At what time does the soul take possession of a child? The souls of the dead are looking for new bodies
At the same time, as everyone understands, the key to understanding the problem is the question - when does the soul appear in the embryo, i.e. From what moment can he be considered a full-fledged person? The traditional point of view of the Russian Orthodox Church, as well as the Vatican, on this issue is from the moment of conception, which, by the way, differs from the position, for example, of the same Muslims or Jews. Judaists, for example, believe that the soul of an embryo appears on the 40th day after conception, Muslims - on the 120th. However, the position of Christians on this issue has always seemed unshakable to me, although it raised some questions - for example, if a person’s soul arises at the moment of conception, then what happens to it when, say, an embryo divides at an early stage of development and twins are formed. I must say that I am a believer, however, I do not consider myself a great specialist in the field of theology, and therefore I have always listened in this regard to the position of the church fathers, who, by virtue of their “profession,” should know and understand this issue much better than I, and I'm used to trusting the opinions of professionals.
However, I recently came across an extremely interesting essay on the Internet. Its topic lies outside the scope of IVF - it is the church’s attitude towards abortion; However, the author, while exploring the problem, for obvious reasons, inevitably comes up against the question of the moment of the appearance of a soul in a person. And the author devotes most of his material to this issue. The bottom line is that not everything is so clear in the position of Christians on this issue. There is numerous evidence that, according to apologists of religion, the soul in the embryo appears at a certain stage of its development. The current position of the church on this issue, as on many others, is the “officialdom” of today. In my opinion, the author proves this quite convincingly. However, I repeat, I am not a theological specialist; in any case, I clearly understand that my knowledge on this issue is much more modest than that of the author, so I will neither argue nor agree with him, but invite you to form your own opinion on this issue (material below). I highlighted in bold those points that I consider especially successful in proving the opinion expressed by the author.
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Evgeny Kadosov. HUMAN FETUS AT AN EARLY STAGE. Theological understanding
In Orthodox literature, one often reads polemics regarding women committing artificial abortions (or, simply put, abortions). It is clear that the sinfulness of this act cannot be questioned by Christians. The more interesting question, however, lies elsewhere: when does the formation of human personality occur in the womb and from what moment does the human fetus become a person? Opponents of abortion very often argue their position by arguing that the fetus is a full-fledged human person from the moment of conception. Consequently, they argue, termination of pregnancy, even at an early stage, is murder, and mothers who commit it are subject to murderer's penance. However, this question is far from so clear from the point of view of Orthodox Tradition.
1) Canonical aspects
Supporters of the opinion that even an unformed embryo is a full-fledged human personality like to refer to the second canonical rule of St. Basil the Great, which, among other things, says: " Anyone who intentionally destroys a fetus conceived in the womb is subject to the penalty of murder. We do not have a subtle distinction between a fruit that is formed or one that is not yet formed."However, they usually do not quote the rule in full, and yet it goes on to explain why St. Basil does not make this distinction: " For here punishment is imposed not only for having been born, but also for slandering oneself: since wives very often die from such attempts. With this comes the destruction of the fetus, like another murder, from those who deliberately dare to do this."That is, the point is that during an abortion there is an attempt at two murders, not one: firstly, the fetus, and secondly, endangering the life of the mother herself, because many women die from abortions (as is known, suicide is one of the gravest sins in Christianity, and an attempt on his life is no less a sin than an attempt to kill a fetus.) This is more clearly evidenced by the text of his eighth rule, also related to the problem under discussion:
Also, if someone gives someone a secret drug to drink (even if it was for some other reason) and kills them, we recognize such a person as a free killer. This is often done by wives, attempting to use certain charms and enchantments to attract others to love them, and giving them medicinal compounds that darken their minds. Although such, having caused death, did not do what they intended: however, for magic and forbidden activities, they are considered free killers. Therefore, those who give medicine for the eruption of what is conceived in the womb are murderers, and they also accept infanticidal poisons.
This canon adds a third aspect: "magic". After all, abortions at that time were done by “making lethal potions,” which automatically made a person a murderer. It is for the above reasons (risk of suicide and magic) that St. Vasily awards penance to a free killer for abortion of an unformed fetus. The famous canonist Bishop. Nicodemus (Milash), interpreting the second rule of St. Basil the Great, writes: " A wife who kills a fetus conceived in the womb is condemned on the same basis as a murderer, firstly for killing the fetus, and secondly for exposing herself to mortal danger, since women for the most part die from this themselves"
Other canons (21st canon of the Council of Ancyra, 91st canon of the Trullo Council) also subject abortionists to the penance of murderers, but do not go into detail.
2) Patristic views
The question of whether an embryo is a person was raised in the Old Testament.
There is one important passage in the book of Exodus: " When people fight and they hit a pregnant woman and she has a miscarriage, but there is no other harm, then take from the guilty the penalty that the woman’s husband imposes on him, and he must pay it through intermediaries; and if there is harm, then give soul for soul"(Ex. 21:22-23). It seems that the status of the embryo is not mentioned here. However, the problem is that in the Russian text of the Bible there is an inaccurate translation. In the Slavic text (and, accordingly, the Septuagint, which it follows ) this passage reads like this: " If two husbands fight and smite the wife without idleness, and her child comes forth undisguised, let it be vanity: if the husband lays on that wife, let him give it back accordingly. If he is depicted, let him give soul for soul"That is, the logic of the rule is as follows: if the baby already has the appearance of a person ("depicted"), then the person responsible for his death will be tried for murder, and if not, then a much less severe punishment will be imposed. Obviously, the author of the book of Exodus considers only formed fruit. This is confirmed by Blessed Theodoret of Cyrus: “The Church, submissive to the words of God, especially abhors this teaching of heretics, turns away from fables and other false teachers and, believing the Divine Scripture, says that the soul was created together with the body and does not have the beginning of its creation in the material seed, but by the will of the Creator it comes into being according to formation of the body. For the divine Moses said that first the body of Adam was created, and then God breathed into the soul. He took dust from the ground, and God created man, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life: and man became a living soul (Gen. 2:7 We do not call this inspiration with Cerdon and Marcion any part of the Divine essence - we affirm that this signifies the nature of the soul, namely that the soul is a rational and thinking spirit. And in the laws this same prophet taught us even more clearly that first the body is formed, and then the soul is inhaled, for he said about the one who struck the pregnant woman: If the child comes out depicted, let it be eye for eye, tooth for tooth, etc. But if it comes out not depicted, let it be lost in vanity (Ex. 21:22-24) , and this teaches that a baby formed in the womb is animate, and an unformed one is not animate. So Job, worthy of all praise, spoke to the Lord: Remember how you created me into clay, but again you return me to the earth. Or have you not crushed me like milk, have you strewed me like cheese? You clothed me with skin and flesh, and sewed me together with bones and sinews (Job 10:9-11). And, having shown by this the previous formation of the body, he then added a song about the animation of the body, for he says: Thou hast laid down life and mercy with me (12); After this he also mentions guardianship: Thy visitation preserves my spirit (12); then he preaches God’s omnipotence: Having this in You, we know that You can do all things, and nothing is possible for You (13). God honored the body with this advantage in time in order to establish equality. Since He created the soul immortal and the body mortal, He gave the body seniority in time, so that the soul would not be magnified before it, having superiority both in nature and in time.”(Abridged Exposition of Divine Dogmas, 9. About Man).
