Înāltarea Domnului Hristos

Ascension of Lord.

"I go to prepare a place for you" ( John 14:3)
The records represent Christ as passing after death (as no man had passed) neither into a purely 'spiritual' mode of existence nor into a 'natural' life such as we know, but into a life which has its own, new Nature. It represents Him as withdrawing six weeks later, into some different mode of existence. He says that He goes 'to prepare a place for us'. This presumably means that He is about to create that whole new Nature which will provide the environment or conditions for His glorified humanity and, in Him, for ours. It is the picture of a new human nature, and a new Nature in general, being brought into existence. We must, indeed, believe the risen body to be expremely different from the mortal body: but the existence, in that new state, of anything that could in any sense be described as 'body' at all, involves some sort of spacial relations and in the long run a whole new universe. That is the picture not of unmaking but of remaking. The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop..." ( C.S.Lewis)

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