by John-Peter Gernaat The discussion group on the theology of The Act of Consecration of Man focussed on the Easter epistle and inserted proclamation and payer. Two aspects stand out strongly. These are the blood and the breath. We can trace these back to the creation of the human being where in Genesis 1 the Elohim say that they will “cast a shadow in which can emerge the being that can show blood”. This is mostly translated from the Hebrew as “let us create Man in our image”. The correct translation reveals that the human being is a being that ‘shows blood’. We show blood when we blush. In Genesis 2 we read that the breath of God gives life to the body fashioned from the clay of the earth.
On the day that Michaël was not with us, we discussed whether we are conscious and can become aware of our pulse of life, which is the surging of our breath and the pulse of our heartbeat. We hear that Christ has entered into our ‘rejoicing pulse of life’ and we must ask how we can connect with this reality. Is the Mystery of Easter an event of two millennia ago or can we experience it as a living reality every day? We can experience that the Mystery of Easter lives between the activity of the heart and the activity of the lungs. Not in a medical sense, but in the experience of the rhythms. We penetrated this in the last session of the month.
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