Mary (Magdalene) was standing outside the tomb, weeping. As she wept, therefore, she looked down into the tomb, and sees two angels in white sitting down, one toward the head and one toward the feet, where the body of Jesus had been lying.

         And they say to her:

         - Woman, why are you weeping?

         She says to them:

         - They have taken my Lord, and I do not know where they have placed him. When she had said these things she turned to the back, and she saw Jesus standing there, and she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus says to her:

         - Woman, why are you weeping? Whom do you seek?

         She, supposing that it was the gardener, says to him:

         - Lord, if you carried him off, tell me where you have placed him, and I will take him.

         Jesus says to her:

         - Mariam.

         She turned and says to him in Hebrew:

         - Rabboni, which means teacher.

         Jesus says to her:

         - Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to the father; but journey to my brothers and say to them: I am ascending to my father and your father, and to my God and your God.

         Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that he had spoken these things to her. (John, Chapter 20: 11-18).

         On that very day two of them were going to a village seven miles from Jerusalem called Emmaus and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred. And it happened that while they were conversing and debating, Jesus himself drew near and walked with them, but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him. He asked them:

         - What are you discussing as you walk along? Why are you so sad?

         One of them, named Cleopas, said to him in reply:

         - Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know of the things that have taken place there in these days?

         And he replied to them:

         - What sort of things?

         They said to him:

         - The things that happened to Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, how our chief priests and rulers both handed him over to a sentence of death and crucified him.

         - But we were hoping that he would be the one to redeem Israel; and besides all this, it is now the third day since this took place. Some women from our group, however, have astounded us: they were at the tomb early in the morning and did not find his body; they came back and reported that they had indeed seen a vision of angels who announced that he was alive. Then some of those with us went to the tomb and found things just as the women had described, but him they did not see.

         And he said to them:

         - Oh, how foolish you are! How slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke! Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer these things and enter into his glory? Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them what referred to him in all the scriptures.

         As they approached the village to which they were going, he gave the impression that he was going on farther. But they urged him:

         - Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.

         So he went in to stay with them. And it happened that, while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight.

         - Then they said to each other:

         "Were not our hearts burning (within us) while he spoke to us on the way and opened the scriptures to us?"

         So they set out at once and returned to Jerusalem where they found gathered together the eleven and those with them who were saying:

         - The Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon! Then the two recounted what had taken place on the way and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread. While they were still speaking about this, he stood in their midst and said to them:

         - Peace be with you.

         But they were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost.

         Then he said to them:

         - Why are you troubled? And why do questions arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have.

         And as he said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

         While they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed, he asked them:

         - Have you anything here to eat? They gave him a piece of baked fish; he took it and ate it in front of them. He said to them:

         - These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.

         Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures. And he said to them:

         - Thus it is written that the Messiah would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

         - You are witnesses of these things. And (behold) I am sending the promise of my Father upon you; but stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high. (Luke, Chapter 24; 13 - 49).

         One of the twelve disciples, Thomas (nicknamed the Twin), was not with the others when Jesus came. They told him:

         - We have seen the Lord!

         But he replied:

         - I won’t believe it unless I see the nail wounds in his hands, put my fingers into them, and place my hand into the wound in his side.

         Eight days later the disciples were together again, and this time Thomas was with them. The doors were locked; but suddenly, as before, Jesus was standing among them:

         - Peace be with you, he said.

         Then he said to Thomas:

         - Put your finger here, and look at my hands. Put your hand into the wound in my side. Don’t be faithless any longer. Believe!

         “My Lord and my God!” Thomas exclaimed.

         Then Jesus told him:

         - You believe because you have seen me. Blessed are those who believe without seeing me. (John, Chapter 20: 24-29).

         Jesus then showed his perispiritual body to them, which explains why he was seen only bty those to whom he desired to make himself known. If he had worn his carnal body, he would have been seen by the first comer as in life.

         His disciples, being ignorant of the first cause of the phenomenon of apparitions, took no account of these peculiarities, which were not probably remarked. They saw Jesus and touched him; for them it was the resurrected body (The Genesis According to Spiritism, Chapter 14, items 14 and 35 to 38, Chapter 15, items 56 to 63).

         (The Genesis According to Spiritism, Chapter 15, items 56 to 63)