Someone can be commanded to initiate going somewhere with their spirit

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The human spirit has the ability to go somewhere in the spiritual realm.

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Someone can be commanded to initiate going somewhere with their spirit. 

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Revelation 4:

Someone can be commanded to initiate going somewhere with their spirit. 

For example, it was commanded to John in Revelation 4: "I-saw, and behold, (there was an) opened door IN HEAVEN, and the first voice which I-heard speaking with me like (the sound of a) trumpet saying, “GO-UP [Active voice in Greek, imperative mood in Greek] HERE and I-will-show you (the things) which must take-place after these (things)”." (Revelation 4:1). 

In that passage, John was COMMANDED (as evidenced by the imperative mood in the Greek) to "GO-UP" (Revelation 4:1), which is a movement that needs to be done by John's human spirit, and this actively by John's own agency (evidenced by the use of the active voice for the Greek word "GO-UP") in the spiritual realm. 

It was not said here to John that he will be made to go up (in the passive voice), but it was COMMANDED to John that he initiates the action to GO-UP. 

Early Christian author:

Around the 2nd century, a Christian author named Tertullian wrote to Perpetua and other Christians who were held in prison in Rome, awaiting their martyrdom: 

"The prison does the same service for the Christian which the desert did for the prophet. Our Lord Himself spent much of His time in seclusion, that He might have greater liberty to pray, that He might be quit of the world. It was in a mountain solitude, too, He showed His glory to the disciples. Let us drop the name of prison; let us call it a place of retirement. Though the body is shut in, though the flesh is confined, all things are open to the spirit. In spirit, then, roam abroad; in spirit walk about" (Ad Martyras, Chapter II 9-113). 

Tertullian here wrote that even though someone is bound in prison, yet ​"In spirit, then, ROAM ABROAD [vagare]; in spirit WALK ABOUT [spatiari]. Both the Latin words "Vagare" and "Spatiari" are imperative forms of their respective verbs in Latin. They are imperatives (commands). Tertullian is telling them to initiate these actions. He is not saying "wait until God takes you." He is telling them to use their spirit to go somewhere (while their flesh is confined in the prison in which they are held). 

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