Feast of the Transfiguration

Man was made to receive the breath/Spirit of God, the Spirit that "governs all things well"(Ws. 8:1), "the aura of the might of God, and a pure effusion of the glory of the Almighty" (Ws. 7:25).  By the breath/Spirit/ruah in us, we become "living souls." 

But sin blocks the energy of the Almighty in us.  God said to Adam in the Garden, "on that day (that you eat the fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil), dying, you will die."

Science is beginning to discover now that our memories are stored not in the brain, but at the cellular level---in our cells.  That is why we react to things viscerally in a way that our minds tell us is not rational.  Once we have had a traumatic experience, our bodies remember and react to similar situations.  And, even more interesting, these cellular memories are passed down from one generation to another.  Then our cells are blocked from receiving nutrients and disposing of wastes because we are using that energy to deal with memories and trauma.  Indeed, "dying, we are dying."

If anything speaks of the necessity of Mary being conceived without sin, it seems to me that this new science does so.  The Spirit of God who conceived Jesus in the flesh had to be received wholly and entirely, without blockage of any kind.  The Book of Wisdom says that nothing impure enters into the Spirit of God.  Mary could not pass on generational sins that block the Spirit to the Son of God.

And so Jesus, though His glory was veiled on earth, was the Perfect Respository of the Spirit of God, "the refulgence of eternal light, the spotless mirror of the power of God, the image of his goodness" (Ws.26).

For one moment during His earthly existence, He let slip the veil and revealed His glory to Peter, James, and John.  He told them to tell no one "until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead."  His reference, Son of Man, was to the Book of Daniel:

As the visions during the night continued, I saw

One like a Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven;

When he reached the Ancient One and was presented before him,

The one like a Son of man received dominion, glory, and kingship;

All peoples, nations, and languages serve him (Dan. 7:13-14).

August 6 is the Feast of the Transfiguration of Jesus.  He called Himself "the Son of Man" throughout His earthly life, a title that had to be offensive to the Scribes and Pharisees who understood the reference to Daniel's vision.  But to those who would receive Him, His light would shine in their hearts to "bring to light the knowledge of the glory of God" (2 Cor. 4:6).