When awareness rises into its whole and illumined condition, that hunger for outer union ends, because the self is no longer split.

The angels of God are the pure energies of the higher realm, the undivided powers that need no counterpart. A person come into that state is complete within, and so the old drive to marry the missing half has nothing left to seek.

• Resurrection: the risen state of consciousness, the self lifted out of the flesh-bound condition into wholeness
• Angels of God: the pure undivided energies of the higher realm, complete in themselves and needing no counterpart