02/02/2022
"Enlightenment or God-realization is not purely a psychological event. Bodily changes also occur, most dramatically in the higher phases of enlightenment. In the final phase, according to esoteric teachings in various sacred traditions and hermetic schools, the body is alchemically changed from flesh into light, becoming immortal. This transubstantiated body is called different names, such as resurrection body, light body, solar body and diamond body. This presentation looks at the phenomenon from a cross-cultural and evolutionary perspective. It then focuses on Christianity as a sacred tradition whose purpose is to enable people to develop through the resurrection of the body to become Christed.
Sacred traditions and some hermetic schools aim at enlightenment and "stepping off the wheel of death and rebirth" into a condition of existence described in one holy scripture as "that which never dies and that which was never born." I
n the course of seeking enlightenment or God-realization, practitioners of esoteric disciplines in those sacred traditions and hermetic schools have, over millennia, gained astounding knowledge about the psychophysical operation of the human body-mind and how to cultivate our potential for spiritual growth. In fact, nearly all our knowledge about higher human development comes from those traditions and schools. They have developed disciplines and psychotechnologies which are now studied within transpersonal psychology."--John White, 'Death and Resurrection: Enlightenment and the Body of Light'. *hermes
