Note that in the conditions of “leather robes” – death-birth from the second phase to the third phase – is a natural process (a process that occurs in nature, not in hypostasis; therefore, actions in nature are symbols, images by which the Church points to the Resurrection – actions above nature, above natural, hypostatic), which fortunately does not affect the Hypostasis if it is in the Holy Spirit and lives not by nature, but by a super-natural life, that is, by other Hypostases. Like the one who is healthy (= Loves and Loves), does not think about nature (“body” and “soul”), but simply madly loves, so too, the one who has resurrected, lives by God’s Love and does not pay attention (because he lives not by nature, not immersed in natural processes, but by hypostatic communion with Other Hypostases) to the natural processes of healthy (resurrected) being.
All other Hypostases in the second phase do not reach fullness (they continue to grow to the full growth of Christ in the third phase) – therefore they experience discomfort from staying in the second phase, where they, learning hypostatic being, must guard the being, which by God’s grace, for the salvation of people, is changeable and treacherous (“leather robes” – see Part I). Therefore, the path to resurrection is paved, it is already possible to resurrect in the second phase, although it is still necessary to undergo the being’s metamorphosis of transition from the second phase to the third phase… Let us hasten to be Happy…
The Church, when theologizing about human nature, never talks about the soul and body as different substances, as components (which, in principle, according to the teachings of the pagans, can be thought of and exist separately, which supposedly happens in death!?) of human nature – but only as about hypostasis, personality, and about human nature. And when it supposedly talks about the body separately, about the soul separately, the separation (detachment) of the soul from the body, then we must understand that the Church is quoting pagans (undeclared), addressing them in their conceptual language; proclaiming to them (pagans) the Gospel in terms understandable and usual for them (“to all he became all, to save at least some” – see Part I). For the Church, there are no “dogs” and “pigs”, in front of whom one cannot throw pearls, who have no right to enter “behind the veil”, who cannot hear the fullness of the revelation about the Kingdom of God! The Church is in a hurry to announce “the whole will of God” to every person! But to each in a language understandable to him (the recipient). Thus, formally the Church seems to speak about the soul and the body in the understanding of separate (different) substances, but, if you listen carefully, what essence She puts into these words (verbal forms: “body” and “soul”), then it becomes clear that there is no talk of substances (“body” – this is the integrity of the entire being, and “soul” – this is life, – and both these words indicate “I”, hypostasis – see above). The Apostle Paul, for example, in his letters cites heretical expressions of opponents, with whom he conducts a discussion (polemic). Many do not know this, and take these heretical expressions and quote them as expressions of the position, knowledge of the Apostle Paul!? Let’s take, for example, the First Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians, in which there are fragments built in the form of a dialogue: expression, the thesis of opponents (in this passage – Corinthian so-called liberals, who misunderstood freedom in Christ, about which the apostle spoke a lot – see, for example, the Epistle to the Galatians, which exegetes call – “The Gospel of Freedom”) – the apostle’s antithesis, which refutes the false thoughts of the Corinthians:
– Everything is permitted to me! (“liberals”)
– But not everything is beneficial. (ap. Paul)
– Everything is permitted to me! (“liberals”)
– But nothing should have power over me. (ap. Paul)
– Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food, but God will destroy both. (“liberals”)
– The body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. God raised the Lord, will raise us by His power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Therefore, taking the members of Christ, shall I make them members of a harlot? Absolutely not! Do you not know that he who unites with a harlot becomes one body with her? For it is said: “The two will become one flesh.” And he who unites with the Lord is one spirit with the Lord. Avoid fornication! (ap. Paul)
– Every sin that a man commits is outside the body! (“liberals”)
– But the fornicator sins against his own body. Do you not know that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price. Therefore, glorify God in your bodies and in your souls, which are God’s! (ap. Paul)
Pay attention to the great danger for the spiritual life of a person who accepts the heretical theses of the “liberals” as the teaching of the Church, which supposedly the Apostle Paul preaches! Also pay attention to the terms, which the opponents use: Corinthians use the word “body” in the understanding of substance (as the grave of the soul – see above), and the Apostle Paul – in the understanding of hypostasis, an integral personality (body = me, he, she). If you are interested in this issue (or the interpretation of this letter) in more detail – communicate with Archimandrite Januarius (or correspondence via e-mail). Therefore, let’s be careful not to attribute to the Church (to our own destruction) the teaching (and in this case, the teaching about Man), against which it fights, which it rejects as heretical!