relatives after death. Do souls of relatives meet after death - religious beliefs of the world

From time to time I receive letters from readers of my books or magazines with various questions. Not so long ago I received a letter from a man of mature age who had lost his beloved wife. It seems to me that his questions and my answers to them will be of interest to many people, especially those who have recently experienced the pain of losing a loved one.

"How can you ease the ordeal of the soul of a deceased person?"

Ordeals - being in the interworld - is the lot of very few souls (mostly, these are the souls of suicides, those who, for some subjective reasons, left the earth plane earlier than the period provided for by the Life Program). Therefore, I assure you, the soul of your spouse will not get lost in the interworld, but, having passed through various purifying worlds-filters (approximately on the 3rd, 9th and 40th days), it will rise to the layer (world) of the supermundane world, where approximately after the 40th day after the earthly “death”, the Judgment will await her.

Judgment is a comparison of the energy accumulations of the soul, which she gained during her past earthly life, with those indicators that were planned for her according to the Life Program. This is an assessment by the soul itself, by its conscience, of its life, deeds, words and thoughts that the soul, being in the shell of the earthly body, made.

The Higher Souls evaluate the "harvest" of the energies collected by the soul or the amount of energies not collected (according to the Plan, the Life Program of the past incarnation), and also look at how the soul itself evaluates its life and actions. Then they make a decision, based on the needs and development plan of this soul, where to send it - again into incarnation on Earth, or - "home", to the cosmic "homeland" of the soul.

(All souls have their own cosmic homeland - one of the planets of our Universe. There are a lot of cosmic civilizations. The cosmic homeland of the Slavs, Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians is the Extraterrestrial Civilization Dessa. our earthly world.For this reason, people live there for 10,000 years or more.Returning to their cosmic homeland, the soul receives its native body (which is in a state of artificial sleep during the journey to Earth).

On Dessa, people have exactly the same human biological body, only a little more perfect (due to a different environment - it is more high-frequency there, therefore, the biological composition of the body is slightly different from ours on Earth).

Why do more perfect souls leave their more perfect bodies on Dessa and incarnate into earthly bodies less perfect in terms of quality and duration of life? To prolong your life in your Dessite body indefinitely. The fact is that over time, the body of the Dessit begins to age. The reason for this process - as the scientists of Dessit found - was imperil (low-frequency destructive energy that the soul collects during the life of the soul). So: if this imperil is cleansed from the soul, then it will be able to stay in the same body for a very long time and be “forever young”. To do this, the body is immersed in an artificial sleep, and a part of the soul (triat) with all the imperil is sent (lowered into lower material worlds) to the aboveground world, in order to send this triat (or soul) to the earthly incarnation (the biological body of a newborn person).

After a certain number of years spent on Earth, after the death of the earthly body, the triatom will leave the body and begin its ascent to higher-frequency above-ground worlds (each such world is a kind of filter where the soul will get rid of its temporary layers). Finally, having reached the most high-frequency supermundane world, the soul (triatome) will first pass through the Judgment, and then Purgatory.

Purgatory is something like an x-ray room, in which machines will automatically cleanse the soul of imperil. After that, a pure soul (triatom) will fly home, will again enter into the composition of its soul, and the body will be brought out of artificial sleep. That's it - the earthly business trip for this soul (person) will be over.

From now on, the soul (man, dessit) can again live for the next thousand or more years on Dess, having a young and healthy body. And when, after some time, the soul again collects a large amount of imperil, the soul will again be sent on an earthly business trip - an incarnation, in order to drop the entire imperil there (through a posthumous passage through Purgatory).

The need for incarnations of Dessite souls to Earth is necessary because only there is a special cleansing filter (purgatory). It is probably on some other planets of the Universe, but the Earth is closest to Dessa and does not require huge energy expenditures to travel to it.

How to help the soul while it has not yet passed the Judgment? You can only help one thing - energy. Because everything in the universe is energy. To do this, you just need to mentally send your love, kind words, words of gratitude, warmth to this soul and mentally wrap it around the image of your loved one. All this energy will certainly reach the addressee and help the soul (which will have more strength and energy thanks to this) to quickly rise to higher worlds and stand before the Court.

You can pray and ask the Highest Ones (God, Guardian Angels ...) for help for the departed person (soul). You can order in the church (or better in three different churches) magpie (the priest will commemorate the name of the deceased person in a special prayer for forty days in a row ...). But the best and most effective help, in my opinion, is still a personal mental message of energy to a loved one. The energy of the soul is given by words of love, gratitude, gratitude to it for the joy, happiness, care, affection, attention, time and life given to us ... This is the guaranteed and most powerful energy help to the soul.

The only thing you can’t do is cry, grieve to your heart’s content, reproach yourself (that “I didn’t save!”) Or her (that “left me alone!” Etc.). Why not? Because by doing so, we send to the soul not high-frequency, positive (strengthening power) energies of love, but low-frequency, negative (power-removing) energies of fear, grief, sadness. And the soul, receiving negative energies from the earth plane, will not want to go up, where it should go, but will always be distracted down to the Earth, on the pain energy of those relatives and friends whom it has left (and will also grieve and sympathize with the remaining ). This means that her ascent to higher worlds can be delayed for an indefinite period of time.

