Resurrection of the Dead: The Beatific Vision in the Hebraic, Christian, and Islamic Scriptures

By Steven Nur Ahmed

This book identifies the divine source of both spiritual insight and foresight for each of us who journey along the worldly path of trials and tribulations. Indeed, from conception, it is a hazardous journey, but it is indeed a necessary journey for us to reach our ultimate spiritual goal.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jan 23, 2023
• ISBN: 9798886547801

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Chapter 1

The Hidden Vision in Scriptures

What if there exists not just a subconscious and unconscious but also a Noetic Spiritual Background to human consciousness? Indeed, would there be evidence of it in the words of revealed scriptures? What if some individuals sprinkled throughout human history have experienced, while living, the Beatific Vision? Not a transmission from human to human but from God through a mediating angel to a human. What if people have simply lacked consciousness of that Noetic Spiritual Background to our natural experience for thousands of years? What I suggest, in this book, is that we have lacked direct consciousness of the Noetic Spiritual Background nor have we been correctly educated about it.

In the forthcoming chapters, I will present material evidence to support my theses. For example, what astrophysicists have discovered and now call the cosmic microwave background exists at the outer limits of our universe. The light from it is ironically a picture of our universe’s past billions of years ago. However, because of space dust and about 92 trillion light-years in distance, the light emanating from it could not be seen by us until very recently and only at the infrared wavelength. But it has always been there.

Their hypothesis is that the uniform cosmic microwave background is like a faint egg-shaped electromagnetic bubble. It uniformly surrounds all the matter in our universe. Astrophysicists hypothesize that about 13.7 billion years ago, a singularity split occurred. The split was out of what we can’t directly know. But within an incalculably, infinitesimally small moment, what we know as gravity, magnetism, space, and time separated and the law of thermodynamics was born. From that singularity split billions of years ago, all combinations and permutations of material things that ever existed are derived.¹

Some astrophysicists metaphorically call the event origin of our universe the big bang despite there having been no medium, and thus no sound waves, when it occurred. It is the mystery of the origin of the natural order, its laws, and our general habitat.

A singularity is a timeless and spaceless oneness with no dimensional context we can understand. With the cosmic microwave background in mind, I want to demonstrate its analog: As above, so below; as below, so above.² In this book, I will demonstrate that there is a Noetic Spiritual Background in the Hebrew, Christian, and Islamic Scriptures. And further, I will attempt to demonstrate that there is an earlier Bronze-Age Scriptural Template which revealed the same Noetic Spiritual Background.

To see the Noetic Spiritual Background in Hebrew, Christian, and Islamic Scriptures, it will be necessary to disregard all historical genealogies, all characters in scriptures except the Prophets, and all interpretive litter in those scriptures as much as possible. I consider biographies, cultural histories, historical dates, wars and battles, genealogies, and mythologies depicted in the Torah, New Testament, and Quran as clouds of dust which blur our insight into exactly what the Noetic Spiritual Background is in Scriptures.

The Noetic Spiritual Background is to our souls what the cosmic microwave background is to our universe. Its origin was an immeasurably spaceless, timeless, immaterial dimension. I call that the Divine Unity. Instead of a big bang, there is silent luminous emanation from the Eternal Nameless One. So this is a book about the representation of the Divine in monotheistic scriptures noetically (thoughtfully) revealed to humanity. It is about individual people only insofar as they were in noetic singularity with the Divine, and about dates only insofar as they give us a temporal reference point.

The Prophets

Who Claimed to Be Intuitive Witnesses of Divine Light

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¹ Brian Green, The Elegant Universe (New York: Penguin Random House, 2008).

² The Kybalion, an ancient Egyptian Wisdom Book claimed to have been written by the creature Thoth.

