[quote= World Teacher for the coming Age.
All the great religions posit the idea of a further revelation to be given by a future Teacher.
Christians hope for the return of the Christ
Buddhists for another Buddha (the Lord Maitreya),
Muslims await the Imam Mahdi,
Hindus expect a reincarnation of Krishna,
Jews await the Messiah.
Students of the esoteric tradition know all these as different names for the same individual -- the Lord Maitreya, the World Teacher,
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All religions also share the view that there is some kind of after life that will be a reward or pleasant experience.
Religion is an attempt to corporealize spiritual information, it corporelizes this because of the corporeal concept of time and space. The rationale being 'There must be something after because we experience lineal life'.
However spiritual insight as recorded by all great sages who have attained spirituality write from a space of spirituality which has no relevance to corporeal understanding.
The world teachers that are being awaited upon are actually the force which brings correction to the egoistic desire, in which humanity is brought to spiritual independence, this will not come in the form of a person, it is infact within you.
The word dead refers to a desire that has been corrected. The desire to receive energy for oneself at the expense of another. Meaning there is no feeling or intention towards wholeness or unity but just to take for oneself once corrected and becomes dead, this is why the biblical reference to the word 'forbidden' is also attributed to the dead. Forbidden means it is something which you have not yet attained. therfore if you have already a corrected desire why would you wish to re-attain it.
Resurrection of the dead refers to all the collectives egoistic desires of humanity that an individual cannot correct by themselves, they are therfore laid to rest, and at the point where all of humanity reaches spirituality these desires are re-born and corrected to a state of bestowal, which is equivalence with spirituality.
So the question why can't the dead come back to life? Now takes on the form 'why would you wish to start smoking again if that desire has already been corrected?'
Surely there are plenty of other parts to find that require correction.
Life and death are states that we experience in this world, opposites that allow a third component of choice.
Just my spin