The theological basis in this case is the iconographic argument. Only that which has an image can be a person person. Accordingly, a creature that does not outwardly have a human appearance is not a person. The ideal image of a person, of course, is Our Lord Jesus Christ incarnate, and “humanity” can be measured by proximity to this image. St. Theodore the Studite, one of the pillars of the doctrine of icon veneration, writes in full agreement with the previous fathers: “Of course, it is true that the image of Christ was in Him as a prototype even before it was received through art. After all, that which has not yet received an image at all is not a person, but some kind of bastard, and, of course, nothing can be called a prototype if it does not have an image on the substance transferred from it.”
And further: “To say that the Lord created me means the same thing as to say that the Lord gave me an outline. If, because it is not written, “The Lord created me,” or “The Lord clothed me with a body,” it cannot be said that He did not do this, then in the same way - due to what is written - the Lord created me - everyone who wants to think correctly should understand in the same way that He gave me the outline. For creation is even for those who little is understood, there is a property of limitation and outline."(Anti-heretics 3.9).
The Western fathers were also in complete agreement with the Eastern fathers. St. Augustine, in his interpretation of Exodus, argues that the human soul cannot exist in an unformed body. Before taking on the form of a human being, the embryo has only a plant or animal soul; Accordingly, abortion at an early stage is not murder. “It (Scripture), therefore, does not extend the concept of murder to the unformed embryo, for certainly that which is still in the womb cannot be considered a person...
If the embryo is still formless, but already has a soul (for the big question about the soul cannot be discarded by a quick judgment), then the Law cannot be extended to murder, for the living soul in what is given to you has no feelings if that which is not yet in the flesh formed and therefore not endowed with feelings."
(On Exodus 21:22-25).
St. Jerome follows Augustine
: “The seed gradually takes shape in the womb, and its abortion cannot be considered murder until the individual elements and limbs have acquired an external outline.”. (Letters 121, 4).
This position was adopted by the Western Church, becoming part of the famous Decree of Gratian. Summarizing the views of his predecessors, St. Thomas Aquinas in the 1200s writes that immediately after conception the embryo has only a plant soul, which is then replaced by an animal soul and, finally, when the fetus takes on the shape of a person, it has a rational soul: “The plant soul, which appears first when the embryo lives the life of a plant, disappears and is replaced by a more perfect soul, nourishing and sensitive, and then the fruit lives an animal life; when it disappears, it is replaced by a rational soul brought by God.”
(On the Truth of the Catholic Faith, Book II, Ch. 89).
It is worth mentioning that the doctrine of "gradual humanization" described above was established as a dogma of the Catholic Church by the Council of Vienna in 1312 and was never officially rejected by the Vatican.
3) Platonism and Aristotelianism in anthropology
The root of the misunderstanding of this problem lies in the uncritical perception of Plato's philosophical doctrine.
According to Plato, the body is the “prison of the soul,” that is, the main essence of the human personality is in the soul, and not in the aggregate “soul + body.” Consequently, if the soul is given to the embryo at the moment of conception, then from that moment the person exists as a full-fledged hypostasis, even if the body of the embryo has not yet formed. It should be noted that, despite the enormous value of Plato's philosophy as a whole and its influence on patristic theology, many of its aspects gave rise to a number of heresies, and as such it was ultimately condemned at the Council of Constantinople in 1076 (Council of John Itallus).
In contrast to Platonic philosophy, Aristotle's system does not contrast the body with the soul. The soul is “entelechy,” that is, the formative principle of the body. The body is not something external to the soul, but is formed according to the ideal principle inherent in the soul. In other words, our body for us is not a random vessel in which the soul is placed (much like wine can be poured into a glass of any shape), but the shape of our body, facial features, structure, etc., that distinguishes one human personality from another , are such precisely because a given person has precisely this soul, and not another. The body reveals to the outside what the soul hides within itself. It is not for nothing that a person’s face can be used to determine to a certain extent his spiritual qualities, and our passions always “manifest themselves outwardly”: if a person falls into mortal sins, then this is reflected in his appearance, just as when, on the contrary, he spends time in repentance and cleansing. Unlike Plato's philosophy, Aristotle's system as such was never condemned by the Church, but, on the contrary, was the basis of Christian scholasticism, both in the East (St. John of Damascus) and in the West (St. Thomas Aquinas).
Those who claim that man is a person from the moment of conception, consciously or unconsciously accept the Platonic, rather than the Aristotelian, paradigm, and, accordingly, go against the Patristic Tradition. If the hypostasis of a person is identified with the spiritual principle (soul), then the body is something external for the hypostasis. Hence the soul can pre-exist the body (as Origen taught), or the Hypostasis of the Logos in Christ is identified with the “spirit” (Appolinarius of Laodicea). Disputes about which is formed first - the soul or the body - also arise for this reason. In this regard, patristic theology says, in contrast to Origenism, that the soul is formed together with the body, but what is important here is not so much the “time of formation” as the awareness of the fact that the soul and body are not two substances independent of each other that are mechanically combined with each other, even if they are formed at the same moment in time. Neither the body is separable from the soul, nor the soul from the body. This connection is not broken even at the moment of physical death - the Orthodox tradition of venerating holy relics teaches this. And the life of the next century for people will continue in resurrected bodies, and not in the form of a purely “spiritual existence.” And these bodies will resemble those that were on earth, but transformed. We can only guess what they will be like in reality, but it is clear that for saints and righteous people they will be beautiful, and for unrepentant sinners they will be ugly and repulsive.
The human hypostasis, however (as opposed to the Platonists), is not equal to the soul alone, but includes the fullness of human nature: the spiritualized soul and body. Accordingly, until the body has developed sufficiently to display the image of a person, it is theologically incorrect to talk about a full-fledged human personality. An unfinished house that has not yet taken the shape of a house cannot be said to be a house, even if it is completely designed on paper. On the contrary, when it already has windows, doors and a roof, it is a house, even if the inside is not yet finished.
