How a person is born is no secret to us. How does it happen? the birth of new souls?
The riddle is very interesting. I would like to know the process itself - where it happens, who participates in it, what the birth of a new soul looks like.
It is curious whether souls are constantly being born, or whether once born, they are now only reincarnated.
It is also important: are the same souls born or does each new soul have special talents and unique abilities.
We set out to explore these questions in an additional lesson of the 13th stream of the Institute of Reincarnation.
How souls are born
Observations of memories, how souls are born, made it possible to identify several repeating scenarios.
Let me clarify right away for skeptics: the studies were carried out at different times, with new people, but their descriptions largely coincided. These general storylines of the birth of new souls are collected in a “scenario”.
In the first scenario, similar memory images were some small particles that were separated from a large creature.
Svetlana S: I remembered something big Living being, resembling a hydra from which soul balls bud. Heavenly Mother's name is Avatorii.
Each ball had its own color. Some were more intensely colored, while others had a less intense color. The color of the soul depends on the energies that the Heavenly Father initially lays down. And he takes energy from the worlds where these souls will have to incarnate.
The scattering balls rushed into spherical spaces where souls of their color gathered. My the soul was purple, and I joined the group of purple balls.
In total there were about ninety newborn souls. I saw how big hands collected us into peculiar beads, then twisted us along the axis. In the process of movement, souls accumulated energies and began to glow from this.
Then a stream began, connecting to the cosmic mind. The mentors monitored the readiness of souls for the first incarnation by the intensity of the glow.
They began to divide us into smaller groups. Teachers visited the small group one by one, transferring important energies for knowledge, recharging and accumulation. Working with energies, the ability to anchor them in the place where it is necessary to stabilize space, turns out to be special the talent of my soul.
Svetlana Ch.: I saw my soul as a drop that separated from something big. As soon as I flew away, about ten to fifteen more droplets joined me, clinging to me from all sides. I remember the feeling of persistence, desire to get ahead- qualities that I observe in myself to this day.
Someone moves our group of droplets into a vessel, and the process of infusion of energies begins. I feel myself expanding from the energies of love and mercy filling me.
Olga T.: I saw a large clot of energy shimmering in different colors. There was movement and swaying inside.
Balls of different colors stand out from it. I felt like one of the balls - light, playful. My soul shimmered purple-blue-green, and at the base there was a pearly-golden color.
The mentors accepted me and passed on the basics soul purpose– generate love, spread the energy of love.
Experiencing the white light
In the second version of stories about how souls are born, there were often images of white light and honeycombs, from which the formed energies of souls flew out.
My memory showed just such a process. A large space filled with white light, full of honeycomb pentagons.
In each cell boiling occurs at different intensities. When the seething reaches its peak, a soul ball bursts out of the honeycomb with a sharp explosion.
This ball is taken under the care of the Mentor and transferred, keeping it in his field. This process was revealed very clearly and in detail in Elena’s memoirs.
Elena B.: I see a bright space filled with a white glow. In this sparkling glow, you can feel some waves moving.
This is a living space, and everything in it breathes and moves. Space itself is like a sphere. There are observers outside the sphere.
There are small balls inside. They also sparkle, as if light is about to burst out in each of them. Some processes are taking place on the surface of the balls, flashes flash. Each ball is placed in a honeycomb.
The entire sphere is filled with pentagons that interlock with each other. But the space above the cells is open. There is a lot of traffic in the cells. In some it becomes stronger and stronger.
Here light comes out of one cell. This light is born soul. One cell opens, then a second, a third. And here is mine!
It has a soft purple glow. At first, the color breaks through with one ray, then it grows and now the whole ball-soul shines evenly purple glow.
From inside, through the violet, white light breaks through. Through it there is contact with the external living sphere. A ray of thread, like a connecting cable, joined the large field.
Contact has been established. The maternal sphere begins to respond by transferring knowledge and energy to the newborn soul. Bookmarking in progress soul files.
From within, observers send out a flood of great love. The flow is so strong that the sphere has to hold it back, otherwise the soul balls will not be able to withstand it.
