You will say: Christ was a Personality, then how did He become a Personality, if he never ceased to be God?! We in the act of salvation do not go the way of Christ: He, being God, became man, and we, being men, become gods by grace. Therefore, our entry into the fullness of being differs from Christ’s. Christ, being a Whole Personality, did not need healing (being Whole, did not need to acquire wholeness). Christ resurrects, heals the created nature, which in human hypostases was separated from the Divine mode of existence, and acquired an egotistical, lustful, sick, hellish form of existence. Therefore, Christ, having incarnated (restored the wholeness of the whole reality of Divine and created), – reconciles (sets the same rhythm of existence – as Love) both His redeeming feat of two realities: Divine and created, and from these two (torn apart by sin and death) in Himself makes one, hypostatically joining inseparably, unchangeably, indivisibly and inseparably . (To heal, to make something whole – to bring to unity, unity, which means reconciliation, coordination – a single goal, purpose, one life). Therefore, the Resurrection of Christ concerns being, not His Hypostasis (In the tomb with the body (body = the whole Christ, not some substance; in the tomb the whole), in hell with the soul (soul = the whole Christ, not some substance; in hell the whole), as God, in Paradise with the thief (in Paradise the whole) and on the throne were You, Christ, with the Father and the Spirit filling all, Indescribable’ – Christ the fullness that fills everything). And created beings go to wholeness (resurrection) on the contrary. That is, nature has already been healed, deified, resurrected – now (already 2000 years and further) the task of each hypostasis – to resurrect, to reach, to grow to ‘the full measure of the growth of Christ,’ to the catholic (integral, all-encompassing) consciousness, to the revelation in us of the fullness of Divine Life. Nature is deified – the hypostasis is deified, resurrects, rises (is built up) to full growth, ‘reaches’ the maturity of Christ and becomes one with the Trinity (by grace).
Therefore, when the Church speaks about the Resurrection – It does not talk about veins, muscles, molecules, atoms (by the way, scientists claim that every seven years our individuality becomes absolutely different, that is, all our cells are renewed: some die, and others are born – and we do not even feel (and would not know, if they had not told us) and do not pay attention – we live, sin, do good, rejoice, cry…). Therefore (since the whole being is already deified, resurrected) before each of us, in whatever form (I, II, or III) of existence we are – the doors to resurrection are open. (‘Whoever believes (knows – V.A.) in Me (Jesus Christ) and lives (faithful to knowledge) – that one will never see death… but has passed from death (godless existence – V.A.) to Life (Eternal, Resurrection, set on the irreversible path of deification – V.A.)’).
The Church – the Body (Wholeness) of Christ, the Fullness of the god-human reality. To resurrect – is to become a hypostasis of the Church, to enter into the fullness of life, the catholic consciousness of the Church. The Holy Spirit testifies that one created hypostasis has already become a hypostasis of the Church, that is, has resurrected – this is the Most Holy Theotokos. The Church has (so far) two hypostases – the Son of God Jesus Christ and the Most Holy Theotokos Mary. Therefore, the task of each hypostasis – to accept the Body (Wholeness) of Christ (which the Church particularly actualizes at the Eucharist). ‘Take, eat – this is My Body (My Whole Life, this is Me all),’ become partakers, participants of My Resurrection (= Wholeness). (Therefore, the Church sings after communion of the Body (= Healed Whole Reality) and Blood (= Life of the Holy Trinity) of Christ: ‘Having seen the Resurrection of Christ, let us worship…’). The call of the Church: ‘Take the Body of Christ,’ is not just come to the chalice with the Gifts and consume the Sacrament that will be given to you, – it is: resurrect from the dead, become partakers (and participants) of the Resurrection, hypostatize the healed god-human reality, become a hypostasis of the Church!!!
Therefore, the Church says that the essence of the spiritual life – to assimilate, to make one’s own the Eucharist: the Body and Blood of Christ. Therefore, we have placed the Eucharist at the center of our humble efforts, it is the Alpha and Omega of all the spiritual life of a Christian and a pagan, who wants to live, because ‘no one comes to the Father, except through the Son.’
To resurrect (since everything already exists in the Hypostasis of the Son of God in the Church as Love) – is to Love, to become love, to be in the Truth and to become truth, to take place as a catholic personality! And instead of seeking how to resurrect here and now (how to acquire Love! how to love) – we discuss (relying not on the experience of the Church, but on our own fantasies (which we call the wise word – ‘philosophy’): ‘I think so,’ ‘so it is written…,’ ‘it seems to me so…’): resurrect (i.e., have not yet resurrected!???) in what bodies (in the sense of matter, substance), of what chemical composition, at what age…, but in one thing these fantasists agree among themselves (this is a common delusion for them all) – this (resurrection) will all take place after death, beyond the grave!??? Therefore, those dreamers are unhappy both here (in II f.) and there (in III f.) poor in life! In the mouth of the church Body (whole) – wholeness, catholicity, not body and blood: meat, veins, lymph… Therefore, only he who Loves – he sees the Resurrection of Christ and his own in Him!