An Icon of the Anastasis of Christ

[Alexander]

I find this is a powerful image of the resurrection of Christ. A major vice of modern religious art is its tendency to evacuate all mystic meaning from what is being portrayed. God knows how people continue to make religious art without its having an inner significance.

[Alexander]

A Resurrection exchange between myself and Father Roger:

Alexander emailed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-wCrvin6sY

Roger replied:
Certainly not my style. I started watching some of the other related videos. I find it all very chaotic and noisy. I much prefer western monasticism.

Alexander wrote:
I thought the chaos was an interesting part of it, because it implies their surprise, that they don't understand what's happened. Which is very reasonable to me.

In the four gospels:
-Mark's version is based on apparitions of Jesus after his death.
-Matthew has him return spiritually.
-Luke has him starting to take on physical characteristics.
-John has a physical Resurrection.

So what does it mean? Why are they different? Luke and John give him physical qualities to prove he is not a ghost. But the Resurrection is not physical, either. So they must be an effort to communicate something that does not have an equivalency in human speech.

[Jhanananda]

anastasis-From Ancient Greek ἀνάστασις (anástasis, “resurrection”).
2) Rebirth.
3) (Christianity) Resurrection, especially the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

To me, as a mystic, I see the resurrection refers to the transformational experience of becoming a mystic from leading a contemplative life.

[Alexander]

...To me, as a mystic, I see the resurrection refers to the transformational experience of becoming a mystic from leading a contemplative life.

Exactly. In our direct experience we are buried in the ground, entombed, then brought back to life.