But this whole process is so gentle that the energies of love simply envelop every soul, fill and structure. Love becomes reflection of divine light, coming from inside each ball. Under its influence the soul opens up.
The colors of the soul balls are different. Some people are like a rainbow – the play of several colors. For some, one color predominates, for example, yellow. At the same time, there are few red balls. Glow is associated with purpose.
So my purple Connected with vibrations of higher energies. The main task is the ability to grasp the spiritual principle and bring it into the material world.
After the souls have collected the initial starting information and absorbed the necessary energy, the maternal sphere begins to thin out and disappear.
The swarm of young souls is left without care, but they are immediately embraced by the energies of the Mentors. Balls in groups are attracted to the Mentor with whom they match in color.
My group has as many as five Mentors. Each of them undergoes alternating attunement and obtaining information. The soul feels that it is expanding, becoming weightier, more structured.
One of the Mentors talks about the World of Souls. Explains the hierarchy and interaction of souls. Another introduces different worlds and spaces. Shows the geography of incarnations, tells where you can go and what kind of experience.
The last Mentor prepares for the first incarnation. It will be a warm place, not earthly, where souls learn to communicate.
Vortex energy
The last story of the birth of a soul can be said to be unique. In my observations, this is so far the only example of just such a scenario. All the more interesting is the experience that has opened up, where the source of the birth of the soul is the energy of the vortex.
Svetlana I. Two swirling energies in a dense vortex flow merged into one, the result was something like a blank. It was completely raw, heavy material that had to be developed further.
The mentor introduces some kind of impulse into him, sparkling star and the energy is revived. The workpiece glows, lightness appears, the glow becomes bright.
The soul receives life.
The mentor invites the soul to follow him, and I begin to move cautiously, carefully, looking around. I see a world similar to outer space, dark, mysterious, in which life is felt.
I feel the closeness of the Mentor, I trust him as a parent. We arrived in a round illuminated hall. This is where we are met energy beings who welcome and rejoice at the addition of a newborn soul to their team.
I feel the warmth and joy of this space, I calm down. I understand that it studies outer space and regulates and corrects processes if necessary.
Everything is under control here, higher energies monitor the emergence of new galaxies, new worlds. I have to learn this work.
What conclusions arise after studying the birth of new souls?
Firstly, the process itself takes place according to different scenarios, although there are not many of them and there are repeating plots.
Secondly, in all examples, the birth of a new soul is controlled by the Guides, who pick up the newborns and move them into a space where growth and learning take place.
Third, many remember the color of their soul at birth, which is associated with special talents, unique abilities and its purpose.
P.S. Are you interested in learning about the birth of your soul and your unique abilities?
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The theatrical performance “A Soul Born Somewhere...” was held at the Lyalin Center on October 8, 2017.
Where does the soul come from before birth - descends from heaven to earth? Where was she before birth, appearance in man?
Hegumen Ambrose (Ermakov) answers:
The question of the origin of the human soul has not been completely answered by the Word of God. As St. Cyril of Alexandria says, this is “a mystery known to God alone.” The Church does not offer us a strictly defined teaching on this subject. Therefore, we can talk about the origin of souls on the basis of theological opinions and the attitude of the Church to these opinions. One of the central places in Origen's dogmatic system was the doctrine of the pre-existence of human souls. Origen inherited this view from the philosophy of Plato. We will not dwell in detail on the content of this teaching, we will only say that it: a) contradicts the teaching of Holy Scripture about the consequences of the sin of our ancestors, b) is not capable of explaining the fact of the incarnation, c) is associated with the doctrine of universal restoration condemned by the Church. In the middle of the 6th century, Origen's teachings were condemned by the Church. There is an opinion that God created every soul from nothing. (Hieromartyr Irenaeus of Lyons, Saint Ephraim the Syrian, Blessed Theodoret, Saint John Chrysostom, etc.). Some saints talk about the creation of the soul together with the body, others about the creation of the soul on the 40th day after conception. Weak side This opinion is that it does not explain the transfer of Adam's sinful corruption to the entire human race, nor how children inherit the qualities of their parents. There is another opinion about the birth of human souls from the souls of parents. (Tertullian, St. Gregory the Theologian, St. Gregory of Nyssa, St. Macarius the Great and others). This theological opinion also does not answer all questions. For example, the soul comes from the soul of the father, mother or both parents; Nor does it explain the cases of striking dissimilarity between children and parents. After the V Ecumenical Council, the opinion about the creation of human souls began to prevail; later, the doctrine of the birth of souls became more widespread. Both of these opinions complement each other.
