Spiritual Practice - I. LAMA
The rest of the dead didn't live until the thousand years were finished – they fell into other lower worlds, were born in other lower worlds.
And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison, and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war. – After the “thousand-year kingdom of Truth”, the idea of capitalism as a system of organizing society will again take possession of the consciousness of some people, but not for long.
Gog and Magog – means opposition to the divine people.
Fire came down out of heaven from God, and devoured them – a strong energy weapon.
It is a mistake to think that after the completion of the period of the "thousand-year reign of Truth", the Truth on Earth will disappear. No. This is not true. The completion of the “thousand-year kingdom of Truth” does not at all mean the completion of the “kingdom of Truth” as such, in itself. The "Kingdom of Truth" on Earth will remain and will continue until the very end of this kalpa, until the destruction of the universe.
From whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them. – The bardo, an intermediate state between death and the next birth.
I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works. The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works. – The second court. Since the process of death and rebirth itself takes no more than 49 days, no one, of course, lies in a dead state for a whole thousand years. The first (living) live and are reborn as people, either at a distance from the Savior and his kingdom, or in the very kingdom of the Savior, and the second (dead) live and are reborn in hell or in other bad worlds. After a thousand years, they will all be gathered for a second judgment. This episode should also be understood metaphorically. It should not be understood as a one-time event. Each soul in such a long time will have time to go through judgment many times. At every death, the soul goes through this judgment. Sometimes the court justifies them, sometimes not. Souls with bad karma will always willy-nilly drag other souls towards bad karma, and souls with good karma will always try to lift other souls, giving them liberation. This will be continuously repeated, some of the souls as a result of such metempsychosis will be able to enter nirvana. Only very rare souls can be saved in one cycle of creation and destruction (kalpa), so it takes time close to infinity to save all souls. And so the formula "salvation of all souls" is a rather abstract category.
Kitezh (ch. 21)
Chapter 21
I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband. I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, God's dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away."
He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true." He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son. But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb's bride." He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, as if it was a jasper stone, clear as crystal; having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. On the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb. He who spoke with me