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Modern polemics: article by abbot Theognost (Pushkov)
To more clearly illustrate the views presented above, let us take an article by hieromonk (now abbot) Theognost (Pushkov). The work we are considering is called “Orthodox Anthropology on Human Conception,” and it is devoted to clarifying the question of from what moment the embryo is a human person. O. Theognost is convinced that the embryo becomes such from the moment of conception. How does he argue for this?
First of all, what is striking is the fact that Fr. The holy abbot completely ignores numerous patristic statements on this topic. Moreover, the problematic of Ex. 21:22 and the interpretations of the holy fathers on this place are not affected by them at all. The only one he indirectly mentions in this regard is Blessed Theodoret of Cyrus, but here Fr. Theognostus gets off with the argument that the latter is crypto-Nestorian. This remark may be true, but above we have exhaustively shown that not only blessed. Theodoret, but also a whole host of both Western and Eastern fathers from various eras, agree that a person becomes a person only after the formation of a fetus in the womb. They also do not provide any direct words from other fathers regarding the fact that a person is a person from the moment of conception. The main burden of Father Theognost's argument falls on the episode of the Annunciation. He writes, for example, the following: " In Christology, the doctrine of the unity of the Hypostasis of Christ is very important. There is no human hypostasis in Him, because from the very first moment of the emergence of human life, this life was the life of God incarnate!".
We can only agree with this. However, the question arises: what then does the incarnation of Christ have to do with the question of the status of the human fetus in the early stages of pregnancy? After all, in Christ 1) There was no human hypostasis 2) There was no actual fertilization of the male seed, from which the embryo then develops. There was a mysterious descent of the Holy Spirit on the Virgin Mary, there was an acceptance by the eternal Word, the Second Hypostasis of the Most Holy Trinity of human nature (but not hypostasis!). The Conception of Christ in this regard is a supernatural thing, an exception from the general series, and in no way can be compared with ordinary human reproduction.
Christ, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, existed and exists forever. There was no birth at the moment of the Annunciation new human personality, but the pre-eternally existing Hypostasis of the Logos took on human flesh. Christ existed hypostatically both 100 and a thousand years before the incarnation, but other people receive personal existence only with the emergence and development of the body. This difference is what St. John of Damascus means when he says the following about the Annunciation: “Then the Son of God, the hypostatic Wisdom and Power of the Most High God, consubstantial with the Father, overshadowed her, as it were, the Divine seed, and from her immaculate and purest blood he formed for himself the firstfruits of our composition - flesh, animated by a thinking and rational soul - not through fertilization by seed, but creatively, through the Holy Spirit. Moreover, the human image was not formed through gradual increments, but was immediately completed."(Accurate Statement of the Orthodox Faith 3.2).
That is, in the case of normal reproduction, the human personality develops gradually. This process begins at the moment of fertilization and ends when the embryo acquires the appearance of a person. Christ, initially and eternally, having all the hypostatic properties, at the moment of incarnation takes on human flesh, remaining the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity. The mechanism of seedless conception will, of course, forever remain a mystery to us. However, it is worth remembering that there was no traditional “fertilization of the egg” (and in general the male seed), so the stage corresponding to the “unformed embryo” in this case could be absent altogether.
However, the key argument of Fr. Theognostos is the following statement: "" There is no nature without hypostasis,” and therefore that which is in the womb from the very first moment of “emergence” or “conception” has its own hypostasis. And this is the hypostasis of man". It is true, according to the patristic teaching (set forth, for example, by Saint Basil the Great in his letters) nature does not exist without hypostasis. But at the same time, the opposite statement is also true: hypostasis also cannot exist without nature. And human nature consists, according to Orthodox teaching, from the rational soul and body. Moreover, the body must have the image of a person, according to the iconographic argument of St. Theodore the Studite. If this image does not exist, then in a strict sense it is impossible to speak about the nature of man and, accordingly, about the human hypostasis.
Other absurdities arise from this. For example, opponents quite correctly point out about. Theognost on the fact that during conception a large number of fertilized embryos die. If the embryo is a person from the moment of conception, then it turns out that with each such act dozens of micromurders occur? Father Superior dismisses this argument as follows: " Well, okay, many embryos die on their own, so what? In the Middle Ages there was a high infant mortality rate, and now its relapses are taking place. So what? Death, as a tragedy of our kind, has entered the world, and we are not to blame for it"However, comparison with infant mortality and death in general as a tragedy of the human race is incorrect here. People were not directly to blame for the high infant mortality rate: it was precisely the general consequence of the Fall and our imperfection. The development of science and technology has largely solved this problem. However, the death of embryos is a direct consequence of certain human actions: if there had been no sexual intercourse, then these inevitable(!) deaths would not have happened. But who put sexual desire into a person, forcing him to necessarily reproduce in this way? God. It turns out if follow the logic of Father Theognostus, then it is God who is responsible for the death of many human personalities, which occurs with every copulation of a man and a woman...
5) Practical and ethical considerations
The most important thing to note in connection with the above is that although termination of pregnancy in the early stages is not murder, it still remains a mortal sin, as noted in the canons of the Orthodox Church (2nd rights of Basil the Great and others). The motive for writing this article was not to “justify abortion”, but to refute the false theological premises on the basis of which the fetus is considered a human person before formation. Conscious abortion is unacceptable for a Christian, and its commission should entail appropriate canonical and disciplinary sanctions from the pastors of the Church.
However, other points are of interest. Thus, very often among Orthodox Christians it is customary to distinguish between “abortive” and “non-abortive” means of contraception. At the same time, abortifacients are rejected on the grounds that they lead to murder, while non-abortives, on the contrary, are considered “permissible.” We showed above that the death of an unformed embryo is not murder, and therefore, in principle, there is no difference between “abortive” and “non-abortive” contraceptives. However, something else is important: how acceptable are these means in the life of a Christian? Even if abortion at an early stage is not murder, it was still never considered acceptable by the Fathers of the Church. Sinfulness here lies in resisting the Divine will, in preventing new life from entering this world. The position of the Catholic Church, which generally prohibits any type of contraception other than “natural”, is more theologically consistent on this issue than the views of some Orthodox authors.
A more complex issue is “abortion for medical reasons,” that is, surgical intervention leading to the death of the fetus if the life of the mother is threatened. In cases where the embryo has not yet acquired human shape, the admissibility of the operation cannot be questioned. For abortion at a late stage, undertaken to save the life of the mother, the corresponding words from the “Fundamentals of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church” (XII, 2) are quite applicable: "In cases where there is a direct threat to the life of the mother during the continuation of pregnancy, especially if she has other children, it is recommended to show leniency in pastoral practice. A woman who terminates a pregnancy in such circumstances is not excommunicated from Eucharistic communion with the Church, but this communion is conditioned by the fulfillment of it is a personal penitential prayer rule, which is determined by the priest receiving confession."