The laws of the spiritual world are not known to us. We can only assume that a person receives a soul from his parents, but a person becomes a person, unique and unrepeatable, as a result of a special Divine influence.
Greetings, dear brothers and sisters! Today the founder and confessor of St. Vvedensky answers your questions convent in Ivanovo, Archimandrite Ambrosy Yurasov. Father, bless.
God bless.
Today I would like to talk about the spiritual world.
All of us, believers and non-believers living on earth, need to remember. The time will come when we will have to leave this earthly world and move into the reality of the Divine world.
Some will inherit eternal life in God, others - unrepentant sinners - will inherit eternal hellish torment. And I would like to ask about this: Father, what do we know about the spiritual world?
Christ is Risen, dear brothers and sisters!
We can only know what the Lord and the Holy Fathers revealed to us from personal experience. Christ, when he was resurrected, appeared to his disciples behind closed doors and said: “Peace be with you,” breathed on them and said: “Receive the Holy Spirit.” Whose sins you forgive on earth will be forgiven in heaven. Whoever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven.” At that time, the Lord gave the twelve apostles, the first church, the power to forgive sins. Decide and resolve. And when the Lord rose again, He appeared through the walls in renewed flesh. He ate food, drank water and left through the walls.
This is exactly the same spiritual flesh that we, His followers, must accept. This means that the Lord created the spiritual world for us.
The world is huge, great. This is inaccessible to the human mind.
As inaccessible, let's say a chicken that is in an egg.
Well, what can he know about our earthly life? Absolutely nothing.
What can a child know in the womb? Absolutely nothing either.
And when the chicken hatches from the egg, and when the child is born, opens his eyes, comes to consciousness, he will see this great world for himself.
So you and I live on earth like chickens in a shell or like a child in the womb. And when the time comes, we will be born, we will penetrate into the spiritual world. To the world of eternity, where everything happens differently. There are different laws.
When one metropolitan was dying, he said: Lord, everything is different, everything is different, and he died. Such people do not die, they simply move from one state to another. After all, a chicken comes out of one state, out of a shell, not to disappear, but to live. In the same way, a baby in the womb is no longer born for death, but for life. For a full life. This is very interesting, and anyone who enters the abode of Paradise after the Last Judgment will discover completely different laws there.
Suppose the earth is renewed, the heavenly city of Jerusalem descends to earth, as it is said in “Revelation” in chapter 21. Great city, 12 gates, angels on the gates. The streets are pure gold, not a speck of dust. Homes from precious stones. Of course, the vegetation is completely different. Not the one on earth.
There will be no transport, there people will communicate with each other in an instant and will not strain their vocal cords to say something to someone. Everyone will mentally understand each other. Of course, we envy the birds that fly, but man is prepared for the highest, for eternity. Therefore, the Apostle Paul was ascended to the third heaven, and I, he says, do not know whether I was there in the body or in the soul, but I was in eternity. And then from eternity he returned again to earthly time. And he said that the human ear has not heard and the eye has not seen what God has prepared for those who love Him.
As the holy fathers say: O Paradise, O Paradise! I cannot gain you, I cannot comprehend with my mind what God has prepared for those who love Him! If one drop of the sweetness of Paradise falls into the salty sea, it will delight the whole sea. If one drop falls into hell, then suffering stops, the fire is extinguished, and hell becomes Heaven.
Even the flower of paradise has such grain that the globe cannot compare with it. This is impossible for us to understand. It's far away, but it's there. This is reality, not some kind of fairy tale, because God has no lies.
What God said is true.
As it is said: the righteous will inherit eternal blessed life, and sinners will inherit hellish torment. That is, the hellish state begins here on earth. When a person has anger, evil, resentment, pride, disobedience, stubbornness inside - in a word, all types of passions. This is already a hellish state. But there are people who have silence, peace, joy, peace, rainbows of love in their souls. To God, to neighbor. It’s a completely different state, and it’s very interesting.