Neither the soul itself, nor those who will moan and cry for it on Earth, this, as you understand, is not good. The best and wisest behavior is the constant words of gratitude and love that we should speak (mentally and aloud) about the person who has left us. This is the best we can do for our loved ones who have already completed their Life Program and left their earthly bodies.

This should be done not only for 40 days after the person’s departure (but these are the most important days for helping the soul), but also throughout the year (cleaning of souls especially contaminated with imperil sometimes takes just that much time; after a year, the soul, having cleansed itself, as a rule, is already leaving the supermundane world for the cosmic homeland or, remaining in the supermundane world and preparing for a new incarnation, no longer needs our energy replenishment).

“How does the soul feel in the other world?”

How does a person feel after a bath? "It's like being reborn." The soul throughout its earthly life wears many clothes, the heaviest of which is the physical body. Freed from it, the soul feels relief. Imagine: all day long, from the moment you got out of bed until late at night, you wore a heavy, to the toe, sheepskin casing. They wore, wore, puffed, sweated, and then suddenly abruptly removed it from themselves. How will you feel after that? You will probably feel lighter and freer. This is what our soul feels when it is freed from the body. It becomes light and literally winged, able to move in space and fly over the Earth.

Our physical body is one of the most perfect forms of obtaining the energies (wisdom, information, experience) necessary for the soul in all material worlds. The body is the most dense shell of the soul. The soul itself or, more precisely, a person by design resembles a nesting doll, consisting of seven bodies (or layers, or “nesting dolls”): spirit (matrix), buddhial layer, causal layer, mental, astral, ethereal and material layer (physical body).

The body, as well as the other three outer layers of the soul - ethereal, astral and mental - are temporary layers, and which fall away from the soul on the 1st, 3rd, 9th and 40th days after the "death" of a person. During its earthly life, the soul in all these time layers accumulates (making one or another choice and receiving appropriate life lessons) energies of various qualitative and quantitative characteristics.

These energies are what the soul comes to Earth for. This is the "honey" that she collects here. In this "honey" is the whole meaning of any life, private and general evolution, the essence of which is the increase by each soul, each life of its energy potential (that is, the increase of its consciousness or Mind).

After the death of a person, all information from the temporary layers is overwritten in turn, passes from one layer to another (no important and necessary information (read: energy) collected by the soul during earthly life will be lost!): it is written from the body to the ethereal layer, from from the etheric layer to the astral layer, from the astral layer to the mental layer, and finally, from the mental layer, all information is copied to the permanent (causal) layer of the soul. This occurs by the 40th day after the death of the body. Thus, the soul appears before the Court with all the collected energies (all information) for the last earthly life.

With each lost time layer (material, ethereal, astral and mental) the soul feels lighter and more airy. Therefore, if we talk about the “feelings” of the soul after death, then they are mostly positive.

“Do the souls of relatives meet (after death)?”

Most often not (because these souls can already be both in their cosmic homeland and in incarnation). If the soul, rising after earthly death to the higher near-earth worlds, is too attached to its native (dead earlier) people and at the same time it does not have enough of its own energy to quickly rise and free itself from temporary bodies-layers, then a hologram shell is sent to its aid (phantom) of these relatives. The soul will think that it is communicating with its previously deceased relatives, but these will not be real souls, but their holographic copies, phantoms that will disappear as soon as they provide the moral support and help necessary for the soul.

People often think that our earthly relatives remain relatives in another, “other world”. Sometimes it is, but often it is not. People are gathered into earthly families not because they are relatives in that world, but because it is necessary to complete the current task that is set before the soul, to pass certain lessons and collect a certain quality of energy by the soul.

All souls, regardless of the world in which they live, must develop, accumulate energies in their matrix. These accumulations in each soul are not at all chaotic and spontaneous (as it may seem), but planned: each soul has Determinants, Founders and Rulers - higher Essences (highly developed Souls that have long since risen into the energy, non-material world and are connected with us by matrix kinship), which make up for each of its soul Programs of life - life conditions, situations and lessons, passing through which the soul collects the necessary energies (needed both for the soul itself, its development, and for the higher worlds - because every soul, except for collecting energies for itself , always gives a part of the collected, produced energy to the higher worlds).

People are too attached to each other, living here on Earth, and hope that in that world they will meet all their relatives. Unfortunately, this is not so. Each soul has its own evolutionary path: for some it is slower, for others it is faster. Someone needs to gain some energies, someone needs a little different ... This means that today we live next to some people, and in a hundred, a thousand or ten thousand years we will live surrounded (family) by other people.

The higher the soul rises in its development, the fewer relatives it has on the one hand, and on the other hand, the more friends it becomes - souls that resonate with it in vibrations. In the highest, heavenly worlds (the matrix of the Creator) - all souls live next to those "who understand you even without words." There are all friends and relatives (because we are all particles of a single Organism - particles of the consciousness of the Higher Mind).

