The main idea behind the Force Ghosts seems to be helping deceased Jedi return to the living. There is a critical difference between the Jedi Force Ghosts and the Saints, however.
The dream is fulfilled in the God who descended from heaven into hell, because a heaven above an earth which is hell would be no heaven at all. Behind this impressive notion of Asian religiosity, the Christian sees the true Bodhisvatta, Christ, in whom Asia’s dream became true. By such waiting, he empties hell, accepting the salvation which is his due only when hell has become uninhabited. But even in ordinary human terms we can say, How could a mother be completely and unreservedly happy so long as one of her children is suffering? And here we can point once again to Buddhism, with its idea of the Bodhisattva, who refuses to enter Nirvana so long as one human being remains in hell. No one has formulated this insight more finely than Therese of Lisieux with her idea of heaven as the showering down of love towards all. Love cannot, then, close itself against others or be without them so long as time, and with it suffering, is real. The nature of love is always to be “for” someone. The Buddhist concept of the Bodhisattva may have also inspired Qui-Gon’s return to guide others back from the Jedi Netherworld.Ĭardinal Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, reflects on how Christ, as well as the saints through Christ, fulfills the myth of the Bodhisattva:
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