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'''Ascension''' is a Christian teaching found in the New Testament that the resurrected [[Jesus]] was taken up to heaven in his resurrected physical body. | '''Ascension''' is a Christian teaching found in the New Testament that the resurrected [[Jesus]] was taken up to heaven in his resurrected physical body. | ||
The [[Theosophy|Theosophical]] literature this concept is refused as a fact, and taken only in a symbolic way. | The [[Theosophy|Theosophical]] literature this concept is refused as a fact, and taken only in a symbolic way. As [[H. P. Blavatsky]] wrote: | ||
As the allegory of the Four Evangelists shows, the Son, from his resurrection, ascends to heaven to be forever one with the Father. Does that mean that we should accept the “miracle” of the Ascension as applied to the resurrected body of a man who has been made into a God? Does it mean that a fact so supernatural has ever taken place in the history of mankind? No! We absolutely reject such an interpretation, we reject that dogma which degrades the great mystery of universal Unity. CW8, 389 | |||
And she adds in a footnote: "The legend of the Ascension is merely an allegory as old as the world; to believe in it one would have also to admit the authenticity of the ascension of Elijah carried alive into cosmic space, himself, his horses and his chariot." | |||
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Ascension is a Christian teaching found in the New Testament that the resurrected Jesus was taken up to heaven in his resurrected physical body.
The Theosophical literature this concept is refused as a fact, and taken only in a symbolic way. As H. P. Blavatsky wrote:
As the allegory of the Four Evangelists shows, the Son, from his resurrection, ascends to heaven to be forever one with the Father. Does that mean that we should accept the “miracle” of the Ascension as applied to the resurrected body of a man who has been made into a God? Does it mean that a fact so supernatural has ever taken place in the history of mankind? No! We absolutely reject such an interpretation, we reject that dogma which degrades the great mystery of universal Unity. CW8, 389
And she adds in a footnote: "The legend of the Ascension is merely an allegory as old as the world; to believe in it one would have also to admit the authenticity of the ascension of Elijah carried alive into cosmic space, himself, his horses and his chariot."