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(Q) Is the real mystery of the Crucifixion and Resurrection the transformation of human flesh into divine flesh? Please explain.
(A) There is actually no mystery in what happened to the body of Christ. Having fully achieved unity—at-one-ment—with God in physical consciousness, the wholeness of that union made possible what followed. When the physical body disintegrated, this was shown by the way the burial cloths were found lying undisturbed. What occurred was not a change from one type of flesh into another, but the taking on of a physical form again through a different process.
The body did not pass through solid objects like wood. Instead, just as when Christ appeared in the Upper Room while the doors were closed, the physical form was recreated from the etheric substance present in the room, made possible by the faith and spiritual preparation of those gathered there. This fulfilled the instruction: “Remain in Jerusalem, in the upper room, until you are clothed with power from on high.”
When Christ first appeared to Mary in the garden and said, “Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father,” it was because the body she saw—though visible—had not yet fully reunited with the source of all power. Until that conscious union was complete, the form could not be physically handled.
Afterward, following several appearances, Christ invited the disciples to touch His wounds—His hands, feet, and side—and to believe. This marked a shift. It showed that the body had now been fully regenerated and stabilized.
To understand this, consider what happens when a soul leaves a body (this comparison is not about Christ directly). The soul retains the form of the body it left, but it is not visible to ordinary physical perception unless the observer’s consciousness is attuned to higher awareness. When so attuned, that form can appear tangible, complete with recognizable features and even physical-like functions, until it fully aligns with universal consciousness.
This was similar with the resurrected Christ. When He asked, “Do you have anything to eat?” and then ate fish and honeycomb, it demonstrated that this was not a transmutation of flesh, but a regeneration—a recreation of physical atoms and cells capable of interacting with material substance.
Later, when He appeared by the sea, the disciples at first could not recognize Him in the early light. Yet when He spoke, the beloved disciple recognized Him immediately. The body had prepared fire, stood by water, and interacted with the elements of creation. Spirit initiates life, and water—formed from elemental combinations—becomes the medium through which creation manifests.
Thus, the Resurrection was not a transformation of flesh into something else, but a creative re-forming of the body according to a divine pattern.
In the same way, when individuals exist in realms beyond the physical body, they do not take on an earthly form but rather a form suited to the dimensions and conditions of that realm—still reflecting their identity, but expressed through a different pattern.
TRANSMUTATION vs REGENERATION
In Edgar Cayce’s teachings, the difference between transmutation and regeneration comes down to whether the physical body is changed into something else or rebuilt and restored. Transmutation would mean human flesh turning into a totally different, non-physical or “divine” substance—basically matter disappearing into spirit. Cayce says this is not what happened in the Resurrection. If that were the case, Jesus wouldn’t have been able to be seen, touched, or eat food, because those things require a real physical body.
Instead, Cayce explains the Resurrection as regeneration, which means re-creation. The original body broke down, but a new physical body was formed again—atom by atom—through spiritual power and perfect unity with God. This regenerated body was still physical, but it was fully controlled by spiritual awareness. That’s why Jesus could appear in closed rooms, disappear, be recognized by His voice, be touched, and eat with the disciples. The body wasn’t replaced—it was restored and perfected.
For Cayce, the key idea is that consciousness controls matter. Most people, after death, still have a form, but it isn’t visible unless someone’s awareness is spiritually tuned in. Jesus’ consciousness was so completely united with God that He could create and use a physical body whenever it was needed. So, transmutation would mean leaving the physical behind, but regeneration means matter itself is lifted up and brought under spiritual mastery. The lesson here is that spiritual growth isn’t about escaping the body—it’s about learning to live so fully in love, forgiveness, and awareness of God that even physical life becomes an expression of the divine.
