The Silver Cord and the Death of Jesus

Question:

There are different versions the Rosicrucian, the Essenic etc. saying that Jesus did not die or said in another way that the silver cord was not broken when he was laid in the tomb. What is the interpretation of Unity?

Comment:

Because Unity recognizes that every individual is the Christ in potential expression, fully One with the infinite wisdom of God, we don't really have official dogma that must be believed. Rather we affirm universal spiritual principles, and affirm the right and ability of each person to understand scripture—or anything else, for that matter—in terms of how those spiritual principles express. One of those principles is that the true nature of every person is divine. We are not humans trying to become spiritual. We are spiritual beings engaged in a human experience through which we can bring more of the Nature of God into tangible expression. If we are divine, then we are eternal; birth and death are mortal illusions allowing us to pass into and out of human experiences.   So it is not accurate to say that Jesus “died” and was returned to life. He moved through the illusion of death and, by virtue of his ability to fully express his Christ self, was able to demonstrate to his followers that death was nothing to fear, because it had no reality. It makes no difference whether his physical body was retained or left behind; certainly many of his closest followers do not recognize the physical appearance of Jesus in their post-Resurrection experiences of him. So, since death has no spiritual reality, it would seem that the “silver cord” is never broken, for any of us. It's important to remember that Jesus was not unique in his relationship to spiritual principle; he was unique in his ability to grasp and express that principle.   Blessings!

Rev. Ed