“Is it true that souls in clinical death do not want to return to Earth?”

Many do not want to, because they see how much more beautiful, harmonious and perfect are those worlds that exist above the earthly world. Some want it because they see worlds that are below the earth. And some want to return because they feel responsible for their relatives and neighbors, they want to repay their debts or fulfill what they have planned in life.

“The soul of the deceased can incarnate into a new person on earth. So, will she cease to be my soul or not?

The soul can incarnate in many human bodies and collect different experiences, different energies through them. At the same time, the soul changes its outer shells, but its basis, its essence, does not change.

All our incarnations, all our earthly personalities are private experiences of our soul. All these experiences the soul retains in itself. In one life you could be, say, Julius Caesar, in another - the writer Mikhail Lermontov, in the third - the actor Oleg Dal. In that world, your soul will realize itself not as Caesar, Lermontov or Dahl, but as a Personality who had experiences of life in the bodies of these earthly personalities. It will be a soul that has accumulated the experience of these earthly personalities.

The soul changes earthly bodies, like clothes, as another form of passing lessons in an earthly class. So, in one earthly life you can have the experience of a son, the experience of a husband, the experience of a father, the experience of a grandfather or great-grandfather - these are all different experiences of one earthly personality. Similarly, different earthly personalities are different biological forms of manifestation of the same soul.

All earthly personalities are particles, private experiences of our true Personality. We are not mortal earthly, material bodies, we are an immortal spirit, a matrix. Therefore, one should not associate oneself, one's personality only with our earthly personality, living on Earth today. Our current life is the current private experience of our true Personality.

In the first days after separation from the body, the soul communicates with its native places and meets with dead loved ones, or rather, with their souls. In other words, he communicates with what was dear in earthly life.

She has a new remarkable ability - spiritual vision. Our body is a reliable gate by which we are closed from the world of spirits, so that our sworn enemies, fallen spirits, do not invade us and destroy us. Although they are so cunning that they find workarounds. And some serve them without seeing them. But the spiritual vision that opens after death allows the soul to see not only the spirits that are in the surrounding space in large numbers, in their true form, but also their deceased loved ones, who help the lonely soul to get used to new, unusual conditions for her.

Many of those who have post-mortem experience have spoken of encounters with deceased relatives or acquaintances. These meetings took place on earth, sometimes shortly before the soul left the body, and sometimes in the setting of an unearthly world. For example, one woman who experienced temporary death heard a doctor tell her family that she was dying. Coming out of the body and rising up, she saw the dead relatives and friends. She recognized them, and they were glad to have met her.

Another woman saw her relatives who greeted her and shook hands with her. They were dressed in white, rejoiced and looked happy. “And suddenly they turned their backs on me and began to move away; and my grandmother, looking over her shoulder, said to me: "We will see you later, not this time." She died at 96, and here she looked, well, forty or forty-five years old, healthy and happy.

One person says that when he was dying of a heart attack at one end of the hospital, at the same time his own sister was dying of an attack of diabetes at the other end of the hospital. “When I got out of my body,” he says, “I suddenly met my sister. I was very happy about this, because I loved her very much. Talking to her, I wanted to follow her, but she, turning to me, ordered me to stay where I was, explaining that my time had not yet come. When I woke up, I told my doctor that I had met my sister, who had just passed away. The doctor didn't believe me. However, at my insistent request, he sent to check through the nurse and found out that she had recently died, as I told him. And there are many such stories. A soul that has passed into the afterlife often meets there those who were close to it. Although this meeting is usually short-lived. Because great trials and a private judgment await the soul. And only after a private trial is it decided whether the soul should be with its loved ones, or another place is prepared for it. After all, the souls of dead people do not wander of their own free will, where they want. The Orthodox Church teaches that after the death of the body, the Lord determines for each soul the place of its temporary stay - either in heaven or in hell. Therefore, meetings with the souls of deceased relatives should not be taken as a rule, but as exceptions allowed by the Lord for the benefit of people who have just died, who either still have to live on earth, or, if their souls are frightened by their new position, to help them.

The existence of the soul extends beyond the coffin, where it transfers everything to which it is accustomed, what was dear to it, and what it learned in its temporary earthly life. The way of thinking, life rules, inclinations - everything is transferred by the soul to the afterlife. Therefore, it is natural that the soul at first, by the grace of God, meets those who were closer to it in earthly life. But it happens that dead loved ones are living people.

And this does not mean their imminent demise. The reasons may be different, and often incomprehensible to people living on earth. For example, after the resurrection of the Savior, many of the dead also appeared in Jerusalem (Matthew 27:52-53). But there were also cases when the dead appeared to admonish the living, leading an unrighteous way of life. However, one should distinguish between true visions and demonic delusions, after which only fear and an anxious state of mind remain. For the cases of the appearance of souls from the afterlife are rare and always serve to enlighten the living.

