Visit hell or the world of retribution
I was in hell itself
Heaven and Hell. Two cardinal concepts of almost all world religions. How many people brought up in a religious spirit were frightened by the prospect of ending up in hell after death! These fears of unknown retribution were skillfully speculated by many wicked ministers of all churches and religions … But does it really exist, is this retribution?..
In addition to religion, philosophy and literature, the problem of hell suddenly surfaced in thanatology, becoming a part of the clinical experience of resuscitation. Probably everyone knows that people who survived clinical death during their "disembodied" sensations experienced unearthly bliss and could see truly heavenly pictures. The impressions of the unearthly beauty they saw were such that many of them did not want to return to the earthly plane, despite the efforts of the doctors. However, in addition to "heavenly visions" experienced by most people who have been on the brink of death, resuscitators are also aware of cases of "hellish" impressions.
German actor K. Jurgens, who experienced clinical death during a complex operation, recalls his feelings: “In the operating room, I looked at a large glass dome. He began to change. And suddenly it turned into a hot red. I saw the twirling and grimacing faces looking at me … I honestly tried to fight and protect myself … After that it began to seem that the glass dome was turning into a transparent vault, which slowly began to descend on me. A fiery rain poured down, however, even though the drops were huge, not one touched me. They fell all around me, and formidable tongues of flame rose from them. I could no longer be mistaken and not see the horrifying truth: there is no doubt that the faces of the rulers of this fiery world were the faces of the damned. I was desperate, feeling incredibly lonely and abandoned. The horror I experienced was so greatthat I almost suffocated. Clearly, I was in hell itself."
Another such case of "hellish" visions occurred with a housewife from Rhode Island, when she was still under anesthesia after surgery on the gallbladder. The doctor who treated her said that when the patient regained consciousness after anesthesia, her first words were: "I thought I was dead, that I was in hell." She said this several times with her eyes wide open with horror. After the doctor calmed her down, she told him about her stay in hell - how the devil wanted to take her away. Her story was interspersed with a listing of her sins and what people think of her. Her fear increased, and the nurses could hardly restrain her in the supine position. She became almost insane and the doctor had to call her mother to the hospital to try to calm her down. The patient believed that God was punishing her for her sins, especially since she had a long-standing feeling of guilt over her extramarital affairs …
It is curious that if the majority of "returned from the afterlife" patients experienced heavenly visions, then cases of "hellish" impressions are much less common. Does this mean that it is easier to survive after clinical death for those who sinned little and therefore received "support from above" at a critical moment in their lives, while "candidates for hell" were deprived of this divine help?
Of course, the “hellish visions” that appeared before patients in an altered state of consciousness as a result of anesthesia does not mean at all that people who experienced them will certainly end up in hell after their death. Each of us has committed one or another unseemly act in life, but not all of them lead a person to the most terrible layers of the astral world, called hell in religions. It's just that sometimes spontaneous and uncontrolled exits of the subtle body to the astral plane are able to transfer the consciousness of people to the lower spheres of the astral plane. But this does not mean at all that it is precisely in these areas that he will be destined to get after his death.
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What are these spheres and where did the formidable and terrible world of retribution, called hell, appear in the other world, created by shining, luminous, subtle matter?
In the lower astral
The astral world is, in general, the world of light: it is created from luminous rarefied matter. However, the lower layers of the astral plane are deprived of light, since the souls of vicious and evil people, criminals and scoundrels live there - they do not have light in their matter. Agni Yoga says that all people themselves form the structure of their subtle bodies with the help of the energy of thoughts: altruistic, sublime thoughts, which are supported by appropriate actions, attract light energies into a person's aura, which make his subtle bodies pure and luminous. And on the contrary, thoughts of anger, greed, envy create vortices of negative, prickly currents in space, filling subtle bodies with heavy, low-vibration energy.
