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Let's consider again, Jewish tradition.
According to Bible, Yahvé has pushed Adam away from paradise, predicted to Eve childbirth in the pain, required that Abraham immolates his unique son, banished descendants, annihilated of the cities as Sodom and Gomorrah, punished the enemies of his people (remember the ten plagues of Egypt), ...
For the divine punishments and divine rewards, body's presence was necessary.

Besides, as all beliefs, Hebraic belief in a post-mortem life has had a long period of maturation, correlative to evolution of Jews's psyche, in particular, to growing of their abstraction capacities.

This life was imagined first as a "diminished" life under ground ; after, when was written the second book of the Maccabees (124 BC), was associated to it, belief to body's resurrection :
"… but the King of the world will raise us up, who die for his laws, in the resurrection of eternal life." (Cf. Bible - 2 M. 7, 9).

Let's quote also Ezekiel :
"Therefore prophesy and say to them : 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says : O my people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them ; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them ; will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord." (Cf. Bible - Ez - 37, 12-13-14),

and the Book of Job :
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And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God." (Cf. Bible - Job - 19, 26).

Afterward, belief to body’s resurrection will take root more and more profoundly in Jewish mysticism , and will become, with Daniel's book probably written in contemporary period of Jesus Christ, an imprescriptible truth :
"... But at that time your people, everyone whose name is found written in the book, will be delivered. ultitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake : some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt." (Cf. Bible - Daniel - 12, 1 and 2).

Where was taking place this eternal life ?

This place was recognized similar to palaces and extraordinary gardens which existed in several cities of the Middle East five centuries BC :
"You were in Eden, the garden of God ; every precious stone adorned you : ruby, topaz and emerald, chrysolite, onyx and jasper, sapphire, turquoise and beryl.Your settings and mountings were made of gold ; on the day you were created they were prepared." (Cf. Bible - Ezekiel - 28,13).

Among these palaces and gardens there were those of Pasagardes built by Cyrus II (- 560, - 530), this great king who released the Jews deported in Babylon,
and those which were built to Persépolis by Darius (- 522, - 486).
Greeks had moreover knowledge of these idyllic places and Xenophon (-430, - 355), follower of Socrates, spoke about it using term paradeisos (inspired of the Iranian word : pairidaeza).

On the other hand, in Far East, Buddhists will imagine post-mortem life, the eternal life, the nirvâna, more exactly : the parinirvâna, as a state of non-breath, of non-being.

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What can we say with regard to Paul's letter, today ? :

"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the rump of God ; and the dead in Christ shall rise first ; then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words." (Cf. 1 Thessalonians 4, 16-18),

because, nowadays, even the Christian theologians seem rather sceptical, regrettably, without being able to say it clearly :

"The experience of past ages, the progress of the sciences, and the treasures hidden in the various forms of human culture, by all of which the nature of man himself is more clearly revealed and new roads to truth are opened, these profit the Church, too. For, from the beginning of her history she has learned to express the message of Christ with the help of the ideas and terminology of various philosophers, and has tried to clarify it with their wisdom, too. Her purpose has been to adapt the Gospel to the grasp of all as well as to the needs of the learned, insofar as such was appropriate." (Cf. Vatican II - The role of the Church in the modern world - Chapter IV, 44).

Let’s dare to assert it, in this beginning of third millennium, objective man who does not reject transcendent order (spiritual state), cannot believe any more to paradise, or to the hell, lived after resurrection of the body,
and it is hardly useful to discuss "realism" of this faith by using exegeses.

The universal dynamics presupposes births and deaths ceaseless ; thus, we are evolving in a world of sacrificial character and it’s why , it’s impossible that only, the man's body can escape from this inexorable constraint and to resurrect.
To believe it is necessary to reason, and vice versa ; in other words : there is no faith without reason, and no reason without faith !

Besides, if we take into consideration that,
- permanent implication of a transcendent creative entity in the world, makes of this one an eternal reality,
- number of planets in the cosmos is superior to 10 power 23,
- life phenomenon is an universal potentiality,
we can consider reasonably that beings, developed as we are, existed, are existing , will exist in the world.

Henceforth the spirituality's understanding (spiritual activities) necessitates thus, new paradigms.
For exemple, our spiritual life which is attested by the potentialities and virtualities (concepts, ideas, anticipations, …) that are in the abstraction's domain, shows that during existence we have, of course, a "foot" in space, but also a foot in the timeless, in the eternity ; let us remember that in the abstraction's domaine "cohabit" the past experiences, judged in present moment so as to live and anticipate.
Consequently, for the modern mystic there is no body's resurrection because due to spiritual life, curiously little highlighted by the theologians, we already evolve, we already are in one beyond the world of transcendent order.

To be conscious of our spiritual life, does also that we recognize our spiritual identity, the soul, as being the purely conventional receptacle of transcendent activities which characterize us, some of this activities being necessary for universe's management.
Thus, life's sense it's more that conscious acts, even more that exceptional conscious acts !
That's why man is not a specific creature which is only intended for contemplation and adoration of God.

As for modern understanding of the potentialities (of what is to potential state), it presupposes also, the realism of the beyond the world, transcendent, of which we were talking and where are memorized for ever, the myriads of information and of processes organizations which enable from conducting reality's dynamics ; let us remember that these potentialities, after their actualization (their materialization to become reality), sometimes can be represented by laws and principles.

Curiously this beyond, such as we define it, has never been object of recognition and debates on behalf of philosophers and theologians; so, we had to specify it by adopting the word : spacimplicatio,
word resulting from contraction of the Latin words, spatium which means space, and implicatio which qualifies intervention of a creative entity.

Far from us therefore, idea according to which spiritual identity, the soul, ceaselessly is reincarnating herself .
Let’s repeat, spiritual identity, the soul, is not an operator who can animate beings and things ; it is only the theoretical receptacle of the transcendent activities, which enable from singularizing the men and from managing the universe.
Of this fact, the existence's finality is not that we attain perfection by means of successive reincarnations to the example of the Hindus's karma, but is that we were participating, modestly of course, to implication of a divine creative entity in the world.

Nevertheless, according to us, after the death and without any resurrection, some characters of the spiritual life that we have had on earth, will be transfigured in the Divine, for ever.
More exactly, we consider that after our death, our spiritual identity, our soul, will remain, for ever, "impressed" by some happy and unfortunate lived experiences, "modulated" according to a subtle process taking into consideration our responsibility.

God will not judge us, divine entity (the Divine) who recognizes herself in the I (me, ego, spirit), will be the only judge !
Our good and bad actions, our great happinesss and our turpitudes, will be then our sky and our hell.

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