The veil has many hooks to deal with.

Week 6: Deception in Manifested Forms

Day 6: Resurrection Power Over Illusions

Today’s Veil to Pierce

Nearing the week’s close, building on embodying graceful non-duality, we now explore resurrection power over illusions—the triumphant manifestation where grace overcomes the deceptive veil’s ultimate deceptions of finality and defeat. This veil distorts by portraying illusions like death, failure, or endings as absolute, where the false self instills fear of permanence, creating barriers to the divine’s renewing essence. Such deceptions obscure resurrection as mere symbol, but grace reveals it as living power. In our reflections, this power echoes 1 Corinthians 15:54-55’s “death swallowed up in victory,” where grace pierces veils of mortality to unveil eternal life, countering illusions that bind us in cycles of despair.

Grace’s Revelatory Power

Resurrection power surges through grace, revealing the deceptive veil by conquering its illusions with irreversible renewal. It doesn’t negate suffering but transcends it, as in the empty tomb (John 20), where grace transforms apparent end into new beginning. This power is victorious and empowering: grace exposes distortions like hopelessness or finality, infusing them with life-affirming energy. Through this, grace fosters revival: the false self’s grip on defeat dissolves, giving way to a resurrected perspective where illusions lose their hold, manifesting the infinite source’s vitality in renewed forms.

Contemplative Depth

To harness this, meditate on resurrection power: focus on an illusion of finality—perhaps a personal loss—and observe the deceptive veil’s entrenchment. Invite grace’s power: in depth, feel the resurrection—stagnation stirs, renewal rises, and a profound vitality emerges. This practice uncovers layers: fears of ending dissolve, emotions of grief evolve into hope, and the soul pulses with divine life. Grace energizes this with triumphant light, turning contemplation into a rising, where deceptive illusions yield to resurrection’s truth of non-dual oneness, eternal and unconquerable.

Applying the Insight

Invoke resurrection power daily: in setbacks, let grace renew, overcoming illusions for vibrant unity.

Daily Reflection Prompt

Meditate on resurrection over illusions; invite grace, journaling triumphs and the renewed oneness experienced.