After death, the subtle-material complex of a person occupies a place in the astral plane of the Earth that corresponds to his energy: the astral body, burdened with negative karma of bad thoughts and actions, passes into the lower, twilight, heavy layers of the astral world, and light, pure souls soar up to the higher layers, or a sphere of the Subtle World.
Each layer, or plane, of space has seven sub-planes, the conditions of which differ from each other in the purity and spirituality of the energies that fill such layers. In the lower strata, the energies are more primitive, coarser, and in the higher ones - purer and more sublime. Accordingly, the souls of spiritually undeveloped people are in the lower strata of the Subtle World. The higher spheres are available to souls who have developed spirituality and creative abilities that carry light, high energies. “The whole mechanics of certain layers of the astral world lies in the fact that thought creates its forms and these forms become reality for the spirit that creates them. This is one of the many conditions of human existence in the Supermundane. There are others.
For example, there are spheres where their content is a form that was not created by the creative imagination of an ordinary person, just as seas, mountains, forests and rivers and the Earth itself are not created by man. In these spheres, a person can also create, as he creates on the earthly plane and in the conditions created for him by nature, decorating these spheres. There are also spheres where there are not decorators, but disfigurers of things. These are the lower spheres of the astral plane. And the matter of these spheres is different, differing from the higher spheres in its composition, mobility and luminosity.
The Higher Worlds of the Cosmos - Mental and Fiery - are filled with harmonious, high vibration energies. In these worlds there are no imperfections at all, there are only different stages of an even greater spiritual ascent. But this cannot be said about the astral world. Astral is closest to physical; it represents the most imperfect plan of the Subtle World. And if the highest layers of the astral plane are similar to the higher worlds in their perfection, purity and spirituality, then the lower layers of the astral world are in the full sense of the word hell - the very hell that is spoken of in religious teachings.
Where did the layer called hell come from in the Astral? One should not think that hell was created by some natural forces, especially God, in revenge on humanity. Even the layers of the astral plane closest to the earth were not hellish in their original nature. These spheres were made by their inhabitants - the souls of people who come to another world after death and bring there all their moral flaws. It was the souls weighed down with vices and their receptacles - the astral bodies - that filled the lower spheres of the astral with their negative energy, turning them into a real hell. The lowest "hellish" layers are considered not by their location in space, but by the quality of the energy that fills them. The existence in these layers is really terrible, and, moreover, the energy of the lower astral plane is much heavier than the darkest, most damned places on Earth. In earthly life, villains and sinners live in the midst of ordinary people, which inevitably “dilutes” the energetic effect on their auras. In the Subtle World, however, there is no such confusion - all its inhabitants live in the layers of space strictly delimited among themselves. It is not difficult to imagine what kind of energy a layer of space has, filled with the souls of some murderers, thieves, haters and other people with burdened karma.
“Ardent, spiteful souls and souls, who lived only by sensual pleasures, suffer greatly from the impossibility of satisfying their anger and passions,” Helena Roerich wrote about this. - They literally burn in the flame of their passions. It is they who are, for the most part, obsessed and night whispers. They are not able to ascend to higher spheres, for the mere approach of such an inhabitant to them causes them suffering, and their tissues begin to decompose from the touch of purer fluids. And the painfulness of such burns of the subtle body exceeds bodily suffering. The horrors of the lower strata of the Astral world defy description, but it is better not to dwell on them, so as not to intensify them and not burden oneself with such mental images”. (From a letter to Helena Roerich dated 13.08.38.)
What prevents the captives of hell from escaping from it into the higher and purer layers of the Subtle World? All the same single law of the Cosmos: the law of energy correspondence. If the dark, subtle body of a murderer or an evil person, saturated with negative energy, wanted to ascend to the lighter layers of space at will, it would immediately be scorched by the pure energy of the higher spheres of space; the astral shells of the prisoners of hell filled with dense, low-vibration energies cannot stand the touch of the pure, luminous energies of the higher layers of the astral world.
N. Kovaleva
