Transformation of the Spirit; the Judgement

[Plenum]

does this not look like some sort of Calling, some sort of Invokation of the spirit?

wake from the dead (the material world), and be transformed?

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Don asks a question about this card, and is thinking that it is the merging of Service to Others and self. He is told that he is wrong

80.19 Questioner: Then for the twentieth archetype I’m guessing that this is the Transformation of the Spirit, possibly analogous to the sixth-density merging of the paths. Is this in any way correct?

Ra: I am Ra. No.

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Don then asks what it means:

80.20 Questioner: Sorry about that. Can you tell me what the twentieth archetype would be?

Ra: I am Ra. That which you call the Sarcophagus in your system may be seen to be the material world, if you will. This material world is transformed by the spirit into that which is infinite and eternal. The infinity of the spirit is an even greater realization than the infinity of consciousness, for consciousness which has been disciplined by will and faith is that consciousness which may contact intelligent infinity directly. There are many things which fall away in the many, many steps of adepthood. We, of Ra, still walk these steps and praise the One Infinite Creator at each transformation.

there are a few points to examine here:


* this card sits at the 6th level in the Chain of Spirit:

devil, tower, star, moon, sun, Judgement, Cosmos

* "This material world is transformed by the spirit into that which is infinite and eternal."

the material world can be seen as space/time, and that which is transient and fleeting. When the action of spirit is applied, there is a distilling of love/light from the 4th and 5th chakras, which is then blended at the 6th level. This love/light is permanent and represents one's lessons and understandings, the grasping in truth of the Law of One.

* "The infinity of the spirit is an even greater realization than the infinity of consciousness, for consciousness which has been disciplined by will and faith is that consciousness which may contact intelligent infinity directly."

everyone has Consciousness. The disciplining of consciousness by will (through mental lessons) and through faith (spiritual lessons) then leads to intelligent infinity.

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there is also a quote here which I believe to be relevant:

73.4 Those who are upon the service-to-others path may call upon the light strength in direct proportion to the strength and purity of their will to serve.

so when there is a 'calling of the spirit' as depicted in this card, those who answer may then reciprocally call upon the LIGHT STRENGTH in proportion of their willingness to answer that call.

ie, we will be given and provided the means to carry out the task that we have agreed to. The Light also comes in and transforms us.




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once this card has been understood, one then progresses to the COSMOS, card 21, which is one of the most beautiful images that I have ever seen:

[Unbound]

Well said and laid out, I don't have much to share except I LOVE that design of the Judgement card.

[abstrktion]

Plenum...it is eerie how you seem to keep posting things I'm thinking about...

What you said here is what gets me through when things seem difficult:

"we will be given and provided the means to carry out the task that we have agreed to. The Light also comes in and transforms us."

That thought is echoed in many other places.

Here are some thoughts on the Transformations...
The Transformations are those patterns in the roots of mind which suggest that there is a radically different way of perceiving, acting, and being than what an entity might have been able to comprehend prior to the integration of the Transformation (i.e., the “reality” on the other side of the veil). They imply realization—both meaning a sudden mental understanding as well as a physical culmination, like the “realization” of a project or a dream--which also entails a releasing of other dreams in order to focus. The Transformation suggests a narrowing, a purity of intent and being.

Further, it is the case that “as a mind/body/spirit complex becomes aware of the process of spiritual evolution, more and more of the activities of the mind and body which precipitate activity are caused by those portions of the mind/body/spirit complex which are articulated by the archetypes of Transformation.” It would appear that the more we know and understand, the more we cause ourselves to know. Like a rock rolling downhill, we gather momentum as we go. This is similar to the acceleration of polarization inherent in the Experiences.

The Questioner asserts that “The Transformation of the Body is called Death, for with death the body is transformed to a higher vibrational body,” and Ra confirms this, adding that, “each moment and certainly each diurnal period of the bodily incarnation offers death and rebirth to one which is attempting to use the catalyst which is offered it.” This implies again the idea that the archetypes do not exist in a linear progression. We move from one to the other, using the patterning offered by each at any moment when it would be useful or desirable for us to do so.

