Доказательство воскресения тел человеческих, заимствованное из действия умной молитвы

In a secluded, little-known, insignificant monastery, standing between forests and swamps, there lived a certain monk. With fear, with distrust of himself, with examination of the writings of the Fathers, he delved into prayer, performed with the mind in the depths and secrets of the spiritual cage. One day a monk stood in the church, deepening his mind into his heart, and the heart suddenly moved prayerfully to the mind, and with it drew the whole body into a sacred, spiritual state, inexpressible in words, surpassing all passions, comprehended by experience alone. When the monk saw such an extraordinary, new state of his body, then his mind was illuminated with mysterious knowledge. The words of Saint John of the Climacus, which had hitherto seemed mysterious and strange, were explained to him, who says: “I cried with all my heart” (Ps. 119:145), that is, with body, soul and mind” 322. This is the proof that I have within myself of the resurrection of human bodies! If the body is capable of spiritual sensations, if it can, together with the soul, participate in grace-filled consolation; if it can now become a partaker of grace, then how can it not be resurrected to eternal life, according to the teaching of Scripture? The bodies of the saints of God were salted by grace, and corruption could not touch them! By victory over corruption they had already begun their resurrection; exuding healing, they prove the grace present in them and the eternal life living in them, which must in due time be developed in the glorious resurrection, intended and given to humanity by our Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Ladder, Homily 28, ch. 61. You might be interested in: