In olden days, Christians used the symbolism of the egg to represent resurrection. This is a good symbol for resurrection because man's aura is egg-shaped. Sometimes this egg-shaped aura is crystallized like an egg, and man cannot come out of it through his consciousness or striving because he is cemented in his habits, glamors, illusions, materialism, hatred, and anger. With all these things, he builds himself a real shell around himself.
When the chicken breaks the shell and comes out, it means that the spirit or the soul in the egg, which is latent and in inertia, eventually breaks his old beingness and becomes a new life. Imagine a little chicken breaking the eggshell around him and suddenly seeing the trees, the birds, and the life around it. Imagine how new everything will seem for it. In the same way, resurrection is a steady progress to break your own limitations and hangups and eventually to be born into a new life, totally different from what you were before.
The mystery of resurrection is the transformation of our lives. Eventually we will live in such a way that every year we will not be the same beings. We will be more refined. We will be in greater light and greater beauty. This is the purpose of life.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Teachings of Christ, vol.4
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