SPIRITUAL BODY - PAUL vs CAYCE
Paul and Edgar Cayce both talk about a “spiritual body,” but they explain it in different ways. Paul, writing in 1 Corinthians 15, says that humans have a natural (physical) body and a spiritual body, and that resurrection is a change from one to the other. He explains this using contrasts like perishable turning into imperishable, mortal into immortal, and natural into spiritual. For Paul, the spiritual body is still a real body, but it’s no longer controlled by weakness, decay, or death. Instead, it is fully powered and guided by spirit. Paul doesn’t explain how this works physically—his focus is on faith and meaning. The big idea is that resurrection brings victory over death and allows people to share in eternal life “in Christ.”
Cayce agrees that resurrection involves a body ruled by spirit, but he explains the process in more detail. He says the physical body is not thrown away or replaced. Instead, it is regenerated, meaning it is recreated and perfected through divine consciousness. According to Cayce, the original body breaks down, but a new physical body is formed again from universal substance. This regenerated body can be seen, touched, eat food, appear and disappear, and even enter rooms with closed doors. Cayce teaches that consciousness is the key—when consciousness is fully united with God, matter responds to spirit instead of limiting it. The body stays physical, but it no longer has the same rules or limits we experience now.
Where Paul and Cayce agree is that resurrection is not just coming back to normal physical life. Both say the resurrected body is guided by spirit, requires union with God or Christ consciousness, and represents victory over death rather than escaping the body altogether. They both see resurrection as a higher level of existence, not just surviving after death.
Where they differ is in how much detail they give. Paul explains resurrection in symbolic and spiritual language and leaves the exact nature of the spiritual body mysterious. Cayce, on the other hand, tries to explain how it works, describing how matter itself can be reorganized and rebuilt by spiritual consciousness. In simple terms, Paul focuses on transformation, while Cayce focuses on regeneration and mastery.
Put simply, Paul teaches that resurrection brings a new kind of body that can’t decay and is ruled by spirit, while Cayce teaches that resurrection restores and perfects the body so completely that matter itself becomes obedient to spirit.
PAUL'S SPIRITUAL BODY vs CAYCE'S REGENERATED BODY vs MODERN PHYSICS AND CONSCIOUSNESS THEORIES
When Paul talks about a “spiritual body,” his idea lines up surprisingly well with how modern physics sees reality. Today, scientists know that what looks like solid matter is actually energy organized in invisible fields, and that particles are more like vibrations or patterns than tiny solid objects. In this way of thinking, information and pattern matter more than the physical stuff itself. When Paul compares the natural body to the spiritual body, he isn’t saying the body disappears—he’s saying it starts operating by higher rules. His “imperishable” body can be understood as a stable pattern that doesn’t break down over time, and being “raised in power” means it’s no longer limited by low energy or decay. Paul doesn’t explain the science, but modern physics gives us words for what he was pointing toward: a body held together by deeper laws than chemistry alone.
Edgar Cayce takes this idea further by explaining how the body could come back. His view connects closely with modern theories that suggest consciousness plays a role in shaping reality. Some scientists and thinkers today believe that forms come from invisible fields or templates, and that matter may be organized by intelligence or awareness. Ideas like quantum observation, field theory, holograms, and morphic resonance all suggest that patterns exist before physical form. Cayce’s “regenerated body” fits this idea—he says matter is rebuilt from universal substance according to a conscious pattern. What he called “etheric substance” can be compared, conceptually, to quantum fields or vacuum energy. For Cayce, when consciousness is fully aligned with God, it becomes perfectly synchronized with these fields, allowing the body to be rebuilt. In this view, the body isn’t turned into spirit—it is rebuilt by spirit.
Both Paul and Cayce also describe the resurrected body as being able to appear and disappear, be recognized sometimes and not others, and interact physically when needed. Modern physics gives helpful metaphors for this. Matter can behave differently depending on its phase, systems become more powerful when they are fully synchronized (coherent), and something invisible at one frequency can become visible at another. Seen this way, becoming visible or touchable could be like shifting into a different state or level of stability. This matches Cayce’s idea that the resurrected body could be touched only after full alignment with the source of power.