Recently, the issue of artificial termination of ectopic pregnancy, which is a special case of abortion for medical reasons, has become a special subject of discussion. Rupture of the fallopian tubes, which is often fatal for a woman, usually occurs at the end of the second month of pregnancy, that is, just before the beginning of the period when the embryo begins to take on human shape. Consequently, from the point of view of Orthodox anthropology, surgical intervention in this case will not constitute murder and, accordingly, is morally and theologically justified. The life of a mother here is of incomparably greater value.
When does a soul enter a child's body? The answer to this question that interests many people is currently debatable. Different religions talk about different dates. But for the most part, they recognize that the personality of man, who is God’s creation, is not limited to just following physical laws, that man always remains a mystery and cannot be defined, like his soul. Versions regarding when the soul enters the body of a child - in Orthodoxy, Islam and Judaism - will be outlined below.
Immortal substance
In accordance with religious and part of philosophical teachings, the soul is a kind of immaterial entity, an immortal substance. It expresses both the divine nature and the human essence and personality. It gives rise to and determines the life of an individual, his ability to sense, think, consciousness, feelings, and will. All this, as a rule, is opposed to the body. The question of when the soul enters the body of a child has worried the minds of, in particular, Greek and Christian religious philosophers since ancient times.
Three options
In this regard, three theories of the origin of the human soul have been formed in Christianity:
- Pre-existence of the soul.
- God's creation of the soul at the very moment of conception.
- The birth of a child's soul from the souls of its parents.
The first theory is a doctrine that began to be preached by the Pythagoreans (6-4 centuries BC), and then by Plato (5-4 centuries BC) and the Greek Christian theologian Origen (3rd century). It says that initially the Creator created a certain number of individual souls. That is, even before they appeared on Earth. This view was completely rejected by the Christian Church at the V Ecumenical Council. Two other teachings that deal with when the soul enters the body of a child will be discussed below.
Supporters of the remaining theories
So, there are two theories left. Proponents of the first, which speaks of God's creation of the soul at the moment of conception, were, in particular, Clement of Alexandria (2nd-3rd centuries) and John Chrysostom (4th-5th centuries). The doctrine that the souls of children are born from parental souls was developed, for example, by Tertullian (2nd-3rd centuries) and Gregory of Nyssa (4th century).
However, in both cases, reasonable questions arise: “When and how does the soul enter the child’s body? Is it created or is it born simultaneously with the birth of the body? Or does it appear after his appearance after a certain time?
Opinion of Gregory Sinaite
Proponents of the theory that the soul is created by God say the following. The question is posed: “What appears first - the body or the soul?” The Orthodox saint Gregory of Sinai (13th-14th centuries) gave a classical answer characteristic of Orthodoxy. Its essence is that it will be wrong to think about the soul that came before the body.
It is also wrong to believe that the body appeared without a soul. That is, the soul and body develop together, and not gradually and in parallel. More precisely, a person simultaneously develops in the soul and in the body. Thus, Orthodoxy interprets the answer to the question of when the soul enters a child as follows: “At the moment of conception.”
Understanding Clement of Alexandria
Clement of Alexandria says that the soul enters the mother's womb, which through purification is prepared for conception. When the seed is ejected, the Spirit enters it and contributes to the formation of the fruit. Therefore, the barren are also such until the soul, which creates the basis of the seed, penetrates into the substance that interferes with conception and birth.
As can be seen, Clement of Alexandria is of the opinion that the soul is brought in from the outside. However, conception itself is evidence that the “embryo” is animate. “Penetration” of the soul into the mother’s womb relates specifically to the moment of conception, and not to another, later time. Without such “penetration” into the seed of the soul, it would remain dead and not give life.
Adam's mother soul
The opinion of supporters of the theory about the birth of children's souls from their parents looks like this. If we proceed from the fact that the soul is a corporeal being and is inextricably linked with the body, then it is clearly clear that the origin of the soul and body is the same and at the same time. Since the soul does not have the same nature with God, only his breath is present, its conception occurs by the power of man along with the body of the child. This is due to the fact that not only bodies, but also souls with their desires take part in the act of conception.
The consequence of the act is a twofold result: a seed is obtained, which is both physical and mental. Such seeds are initially completely mixed with each other, and then gradually from them, through the assistance of God and angels, a person appears in the womb of the mother. Just as one body comes from another, so one soul comes from another. And the soul of the first man - Adam - is the mother soul of all the others, and the soul of Eve also came from his soul.
In Islam
What does Islam say about when a child gets a soul? Interpreters of this religion believe that human life is in his blood. When a person dies, his blood comes to a state of rest. Life is a series of biochemical reactions occurring in each of the cells of the human body. It begins during conception in the embryo. But at the same time there is such a mysterious element as the soul, which in Islam is called “ruh”, and there is very little knowledge about it.
Life is present even in the sperm and in the egg when they are still in the male and female body, respectively, that is, even before fertilization. However, they do not contain soul (ruh). Thus, before the child appears in the mother's womb, he does not have a soul. On what day does a soul enter a child?
According to Muslim scholars, human life begins after the 4th lunar month of conception. It is then that the fetus becomes viable, that is, it is worthy of life. The Islamic theologian Ibn Abbas (7th century) said that the injection of spirit is carried out within ten days after the end of the 4-month period.
If the fetus dies before the specified period, then the funeral prayer (Janaza) for it is not read. The process of inflating the soul concerns only humans; animals do not have the spirit.
Where is the soul?
According to the saying of the Prophet Muhammad, each person is created in the mother's womb for 40 days, having the appearance of a drop of seed. After that, it remains there in the form of a blood clot for the same period, and then for the same period - as a piece consisting of flesh. And only then an angel is sent to him, who blows his soul into him. And he is given the command to write down four things, which include: the destiny ahead of a person, his life span, all his deeds, and whether he will be happy or not.
The Quran records the words of Allah that He gave man a proportionate appearance, breathed into him the spirit from his spirit, and gave him sight, hearing and a heart. The answer to the question of whether the soul is in the blood sounds negative, because the blood can be completely drained and replaced. Although it is known that the soul is present in the human body, where exactly it is located is not clear. And looking for this place is most likely a futile exercise. After all, the Koran says that the revolution is a divine matter, the secret of which is known only to Allah alone.
In Judaism
When does a soul enter a child's body, according to Jewish beliefs? Rabbi Eliyahu Essas gives the following explanations on this matter. At the moment when a drop of male seed enters a female egg, it contributes only the energy of a spiritual nature transmitted to it by the Almighty. The conception process takes three days, during which this energy is stored. These three days are a symbol of three spiritual qualities - intelligence, intuition and desire for a higher goal.
