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 [DS: John] 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.
Excerpt from
Chapter 30 of The Soul of Jesus.
