The passage into eternal life and the separation of the soul from the body in the Christian hymnographers’ thinking
The passage into eternal life and the separation of the soul from the body in the Christian hymnographers’ thinking

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

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