After the union of two eggs, another 37 days are required for the “united” cells to create a spiritual “fog”, “steam”. A kind of suspension of small droplets that gradually combine and create the vessel necessary to receive the soul. After 40 days, the vessel is ready to receive the soul.
From this moment we can already talk about the emergence of the human fetus. By the fortieth day, this fruit receives a “task” from the Creator. Over the course of nine months, the soul will be completely formed and will receive everything it lacks. After this, the person is born.
In recent years, scientists' views on the structure of the World have changed greatly. Today, the concepts of the structure of matter and man that they propose allow us to speak confidently and partially explain the possibility of the emergence and life of “uninvited guests” in the human body, but the role and consequences of their activities are clearly underestimated, and most often are simply not considered.
My practice of working with patients shows that the reason for the origin of many diseases of the physical body, mental disorders, family and work troubles, speaking in everyday language, lies in the conditions imposed by the essences on the human body. Our Planet is the intersection of positive and negative Worlds (energies), which we consider as good and evil.
Entities are woven from negative energies of black-gray and dirty-colored tones. They have intelligence, possess multifaceted extrasensory and psychic abilities and can manifest them through the human body. With the energies given to me, I manifest them, come into contact with them and determine what they are made of. What power do they have, where do they come from and who do they serve, what are their goals, and what are the timing of their programs.
When the essence manifests itself, sharp changes occur in a person in his appearance, gaze, voice, and behavior. During the dialogue with the entity, I build ways to expel it. The practice of exile and the experience of negotiations allow me to draw the following conclusions. Energy entities inhabit and connect to a person at the time of stress, damage, curses, meditation, through the sleep channel, during alcoholic and drug relaxation, when a person creates a field of envy, evil, resentment, hatred, slander within himself.
By moving into a person (in any of his organs), energy entities make “connections” and pull positive energy from a person (feed on his energy), influence the course of his thoughts, actions and actions. The human body begins to deteriorate, and the person himself turns into an experimental creature, sick and suffering, both physically and mentally. There are also other symptoms: inside a person feels a moving lump (of various sizes), someone’s evil obsessive thoughts.
Many have now rushed to master magic and are turning to “specialists” in casting spells on death, eliminating rivals, casting love spells... But none of them thinks about the fact that at this moment he becomes a guide or servant of the forces of evil. After an examination by doctors, for example, a woman came to me with a complaint about the deterioration of her health (gradual loss of vitality). Doctors could not determine the cause. During manifestation, I discovered that a black channel stretches from her into space. I discovered the reason for the origin of this channel: a year ago I went to a “specialist” to cast a love spell on my husband. After her repentance, awareness and several sessions, her health returned to normal.
Due to the new energies that come to Earth, many people have their third eye opened, they begin to see what is invisible to ordinary people. It must be remembered that the forces of evil are always active, they can appear in the images of saints, relatives, loved ones, loved ones... Appearing in a dream or in reality, the entities pull in the energy of love through these images, causing a person to suffer. For the woman, the image of a man in black constantly appearing in her dreams created a strong feeling of fear. And there are many such examples; in all cases, images of evil spirits appeared at the sessions.
No wonder the Bible says: “The time will come when the angels of darkness will appear to people in the robes of angels of light.” Over the years, in the spaces manifested through humans, many different laboratories have been discovered for the cultivation of robotic entities, viruses of various diseases, computer viruses for planting and destroying human consciousness, programs for destroying love and families, and human spirituality. And this is being done by the forces of evil to capture our Earth (they say it is a very beautiful planet), enslaving people. Their program is “More evil and discord on Earth.” We all need to think seriously, cleanse ourselves of internal evil, envy, flattery, cunning, servility, passion and help people, cleanse ourselves of these vices, do not forget to pray, only then will we protect ourselves and our beloved mother - the Earth.
About foul language.
There are words that bring Light. Everyone around them perceives them correctly, without duality. Swear words are initially constructed in a negative plane. By pronouncing them, a person is already a generator for generating negative energy. In the case when a person swears too often, an “entity” of the demon level is attracted to him, which can move in and live inside him, only increasing the generation of obscene expressions. Both at the level of words and in thoughts, intentions.
There is an opinion that swearing is an integral part of the Russian language. In my opinion, this position is incorrect. Obscene expressions, as a rule, do not cause anything but persistent rejection among spiritual people. And fortunately, they are absolutely not interested in whether swearing is such an integral part of their native speech; they are always ready to stop foul language. I was well acquainted with the problem of foul language even in childhood. If you build a conversation with your child competently and confidentially, he will tell you about everything that worries him and what he is afraid to tell his parents. Often, when I identify a situation, I see a child swearing with obscene words, and I ask a specific question. Most often, it is recognized immediately.
Some children say that they do not say bad words out loud. They are present in their thoughts. This is usually associated with the infusion of an “essence”. But children are unable to distinguish where their thoughts are and where others’ thoughts are invested. Over time, having lost control of consciousness, they begin to use foul language. In conversations with children, I always explain what swear words mean and what destructive power they have. I recommend taking a piece of paper in a cage, and if swear words are spinning in your head, write them on the piece of paper until your head becomes clear and free of them. Then fold it in four and burn it with the words: “As this piece of paper is burned, so my swear words are burned.” And so you should work on yourself every day, several times a day, until there is no swearing in your thoughts or words. I recommend that parents initially monitor this tendency in their children and take measures to eradicate it.
Essences of fear in dreams.
Many of those who come to see me tell me their dreams. It is rare to find a person who does not pay attention to his dreams or does not have them at all. And it often happened that unpleasant events occurred after they had dreams that they felt were meaningful and memorable. During sleep, the mind that controls our body is switched off. The body rests, gains strength, we do not control what is happening to us. Having accumulated sufficient experience, I now know that a sleep channel passes through a person, connecting him with other worlds, and through this channel an impact can occur on the consciousness and subconscious of a person - a kind of laying down of programs for his further perception of the world around him and behavior. Dark forces do not miss this opportunity, and then the further implementation of their programs is entrusted to this person. If he believes in the future reality of his negative dreams and inspires this confidence in others by communicating with them, then he takes the next step towards the materialization of these dreams, and he himself becomes a conductor of dark forces.