So, a few days before the ordeals (two or three), the soul, accompanied by the Protecting Angels, is on earth. She can visit those places that were dear to her, or go where she wanted to visit during her lifetime. The doctrine of the stay of the soul on earth during the first days after death existed in the Orthodox Church already in the 4th century. The patristic tradition reports that the Angel, who accompanied the Monk Macarius of Alexandria in the desert, said: “The soul of the deceased receives from the Angel guarding it relief in sorrow, which it feels from separation from the body, which is why a good hope is born in it. For in the course of two days the soul, together with the angels who are with it, is allowed to walk the earth wherever it wants. Therefore, the soul that loves the body sometimes wanders near the house in which it was separated from the body, sometimes near the tomb in which the body is laid, and thus spends two days, like a bird, looking for nests for itself. And a virtuous soul walks in those places in which it used to do the truth ... "

It should be said that these days are not a binding rule for everyone. They are given only to those who have retained attachment to earthly worldly life, and who find it difficult to part with it and know that they will never live in the world that they left. But not all souls who part with their bodies are attached to earthly life. So, for example, the saints, who were not at all attached to worldly things, lived in constant expectation of a transition to another world, are not even attracted to places where they did good deeds, but immediately begin their ascent to heaven.

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Several years ago, one of my relatives asked me a question, who can come to the dying three days before death? For, they are children, they watched for three days how their mother, and my aunt, talked to someone and laughed a lot, waved her hands, telling something herself. True, all this was mentally, because she could not speak aloud due to her illness. Then my relative got an answer from the priests. But in my life, I also met stories of relatives more than once that before death, some people talk with someone invisible. But everyone has a different way of "leaving". Different information is described by esotericists. Today I also found from the authors about this topic, which I propose here:

In this article, we will answer the question of readers who clarify - who meets the soul of a newly deceased person after death?

Old concepts claimed that she was met by relatives who died before this person. We do not dispute this fact, but we continue to expand the concepts on this issue.
Each person has an individual meeting. High souls, for example, do not need to be greeted by relatives. When they enter the next world, they partially remember the rules for the transition of the soul from the gross to the subtle world and the possibilities of this existence.

They are met by High luminous Beings, called by people angels. In fact, these can be highly developed souls of former people who are intensively cultivating in the spiritual direction and have accumulated a large amount of high energies that provide them with a bright glow. Among them there may be angels from the energy worlds. By the way, this is another form of existence of the soul after the death of a person - luminous Essence-angels. But in this form, a person usually stays only in the subtle world, helping the Higher Essences to work with the souls of dead people. In fact, such souls are attached to work in the Separator (otherwise the Distributor).

Cosmic souls also do not meet relatives, because they belong to other worlds, they do not need this as an act of consolation. In their worlds, everything could happen differently, so they are exempt from observing earthly rituals. But they are met by certain high Essences who specialize in working with cosmic souls, they immediately separate them from the general masses of ordinary mortals and direct them to special compartments of the Distributor intended for the souls of missionaries from other worlds, from where they then go to their cosmic Systems. They do not go through the Judgment and do not spend a long time waiting for it, but they do undergo a partial purification.

As for the souls of doctors, as we said earlier in other books, their souls do not fall into the general separator, but immediately fly into the Medical System (the Help System is also located here). They have their own Separator and their own Court there. The main emphasis in assessing their life is not on the domestic side of existence, but on their medical activities and the development in this quality of healing and the quality of care. But in their Separator there is a distribution of souls according to the main specialization and qualification. Souls of doctors are divided by Levels: low, medium, high. In the future, they will switch to the treatment of other cosmic beings, and for this they will need to master new knowledge about other states of physical matter and about the multiplicity of its subtle forms.

But back to the souls of mere mortals. They can be met by both relatives who died before them, and luminous beings. Relatives in rare cases are genuine. Most often these are holograms of relatives. Few who have died before remain free. Having passed the Judgment, he is distributed to his own world and begins to improve in it. So that the memory of a past earthly life does not interfere with him to carry out a new program, it often closes. A person, as it were, forgets about everything that happened to him before, and calmly exists in the new world. True, in some souls, memory can last up to a year or more. Some low souls fall asleep, therefore, they cannot meet their relatives.

For some medium and high souls, the memory is not blocked, they simply do not return to unnecessary memories themselves and consciously improve in the new world. Such souls gradually forget about the earthly plane, just as a person forgets about his early childhood and youth. He can remember individual moments, but not every day of his existence. And the new aspirations and tasks that he has to solve in the new world help to aspire the soul to the future, and not live on old memories.

In view of the fact that many souls forget about earthly existence and former relatives, and also because of their employment, the High Essences do not distract them to meet with the souls of recently deceased relatives. After all, they are already in other worlds and it is unpleasant for them to return to the Separator to old memories. On the one hand, it is too troublesome for the Higher Ones to look for relatives already distributed somewhere in their worlds and distract them from work, and on the other hand, the relatives themselves have already forgotten a lot, and returning them to old and unnecessary, and sometimes painful memories is not reasonable.

