Unity and Jesus on the Cross/The Holy Spirit

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 entirely 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, he 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 postresurrection experiences of him.

As to the Holy Spirit, I understand it to be a recognition that the Divine is always with us, supporting us on our evolving, creative spiritual path. If the Christ is the term we use to describe the Presence of God we are, then Holy Spirit is the term we use to describe the Presence of God in all of life—and in the supportive energies that are always working with us.

Blessings!

Rev. Ed