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After resurrecting, Jesus left his physical body and rose in a semi-spirit morontia form. This non-physical state demonstrates the transition after death and represents a key stage in spiritual evolution, offering tangible evidence of eternal life.
When Jesus resurrected, he left his physical body in the tomb and rose in a new form: the non-physical substance that makes up our souls, called morontia. Paul knew of this material when he wrote, "Knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance" (Hebrews 10:34)." Jesus continued to experience life as a mortal immediately after death, showing us the transition into a morontia form. This form, while not physical, is a real and vital aspect of our spiritual evolution and a tangible demonstration of the promise of eternal life.
Philosophers have long recognized that there is something more to us than our physical body. As early as around 440 BCE, Socrates called this something our soul. Metaphysics inquiries of the essences of things with a higher degree of existence than matter. To spirit beings, the spirit world is a reality, and the material world is almost entirely unreal; it is merely a shadow of the substance of spirit realities. Spirit can freely pass through ordinary matter. We now know more about the spirit world through Jesus.
The philosophers were right in discerning a different, non-material essence, the soul, which survives death and continues onward in what is called a morontia form. As we advance through the mansion worlds, we experience an ordered progression, moving through various levels of morontia substance, each more refined than the last, all aimed at preparing us for eventual spiritual existence.
The morontia body is a unique, intermediate form that stands between the material and the spiritual. It is not physical in the earthly sense -- there is no need for blood circulation, respiration, or consuming material food. Instead, morontia beings are sustained by "morontia energy," a type of sustenance provided on the mansion worlds, which satisfies the soul’s needs in this transitional state. Yet, these morontia forms are entirely real, tangible, and responsive to the developing nature of the soul within. Each morontia form reflects, more than a physical body could, the evolving inner life, character, and spiritual attainments of the individual.
When mortals rise on the mansion worlds after their resurrection morning, they will awaken in bodies similar to the form Jesus inhabited in his post-resurrection appearances on earth. This morontia form possesses new powers and capacities and moves freely across boundaries that would limit physical beings. It was in such a form that Jesus appeared to his apostles and others after his resurrection, demonstrating the reality and function of the morontia body.
Jesus went through the human experience of life on earth, death, resurrection, and life immediately after death. Afterward, he returned to his position as the creator son of the universe. We shall continue our spiritual advancement until we stand before God the Father in Paradise as perfected beings. Our transitional bodies, no longer physical and not yet spirit, literally transition towards the spirit side, like sliding a bar to make a light brighter, as we progress through the mansion worlds. Jesus may have been referring to our homes on the mansion worlds when he said, "In my Father's house are many mansions…I go to prepare a place for you" (John 14:2).
We do not return to earth. Jesus, also being fully divine, did return, and nearly one thousand believers saw Jesus in his resurrection appearances after he died. And they did really see Jesus. They were not the self-deceived victims of visions or hallucinations. As Jesus continued through the same morontia career that we will experience, parting for a short time to visit his friends, it became more difficult to visualize him through material eyes.
No mortal in the universe can claim that Jesus lacks understanding of their experience. As the Son of God, Jesus lived a mortal life and continued his existence beyond death and resurrection. In the same way, we live a human life and will continue our existence beyond our mortal death after resurrecting.
Son of God, Son of Man. Creator Son of the Universe.
Jesus’ appearances spanned forty days.
Gregg Tomusko, Mike Robinson, Gary Tonge