RA notes that archetype 20, The Transformation of Spirit, is called “the Sarcophagus, in your system, [and] may be seen to be the material world…This material world is transformed by the spirit into that which is infinite and eternal.” This is a kind of realization in the sense of a culmination: “The infinity of spirit is an even greater realization than the infinity of consciousness, for consciousness which has been disciplined by will and faith is that consciousness which may contact intelligent infinity directly.” Hence, the Transformation of Spirit is that patterning which allows for an entity to realize the infinity of its own spirit (and the inifinity of the spirit of other-selves...as all are one).

Because they are so linked, and because Plenum mentions both, here are my thoughts on the Great Ways as well...

“The Great Way of the Mind, the Body, or the Spirit draws the environment which has been the new architecture caused by the veiling process and, thusly, dipped in the great, limitless current of time/space.” This supports the idea that the patterning offered by The Great Ways is the understanding of the relations and totality of the other archetypes; it offers the structures for dealing with the options available to a self-willed, seemingly separate entity, providing the largest number of archetypal patterns offered by Logoi thus far. However, a separate analysis could be made regarding the word “draws”—does Ra mean “pulls into itself,” “outlines,” or “pulls along” (like a wagon)? I like the idea of it meaning “pulls to itself” even though the idea of “pulls along” might be suggested by the title of the traditional tarot card. For me, this “pulls to itself” suggests an orbit.

RA asserts strongly that The Great Way of the Mind is not the final point in a progression: RA states, “we may suggest that the student look at the Great Way of the Mind, not as that which is attained after contact with intelligent infinity, but rather as that portion of the archetypal mind which denotes and configures the particular framework within which the Mind, the Body, or the Spirit archetypes move.” Thus we see that “The Great Way” denotes something more akin to a “road,” maybe even a “roundabout” than a destination. RA even takes the trouble of stating this a second time in different words: “We ask that the student consider the Great Way not as the culmination of a series of seven activities or functions but as a far more clearly delineated image of the environment within which the mind, body, or spirit shall function.”

So The Great Way of the Mind is an environment. That makes it a static archetype, a form in which the other archetypes “move”—the archetypes being like cars in a roundabout, or even like planets orbiting a sun, or moons/satellites orbiting a planet.

“The Great Way of the Body must be seen, as are all the archetypes of the body, to be a mirror image of the thrust of the activity of the mind. The body is the creature of the mind and is the instrument of manifestation for the fruits of mind and spirit. Therefore, you may see the body as providing the athanor [or furnace] through which the Alchemist manifests gold.” Here again, we see that the Great Way isn’t the end of a progression.

In this case, we must look at the characteristics of the athanor: it provides the conditions under which the agent manifests. It is also interesting that Ra clarifies that The Great Way isn’t the Alchemist himself, as the traditional tarot title might imply. Instead, The Great Way of the Body is the tool of the Alchemist. It isn’t even that which is transformed, but rather the conditions and environment in which the transformation takes place. This is interesting as it implies that it is not the body that undergoes transformation, but rather, it is that which the body houses that transforms—the Spirit. If we continue to work analogically, the agent, that is the Alchemist, is really Mind—or Potentiated Consciousness--or Will...

So now we have the idea that The Great Way of the Body is the patterning that suggests how we should understand and interpret “the body”—as an environment that gives rise to the circumstances under which manifestation of spiritual/transformative growth might occur.
Summing it up thus far, if The Great Way of the Mind is the environment of the journey, where we encounter all the archetypal resonances, The Great Way of the Body is the environment that generates manifestation.
So that leaves The Great Way of the Spirit. All Ra gives us on this archetypal patterning is that it “represents contact with intelligent infinity” and that such contact would result in “unspeakable joy.”
If we were to follow the paradigm set by the other Great Ways, then somehow, The Great Way of the Spirit should be an environment—but what kind? What lives there? How does it function? What is its relation to the other Great Ways?

