This comes from page 48:
"The spiritual part of the man must so recognize the darkness and
death of the physical, must so completely and willingly enter into it and
transform it, the inevitable ill, into a thing desirable, that it shall
dissolve away, and vanish in its character and quality as that which is ill or
evil. So, in entering the Tomb, the Christ of the world, the Buddha of the
world, the Krishna of the world, destroys the Tomb itself.
Enter into it willingly and transform it and bring the
kingdom of heaven to it. This teaching is sound, and I endorse it. It is not
pulling yourself up and beyond objective consciousness into a transcendental
state; it is not trying to reach something back of or other than the astral and
physical substance, but it is entering the material conditions of consciousness
willingly and dwelling there until the material view has been transformed into
the release of the substance. This can be carried to such an extent that the
divine precept of the Illumined One becomes literally true. “More uprightly and
purely speaketh the healthy body, perfect and square-built; and it speaketh of
the meaning of the earth.” This is Freidrich Nietzsche's doctrine of the
meaning of the earth. The earth has a meaning — it is not a material concept,
but it is divine substance, and he who touches the physical body touches God.
That is the doctrine; stop running away from it and enter
it until the material concept of it is dissolved away, until the character and
quality which appears evil has completely vanished. You have not left it, but
you are still there blended with it as the substance. Then think of the whole
sidereal universe and of the orders of Beings embodied; think of all that as
the body of God — and you have arrived! This is the significance of the
resurrection. It is not pulling yourself out of objective consciousness and
going on up somewhere; it is transforming it. When you can do that, you have
resurrected yourself from material concept — the tomb — and there no longer is
a tomb."
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