When Easter Day is celebrated in the Christian world it is, as we know, in memory of an extraordinary event that took place nineteen hundred years ago in Jerusalem: the so-called resurrection of Jesus. As we know from the Bible, Jesus was crucified and pierced by a spear to ensure that he was dead. He was subsequently taken down from the cross and buried in a rock cave. A huge block of stone was placed in front of the grave and a solid guard of soldiers was placed around it; this happened on the evening of Good Friday but nevertheless the remarkable happened that on the Sunday morning the guard was found confused and the grave open, and mysterious beings in the grave said that Jesus was not there but was "risen from the dead". This was confirmed a little later when Jesus was recognised by his friends: first by Mary Magdalen and later by two of his disciples who were on their way to Emaus; and later still he appeared before them all. One day when they were gathered in a room with locked doors for fear of the Jews, Jesus appeared alive in their midst, spoke to them and let Thomas feel the nail-wounds and the other marks of crucifixion on his body.
      This mystical event has given rise to many different views and interpretations. The completely faithful Christian regards it as a unique miracle, a great wonder, while modern materialistic people led by equally materialistic science are most likely to interpret the event as fabrication. Materialistic science of course knows nothing of the occult or psychic power on which this purely bodily, psychophysical event was based. It can therefore not explain, and consequently not accept, the revelations or so-called "materialisations". Jesus' "resurrection", "materialisation" or the physical manifestation of his existence after his physical death must therefore, for materialistic, physical research, for ever remain a mystery. The case is quite different with the intellectual psychic researcher. For him neither the disappearance of Jesus' physical body from the grave nor his appearance before the disciples after his physical death is any mystery. Indeed, he sees that these occurrences are not even conditional on high moral development, but that they can be manifested by people on much lower moral steps than that which Jesus represented.