If the archetypes in total “move” in The Great Way of the Mind, then The Great Way of the Spirit orbits/moves/functions within it as well (interesting…orbiting within something instead of around it…). Drawing from this idea, it could be that the other archetypes of each category exhibit a similar behavior with regard to the other Great Ways, all within The Great Way of the Mind. Indeed, if The Great Way of the Body is the patterning that informs us of how to use the circumstances of Life to achieve transformation of the Spirit, then truly, it does sound like all the archetypes of the body are within it.

So then, it is reasonable to posit that The Great Way of the Spirit houses the other archetypes of spirit, in some way suggesting to the entity that comes into resonance with them the ways in which they may be used together, and when they have been used, and the Spirit transforms in such a way that it can contact intelligent infinity, unspeakable joy, that is, union with God, is the result.

In sum, I chose “Space” as the title for The Great Way of Mind because all moves within it. I chose “Union” as the title for the Great Way of the Spirit because even within the illusion of separation, we exist in Oneness. I chose “Time” as the title for The Great Way of the Body because it is one of the most significant conditioning circumstances of the manifested Life; it is an “active” or “force” archetype, pushing in on the Significator.

JustLikeYou’s precisely sums up the relation of The Great Way to the Significator: “Whereas the Significator depicts the complex, the Great Way depicts the entire cycle which brings the Significator experience. Thus one may think of the cycle and the Great Way as being analogous to the mathematical set (cycle) that contains itself. So the Significator can be viewed as the Complex without any vision of the process of evolution occurring, whereas the Great Way depicts the Complex within the context of the process of evolution.”

This is as far as I've gotten in thinking about the cycle of spirit--if anyone could comment on my ideas so I can see better the inconsistencies, let me know. Please understand; however, that my goal isn't to build up images, but to get down to the basics. I'm trying for the most simple, primitive, aspect of each archetypal pattern--that's what I eventually want to paint.

RA says, " You may well consider the very informative difference between a thing in itself and its relationships or functions. There is much study of archetype which is actually the study of functions, relationships, and correspondences...however, the archetypes are, first and most profoundly, things in themselves and the pondering of them and their purest relationships with each other should be the most useful foundation for the study of the archtypical mind."

[Plenum]

impressive and insightful analysis.

I actually just posted a random insight on the Chariot (great way of mind) a few minutes ago, before reading what you wrote here.

What you wrote here:

So The Great Way of the Mind is an environment. That makes it a static archetype, a form in which the other archetypes “move”—the archetypes being like cars in a roundabout, or even like planets orbiting a sun, or moons/satellites orbiting a planet.

is most complementary to my own thoughts, and is a nice validation of my line of thinking lol. (the ego is most glad when it finds other egos to validate it haha).

thanks for being here Julie!!

[abstrktion]

impressive and insightful analysis.

I actually just posted a random insight on the Chariot (great way of mind) a few minutes ago, before reading what you wrote here.

What you wrote here:

So The Great Way of the Mind is an environment. That makes it a static archetype, a form in which the other archetypes “move”—the archetypes being like cars in a roundabout, or even like planets orbiting a sun, or moons/satellites orbiting a planet.

is most complementary to my own thoughts, and is a nice validation of my line of thinking lol. (the ego is most glad when it finds other egos to validate it haha).

thanks for being here Julie!!

Right back at ya Plenum!

[JustLikeYou]

Thank you for posting on this Archetype, plenum, you are the first!

Also, abstrktion, I wonder if it would make more sense to post the second half of your analysis to this thread about the Great Ways. I suspect that by breaking up the text, you will be more likely to induce readers to read your writing.

For me, the most striking feature of this card is the presence of the child, who is pictured in no other card in the Egyptian deck. The child, the offspring, is the synthesis of the male and female energies, all three of which are rising out of the sarcophagus together.

Many call this Archetype "Awakening". I certainly prefer this name to "Judgment", which has a bit too much of a Christian Judgment Day influence for my taste. Yet, Judgment Day is precisely what is depicted here. When the harvest is accomplished, this holy trinity within will be called forth to ascend into a new experience.

