David Goddard – Spiritual Teacher

The Incorruptible Body is the result of the condition in which Spirit, Soul and Body are equally deathless. In other words, when the Body is so spiritualized that it no longer shares the mortality of Nature, but is saturated with the immortality of the Spirit. … a Realized One is, on the one hand as free from physical limitations as is someone who has died (gravity, time, space and bank accounts ; and on the other hand, s/he is just as capable of operating and working in the earthly realm as any incarnate person, as any embodied human being.

The Risen Christ is a good example of this: he could appear in a locked and secured house, and, after having manifested within the house, his form could be physically seen, heard, and touched; and could share a meal with the people. The body of the Realized Sage does not “consist” of passive matter, but is the liberated ensouling energy – belonging to the Soul and to the Spirit – that has the powers to materialize -  and so make use of physical form and function. This Incorruptible Body is not just the result of a composite of materials, it is a prism for the power that, gathers, forms, and moves matter. The realized Sage has mastered of matter of space and time – so he is ‘thrice great’, like Hermes Trismegistus.

For such a one, the energy that was ‘trapped’ in the matter of the body is now free. And this freed [energy] can be willed, at any time, to materialization, or back again into dematerialization. This is the highest aspect of the alchemical praxes of ‘Solve et Coagula’ – to manifest and to dissolve. Thus one who has attained the Immortal Body can appear and disappear at will, because s/he controls the processes of formation and dissolution, and is therefore a master of life and death. Each time s/he materializes, and takes on a from that physical senses can perceive, the entire process of incarnation is repeated in a few moments. Every time the Sage dissolves their body from physical vibratory rates, the whole process of dissolution that happens after death, is rapidly repeated in moments. The whole process of incarnation and evolution is a ‘continual event’ for one whose consciousness is rooted in eternity.

To be continued…

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The deathless vehicle of the enlightened Sage has different names in various traditions. In Sanskrit it is called the Kriya-shakti-manu-kosha. Taoism calls it the ‘Golden Flower’. Tibetan Buddhism calls it Jalus – the ‘Rainbow-Body of Clear Light’, or sometimes, the Vajra-Body. The ancient Egyptians called it the ‘Solar Body[1]’. And it has also been called the ‘Resurrection Body’, and the ‘Body of Pure Crystal’.

Western Alchemy often calls it the Corpus Incorruptibilis, which is Latin for the ‘Incorruptible Body’. This term is from the Apostle Paul’s letter to the community in Corinth[2]. In this letter, Paul explains, that, since Jesus attained this immortal body – so can you! Remember, Paul was a trained Qabalist, and he clearly tells how this is to be done: …” this corruptible [body] must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality … then shall be brought to pass the saying … ‘Death is swallowed up [digested, consumed] in Victory [Netzach, Eternity].” Paul gives this advice, since Jesus showed how to complete human evolution, we should use the same method – ‘be steadfast … always abounding in the Work of the Lord.’ Steadfast in the ‘Work of Adonai’, in the Great Work; which is: to find THAT which is Eternal within you, and then you can see it in everyone else, and enjoy it everywhere!

But what is this Immortal Body that is the natural consequence of complete Self-realization? I say ‘natural consequence’ because since it is consciousness that creates any body that we wear, enlightened and liberated conscious must produce a deathless body.

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[1] This is why they described Gold as ‘the flesh of the gods’.

[2] 1^st Epistle to the Corinthians, ch. 15 – v. 51

To be Continued…