If you sharpen a pencil and put a dot on paper, it will be a human fetus in the womb. This embryo contains genes - information about the future of a person. The laws of nutrition, reproduction, nationality, character, illness, death - everything is there. There are legs, arms, and eyes. Of course, a person does not need eyes, arms, legs there, in the womb. He will only need them when he is born, then he will need all this. There is no man yet, but air and everything necessary for life have already been prepared for him. Although he is in the womb upside down, surrounded by water.
And when he is born, everything is different, no longer upside down, but upside down. You need to feed not through the umbilical cord, but through the mouth. And the food is completely different.
Still interesting, and even more interesting is this. The Lord created the earth, created man, breathed into his face the breath of life, man eats the food that the earth grows for us. And how does all this happen in a person when conception occurs? Where does this living person come from, all programmed, everything in him? When the first living cell appeared, not a single scientist knows, only God knows, isn’t this a miracle? And look at this same miracle in animals. Billions of different animals, birds and fish, all have life, all have movement.
When God created the earth, He arranged it all through the Holy Spirit.
But this is all material.
And the Lord has also prepared for us the spiritual world, eternal blissful life. And all ours earthly life- this is only preparation for entering the spiritual world. Whatever we buy here will go with us.
We have the first question, we are listening to you.
Nowadays life is such that there are sorrows, illnesses, various temptations, sometimes even in prayer the thought comes that when you move into the world of the majority, life will still be better for them. Is this a sin? And how should we feel about this?
Save me, God! Father, this is a really interesting question.
A person is tired of this life and wants to quickly move on to that life. Isn't this akin to suicide? Isn't this the same thing?
No, not the same thing, because a person has a desire to live, well, for example, we see that people are dying around us. But we don’t have this feeling inside. We only understand with our minds that the time will come and we will end, but inside there is no such feeling, because we were created for eternity. And why? Because the body is the earth. And when the Lord created man from the dust of the earth, the body was like a dead mummy.
And the Lord breathed into the face the breath of life, gave a soul, and revived the person.
He began to think and speak. The Lord gave us complete freedom.
All is in God's hands. When we set ourselves up in such a way that we live here temporarily, that a new heaven and earth are prepared for us, and our life is short. The child was born and every day closer and closer to death. And he won't avoid it. I think everyone knows this, therefore the illnesses that the Lord allows us and sorrows are all temporary.
To compare with the sorrows and illnesses that our Lord Jesus Christ endured is nothing. And with eternal suffering, our sorrows are nothing. If, for example, you take a red-hot fire in a stove, the demons are not afraid of it, just as we are not afraid of the fire that is drawn in the picture. But the fire of Gehenna evil spirits they tremble, and how they tremble! Therefore, when a person passes into that world, into the spiritual world, he goes along with the person. If we here on earth try to maintain complete order in our souls and get rid of passions. What kind of passions can there be? Someone smokes, drinks, fornicates, swears, gets irritated, is proud, proud, stubborn, disobedient. If he does not get rid of this, then he will not enter the Kingdom of God. Just as no unclean thing will enter.
And when the Lord takes us away, this is only His holy will. It happens that great sinners are taken unrepentant into the next world.
Sometimes the righteous are taken away. Only God knows who will do it when. Therefore, we must learn to thank God in illness, sorrow, persecution, and this is the most necessary thing. All these persecutions, sorrows, illnesses are nothing compared to eternal suffering and eternal joy. And the Lord does not send anyone beyond his strength, but sends to everyone according to his strength. The most important thing is that I shouldn’t focus on the thought that I’m sick or on some kind of grief. Let’s say that when a person gets into cold water, he will focus all his attention on his body, and, of course, he will feel cold.
And if he concentrates all his attention on the Jesus Prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner, then it will become twice as easy.
They even said that there were cases before when, for some crime, believers, when there were persecutions, were scourged and tied to a stake. And Christ was also scourged. But when a person is scourged, if he concentrates on God and prayer, then he endures the scourging twice as easily. And if he concentrates everything on his body, it will be much more difficult to bear.