In this regard, purely for humane reasons, the Higher Ones came up with the idea that after death souls would meet holograms of former relatives. Why do we mention humanity?
After all, no one could meet the soul. But at the time of death, many souls, flying out of the body, experience stress and great confusion. The soul is depressed from the fact that it parted forever with its beloved body and with the wonderful earthly world, it is in turmoil, because often it does not even understand what happened to it and what to do next. Therefore, in order to smooth out these negative impressions and speed up the adaptation of the soul in the new world, the Higher Ones invented the procedure for meeting their relatives, reproduced in the form of holograms. But the soul, understanding little about them, takes them for real relatives.

At the end of each corridor-tunnel, through which the soul flies, getting into the Distributor, there is a technical device for the production of holograms. And the data about all deceased relatives, including their appearance, corresponding to their stay in the earthly world, are in the computer of the Determinant, which led the soul of the student through life. (All souls look young in the next world. There are no old people there. And this is due to the properties of subtle matter and the new program of the soul, which does not include settings for aging of the outer shell). So by the time the soul exits the tunnel into the “white” world, holograms of relatives are already waiting for him, they greet him with joyful exclamations, with love and help him accept what happened as a normal and normal phenomenon.

After the meeting is over, the High Essences take the soul of the deceased to the waiting room, and the device that reproduces the holograms is turned off, and all the hologram relatives disappear.

(P. 35-38 book "GREAT TRANSITION" Authors Seklitova L.A., Strelnikova L.L.)

And ANGELS also meet someone. An amazing vision of my Marvelous Interlocutor from the funeral of her good friend on March 22, 2014.

“Today, from the very early morning, I was at the funeral, it was interesting and very beautiful. Relatives are very wide, there were a lot of people. And it is very strange today that there are more men in their relatives than women. The deceased Vitalia is very beautiful for her age, and despite her illness, she looked good and in the coffin lay all so bright and smiling.

And you must have, probably, THERE strong patrons, that she went to the hospital two weeks ago with bone metastases, three days in a coma and left.

It was interesting that I saw her, how she walked among relatives. She came up to me, put her hand on my hands and asked, if possible, to tell her husband that she was grateful to him and forgives him. And then she stood in front of her sons. Played with the hair of one and pressed his head to her chest. She walked over to the other and kissed him on the forehead. She stood before her husband. She just patted her shoulder.

With sympathy and with a gentle smile she looked at everyone, as if pitying them. And when they sang long prayers about the road of Jesus Christ, I saw how they came, like angels, very tall with lanterns in their hands. They were like the same. Colors of a pale moon, narrow faces with large eyes. Hair of the same light. And dresses of white silver that swayed quietly on them as they approached. And these Angels lined up like a corridor and stood there like that. The spectacle was breathtaking. And today I saw how they handed her the same lantern and she left that corridor, and they went with her. I realized that she was one of them too.

Not a single tear dripped from me, but I wanted to hug her like a sister before the road. I sat and watched with my mouth slightly open.

And I also saw how, before leaving, she translated everyone with a cross and, as it were, circled her eyes with some kind of scheme. This is how I understood it, that this is according to the order of their departure. She smiled at me and tilted her head slightly. The deceased was similar in face to her earthly image, but taller than those Angels. I had a double vision of her." (c).

Number of entries: 35

Hello, tomorrow will be 9 days for my beloved fiance, he died in the hospital, I want to know, after my death we will meet? And if we meet, will we also love each other, or will it completely disappear? I'm scared to think that he won't wait for me, our meeting.

Tatyana

Dear Tatyana, only what is lost on earth will completely disappear. Those who have passed into that world do not forget their relatives, only the reality there is different and it is impossible to expect them to think of us in the same way as we think of them here. The deceased appears before God, and, of course, all his attention is directed to Him. But love for loved ones does not disappear from this. Remember how in the exam: you take a ticket, you only think about the answer. But the love does not disappear! Pray for the deceased, do alms whenever possible, partake of the Holy Mysteries of Christ, live the church life. It will serve both you and him to increase. God bless you!

Priest Sergiy Osipov

Hello! After death, do family ties (marriage) continue, or later, in eternity, we will not know each other that we are spouses?

Anatoly

Hello Anatoly. We will meet with everyone, of course, and we will not forget anything. Not a single little thing. But family relations will no longer be. Here are the words of Christ: “In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but remain as the angels of God in heaven” (Matthew 22:30).

Priest Alexander Beloslyudov

Father! Tell me please. My grandmother passed away before God. I love her very much, and after my time comes, I want to find her. Do you think she will have the same appearance as she was on earth? Will she be my grandmother? And there is one more question: if souls are born or are reborn into another earthly body, do they already take on a different appearance, and do they develop love and affection for other people and souls? How can I understand this? I so want to meet my granny later, hug her, see her and be with her forever! Excuse me for asking such a question, but please, if you know, tell me. Can I find her?