In modern terms, Paul and Cayce are describing the same destination from different angles. Paul uses religious and symbolic language to explain what changes—the result is victory over death and corruption. Cayce uses more metaphysical language to explain how it happens, focusing on consciousness as the force that organizes matter. You could say Paul describes the outcome, Cayce describes the system, and modern physics offers metaphors that help us imagine both.
Paul teaches that resurrection means a body that works by higher laws than biology, Cayce teaches that resurrection means matter reorganized by perfected consciousness, and modern science suggests that reality itself may be built from information, fields, and awareness. All three point to the same big idea: matter isn’t the most important thing—pattern, information, and consciousness are.
READING 2533-8 EXPLAINED:
The reading explains that the Resurrection didn’t happen because Jesus’ human body magically turned into divine flesh. Instead, it started before death, when Jesus had already reached complete unity with God inside Himself. His thoughts, spirit, and body were fully aligned, and that inner unity made everything that followed possible. In this view, resurrection power doesn’t begin after death—it begins with awareness and consciousness.
When Jesus died, His original physical body didn’t get up and walk out of the tomb. It naturally broke down, which is why the burial cloths were left lying flat and undisturbed. This shows that the old body was finished. What came next was not the same body coming back to life, but something new being formed.
After that, Jesus appeared to the disciples even when doors were locked. The reading says He didn’t pass through walls like a ghost. Instead, a new physical body formed inside the room, created from subtle universal energy. This was possible because the disciples were spiritually prepared and believed. Their faith created the right conditions for the body to appear.
When Mary first saw Jesus in the garden, she was told not to touch Him. According to the reading, this wasn’t because touching was forbidden forever, but because the body wasn’t fully stable yet. It could be seen, but it hadn’t fully connected with the source of all power, so it wasn’t ready for physical contact.
Later, after several appearances, Jesus invited the disciples to touch His wounds. This showed that the body had now fully formed and stabilized. At that point, it functioned like a real physical body, even though it wasn’t limited in the same way as before.
Jesus also asked for food and ate fish and honey. This was important because it proved He wasn’t a ghost or an illusion. The body had real atoms and cells and could interact with physical matter. This is why the reading says the Resurrection was regeneration, not transformation—matter wasn’t turned into spirit; it was rebuilt by spirit.
Sometimes the disciples didn’t recognize Jesus right away, like when He stood by the sea at dawn. But when He spoke, they knew who He was. This shows that recognition depended more on awareness and connection than just eyesight. The body could appear differently depending on the situation.
The main message of the reading is that the Resurrection wasn’t about escaping the body or changing flesh into something else. It was about spirit consciously recreating the body. Through complete unity with God, consciousness shaped matter, creating a body that was fully physical but no longer controlled by ordinary limits.
ORIGINAL 2533-8 READING
(Q) Is the transmutation of human flesh to flesh divine the real mystery of the Crucifixion and Resurrection? Explain this mystery.
(A) There is no mystery to the transmutation of the body of the Christ. For having attained in the physical consciousness the at-onement with the Father-Mother-God, the completeness was such that with the disintegration of the body - as indicated in the manner in which the shroud, the robe, the napkin lay - there was then the taking of the body-physical form. This was the manner. It was not a transmutation, as of changing from one to another. Just as indicated in the manner in which the body-physical entered the Upper Room with the doors closed, not by being a part of the wood through which the body passed but by forming from the ether waves that were within the room, because of a meeting prepared by faith. For as had been given, "Tarry ye in Jerusalem - in the upper chamber - until YE be endued with power from on high."
As indicated in the spoken word to Mary in the garden, "Touch me not, for I have not yet ascended to my Father." The body (flesh) that formed that seen by the normal or carnal eye of Mary was such that it could not be handled until there had been the conscious union with the sources of all power, of all force.
