Resurrection is the glad, timeless message of Easter. "Resurrection" means, according to dictionaries, "the act of rising from the dead." Christ Jesus had spoken to his disciples about his coming resurrection. He said, as Mark tells us, "The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day." Mark 9:31. When Jesus fulfilled these words and rose from the tomb, he proved, indisputably, that death is incapable of holding God's son in bondage. Easter continues to remind the receptive thought in every age of the great possibilities of resurrection.
Resurrection from mortality's ultimate lie, called death, involves a continual rising, a constant ascension in individual thought above the mistaken belief that man is mortal to clearer views of man's immortal, spiritual nature. Spiritualizing thought—gaining understanding of God as the one source of man's real life and simultaneously surrendering a material concept of existence—is resurrection. Resurrection is, in other words, a rising from the myriad beliefs of mortality, from sin and disease as well as from death.
In the Glossary of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy defines "resurrection": "Spiritualization of thought; a new and higher idea of immortality, or spiritual existence; material belief yielding to spiritual understanding." Science and Health, p. 593.