But in a more mundane sense -- certainly more relevant to the movements of everyday life -- this card depicts the awakening of the child within. All of us are aware of the existence of this inner child, who is ever innocent, joyful and spontaneous, but so often the challenges along the path to awaken this inner child are not appreciated. If awakening the child were simple, then this card would depict the child rising out of the sarcophagus alone. No, this act requires a three-fold harmony among the members: The male self (the conscious self which chooses moment to moment) must hear the calling of spirit and align its will to the higher purpose heralded in this calling. The female self (the unconscious self which can either enliven and give power to the conscious self or emasculate and weaken the conscious self) must also hear the calling of spirit and embrace a constant state of faith in the purity and worthiness of the calling. When these two awaken to the calling in unison, the child-self is born whose responsibility is to trust in the will and faith of the male and female selves and maintain a lightness of spirit, an untaintable mirth which can at any moment be shot down by heavy feelings of unpleasant duty (in the male self) or fear (in the female self). The child must, so to speak, keep its head in the game (always playing!) in order to maintain its existence.

It is the birth of this inner child which transforms the material reality from lifeless mundanity into an infinite range of exciting possibility. The sarcophagus was so cold and imprisoning prior to the Awakening, yet the rising from this sarcophagus is an entirely spiritual event. It is still the physical illusion in which you live and move, yet it is no longer a prison, no longer a coffin where your spirit goes to die. It is only the child within that is excited by each turn around the bend. The male self alone sees only the ceaseless plodding of chores, while the female self alone sees only the myriad demons which constantly barrage her with injury and insult.

And who is it that calls? Who is the angel in the top right corner? For me, this is the Higher Self. For those of a religious bent, the calling comes from that which is perceived as divine. Hindus often feel that their favored god has called them, rather than they choosing it. Born again Christians often speak about the Lord calling them, observing that all of their religiosity prior to this calling was only lip-service. For me, the calling comes from an inner vision of the Creator. When one has tasted even the smallest drop of the divine nectar, nothing else yields the same satisfaction. No longer can I enjoy the endless cravings of the unbalanced body the same way, because I have seen a vision of beauty so compelling that I cannot forget it. It pulls me out of my cold, dark hell and into a world where there is no reason to be anything but childlike.

It is the calling which must needs precede the awakening. This is why you cannot awaken a sleeper by your own will. You do not know what will fall upon the ears of your sleeping friend as a call from the Lord. Only the sleeper can recognize the call. And when this call is heard, the male and female selves, even if only for a moment, release the clutter which kept them in chains, unite in the holy embrace, and beget the inner child who alone can populate the New Earth. It is this calling which the male self hears and discovers that he actually has a will to act. It is this calling which the female self hears and discovers that she is capable of overcoming her fears.

[abstrktion]

Also, abstrktion, I wonder if it would make more sense to post the second half of your analysis to this thread about the Great Ways. I suspect that by breaking up the text, you will be more likely to induce readers to read your writing.

LOL --ok Joseph, what are you REALLY saying.?...hmmm...that I'm a bit verbose?... yeah, I know!

[JustLikeYou]

Hehe. We share the trait. Maybe I'm just desperately seeking attention to my precious thread. Or perhaps I'm doing some subtle forum moderating. I suppose you'll never know. ;-)

[Plenum]

had some very interesting experiences with the Judgement Card over the weekend. One can call it the Transformation of the Spirit to use a less charged term.

anyways, a fair bit of purging involved. Went through my physical items and discarded a lot of them. Remnants of the past. The Judgement lets things fall away, focuses on what is important and relevant in the present.

the same process also applied to the mental/digital realm, thought forms if you will. Purged a lot of email even though gmail has virtually unlimited space, changed some things about how I relate to information.

finally, the true nature of the Transformation of the Spirit is a purification; not through any sense of being unworthy or being guilty, but a sense of greater clarity of being, letting the accoutrements be seen for what they are; adornments and additions to the experience, but not the central aspect.

The Transformation of the Spirit is one step removed from the Cosmos card which I hope to delve into soon. It is the Infinite and the All, so pretty giddy stuff.