Father, I recently heard either from Elder John of Valaam or from Elder Nikon Vorobyov such an idea that one nun confessed to him that she was afraid of death.
He says: you think about death incorrectly. You should think about death not in the sense of how you will die. But if you think about what awaits you after death, this will be more correct. And the soul will be calm.
Certainly. If a person has worked hard in his life, given everything for the Lord, he will not be afraid to die
But you can’t dwell on this.
There is no death for a believer. Death is just a dream. The soul leaves the body into another world.
Father, we have one more question. Speak.
Alexander is bothering you. Christ is Risen!
Truly risen!
Save me, God! Father, I read the Gospel and New Testament, and listen and watch. Did I understand correctly that our bodies are repeated as forms?
John the Baptist said: He who sent me said to me: on whomever you see the holy spirit descending like a dove, he will baptize you with fire. And Jesus said: The Father has sent me.
And parents are selected here on earth. And maybe we are also angels, just on different levels? Christ said about John the Baptist that the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than John the Baptist. There is also some kind of hierarchy there. Maybe we also incarnate into a body, and when we die, we come out of them, from this shell? Father, did I understand correctly?
And the second question is, is there a first, second and third heaven? Even before Paradise, before these abodes. God bless you!
There are seven heavens, they are divided conventionally. And whoever gets what - at least get not heaven, but be the last, the very last. But not in hell.
No, father, the question is that bodies are repeated in people. Maybe John the Baptist, is this some kind of rank of angels? This was not a person - an angel. Can I answer this question?
No, this is a man. The Lord prepared a prophet, and the prophet prepared a place for the Savior of the world. Catholics believe that the Mother of God is immaculate. They humiliate the Mother of God with this - with what? Because the Mother of God was the same as us, a person in the flesh, but she had free will, she could sin, or she could not sin. And this is the greatest thing, that She did not sin with her work, with her free will.
Father, regarding these questions that the man was asking now. I wanted to emphasize that we take a very liberal approach to the interpretation of Holy Scripture. About souls, about bodies. After all, Holy Scripture is a two-edged sword. If you don’t know how to wield a sword, you can cut off your own head.
Therefore, the Holy Scriptures cannot be interpreted with your own mind.
Our mind is damaged, and sometimes takes lies for truth.
Therefore, if we are interested in some question about the Holy Scriptures, then we need to see what the Holy Fathers say about this. Nowadays the interpretations of the holy fathers are widely available.
John Chrysostom, Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and all the fathers. You can look at interpretations, but interpreting and speculating on your own is dangerous. You might think something wrong.
But this person asks a question - and this is already good, it can be corrected.
We have one more question. Where is the soul of a person before he is born?
The soul of man is with the Lord. As we said today, the man Adam was like a dead statue, and the Lord breathed into his face the breath of life, and the man came to life.
This can be imagined in such a way that the Lord created Adam and gave him a soul.
And the Lord put Adam to sleep and created his wife Eve from his rib.
It can be said this way: you light one candle, and from this candle you can light another, and so on a whole sea of candles.
This means that the soul is given to a person when a person is conceived. He receives a soul at conception. I remember how the Monk Barsanuphius of Optina answered, one girl wrote a letter to him: I have a desire to see this man, I can’t live without him, what is this?
And he says: this attraction is natural, because the wife was taken from Adam, so the rib strives for its place. But since you have chosen Christ as your groom, try in prayer, reading the Holy Scriptures, the Holy Fathers, to kill this desire in yourself, since you have chosen Christ for yourself. So everything is in God's hands.
So the Lord gives a soul at conception.
Both soul and body.
Here's another question. Nowadays, babies are made in vitro. Where do they get their soul from? This is how Petrucci was, among the Catholics, when he grew a man in a test tube. The Catholic Church forbade him, which means he has a soul.
How is a person born? The father's seed and the mother's part are united together and the fetus is conceived. At the moment of conception, a soul is given. And because in the test tube there is not a dead seed and not a dead cell of the mother. They are also alive, so there is a soul in the test tube too.
