Publisher's Synopsis
Similarly, Nun Theodora told about the paradise of the great saint of God Basil the New, that she was full of glory and had many gardens, gold-leafed and multi-fertile. Saint Theodore was shown in detail paradise by the Angels who directed her. "And I saw," she said, "beautiful villages and numerous monasteries, prepared for those who love God, full of glories and graces. Those who led me showed me separately the monasteries of the apostles, separately prophetic, separately martyrs, separately monasteries of every rank of saints. Each monastery was of unspeakable beauty, in latitude and longitude, to say the same, like the Tsar-hade, but incomparably beautiful, with many bright, not made-up chambers. Everywhere in those monasteries was heard the voice of spiritual joy and merriment, and the faces were celebrated boiling. All seeing me, happy for my salvationThe existence of spirits remains a dark subject for those who did not study Christianity or studied it superficially, by letter, while the Lord Jesus Christ ordered and established the teaching of Christianity and its preaching and observance of the gospel commandments 2 . The Lord commanded the study of Christianity, both theoretical and practical, combined these two studies with an inextricable link, and commanded that theoretical knowledge be sure to follow practical. Without the second, the first has no value before God! Without the second, the first cannot do us any good! 3 - The second serves as a proof of the sincerity of the first, and is crowned with the fall of divine grace 4. The first can be likened to a foundation, the second to a building erected on this basis. A building cannot be erected unless a foundation has been built before, and the establishment of a foundation remains a futile labor unless a building is erected on the foundation. - The results of the human sciences and the way to achieve these results remain inaccessible to the concept of people who were not engaged in science: the results and the way to achieve them in science from sciences, in science descended from heaven, granted to mankind by God, in science that completely changes a person, transforms him from the carnal and the spiritual to the spiritual, to Christianity, all the more they remain inaccessible to those who did not study it legally, in the manner established by God. The foolish demand of some that the results of the study of Christianity