Chapter 2

Moses Ascended the Mountain

Most historians assume that Moses lived toward the end of the Middle Kingdom between 1600 BCE and 1513 BCE. We have been made to believe that he met God on several occasions. First, on Mount Horeb, then second on Mount Sinai.³ The narration says that the meetings between God and Moses were initiated and mediated by an angel:

And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

We know that fire cannot be sustained without oxygen and carbon dioxide. We know that any fire will cool down as oxygen and carbon fuel decreases. So it follows that the burning bush was not physical. The narration is intended to convey that Moses (Musa) was having a Noetic Insight. Noetic Insight is not a contradiction to any law of nature.

Here, I use the second law of thermodynamics as fundamental evidence to prove the point that Moses did not see a literal physical burning bush, but instead, he was in vision in mind. Moses was in intellectual singularity with the Divine Mind. Moses was in Beatific Vision. Moses was face-to-face with God within the Light of God by the noetic medium of an angel. There was nothing exterior or material about it. Moses was not seeing God on an actual dirt mountain. But how did the angel appear to Moses if angels are immaterial?

The angels appeared to Moses via his mind and communicated to him telepathically. The reasons are obvious. Angels are not material creatures and thus cannot appear materially any more than we can appear spiritually. Angels are telepathic creatures and so serve as noetic mediums that can telepathically connect with a human mind via noesis.⁴ When that happens, it happens outside our dimensions of time and space. It never happens exteriorly.

When that interior singularity occurred between Moses and the angel, it was also a singularity with God because angels do not exist independently of God. They participate the Divine Unity. Thus, it is proper to use the plural pronouns We or Us because angels share the identical nameless identity I Am. This can be confusing to many people. How can an angel be perfectly one with God, they might ask? The answer is because God is beneficent and all-giving. Angels are the direct beneficiaries of God’s grace.

There is a related question which arises. The Torah says that God spoke to Moses (Musa) saying, Here I am.⁵ My question is this, is a specific human language a prerequisite for Noetic Vision? I answer, no. But hypothetically, if God did speak to Moses (Musa), in what language did Moses understand his telepathic communique? Here, I am reminded of the verse in Acts 7:22:

Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.⁶

Now, according to the narration, since Moses (Musa) was raised by the daughter of Pharaoh and had no interaction with his biological mother and her culture through his entire childhood development; and, since the Middle Kingdom Egyptians spoke an ancient Afro-Asiatic language, then Moses (Musa) spoke ancient Egyptian not Hebrew. So if Moses understood what was being communicated to him, then the angel must have spoken the thoughts of God to him in the ancient Afro-Asiatic language of the royal household of Middle Egyptian Kingdom.

How did God speak to Moses (Musa)? It is only reasonable to presume that God did not vibrate sound waves to speak to him because God is not a material being. Thus, the only alternative understanding of God’s speech is that of Noetic Thought Telepathy. After all, the Noetic Vision Moses was participating was in his mind by mediation of the mind of an unnamed angel.⁷ If telepathic, then, necessarily, it must have been in a language Moses could understand given his natural mind. Angels know all languages humans use; they know our thoughts. Diverse languages used by different cultures are no barrier to the Noetic Realm because noetic knowledge is immediate. It takes no time to understand because understanding is immediate, and it takes no time to judge because truth is immediately known.

With that said, why does the scripture use the image Mountain of God? The image mountain of God alludes to what the angels in the Realm of Light envision eternally. The mountain refers to Mountains of Light.⁸ They are transparent as crystal. They are glorified or illumined by the Light which emanates from God. It is understandable how baffled a human would be in such a state of mind. To Moses in Beatific Vision, the best analogy for the writers of the narrative to understand what he was seeing was what they had no doubt seen many times, i.e., a burning bush. But analogies are never equivalent to the subject being compared. Analogies can lead us away from understanding insight as well as lead us to the doorway of insight.

Then there is the added comment not consumed by fire. The fire not being consumed is indicative of the Eternal Nature of Divine Light; that it is the primary source in and of itself. That being so, it is not material light within the electromagnetic spectrum we experience here in our natural world, but rather, it is Noetic Light, the Light of Mind.

Divine Light glowed bright in Moses’s mind, but the brightness could not cause