But there’s another trick here. We need to take the woman who is pregnant. There is a two-week-old embryo in a test tube and she is also pregnant for two weeks. We need to take blood from her and feed this child, otherwise he cannot live on his own.
But father, a test tube baby is generally a very complex topic.
Science began to do this not so long ago.
And we have a question. Speak.
Save me, God! If a person, a mother, if she prays, it means she knows that the first prayer is “Our Father” to the Heavenly Father. So one woman in a dream saw her deceased mother, and she taught her the prayers “Our Father”, “Virgin Mary, Rejoice”, and “Creed”, and when she woke up, she already knew these prayers. And so she never knew them.
Although some are doing well now, they read the rule of Seraphim of Sarov: “The Trisagion” according to “Our Father”, “Creed”, “Virgin Mother of God, rejoice” - that’s all the prayers. But he gave this rule only to those people who got up at 4 o’clock and worked in the fields with livestock until 12 at night. So that they do not forget their prayers. Because from morning to evening they read, until lunch they read: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner!” After lunch - “Most Holy Mother of God, save us!” That is, they prayed all day. Many had a heartfelt prayer. I have seen such people and talked with them. Here is one Matryonushka, at the age of 18 she graduated from high school with a gold medal, and I confessed to her when she was 91 years old. She is my fellow countrywoman, from the Kemerovo region. She turned out to be a great ascetic. Her sister Pelageya gave birth to seven children and fell ill. So this Matryonushka never married and raised all the children. They all received an education.
And she was so inconspicuous, she lived purely, holyly, and the Lord gave her a heartfelt prayer. She carried this prayer until her death. She confessed to me and said: “Father, I only read one Jesus Prayer. But I don’t read other prayers.”
I say: “Why?”
And she: “So I was appointed at the age of 37, I read and sang in the choir, and the Lord gave me a prayer at the age of 18, so when I start reading other prayers, the rhythm of the Jesus Prayer in my heart is disrupted, and I get lost. So I take communion with prayer.” That's what she told me.
She worked from morning to evening. She had sheep, chickens, geese, and a cow.
And she used all this farming to help the poor. Mary, the Kingdom of Heaven to her.
Father, do we need to pray for the dead in the next world?
They cannot pray for themselves, but they are waiting for our prayers. Our help. For example, do the deceased know about us, how we live? I think this way: here we see an egg in which there is a chicken and a mother who is carrying a child in the womb. He doesn’t know anything about us, neither a chicken nor a child. And we know that a mother carries a child, that a chicken stays in an egg for 21 days. We know, but they know nothing. So in the spiritual world everything is open.
Where is the spiritual world?
He is here with us, invisible. You can’t think that somewhere there is far, far and high. Our earth in the universe is a tiny, imperceptible speck of dust. And here in this speck of dust, in Moscow at the Radonezh radio station, we are talking about the spiritual world.
This is a great mystery. And we have stars all around us, both below and above, and the earth flies and revolves around the sun and the moon. This is already a hidden secret, an abyss of mystery.
Father, here is the question.
If it’s bad in the temple, it breaks everything, what should I do? I ask you to pray for the sick Edesius.
Well, today a 35-year-old girl came to me.
I ask: how are you feeling?
She says: Everything is fine, I confessed and received communion.
And when they touched one or the other, I asked: Have you repented of this? No.
What about this? No.
And then it turned out that she did not repent at all.
She says: Well, it happened that she condemned, grumbled, and deceived.
But I didn’t know that I had to say all this. My head went blank.
And another journalist almost fell. He says: I never confessed. Therefore, when the soul is unrepentant, dirty, unclean, a person feels bad during confession.
After all, everything we do and say, nothing disappears. Everything is imprinted in eternity for all time, so the soul must always be pure. I even say that in our monastery, many mothers and fathers, if they serve, then confess every day.
But what does it mean? While standing in prayer, I got a little distracted, or ate too much, or talked too much. Maybe he indirectly offended someone, maybe he judged him, or some thoughts came to mind. So this is a different kind of confession. But when the grave sins of Sodom were committed, and sulfur fire came down from the sky, destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, now there is the Dead Sea - these are already terrible mortal sins. And sometimes people don’t repent of them, so why bother the priest.