Marina

In heaven, everyone will be like angels, this is indicated in the Holy Scriptures (Matt. 22:30); there will be no kinship in that earthly representation, as we understand it, but the souls will partly remember each other. As for the idea of rebirth into souls into another body, please forget it, these are such fantastic ideas that it’s not even worth talking about them seriously. I'm not saying that all these Buddhist ideas have nothing to do with Christianity.

hegumen Nikon (Golovko)

Hello, I have always been interested in the question: it is said that after the end of the world, sinners will go to hell, and the righteous will go to heaven. And how to live FOREVER?

Ivan

I don’t see a contradiction here, Ivan, everything is absolutely correct: the righteous will forever be in Paradise, and the sinners will be in hell, this will be eternal life for both. Everything will be that way. True, I cannot help but make a reservation that in modern theology there are various doctrines about the finiteness of the torments of hell, that sinners, as if cleansed from sins through torment, will be pardoned, or about, for example, that sinners will choose hell for themselves voluntarily, but we cannot know this for certain, and therefore it is more reasonable for us to trust the text of Holy Scripture, without philosophizing craftily.

hegumen Nikon (Golovko)

As you know, in Paradise there will be no morning, no evening, no night, but always day. It seems to me that the morning is beautiful, the evening is sweet, and the night is good on earth. There will be no autumn and winter, but always spring and summer. I love autumn very much, like Pushkin, and also enjoy the beauty of nature in winter. I, like many people, love all seasons. Also, people will not need to drink, or food, or clothing. Why is that?

Olga

Olga, it will be so beautiful in Paradise that a person on earth cannot not only imagine, but even think. I think, looking at the beauty of heavenly abodes, you will understand that all the beauties of the Earth in comparison with them are just a pitiful shadow.

hegumen Nikon (Golovko)

Tell me, will only baptized believing people be saved and go to the heavenly Jerusalem, but baptized unbelievers and pagans will not? Or they will be judged according to their conscience, and those who lived with dignity will also go to heaven, but which one? Maybe there are different levels of paradise? I meet different points of view of the priests.

Julia

Hello Julia! No one can give you a definitive answer to this question. Our posthumous fate is in the hands of God. The Lord is an all-merciful judge, but also an all-righteous one, and the judgment of God, in the end, is only a manifestation of the choice that a person himself has already made during his lifetime: whether he is with God or not. Consider what the Lord says: "No one will come to my Father except through Me." This means that without Christ, outside the Church, there can be no salvation. Indeed, without recognizing in Christ the Son of God, no one can be saved. But this does not mean that hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people who knew nothing about Christ and Christianity will be severely punished. Think, for example, of the American Indians before the discovery of America by Columbus, or the Africans, or the Polynesians, or even those people who may have heard something about Christianity, but never had the experience of preaching about it in their lives - which could be called apostolic. But if a person saw the image of Christ in front of him, and suddenly for some reason did not accept and turned away, and, like the Jews during the life of Christ, said: "No, we have no king but Caesar, we do not want to be with you, Christ God!" Whoever says this, it must be assumed that there is no way to salvation, but let us remember about the fate of others that the judgment is not ours, but the judgment of God and this judgment is just and merciful.

Priest Vladimir Shlykov

Hello! Is it true that in the Kingdom of God (when we die), only those spouses who were married in the church during their lifetime will meet? Thanks.

Christina

Hello Christina! The Lord Himself in the Gospel says that after death people will not marry and get married, they will be like the angels of God in heaven. If in the life of the family there was not only a wedding, a good beginning, but also a path traveled such that people were connected here, on earth, by something that already belonged to eternity on earth, something that could be continued in eternity, then they will meet there. It will be a meeting in the fullness of joy that will never cease, and if they were united on earth only by common passions, whether bodily, or a passion for acquisition, or mutual repulsion from the rest of the world, or only joint care, even care for children, or simply social closeness, in order to survive in certain circumstances, but were internally alien to each other, then, of course, what can be continued here in eternity? The real outcome of life, and not something formal, makes this life here on earth the beginning of being outside the visible world.

Priest Vladimir Shlykov

Hello. I did not have time to marry my beloved person and get married. Is it possible, even though my beloved is no longer in this earthly life, to ask the Lord God to let us be together with him in eternal life? I know that this is my destiny, and praying to God helps me every day. Could this be not only the salvation of our souls, but a test of our love? Thanks in advance for your reply.

Anna

Hello Anna. There is no marriage in eternal life, "for in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like the angels of God in heaven." You can completely ignore my words, but believe me, I wish you well. Beware of mystical dreams and fantasies. Stick to the sound Orthodox teaching set forth by the Holy Fathers of the Eastern Church, and pay no attention to the inventions of the ignorant. In that life, everything is different. There is not a single local concept known to us that would be applicable to that reality. “The eye has not seen, the ear has not heard, and it has not entered the heart of man, which God has prepared for those who love Him.” Truth is simple and all-encompassing, and it reveals itself directly, and not in speculation and imagination, clothed in words. Christ gave the method of comprehending the Truth: "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This is already the sixth blessedness, but first one must learn humility, contrition of heart, meekness, constant thirst for God's truth and mercy. These are the Commandments of the Lord, you can fulfill them, because God accompanies those who follow them. And let us leave the fate of eternity to the judgment of God. We believe that God is good and does only good things. And I have prepared the best for you, based on the state of your soul and heart in which you are now. Each of us can change this state of mind and heart. God help you.