So, a woman came to me, alarmed that she often sees dreams foreshadowing troubles and misfortunes for her friends, and these dreams, as a rule, come true. By nature, this woman was a sympathetic and friendly person. Having seen someone close to her in a dream, she was in a hurry to convey to people the content of her dream. She was very worried that the predicted misfortunes were coming true, and a tense situation was developing around her. They began to be afraid of her. I asked: “Are there positive, good dreams?” - she replied that it was very rare. I began to get to the root of what was happening and asked if she was seeing the same dream several times? It turned out that there was such a dream: some kind of chase, a feeling of fear and danger. This dream was distinguished by its clarity and, repeating from time to time for twenty years, took a lot of strength from her, while the inner feeling of fear increased. Then this recurring dream gave way to a series of “prophetic” dreams, which further intensified her inner anxiety and fear, and they brought her to me.
I asked her to remember that dream in all its details and through these memories I mentally entered the space of dreams from twenty years ago. When this space was manifested, it turned out that at that time she had been damaged, and dark forces connected to her, which blocked her consciousness and organized their own channel from negative energy - the channel of negative dreams. Through this channel she saw everything very clearly and, being a sensitive person, she succumbed to the reality of dreams and their fears.
Instead of fighting her fear, she began to spread it among her loved ones, rushing to tell them her dreams in every detail. She absorbed the negative information she received as a program and gradually became a conductor of these negative programs. A fear was happening inside her and growing, which went beyond her limits. After working with the woman, I removed the damage. Her dreams disappeared. Herd life is returning to normal. She stopped feeling the wary glances of her loved ones. I felt more warmth and love from them.
About the infusion of dead souls into the bodies of the living.
On one of my usual visiting days, a young woman came to see me. Her appearance was unhealthy: pale face, dull, lifeless eyes. A casual conversation began, from which one could understand that her life from the outside, whether at work or at home, might seem prosperous, but she was increasingly engulfed in a state of complete indifference. By nature, she is an energetic person, she tries not to succumb to a bad mood and does everything for this, suppressing internal apathy and blues, but she is afraid that she will not have enough strength for a long time, since a feeling of dead space begins to arise around and inside her. Work has begun. By showing her space and asking her questions along the way, I began to find out the cause of her condition. I ask:
— Which of your friends, loved ones or relatives, recently died or drowned?
“I had a childhood friend,” he answers, “we were family friends.” The relationship between us was very close and warm, but he died in a car accident, which happened before my eyes. His name was Andrey. I was very upset about what happened, and then I began to see him in my dreams. We talk as if in reality, just like before. But lately I began to notice that I often use his words or do things the way he would do them. I even started talking like him. There are also a number of incomprehensible phenomena. Andrey often had headaches, and now I have the same headaches. And yet, I began to notice that I had become very coarse, and that I had masculine character traits. All this bothered me very much, and I decided to turn to you.
The session continued. The woman felt icy cold in the area of her solar plexus and abdomen. Her stomach began to retract, as if trying to stick to her spine. I began to examine this cold clot of energy, already knowing that it was the energy of a dead soul; I was familiar with the coldness of this energy. I ask a question:
- Who are you?
“Andrey,” the woman gives me the answer, having heard these words inside herself.
- Why did you possess a living person? - I ask persistently, reproachfully.
“During the disaster, I died instantly,” Andrei says through the woman, “my soul flew out of my physical body, and for some time I could not figure out what happened. From above I saw my friends who were driving in the car behind me. I saw how they ran up to my body in fear, I saw their grief. But I didn’t have enough energy, I acutely felt its need and headed towards this woman. I didn’t know what to do, and... I entered the body. Now I understand that I did it illegally, no one gave me permission, but I didn’t find any other way out then. I feel guilty, I understand that the living do not need dead energy, especially not her, because I treat her with great respect. I now pray to God to take my soul and am very grateful to the angels who led me to you. I beg you to help my soul go to God.
Andrey said goodbye to his loved ones through me. I conveyed some wishes to my family and asked everyone for forgiveness. The heavenly channel was lowered to him, and the angels took him away. At the moment when the dead soul left the woman’s body, she sobbed heavily, but his soul was separated from her body, immediately followed by a deep breath, exhalation, and the woman’s sensations completely changed. Her eyes sparkled and filled with life, light, joy.
Usually, when a person dies, a channel is lowered over him, through which the angels send his soul to the place determined for it according to earthly developments. In the case of sudden, instant death, this may not happen. This is what happened to Andrei’s soul. The soul can move into a person whom the deceased loved very much. This is a difficult test for the soul, and it, being in a hopeless state, can move into the body of a loving person, it attracts this soul. If the soul is burdened with heavy, negative energies of its sins, then it can be kidnapped by dark forces. The moment a person passes away is one of the most important. The Church helps believers. But any person can be caught by sudden, sudden death. Take care of your soul.
Conversation with the entity.
After reading the book “Take care of your soul and body,” a young man came to the reception. His name was Oleg. He could not explain why there was no place for love, joy in his life, and literally all actions were subordinated to some kind of program. Inside he felt a constant struggle, anxiety, fear. At the same time, sometimes it seemed to him that he was very strong, powerful, and his brain was able to work like a computer. The feeling of superiority over people led to a strong understanding that he could somehow influence people and subjugate their will to himself. This feeling of internal division bothered him and made him uncomfortable.
During the session, he began to shake violently, his arms twisted unnaturally, and his head was constantly tilted to the side. It was difficult to straighten up for a short time. I suggested trying to show it to everyone. Oleg agreed without hesitation, because he felt that the symptoms of the capture of the human body by “entities,” which I described in the book “Take Care of Soul and Body,” were inherent to him.
I showed the “essence” and she began to talk to me through a man. I should note that the “essence” turned out to be highly developed. These are rare, you could say I had a good catch that day. It was a robot with some human structures from another space. Having felt the level, I set out to get as much information from him as possible to help people. He was clearly unhappy about being discovered. He moved into Oleg when he was 4 years old. And he lived in the body for about twenty years.
The conversation was interesting and rich. And I decided, with Oleg’s permission, to record the conversation on a tape recorder and bring it to you, readers. My task is to help you prevent possible introductions of uninvited guests into your life and not lose your human qualities and energies, and not become robots. The conversation turned out to be long, more than three hours. We touched on a wide range of issues. For better understanding, it turned out to be advisable to group the entire conversation by topic. Without changing anything, I present the most interesting excerpts from our communication with the “essence”. In the above dialogue, I. is me, and S. is the “entity.”
Starting a conversation. Who is in front of me?
