Fr. Seraphim Rose / о. Серафим Роуз - The Soul After Death / Душа после смерти [2009, FB2/DOC/PDF, ENG]

Аннотация 1
The Soul After Death 1
Preface 3
CHAPTER ONE 5
Some Aspects of Today’s Experiences 5
1. The “Out-of-Body” Experience 7
2. The Meeting with Others 9
3. The “Being of Light” 12
CHAPTER TWO 13
The Orthodox Doctrine of Angels 13
CHAPTER THREE 17
Appearances of Angels and Demons at the Hour of Death 17
CHAPTER FOUR 22
The Contemporary Experience of “Heaven” 22
CHAPTER FIVE 25
The Aerial Realm of Spirits 25
1. Man’s Original Nature 25
2. The Fall of Man 25
3. Contact with Fallen Spirits 26
4. The Opening of the Senses 27
5. The Danger of Contact with Spirits 28
6. Some Practical Advice 29
Conclusion 29
CHAPTER SIX 30
The Aerial Toll-Houses 30
1. How to Understand the Toll-Houses 31
2. Patristic Testimony of the Toll-Houses 33
3. The Toll-Houses in Lives of Saints 35
4. A Modern Experience of the Toll-Houses 36
5. The Toll-Houses Experienced before Death 37
6. The Particular Judgment 38
7. The Toll-Houses: A Touchstone of Authentic After-Death Experience 39
8. The Teaching of Bishop Theophan the Recluse on the Aerial Toll-Houses 39
CHAPTER SEVEN 40
“Out-of-Body” Experiences in Occult Literature 40
1. The Tibetan Book of the Dead 41
2. The Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg 42
3. The “Astral Plane” of Theosophy 43
4. “Astral Projection” 44
5. “Astral Travelling” 47
Conclusions about the “Out-of-Body” Realm 51
A NOTE ON “REINCARNATION” 54
CHAPTER EIGHT 57
True Christian Experiences of Heaven 57
1. The “Location” of Heaven and Hell 57
2. Christian Experiences of Heaven 59
3. Characteristics of the True Experience of Heaven 62
A NOTE ON VISIONS OF HELL 64
CHAPTER NINE 66
The Meaning of Today’s “After-Death ” Experiences 66
1. What do Today’s Experiences “Prove”? 66
2. The Connection with Occultism 67
3. The Occult Teaching of Today’s Investigators 69
4. The “Message” of Today’s “After-Death” Experiences 71
5. The Christian Attitude Towards Death 73
CHAPTER TEN 76
Summary of the Orthodox Teaching on the Fate of the Soul After Death 76
LIFE AFTER DEATH By Archbishop John Maximovitch 76
THE BEGINNING OF SPIRITUAL VISION 78
ENCOUNTERS WITH SPIRITS 78
THE FIRST TWO DAYS AFTER DEATH 78
THE TOLL-HOUSES 80
THE FORTY DAYS 81
THE STATE OF SOULS UNTIL THE LAST JUDGEMENT 81
PRAYER FOR THE DEAD 82
WHAT WE CAN DO FOR THE DEAD 83
THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY 84
APPENDIX I 84
THE ORTHODOX TEACHING OF 84
St. Mark of Ephesus 84
ON THE STATE OF SOULS AFTER DEATH 85
FIRST HOMILY REFUTATION OF THE LATIN CHAPTERS CONCERNING PURGATORIAL FIRE 86
FROM THE SECOND HOMILY AGAINST PURGATORIAL FIRE 91
APPENDIX II 92
Recent Discussion 92
SOME RECENT ORTHODOX RESPONSES TO THE CURRENT DISCUSSION ON LIFE AFTER DEATH 92
The Mystery of Death and the Beyond 92
By Father Ambroise Fontrier Dean of French Orthodox Parishes of the Russian Church Outside of Russia 92
The Great Wager Between Believers and Unbelievers 92
By Photios Kontoglou 92
2. A Return from the Dead in Contemporary Greece 94
By Archimandrite Cyprian Abbot of the Monastery of Sts. Cyprian and Justina, Fili, Greece 94
3. The “Dead” Appear in Contemporary Moscow 95
By Priest Dimitry Dudko 95
APPENDIX III 97
Answer to a Critic 97
1. The “Contradictions” of Orthodox Literature on the Soul after Death 98
2. Is there such a thing as an “out-of-body” experience (whether before or after death), or an “other world” which souls inhabit? 100
3. Does the soul “sleep” after death? 101
4. Are the toll-houses “imaginary”? 103
Conclusion 109
APPENDIX TO THE SECOND EDITION 111
ABOUT THE AUTHOR 115
BIBLIOGRAPHY 118
ORTHODOX SOURCES (IN ENGLISH) 118
ORTHODOX SOURCES (IN RUSSIAN AND SLAVONIC) 120
ORTHODOX SOURCES (IN GREEK) 121
ORTHODOX SOURCES (IN SERBIAN) 121
“AFTER-DEATH” BOOKS; WRITINGS ON OCCULTISM AND SPIRITISM 121
ATTEMPTS AT CHRISTIAN APPROACHES AND EVALUATIONS — MOSTLY EVANGELICAL PROTESTANT 122
RUSSIAN EDITIONS OF THE SOUL AFTER DEATH 123
THE SOUL AFTER DEATH IN OTHER LANGUAGES 123
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