Priest Alexander Beloslyudov

Hello Father! Do relatives, close people and close friends see each other after death? Or will there be one?

Anatoly

Hello Anatoly. Sooner or later, we will all find out the answer to this question personally. The soul will not remain alone, but until the resurrection (restoration) the soul has no freedom. The soul is not a person, but only the soul of a person. Will meet someone. But what will happen after the Resurrection, it is even impossible to imagine. “The eye has not seen, the ear has not heard, and it has not entered the heart of man, which God has prepared for those who love Him.” (1 Corinthians 2.9)

Priest Alexander Beloslyudov

Father bless! My son's 7-month-old son died (baptized, inveterate). They were told that if you become pregnant with a new child before the 40th day, then the soul of our baby will move into it and will live in a new child. Is it so? Forgive me, sinner.

Ekaterina

What are you, Ekaterina, what nonsense! Who could say such a thing from believers?! You need to get these ideas out of your head, celebrate, as it should be, the days of memory for your son, and then think about the future.

hegumen Nikon (Golovko)

Hello. Explain how Christianity relates to the reincarnation of the soul? One Christian woman told me that in a past life she was in hell for her crimes, and now, when the LORD descends there, repentant souls cry out, and he sends them to earth again for correction. How to relate to this and what to answer to a person who believes that we live more than one life? It’s a sinful thing, I used to think so too, but lately I’ve been thinking differently, but I can’t even explain to myself, neither the first nor the second. Forgive me and pray for me, a sinner.

Svetlana

Svetlana, the transmigration of human souls from body to body is a fiction of the human mind, striving to the best of its ability to explain the incomprehensible aspects of being. Such a migration does not exist, and it is strange that a woman who calls herself a Christian can speak such nonsense! What can she say? Let him try to give evidence of his point of view from Scripture. They are not there!

hegumen Nikon (Golovko)

Where will a person go after death and will he meet his relatives there?

Zhenya

Zhenya, Scripture unequivocally speaks of the existence of Heaven and Hell, but where a person goes depends on the person himself. With regard to relatives, such a meeting is quite possible if these relatives are in the same monasteries as the person himself.

hegumen Nikon (Golovko)

Hello, fathers! Quite a lot of time has passed, already 2 years, and I still cannot come to terms with the loss of my dearest person on earth, my precious mother. There was not a day that I did not cry, all thoughts are only about her, nothing in life makes me happy. Do we have any consolation? Can we hope to meet our loved ones and consider our separation temporary? After all, not everything in life can go unnoticed. I do not know what to do.

Lena

Lena, death must be treated in a Christian way. There is not a single person on earth who would live forever. Every person is sentenced to death. "You will die," God said to Adam when he drove him out of paradise. Despondency, despair is a sin, stop angering God, stop crying. You harm not only yourself, but also your mother, you need to pray for the repose of her soul, and you torment her with your tears. Death is the birth into a new, different life. The soul of a person does not die, but lives forever, only where it will then be depends on our life. "From his deeds a man will be justified or condemned," he will go to heaven or hell. After death, we will definitely meet, but whether we will be together depends on us now, on how we will spend this life. Pray, repent, live like a Christian. Stop useless tears.

Hieromonk Viktorin (Aseev)

Hello! I read the book "Notes of the Living Deceased". Written by Elsa Barker. It is written about the afterlife on behalf of a dead person. And that this is all a true story. How to treat it?

Vera

Faith, this is fiction, so please treat it that way. And for the future - in order not to read something dubious, and then not to be tormented by questions - read better, as St. Ignatius Brianchaninov, holy authors.

hegumen Nikon (Golovko)

Hello! I would like to ask Hieromonk Victorin (Aseev) a question. Father Viktorin, it has been said here more than once that living relatives greatly mourn their departed relatives, it was said that they need to understand that they are better off there than here, and you said: “a different life, life in the Kingdom of Heaven is much better, than here on earth, and if a person visits there at least once, then he will not want to return back to this world full of evil, "if baptized small children die, then they go to heaven. Let's leave, okay, small baptized children, if they somehow go to heaven - this is a consolation for loved ones, probably, should be. But what to do if an adult loved one left, but you pray, but how do you know where he ended up? After all, as I understand it, on the 40th day everything was already decided where he should be - in heaven or in hell. And the fact that the deceased relative is better there than here, and he should seem to calm down and stop shedding tears, as it has been repeatedly said here ... After all, how is it better if he ended up in hell? After all, we do not know where exactly? And then yes, paradise is good, of course, but how good it can be, for example, for a mother without her child, in whom she did not look for souls, even if she ended up in paradise, but without her child. Father, I am confused in these matters, help me figure it out. Thanks.