I. Who are you, a man or a woman?
S. Man.
I. From Earth or another planet?
S. From another space.
I. What energies are you made of?
C. Earth, stone, fire.
I. For what purpose did you possess Oleg?
S. I just live, I just exist.
I. What right did you have to inhabit a human body?
S. Why not? Everyone has to live somehow.
I. But the physical body was created by God and no one is allowed to live in it except the Divine soul.
S. Perhaps. But at the moment there is an opportunity, why not take advantage of it.
I. But now Oleg came to me for a session. And you understand that you will be expelled from your physical body.
S. Yes, I see. But you don’t think that everything is so simple and everything will work out right away.
I. If God brought Oleg, then the exile will come with God’s help.
S. Let it.
I. Is your strength falling?
S. I am still strong enough to do whatever I want.
I. What do you own?
S. I can control a person’s thoughts and partially his actions, but not yet permanently.
I. Can you control the thoughts of Oleg or other people?
S. I work with only one person who reports to me.
I. It turns out that Oleg is robotic?
C. Not completely. I can't control everything regularly.
I. You are out of evil, which means that in some moments you control Oleg so that he becomes worse?
S. Some are worse, some are better.
I. It’s better for you, but worse for Oleg. Are you influencing Oleg's soul?
S. Probably not. Rather, I am interested in the energy of the physical body.
I. Tell me, due to what evil is developed in a person?
C. Due to burning out various thoughts in oneself.
I. And emotions?
S. Yes.
I. What are you like? Do you have an image?
C. Mask, shell.
I. So you are a shell?
S. Yes. And protection.
I. Explain.
C. On the one hand, protection. On the other hand, everything that comes from inside and outside remains in me. I release some energies, both inward and outward.
I. What kind of energies are these?
S. Mostly negative and many people feel this way.
I. What is your program?
S. My program is to live on my own and support my life activity at the expense of human energy. If a person cannot support my life, then he will leave.
I.e. Is Oleg alive as long as he can support your vital functions?
S. Yes.
I. Let's say he leaves. What will happen to you?
S. I move into another space.
I. What do you have in front of you there, in your space?
S. Only the owner can know this.
I. Who is your boss?
S. I have never seen him. But this is something very strong. He gives me various orders and wishes.
I. Do you accept them at the level of vibrations?
S. Yes, at the level of vibrations.
I. What is life like in your space?
C. One owner. Everyone is subordinate to him and carries out his will. Whatever he wants according to our law.
I. Is there no other choice?
S. No.
I. As I understand it, you have both men and women?
S. Yes, men and women. Depends on how it is easier for us to interact with a person. We don't know where we are coming from, but we clearly know what kind of person we can interact with.
I.e. do you come to earth for a specific person?
S. If we are told that we can interact with a particular person, then this is always the case.
I. How do you move into a person? How do you come from another space?
S. I can’t answer exactly. I don't have that information.
I. How do you get into a person’s field?
S. Through his environment, parents.
I. Through the parent field?
S. Yes, through parents and people who are often nearby.
I. Do they form a positive or negative field?
C. They form different fields. But, as a rule, a person is already ready to do business with us.
I. So you are creating a negative field. Or does the person creating it provoke another to some actions or thoughts?
S. Or, on the contrary, it does not provoke.
I. And if it doesn’t provoke, does the Person experience stagnation?
S. Yes. And then he is forced to look for where he can get additional information. He must constantly exchange information with someone. With certain people, certain fields.
I. Oleg communicates with different people, works with information at different levels. Are you collecting it?
C. Collection, analysis. Subjugation of those who can be subjugated. Making people dependent on you. Then they weaken and for some reason this benefits me.
I. Are you an information gathering robot?
S. This is one of my tasks.
I. What other tasks?
C. Prepare other people.
I. For the relocation of the same robots?
S. I don’t know who will be moved into them. I speak only for myself. I don't have access to higher information. I only receive final orders. I know that I have received an order and I must carry it out. The one who gives the order is the master.
I. In which organ are you mainly located?
C. Part of the spine and head. My center is in my head. For the rest, I imagine, as I said earlier, something like a shell covering part of the body, the chest. And masks on my face, sometimes I look through Oleg’s eyes.
I. Clarify if Oleg wants, for example, to smile, but you don’t want that. What then?
S. Very simple. This means he won't smile. But this should not arouse the suspicion of others. He should not be an outcast among people, he should be in continuous contact with people.
Beauty is in the understanding of “essences”.
I. Earth is a very beautiful planet, do you like it?
S. Beauty is a subjective concept.
I. I understand. In your understanding, what is beauty?
S. Beauty is a manifestation of strength. Just a show of strength.
I. Well, give me an example.
S. For example, there is some person. Not Oleg, but someone else. And I managed to suppress him, he came under my influence. I like this picture. It's beautiful, you'll agree.
I. I don’t understand this. I don’t understand how you can find beauty in the enslavement of a person.
S. Then tell us about your understanding of beauty.
I. Beauty is the work of the soul, its emission of light energies. The space that is inside a person reaches the level of the Universe. And the person himself harmonizes everything around him and develops his worldview. This is the powerful energy of a pure, unpolluted soul. This is beauty.
S. I don’t understand.
I. I know you don't understand, but it's beautiful. That is why you take advantage of the opportunity, especially during childhood, to block souls. You know that in the future they can become strong, they will receive enormous potential, range, if they are not enslaved. Agree?
S. Perhaps.
I. Heavenly Father is the Creator. The soul is a part of it, and it creates through a person.
S. Well then. The only thing I can say is that we are beings of different planes and with different energies. The creator of the soul interests me insofar as he can prevent me from controlling a person.
The struggle between “entities” for a person.
I. Are there many “entities” on earth?
S. Yes.
I. Do you struggle with some of them?
S. If it is noticeable that something exists in a person and it is something quite weak, then if there is an order from the owner, this “essence” can be supplanted.
I. Are you pushing these people out?
S. Yes
I. Where do they go? Are you destroying them?
S. We are only displacing. They go somewhere outside, leaving an empty space. I'm not interested in where they are moving.
I. Is there a struggle for the human body?
S. Yes.
I. What about the animals? Do you also inhabit animals? Or do they contain a different kind of “entity”?
S. I suppose a different kind. My attitude is to live in a human community. It’s quite difficult for any dog to subjugate people, you’ll agree.
I. Unfortunately, there are some people who have already begun to submit to animals. This is already present on Earth. I came across it.
S. Well, there is something to work on.
I. There is an eternal struggle going on around man. It turns out that the human body, like a computer, is a complex system. And you need to be able to manage this system. If you manage incorrectly, then, therefore, you are subject to some universes.
S. Correct. Any error in the program leads to various consequences.
I. Then why are there no rules on Earth that clearly define what exactly a person is?
S. Who needs this? Who needs to write such rules?
I. It turns out that a person is like a laboratory, and certain experiments are carried out on him?
S. Everyone has their own goals. I have only one, perhaps someone is guided by others.
And good. Streams of Light energies flow through me, and I really want the human body to be freed from any “entities”.
