Today is Easter Sunday. I have been praying more lately, and I can report that my life has gotten better since I have. My sleep is also back on track. I fall asleep fast and wake up early without my alarm. I am feeling really good, and I've been wanting to spend more time in worship, which for me means to spend more time on my knees in communion with God. I took the "prep" work out - I keep my sheep skin rug at the side of my bed, and that really helps.
So this morning I decided to pray a second time, because it is Easter Sunday, and it is therefore a magical day where the portals between God's realm and ours are open for longer periods of time.
What has been concerning me to the point of great anxiety is that when I identify as a Christian, I believe I mislead people who might look to me as a guide, because I do not have a conventional message of rebirth. So I took this perfect time to commune with God and let Him know what I am feeling, the letdown that I feel I am, because while I have such a solid grasp and reliance on the Cross, without the Resurrection, the Cross is considered worthless. So I asked God why a Being so perfect and logical, who created science itself, would have us all believe that He would break His own natural laws, raising Jesus from the dead like that?
I prayed for wisdom, that I might understand. I asked Him if this is really a lesson about spiritual alchemy, instead of a physical resurrection from the dead. And very quickly the answer came to me through a very favorite preacher of mine (God often speaks to us through people). The answer to the Resurrection came to me in a question (which is how Jesus always spoke to people who asked him questions): What needs to be "raised" from you?
In distillation (chemistry, which is birthed from alchemy), the liquids are boiled and then the vapors are separated according to their chemical makeup. It is the purest compounds that rise, leaving the denser particles behind, which are no longer distilled. This is what happens in our resurrection - when we are raised from the dead, from sin, from the enemy.
But how does that happen? All throughout scripture, we are taught that we attain union with God by passing through the refiner's fire. God prepares us to be blameless through "burning" away the impurities, of those things which are objectionable. As the smoke from the incense that rises to God and is pleasing to Him, so too is what spiritual alchemy is, and is the lesson that we are to take from the Resurrection.
Burn away the parts of our lives that block us from God - the compulsions, the addictions, the insecurities, until they become a vapor that rises unto the heavens. The result is that we are transformed, and can then use the residue that is left behind as RAW POWER.
The Cross means sacrifice, where we fight our enemy, but the Resurrection is where we are lifted up in victory. When we go through the fire, we become light as air and no situation can keep us from returning after our metamorphosis to light the way for others.
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