[Siren]

The Transformation is microcosmically related to indigo ray, intelligent energy and the Logos/Creator. Consider how the 6D entity is also known as the "form-maker" (to "make" or "create" is always to transform/transmute/transfigure).

At 6D we have the Oversoul, which serves as an infinite collector and reservoir of experience. All experiences (soulstreams) from 1D to 5D are recollected, accrued and integrated into 6D, the Oversoul (which again, microcosmically speaking, is analogous to the Logos itself).

7D then, is related to The Great Way. It is the final step before turning inwards, inwards, inwards to dissolve into the All of Infinity.

The Great Way of the Spirit should be an environment—but what kind? What lives there? How does it function? What is its relation to the other Great Ways?

Remember, the spirt is a shuttle!

[native]

It seems our thoughts play an extremely important role once a certain level of development is reached..

"When the positive adept touches intelligent infinity from within, this is the most powerful of connections for it is the connection of the whole mind/body/spirit complex microcosm with the macrocosm. This connection enables the, shall we say, green-ray true color in time/space to manifest in your time/space. In green ray thoughts are beings. In your illusion this is normally not so."

[Plenum]

I have been working with card 20 of late, and this is known traditionally as the Judgement Card.

one tradional analysis of the themes of this card include:

making a judgment
having a day of reckoning
separating the wheat from the chaff
making an honest appraisal
getting off the fence
using critical faculties
taking a stand
making hard choices

feeling reborn
awakening to possibilities
transforming
enjoying renewed hope
making a fresh start
seeing everything in a new light
discovering joy

hearing a call
recognizing your true vocation
feeling inner conviction
feeling an impulse to act
deciding to make a difference
feeling drawn in a new direction
knowing what you must do
answering a need

finding absolution
feeling cleansed and refreshed
releasing guilts and sorrows
forgiving yourself and others
atoning for past mistakes
unburdening yourself
feeling sins washed away

ironically enough, Ra refers to this card by a different name:

80.20 Questioner: Sorry about that. Can you tell me what the twentieth archetype would be?

Ra: I am Ra. That which you call the Sarcophagus in your system may be seen to be the material world, if you will. This material world is transformed by the spirit into that which is infinite and eternal.

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my belief is that blockages in this archetype lead to self-judgement and self-criticism, which is then one step removed from feelings/sensations of guilt, shame, and unworthiness.

this faculty of judgment has no need to be applied to oneself, let alone between individuals.

78.28 Ra: I am Ra. We may share with you the observation that judgment is no part of interaction between mind/body/spirit complexes.

self-judgement can manifest as unworthiness, which Ra examined in response to one of Don's queries.

15.12 The next center is the pineal or indigo-ray center. Those blocked in this center may experience a lessening of the influx of intelligent energy due to manifestations which appear as unworthiness.

this blockage in the indigo ray prevents the SELF-HEALING that the bodily complex has as a built-in right.

12.31 We will use this instrument as example. The portions of its ailment, as you call this distortion complex, that can be perfected in balance are due primarily to a blockage of the indigo-ray or pineal energy center. This center receives the intelligent energy from all sources lawful within the one Creation; that is, lawful in this third-density distortion or illusion. If there is no blockage, these energies pour or stream down into the mind/body/spirit complex perfecting moment by moment the individual’s body complex.

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so one can see how damaging self-criticism and self-judgement can be. In the Course in Miracles these are known as "attack thoughts"; here specifically ones directed towards the self. But as there is no separation between self and other-self, self-judgement inevitably leads to the levelling of judgement against others.

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my personal approach to this issue is based on understanding the issue at hand; ie, the parameters. Then there was the realisation that the 3d mind is incapable of grasping the full data of my experience (ie, large parts of the unconscious mind are inaccessible to the waking self), so any judgements that I would make would be incomplete or erroneous anyway lol.

[reeay]

so one can see how damaging self-criticism and self-judgement can be. In the Course in Miracles these are known as "attack thoughts"; here specifically ones directed towards the self. But as there is no separation between self and other-self, self-judgement inevitably leads to the levelling of judgement against others.

