From: Baha’i
Pilgrim Notes
'Abdu'l-Baha said:
Jesus Christ had two bodies -- one spiritual and one
material.
The material body is of no importance; it changes and
changes and changes always. An old person's body is not the same, as that of
the same individual when young.
The visible world does nothing but change, and change leads
to annihilation.
We must be sure that when the soul of man leaves his body,
it never returns to that body again.
In the Gospel record, when Jesus Christ was crucified and
ascended, Mary Magdalene and the other disciples had fallen into such a state
of excitement and agitation, that during three days the cause of God was
annihilated for them. After three days their agitation having abated, they
realised that the cause of Jesus Christ, and His teaching was everlasting in
the world. The disciples would not at first write to the other believers openly
that Jesus was crucified till Mary Magdalene said to them what does it matter;
His soul is with us. When Jesus was crucified, some said ‘His religion is
annihilated and gone.’ Mary Magdalene said ‘Matter is gone, and flesh -- but
the soul of the religion is forever.’
