# Jesus Christ, Resurrection of

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> Jesus Christ, Resurrection of
> 
> Abdu'l-Bahá
> 
> Shoghi Effendi
> 
> Universal House of Justice, Research Department
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> , compiler
> 
> n.d.
> 
> From the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá
> 
> As to the resurrection of the body of Christ three days subsequent to His departure: This
> signifies the divine teachings and spiritual religion of His Holiness Christ, which constitute His
> spiritual body, which is living and perpetual forevermore.
> 
> By the "three days' of His death is meant that after the great martyrdom, the penetration of the
> divine teachings and the spread of the spiritual law became relaxed on account of the crucifixion
> of Christ. For the disciples were somewhat troubled by the violence of divine tests. But when
> they become firm, that divine spirit resurrected and that body - which signifies the divine word
> - arose.
> 
> Likewise the address of the angels to the people of Galilee, "That this Christ will return in the
> same way and that He will descend from heaven," is a spiritual address. For when Christ
> appeared, he came from heaven, although He was outwardly born from the womb of Mary. For He
> said: "No man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven."
> 
> He said: "I came down from heaven and likewise will go to heaven." By "Heaven" is not meant this
> infinite phenomenal space, but "heaven" signifies the world of the divine kingdom which is the
> supreme station and seat of the Sun of Truth.
> 
> "Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas", Vol. 1
> (Chicago: Bahá'í Publishing Society), p.
> 192
> 
> ...Thou hast written concerning the meeting of His Highness Christ after the crucifixion and that
> some of the apostles perceived Him but did not recognize Him; but that they did recognize Him
> after the breaking of bread.
> 
> Know thou that the Messianic Spirit and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit is always manifest,
> but capacity and ability (to receive it) is more in some and less in others. After the crucifixion
> the apostles had not in the beginning the capacity and ability of witnessing the Messianic reality.
> For they were agitated. But when they found firmness and steadfastness, their inner sight
> became opened, and they saw the reality of the Messiah as manifest. For the body of Christ was
> crucified and vanished, but the Spirit of Christ is always pouring upon the contingent world, and
> is manifest before the insight of the people of assurance.
> 
> "Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas",
> Vol. 1 (Chicago: Bahá'í Publishing Society), p.
> 193
> -
> 194
> 
> ...The Cause of Christ was like a lifeless body; and when after three days the disciples became
> assured and steadfast, and began to serve the Cause of Christ, and resolved to spread the divine
> teachings, putting His counsels into practice, and arising to serve Him, the Reality of Christ
> became resplendent and His bounty appeared; His religion found life; His teachings and His
> admonitions became evident and visible. In other words, the Cause of Christ was like a lifeless
> body until the life and the bounty of the Holy Spirit surrounded it.
> 
> Such is the meaning of the resurrection of Christ, and this was a true
> resurrection....
> 
> "Some Answered Questions", rev. ed. (Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust,
> 1984), p.
> 104
> 
> From letters written on behalf of the Guardian
> 
> We do not believe that there was a bodily resurrection after the Crucifixion of Christ, but that
> there was a time after His Ascension when His disciples perceived spiritually His true greatness
> and realized He was eternal in being. This is what has been reported symbolically in the New
> Testament and been misunderstood. His eating with His disciples after resurrection is the same
> thing.
> 
> 9 October 1947 to an individual believer
> 
> The two Biblical verses you had enclosed for explanation on behalf of Dr. ...; the Guardian wishes
> you to explain to him that these passages are allegorical, and should not be taken literally. They
> indicate the reality of the presence of the Spirit of Christ and not His bodily
> resurrection....
> 
> 14 August 1937 to an individual believer in response to a request for an
> explanation of the Biblical verses Luke 24:39 and John 20:24-29 for a person who was
> investigating the Teachings of the Faith.
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