Ludmila

Lyudmila, it was about babies. Baptized babies, if for some reason die, they always go to heaven. About an adult, when he dies, we cannot specifically say where he will go, to heaven or hell. We can say affirmatively that a person went to heaven only if we clearly see that he leads a holy way of life, or if a person is completely atheist and an obvious sinner and does not repent of his sins, then we can say that a person perishes for the Kingdom of Heaven, and then presumably because only God decides. We are guided by the commandments of God. After 40 days, a private judgment takes place - this is a preliminary place, and this can be changed by our prayers to God, and therefore we always pray for our departed. The final decision will be at the Last Judgment, when nothing can be corrected, the verdict will be final. As it is written in the Holy Scriptures, there a person will not ask about anything. If a mother got into the Kingdom of Heaven, then she will be able to beg for her child. A mother's prayer comes from the bottom of the sea. I think if they have such a strong love during life, then they will be together after death. God is love. God loves man and does everything for our salvation. Everything depends on ourselves, if we want to be saved together with our children and will do everything for this, then, of course, God will not leave us and have mercy.

Hieromonk Viktorin (Aseev)

Hello! Do you think you can trust a site that provides stories of people who have experienced clinical death and the like? And in general, how to relate to such people, to people who saw something in unconsciousness? People who saw something in a dream? People who have seen something in similar states? How to be? Thank you in advance.

Oleg

Oleg, you should not trust such sites, as well as similar "revelations" of people who have experienced clinical death in general: there are so many things mixed in them that it is not possible to make out where the truth is and where the lie is. Therefore, it is better to completely dismiss this muddy source of information.

hegumen Nikon (Golovko)

Hello, fathers. I apologize in advance for the question. I just don’t know how to ask more correctly and delicately so as not to offend the Lord and you. I don’t want it to look like I’m leaving the hospital or serving time, so I repeatedly apologize. Explain, please, if the soul of the deceased after the Judgment of God ends up in hell, then this is forever? Can relatives beg for forgiveness for him, praying daily in a home prayer for a lost soul? Can the Lord, already after 40 days, later, ever forgive a sinner and take him to Himself, to Paradise? Is such mercy possible? Is it written somewhere about this? Probably, I have a clouding of my mind, but, I’m ashamed to admit that bad thoughts are constantly in my head (I confessed this), I want to know, check, make sure. Here it is again... It's like I'm talking to a lawyer. Lord, don't let me go crazy! Once again, forgive me, a sinner. I would be very grateful for an answer.

On the 3rd day after death, the soul ascends to worship God, goes through ordeals, where it can be detained for sins. How to appear before God on this day, on the 9th, on the 40th, if there is no intercessor and prayer book on earth, and the Angel, because of the stinking sins, retreated?

Valery

Valery, the Lord is merciful, and is able to have mercy even if none of the relatives prays on earth. In general, you and I go into areas in which we cannot know anything for sure. We need to know only one thing: how to live without sins and not fall into hellish abysses.

hegumen Nikon (Golovko)

Boundless and unsuccessful would be our grief for dying loved ones, if the Lord did not give us eternal life. Our life would be aimless if it ended in death. But man was created for immortality, and Christ, by His resurrection, opened the gates of the Kingdom of Heaven, eternal bliss for those who believed in Him and lived righteously. Our earthly life is a preparation for the future life, and this preparation ends with death. "It is appointed for men to die once, and then judgment" (Heb. 9:27). Then a person leaves all his earthly cares; his body disintegrates in order to rise again at the General Resurrection. But his soul continues to live, not ceasing its existence for a single moment. St. Ambrose of Milan teaches: “Since the soul continues to live after death, there remains goodness that is not lost with death, but increases. The soul is not held back by any obstacles set by death, but is more active, because it acts in its own sphere without any connection with body, which is rather a burden than a benefit to her" (St. Ambrose of Milan, "Death as a blessing"). Anyone who wants to show his love for the dead and give them real help can best do this by praying for them, and especially by commemorating the Liturgy (only the baptized), when the particles taken for the living and the dead are immersed in the Blood of the Lord with the words: "Wash Lord, the sins of those who were commemorated here by Your precious blood, by the prayers of Your saints. They always need this, especially in those forty days when the soul of the deceased follows the path to the eternal villages. The body then does not feel anything: it does not see the gathered loved ones, does not smell the smell of flowers, does not hear funeral speeches. But the soul feels the prayers offered for it, is grateful to those who offer them, and is spiritually close to them. You have the wrong idea about the afterlife. They don't get married there, they don't get married - there is endless life in Christ Jesus, Our Lord. Whether you marry or not is your personal decision. The Apostle Paul says "it's better for you to remain celibate like me, but not everyone can accommodate it," so that you don't sin, don't inflame the flesh, it's better to get married (get married). A married man cares about how to please his wife, while an unmarried man thinks about how to please God.

Hieromonk Viktorin (Aseev)