Each of us has the capacity to demonstrate the truth that man is ageless, glorious, deathless—immortal—now. It may sound contradictory to say that the cultivation of this capacity involves understanding that immortality doesn't need cultivation. But it really isn't contradictory.
As a quality of God—divine Life, the one Soul—immortality is ever complete and intact, always fully expressed in spiritual man, His likeness. We cannot make immortality more immortal than it is, nor can we make that which is mortal immortal. But we can spiritually awake to realize that we are immortal and that nothing good was ever really mortal. What changes when we cultivate immortality is not immortality but our present view of ourselves.
We must choose to change. Bringing forth the immortality that inheres in our true selfhood as God's man comes about through spiritual regeneration that involves, in fact, many choices. And this is so because immortality is not only everlasting, timeless, and exalting; it is sinless. To align ourselves, therefore, with the unfading, undying glory of Life we must choose to align ourselves with the incorruptible purity of Soul. We must resist temptation, refuse to be corrupted. Choosing to demonstrate immortality, therefore, necessitates an ongoing demonstration of goodness.