But afterward - when there had been the first, second, third, fourth and even the sixth meeting - He THEN said: "Put forth thy hand and touch the nail prints in my hands, in my feet. Thrust thy hand into my side and BELIEVE." This indicated the transformation.
For as indicated when the soul departs from a body (this is not being spoken of the Christ, you see), it has all of the form of the body from which it has passed - yet it is not visible to the carnal mind unless that mind has been, and is, attuned to the infinite. Then it appears, in the infinite, as that which may be handled, with all the attributes of the physical being; with the appetites, until these have been accorded to a unit of activity with universal consciousness.
Just as it was with the Christ-body: "Children, have ye anything here to eat?" This indicated to the disciples and the Apostles present that this was not transmutation but a regeneration, recreation of the atoms and cells of body that might, through desire, masticate material things - fish and honey (in the honeycomb) were given.
As also indicated later, when He stood by the sea and the disciples and Apostles who saw Him from the distance could not, in the early morning light, discern - but when He spoke, the voice made the impression upon the mind of the beloved disciple such that he spoke, "It is the Lord!" The body had prepared fire upon the earth - fire, water, the elements that make for creation. For as the spirit is the beginning, water combined of elements is the mother of creation.
Not transmutation of flesh but creation, in the pattern indicated.
Just as when there are those various realms about the solar system in which each entity may find itself when absent from the body, it takes on in those other realms not an earthly form but a pattern - conforming to the same dimensional elements of that individual planet or space.
2533-8 (original reading)
What Jesus meant by “Many shall come in my name” (Luke 21:8)
Jesus was warning that many people would claim spiritual authority using His name, but would not truly represent His spirit or message. These are not always obvious impostors. Some of them genuinely discover that there is real spiritual power connected with living in alignment with God and the light. The problem is that they then use that power for selfish reasons—to gain followers, influence, money, or control. When spiritual power is turned inward for ego instead of outward for service, people become false prophets or false Christs, even if they speak religious language.
The reading says there is a clear way to tell whether someone is truly speaking from the Spirit of God. Anyone who denies the message of the earlier prophets, or rejects Jesus’ mission, or minimizes His suffering, death, and especially His resurrection, is not aligned with the true Christ spirit. The Resurrection is emphasized because it shows Christ’s authority over death and proves that His power is real, not symbolic or self-invented.
The phrase “As ye have seen Him go, so shall He come” means that Christ’s return or presence must match the same truth, humility, and spiritual authority seen in His life, death, and resurrection—not just someone claiming spiritual insight or saying “I am Christ.”
Christ overcame the world not by force, but by appearing at the right time, living fully in alignment with God, and answering humanity’s deepest spiritual need. Because of this, He has power over death, darkness, and limitation. That same power becomes active in the world through awareness of Christ’s presence, not through personal claims to greatness.
However, when people feel spiritual inspiration or awareness of Christ’s presence, they can misinterpret it. Instead of recognizing it as Christ working through them, they may claim it as their own importance. This is how sincere spiritual experiences can become distorted into false authority.
Finally, the reading explains that times of confusion and false teaching are allowed for a reason. Negative forces are sometimes “loosed” to challenge, correct, and test humanity’s understanding. At the same time, the true glory of Christ is also being revealed—not through loud claims, but through the quiet transformation of hearts and lives grounded in love, humility, and service.
Jesus wasn’t saying everyone who speaks spiritually is false—He was warning that true spiritual power must always match the life, sacrifice, and resurrection of Christ. Any message that denies those truths or turns spiritual awareness into personal ego is not truly of Him. The real Christ is recognized not by claims, but by how His resurrection power shows up as love, humility, and service in real lives.
ORIGINAL READING 262-30
(Q) [307]: Please explain the words of the Master as recorded in the 21st chapter of Luke, "Many shall come in my name, saying I am Christ."
