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[Alexandr Korol]

in the world, but not the ones a person who is now in the world of earth or in the underworld might think of. Rather, there are people who live in happiness, and everything works out for them, and they may even be known throughout the whole world. Perhaps it is some unique composer or scientist. Or perhaps it is also some unique person whom we have never even seen. That is, you see, these are physical people, and they simply live on a frequency, that is, in such a range, a rhythm, that it is impossible to intersect with them, but they exist, and they are precisely above. And people look up at them from below, like at stars. That is perhaps why people in show business are called “stars.” And precisely through them God manifests first of all, since they are in God and live in the world of heaven. And further, it is precisely through them that God communicates with everyone, that is, He transmits Himself — I perceive it somehow like that. And that is why people always look upward and strive to go upward. That is, “above” always means, as they say, “not to fall to the bottom,” that one must rise, ascend upward. Always, even in the sacred sense of the word, in the philosophical sense, it has meant “to grow,” therefore one must succeed. There, where it is not dirty, where it is clean, where a person does not crawl, suffer, and is lost, but where he has succeeded and “sits in his Glory.” Further it says, “The idea of the absolute separation of heaven from earth is expressed in several places. When the author of Ecclesiastes proclaims the principle that ‘God is in heaven, and you are on earth,’ he thereby means that heaven is on another level of reality. In the parable of the rich man and Lazarus it speaks of a ‘great chasm,’ across which none can pass from there to us. With these words is emphasized the concept of heaven as an independent space. The images of heaven, as a definite spatial concept, are composed of concrete pictures. About a dozen references to the Throne of God in heaven give it the attributes of royal dignity, pointing simultaneously to the magnificence, the place, and to the authoritative power of God, who governs the world from heaven. Heaven is a majestic house with many inhabitants, prepared by Christ for his followers, which gives us grounds to consider it as a dwelling place. In some passages, given what happens there, worship takes the form of a heavenly temple. But above all, heaven is a city with walls, gates, and streets, a symbol of the community of believers united in worship of God. Strangely enough,