DEATH AS A GATEWAY TO ETERNITY AND A SEPARATION OF THE SOUL FROM THE BODY IN THE WORKS OF THE CHRISTIAN HYMNOLOGISTS Cover Image

TRECEREA LA VIAŢA VEŞNICĂ ŞI DESPĂRŢIREA SUFLETULUI DE TRUP ÎN GÂNDIREA IMNOLOGILOR
DEATH AS A GATEWAY TO ETERNITY AND A SEPARATION OF THE SOUL FROM THE BODY IN THE WORKS OF THE CHRISTIAN HYMNOLOGISTS

Author(s): Cosmin Santi
Subject(s): Religion and science , Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: hour of death; eternal life; soul; body; hymnography

Summary/Abstract: Immediately after death, the soul plunges into a light at the same time tender and lucid, allowing the soul to see his life again, to understand its innermost depths. It is that sensation of both wellness and pain that you experience every time a spiritually brilliant being is scrutinzing your soul, easily penetrating the ugliness of your character. This purifying sleep is not at all a state of unconsciousness. Death sets the person free from this leather costume in which we were enfolded the moment we went out of the paradisiac condition and by means of which we have been directed from transparent participation toward the universe. The shape, the faculties, the senses of the body, aspired by the infinite, become interiorized and it is no longer the soul inside the body, but the body inside the soul. The senses that have become spiritualized, the perfect memory permit true personal meetings, not just between the dead, but also between the dead and the living. The place of these encounters can only be Christ, this center toward Whom all the lines converge, Christ in Whom we are all one another’s limbs. The prayer of the Church facilitates and accompanies the exode of the soul

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 22
  • Page Range: 107-121
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Romanian