Mystical Crucifixion and Resurrection

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• Galatians 2:20
• Philippians 2:7-8
• Romans 6:5

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Pauls Autobiography

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." "This - the body- is the cross. To him the cross was not the grievance of God but the love of God, and that crucifixion is the most delightful state. It is not a painful state, as the churches portray it. They don’t portray the true thing at all. It happened to me right in this present embodiment, where it was shown me so vividly how it was done. And the thrill that was mine the night my hands became vortexes, and my head a vortex, and my side a vortex, and the soles of my feet vortexes." "If we have been united with Christ in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.” The resurrection has taken place, but it is also taking place. It took place, and that first one - whether you believe it or not - is Paul, and from that moment on it is taking place in every being in the world, as we march toward this invisible Mecca. And along the way we are pulled out of the crowd one by one, and he awakens in the individual. And that one, without losing his distinctive individuality, is God.

Crucifixion is a mystical, delightful experience where the individual's body becomes the 'cross,' and the old self dies, allowing Christ (the divine imagination) to live within. This is a joyful union, marked by the body becoming vortexes of energy. This mystical death is followed by a resurrection, a spiritual awakening that began with Paul and is now unfolding in all humanity.

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