After all, we go to the doctor and don’t talk about our excellent health, but talk about the ailments that worry us.
So here, too, the soul must be healed, and a person who is sick in body, where is he in a hurry? In hospital. And when you are sick in soul - where? To a spiritual hospital. And a spiritual hospital is a temple where we open our wounds to the Lord and the Lord heals us. When a person’s soul is heavy, it’s very disgusting, empty, but what does this mean? That we have no spiritual life.
Once I recently confessed to a believing woman, she is 42 years old, and she says: I have become completely empty, I am empty inside.
I say: let's confess.
When they confessed and she sat, and then said: Life began inside.
I say: Now, when you pray, read the Gospel, “Our Father,” the Jesus Prayer, “Rejoice, Virgin Mary,” the accumulation of grace-filled energy in the soul will begin. And when a person begins to pray, does good deeds, is not rude to anyone, wishes peace, joy, and peace to everyone - the filling of our soul begins. A person himself feels that he has life, joy, that he has become a source of life.
Father, we have one more question. Speak.
Galina. I have a few questions briefly. I read that the Lord Himself never called His followers slaves. Second, the origin of races has always worried me. And rudeness, when I see rudeness, I just go wild. Is this how you should treat rudeness, specifically rudeness? And you also talked about the dead. This happened to me not long ago. I needed urgent eye surgery, and my late friend came to her husband and said: help Gala perform the operation. And he gave me money.
The spiritual world is near us. Our relatives and neighbors control us, they see everything. To be a slave to God is of enormous value, but not to be a slave to your sin. Let’s say, take a tsar or a president, the one closest to him is many, many heads away from us. It would be good to have such slaves. And don't be a slave to sin. When a person receives the healing of his soul, he will be above everyone else and will look down on everything. And she won’t feel that there are some boors around us.
He will be peaceful, calm and will cover everything with his love.
This is how a person is valued. Where did the rudeness come from? When there was Noah and his son Ham - after all, before Noah, before the flood, there was no meat food or wine - and then when the grapes appeared, Noah drank the juice and found himself naked. His son Ham saw him and told his brothers, and they all covered him from behind. And when his father found out about this, he cursed him. That's why they are called Hamites. And so were the sons Shem, Japheth and Ham.
How did different races appear? When the Tower of Babel was built, it rose above the clouds. And the ruler Nimrod climbed to the very top and shot into the sky with a bow. Challenged God. The Lord, seeing this madness, confused everyone with tongues. But the pious Patriarch, from whom the Jews appeared, did not participate in the construction of the tower. This is an active people, they did not mix with other peoples, they maintained faith in true God, Creator of heaven and earth. He went all over the world and kept the faith.
They were nomads, Bedouins, they did not build cities in order to maintain faith in the true God.
And when the Messiah came, they did not know whether it was him or not. But when He rebuked them for their pride and declared Himself as the Son of God, they put Him to death. Although in the Holy Scripture, in the Bible in the first chapters, the Lord says: “Let us create man in our image and likeness.” The plural is mentioned here, I will not create, but let us create man in our image and likeness.
And in the psalms it is said: “The Lord said to my Lord: sit on my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.”
Father, this is the question they asked.
How does the church view cremation?
Man was taken from the earth and must go back to the earth. Orthodox Christians must not be set on fire.
Here's the question. Since childhood I suffered from chronic tonsillitis. At the age of 19, I turned to my grandmother, who spoke about the disease. How should we feel about this? Is it necessary to repent of this conversion?
Absolutely, because even the devil there are people who help for a while in order to entice us and tear us away from God. So you need to turn to the Lord so that the Lord can help you heal.
Millions of people know this. When they turn to the Lord, the Lord heals almost every believer. There are many such cases when the Lord and the Mother of God help.
Father, another question, tell me.
Here in one of the Gospels it is said that the Lord said to one of the thieves, a pious one: today you will be with me in Paradise.
And later it is said that Mary Magdalene did not recognize the Lord. He said: do not touch Me, I have not yet ascended to My Father.
The Apostle Hermas says in the book “The Shepherd” that an Angel told that the Lord Jesus Christ descended after the crucifixion. And in connection with this, a question. Where was the soul of the Lord after the Son of Man died on the cross?
