Belief makes it impossible to belive the opposite proposition and that means you've just truncated your freedom, no matter how noble the belief you've taken on, you have just rejected and limited your ability to believe other things. \nMy favorite story in the Gospels is the story of the Apostle Thomas because you will recall that after the crucifixion - this is an alchemical story - Christ appeared to the Apostles in the upper room in Jerusalem, 40 days after? Thomas was not there, I don't know where he was, somewhere, they'd sent him out for sandwiches or something. \nAnyway, he came back and they said, 'The Master was with us' and he said, 'C'mon, you guys, you've been smoking too much Red Leb we brought in 3 weeks ago' and they said, 'No, no, the Master was with us' and he said 'Unless I put my hand into the wound, I will not believe it.'\nSo then time passed. Christ came again to the Apostles and Thomas was among them on this second get-go and Christ walked in and kicked off his overshoes and looked around the room and he said, 'Thomas, come forward. Put your hand into the wound.' Which he did. Which he did. \nPeople have different interpretations of this story. My interpretation of it, which is what I'll leave you with, is that alone among all human beings in all of human history, only one person was ever so privileged as to be allowed to touch the resurrection body. It was Thomas the Doubter that was allowed to touch the resurrection body because he didn't believe. So if you want to touch the resurrection body, be very careful with where you commit your belief.

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