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my personal approach to this issue is based on understanding the issue at hand; ie, the parameters. Then there was the realisation that the 3d mind is incapable of grasping the full data of my experience (ie, large parts of the unconscious mind are inaccessible to the waking self), so any judgements that I would make would be incomplete or erroneous anyway lol.

I usually tune into that critical aspect of self and see who's "voice" or perspective I've internalized (like my mother's lol). Not to blame them... to heal internal relationships within self, rather than external relationships with others. When that healing work is engaged, seems like external relationships with critical others improve/heal, too. It's sometimes interesting to see how what is understood as self-criticism and self-judgment is the self's way of protecting and encouraging growth... tho we could interpret it as negative. When that internal voice softens, it's actually very helpful!

[Parsons]

Bravo plenum, you taught/learned me something new.

[dreamoftheiris]

Some ideas on this archetype:

The process of resurrection can be summed up like this.

A will incarnates into a body. This will has two influences that are grafted onto it. One from the body itself. The hereditary influences, the societal influences, the physical world’s influences. And the other type of influence is the influence of the Spirit, which are the influences corresponding to the Divine: Truth, Justice, Balance, Harmony and Integrity.

The process of transformation involves the individual will allowing either the higher, the Spirit, to guide it or the lower, separated self, to guide it. It is a question of whether to subvert Nature or to be guided by Nature.

To be reborn is to have first died or gone asleep. The Spirit, taking on a false persona, the “ego”, the Matrix of the Spirit, Typhon, becomes engulfed in the trappings of that which has perverted Nature.

The Spirit has sacrificed itself and died. It eventually is resurrected after an intense period of awakening. And when reborn, the individual has transcended life and death. As the anonymous author in the book Meditation on the Tarot states, “

“It is the neutralization of both life and death. The one who is resurrected can act as if he were living and, at the same time, he is free from terrestrial links as if he were dead.”

This individual who is resurrected is not the same person who was once dead. They have become the living embodiment of the Three. The holy trinity. That which, as Jakob Bohme says, “makes the Invisible known to the visible, tangible universe.”

The Father, or the Sun, Source, the Logos. Mother, or the Holy Spirit, Sophia, Wisdom, or Nature. And the third aspect, the Child depicted in the card is the result of the love between the Father and Mother, between the fiery light of the Sun and the receptive mystery of Nature. It is the Son, the Christ, the "Mediator" between the Divine and the Material.

The Egyptians saw the sun as the symbol of immortality, for the sun died each night only to return again the next day.

The Spirit, like the Sun, moves into darkness upon the incarnation, only to eventually rise again.

The Sun is the central Logos and its light illuminates the realm of Matter. The Invisible becomes known to the visible. Manly P. Hall writes that the realm of Spirit is the realm of causation and the material world is the realm of effects; while the intellectual or soul - the world is the sphere of meditation. In the Christian tradition, Christ is a personified higher intellect and soul nature, called “The Meditator”.

Man is the mediator between the physical and the spiritual realms. The regenerated are illuminated by the light of the Logos, by the Sun within. Thus the material world of matter is transformed by the Logos as its light moves through you and out into the physical world.

[Anders]

does this not look like some sort of Calling, some sort of Invokation of the spirit?

wake from the dead (the material world), and be transformed?

I haven't looked into the Judgment but I found this what Ra said interesting: "The infinity of the spirit is an even greater realization than the infinity of consciousness" that there is a difference between spirit and consciousness. It actually fits with how I see it if Ra means that spirit is the perspective in consciousness which can expand indefinitely. Consciousness, then, is always the same, the One awareness, and when we say things like expanding consciousness, what we really mean is expansion of spirit, expansion of the perspective consciousness has, such as spiritual awakening and moving into higher densities.

The image reminds me of this Bible verse:

"50 I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

55 “Where, O death, is your victory?
   Where, O death, is your sting?”

56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

58 Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain." - 1 Corinthians 15:50-58

I recently had a speculative idea that "raising the dead" means a form of walk-ins entering avatars on earth. Less speculative perhaps is that the body of flesh and blood means third density body, and that the glorified body in Christianity means fourth and higher density bodies.