(A) As has been given, many have arisen; for as He gave in the same connection, there were many false prophets, even those that would lead the very elect away. There be those who, finding something of the power that is in the material activities of those that would walk in the light, turn same into their own selfish purposes; hence become false prophets, false Christs, and lead many astray. Let's remember, there has been given the manner, the way to determine as to whether such a prophet is of the Spirit of God or not. They that deny the call of the prophets of old, or the burdens of the world upon the Son or His death, His resurrection, are not of the spirit; for "As ye have SEEN Him go, so SHALL He come." As He overcame the world through the birth as one born in due season, through those varied periods when necessity and the DEMAND of the Sons of God brought forth those leaders in their proper places, so He is that one that is given power over death, hell and the grave, and in Him is the power made manifest in the consciousness of Him and His power in the earth; hence we may see how the consciousness of His presence may be misconstrued, when turned to selfish motives. Know that even as the powers of evil are loosed for the correcting of many, so are the glories of Him made manifest in the hearts and lives of many.
Resurrection Starts From Within
Mind is always the force that builds and shapes experience. Because of this, a person—both in thought and in physical life—must learn to bring mind and body into unity, instead of letting them struggle against each other. When this happens, the Spirit of Truth becomes the guiding influence behind everything a person thinks and does.
Jesus showed this unity clearly during times of trial and temptation. He taught that even if the physical body were destroyed, it could be raised again—showing that spirit and mind are greater than physical death. He also demonstrated that one must continue to think of and care for others, even when those closest to him failed to understand or support him. He went so far as to heal even his enemies, showing complete harmony between mind and body.
All of this happened during the very hours when inner transformation, release from limitation, awakening, and resurrection were already taking place within the mental and spiritual nature, and were being expressed outwardly through physical actions.
READING 262-88
For Mind ever is the builder; hence man in the mental sphere, man in the material sphere, must make for that experience where the Body and the Mind are as one and not warring one with another; so that the consciousness of the Spirit of Truth is ever the motivative influence in the experience of the individual in its activities. How was He in the hour of trial, of temptation? He gave the lesson as to how that even though the body would be destroyed, in three days it would be raised again. He gave the lesson as to how there should be the thought of the fellow man, when those upon whom He had depended to be the ministers in His stead failed to catch the vision of what it was all about. He healed even His enemies, thus making the Mind and the Body as one; even in those hours when the change and the dissolution, the enlightening, the resurrection, were taking place within the activities of the MENTAL body, expressing themselves through the activities of the material body.
SUMMARY:
The Cayce readings explain that the Resurrection was not about Jesus’ human body magically turning into divine flesh. Instead, it was about regeneration, meaning the body was recreated and restored through spiritual power. Resurrection didn’t start after death—it began before death, when Jesus had already reached complete unity with God in His thoughts, spirit, and actions. That inner awareness made everything else possible.
When Jesus died, His original physical body did not get up and leave the tomb. It naturally broke down, which is why the burial cloths were left lying flat. What followed was not the same body coming back to life, but the forming of a new physical body. This new body was created from universal energy and shaped by consciousness, not repaired from the old one.
The resurrected body was still real and physical. Jesus could be seen, touched, and could eat food, proving He wasn’t a ghost or illusion. At the same time, the body was no longer limited in normal ways—it could appear and disappear and enter locked rooms. Early on, the body wasn’t fully stable yet, which is why Jesus told Mary not to touch Him. Later, once the body was fully formed, He invited the disciples to touch His wounds.
A key idea in the readings is that consciousness controls matter. When awareness is fully aligned with God, matter responds to spirit instead of limiting it. Resurrection is not about escaping the body, but about mastering and redeeming it. Inner awakening comes first, and outer transformation follows.
Overall, the Resurrection is shown as both an inner and outer event. Spiritual awakening and unity with God happen first inside the mind and spirit, and then express themselves physically. The main lesson is that resurrection power comes from awareness, love, forgiveness, and unity with God—not from magic, ego, or abandoning physical life.