There is such a dogma that the Lord is in hell with a soul, but God is on the throne.
Father, this man said it right. Indeed, after death the Lord was in soul in hell. But why? Because he went down there to bring the righteous out of there.
Destroy hell and bring the righteous out of there. But I want to note that you need to distinguish Holy Bible and the writings of the apostolic men. Here is the “Shepherd” of Hermas - this is still not Holy Scripture. Although this book has great authority in the church. And then, father, many people are really interested in this question. Mary Magdalene did not recognize Christ, and when she did, she wanted to grab His feet, but He said: Do not touch Me. Why did He say that?
This means that he has not yet ascended to the Father.
Father, I read such an interpretation from the holy fathers that Mary wept for Christ not as about God, but as about a dead man. You know how women are killed at graves: who did you leave us with? So Mary was killed not about God, but about man. When she saw the risen Christ, she did not see God in Him, she saw a man and wanted to grab his feet, but the Lord stopped her and said: Don’t touch. A person cannot be resurrected without Divine help; only God resurrects. But you don’t see God in Me. Your grief does not allow you to see God in Me, but allows you to see only a person. That’s why He didn’t allow her to come near Him and tried to bring her to her senses.
But it's not written.
No, this is the interpretation of the holy fathers.
Why does a woman cry over the coffin of her deceased husband?
If you listen: who did you leave us with, how will we live without you?
That is, a husband is not needed.
No, she is crying for herself, how she will live now, not for her husband.
By the way, father, we had the following question: is it a sin to think about death? The Apostle Paul told his disciples: My desire is to be separated from the body and to be at home with Christ, but remaining in the body is beneficial for you.
And the wise Solomon says: Remember your last and you will never sin.
We still have a call.
Love from Moscow. I am very concerned about the issue with my husband, who is now in the hospital. A serious diagnosis, his legs were paralyzed. This has been going on for many years. Now, when the question is that it is possible to recover, he does not want to start a new life, not to drink. The anger is terrible, it doesn’t want to talk to me.
God bless you, mother!
This is the state that a person has to himself
prepared, because hell and heaven are within us. When a person resists, he does not want to fight his weaknesses. After all, those people who smoke kill themselves. I looked, right on the pack it says: Smoking is harmful, dangerous, kills - useless.
Everyone smokes anyway. Well, let's say I came to the hospital, there are four floors. All wards and corridors are filled with people. Some are missing one leg, some are missing both. When I started confessing, it turned out that everyone was smoking. Gangrene, legs are being amputated. Veins become clogged. Even when doctors say: don’t quit smoking, they will take away your last leg. So they answer: let them take it.
Yes, this is a terrible condition.
And when a person passes into that world, everything will become worse, he will want to drink, smoke, but there is no body. It is not God who begins to torment us, but we ourselves here on earth.
Father, this example very clearly shows why such people will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Imagine, his own wife approaches him, and he answers her with irritation and anger. It’s the same in the church and in the kingdom of heaven, if a person gets there unrepentant. The Lord will approach him - and he will flare up in anger.
I recently read such a case.
One of the people walked through the Egyptian desert and came across a destroyed pagan temple of Venus. It was already night, and he decided to stop there, but he became scared. When he went there, he was so afraid that he didn’t know what to do. But he remembered that Orthodox Christians, when they are afraid, need to sign themselves with the cross. He crossed himself - and his soul calmed down. And suddenly at night, at 12 o’clock, Satan and many demons come.
And Satan says: I feel like there is someone else here.
Need to check. Well, demons ran all over the temple.
And one demon comes and says: Yes, here I met an empty sealed vessel standing in the corner. What does it mean?
An unbaptized person is an empty person. Sealed - sealed himself with a cross. Sealed empty vessel.
That is, the power of the sign of the cross extends even to an unbaptized person. If he crosses himself in faith.
Yes, when a priest baptizes someone, approaches a baby or an adult and crosses him three times, the seal of the Holy Spirit is made on him. He crossed it and sealed it.
Dear brothers and sisters, thank you for your attention. God bless you!
