Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924

GA 265a — 30 August 1911, Munich

On the Resurrection Body

Notes from the estate of Elisabeth Vreede

After his death, the Christ taught in a spiritual body that had been formed for that specific purpose. This was the same body that was seen by Paul and that was drawn together for this purpose. We will be able to see this same body in the etheric world before the end of this century. The physical body that was laid in the grave dematerialized to such an extent that it spread over the whole earth, and therefore no body was found in the grave when it was sought there. The resurrection body was the etheric body, which could be so condensed by Christ that Thomas could touch it, which cannot be the case with an ordinary etheric body. The fact that it was a different body from the physical one is indicated in the Gospel by the fact that Mary Magdalene and others did not recognize it at first.

Through Mark and [Ormus], both disciples of the Christ after his resurrection, the mysteries and rituals were transformed.