C. Exempt for what? To be controlled by some other force?
I. No. The body has a soul. It is important to give it development. Then your worldview will develop. The energies of Love and joy will become the norm for a person. People will begin to strive for harmony, respect for each other, for everything Light. Man was created by the Heavenly Father to be happy. Created on the living, beautiful planet Earth. The human soul works for creation, and you only work for destruction.
S. Well, what about creation? Agree that man is created in such a way that sooner or later he will collapse. We are destroyed from the moment we are born.
I. Why do people get destroyed?
C. There is probably such a program.
I. But who caused the glitch in the program? The soul is infused into a person at the moment of birth, right?
S. Yes.
I. It is created to make a person happy. The Bible says the same thing.
S. The Bible says a lot. I have become familiar with this work. Yes, there were people and righteous people who lived, if my memory serves me right, for 800-900 years. But then they left. Because they had their own program. They could not help but leave, since the body is not eternal, it was created that way. This means that there is a program for destroying the body. Is not it?
I. The destruction program may exist, but the point is different. I'll continue the thought. A person is given a soul at birth. The soul on Earth evolves, gains experience, and then leaves for another space. This living substance goes into the Light Space. And the fact is that there are people whose souls function correctly. They live in harmony, Love. There is light around them. Yes, they encounter difficulties and adversity along the way, but they overcome them with dignity. Because they control their body, thoughts, emotions, actions. They, not you, are the “entities.” These are strong souls, strong people. Yes, the body is destroyed. If a person’s soul functioned correctly, then at the end of life’s journey it will go into the Light Space. She will succeed in this easily, because she is filled with Light energies.
S. Very interesting.
I. Yes, yes. At least life is easy for a person without you. It’s not like what Oleg has to do now—it’s hard, it’s difficult. It’s good for you, you are still the owner of Oleg’s body. Therefore, for control, he put into Oleg’s head the persistent idea that a person is initially destroyed from birth. Nothing like this. Oleg came to me so that I could destroy your program. So that he could live happily, get married, raise children and always enjoy life, cultivating Love. That's why he came. And you have no place in his body.
I. Tell me, can you enter the field of another person without his permission?
S. In any case, we need to establish contact and find some kind of gap.
I. Weak spot?
S. Yes. After this, you can make an impact.
I. On Earth this can be attributed to the level of psychology, the ability to establish contact.
S. Yes, contact must occur. I say something a lot. Usually this many words are spoken in four days. I do not like it.
I. Is this a loss of energy for you?
S. Yes.
I. As I understand it, you stand up for life on Earth. If it doesn't exist, then you won't be able to exist.
S. Yes.
I. Tell us about cloning. It is clear that there will be no Divine soul in such a shell. Are these “entities” preparing bodies for themselves? Will you be able to inhabit such a body, or will there be certain protection systems there?
S. Yes, “entities” do this. I don’t know who exactly is behind this. They prepare the shells for themselves. I also don’t know who will inhabit them.
I. What level of information is of the greatest interest to you?
C. Mainly about people's strengths and weaknesses. Something you can pick them up on. Or what they can do to influence us. Interested in everything. We must exist somehow. A person is an ideal option for us.
Some consequences of the influence of "entities".
I. The long-term practice of my work allows me to conclude that most of the “entities” strive to destroy people. You may be an exception, but that doesn't matter. Tell me, do you have information about their varieties on Earth?
S. I don’t have one.
I. And I see that there is.
S. I saw some, but I can’t say how many there are. I just know that they exist. There are aggressive ones who try, being in a person, to quickly destroy him.
I. Are there those who bring people to psychiatric hospitals?
S. These included.
I. What are these “entities”?
S. Having taken possession of a person, they do not focus on him. Execute their program. As they unfold, they trample the subtle structures, the physical body of a person. Some people can resist, but some quickly turn off some centers, and he becomes what he becomes.
I. Robotic?
S. Someone yes. And for some, the “essence” leaves, leaving an empty shell.
I. Is soul capture taking place? Or something different?
S. I personally have not encountered such people, I cannot say. The only option that I observed was that a strong “essence” came into a person and trampled certain centers inside him. She received a large amount of energy during the destruction of a person and then left the body. What was left of the man was a twisted shell.
I. What, then, is a person like?
C. He remains a person unable to perform any functions. Sometimes it is destroyed on the physical level, and then cannot be restored, sometimes on the mental level. In this case, he can still be helped to return to reality by feeding him with energies, if he concentrates them on the destroyed place.
I. Thank you for the information, interesting conversation. Do you know what pleases me most?
How does Islam understand life before birth?
Does a child have a soul or spirit before birth?
When does he receive a soul or spirit?
Or is there life before conception?
What place does blood occupy in life?
They say that life is in the blood because we get life when we get blood in the womb and we stop living when we die and our blood comes to rest. We will try to open the Islamic point of view on all the issues stated above in our article.
What is life before birth in the understanding of Islam?
Life is a series of molecular events and biochemical reactions in every cell of the human body, events and reactions that should not be confused with the ruh (human soul), about which we have very little knowledge. Life begins in the embryo at conception. And this despite the fact that life existed even in the predecessors - the egg and sperm, which were in the testicles and ovaries. In fact, both a man's sperm and a woman's egg contain life before fertilization occurs, but they do not have a soul (ruh).
The Koran says:
“The time has passed when man was in complete obscurity” (Sura al-Insan “Man.” 76:1)
It is difficult to imagine that 150 years ago we did not know that only one sperm out of the millions present in the father's sperm at one time can fertilize only one egg and allow a child to be born, and the remaining millions of sperm die in the process. Now that we are aware of this struggle for survival, we are well aware of how lucky each of us is to be alive today.
This is the only male cell (sperm) that contains X or Y chromosomes, which determine the sex of the future offspring. A child becomes a female if the chromosomes are an XX combination and becomes a male if the chromosomes are an XY combination.
The Koran says:
“Oh people! Fear your Lord, who created you from one man, made him his mate, and scattered many men and women, descended from both of them. Fear Allah, in whose name you ask each other, and be afraid to break family ties. Indeed, Allah is watching over you." (Surah An-Nisa “Women”. 4:01)
“It was He who created you from a single soul and from her He created a spouse, so that he (i.e. Adam) would find peace with her. When [Adam] came together with her, she bore a light burden and began to walk with him. And when she became heavy with the burden, they turned to Allah, their Lord: “If You grant us a pious [son], then only to You our gratitude [will flow].” (Surat al-Araf “The Barriers.” 7:189)
Just a reminder. We should never blame the wife if she does not give a male child, as some do. This is because the male sex determination is present on the husband's Y chromosome and can only be realized through his sperm.
Does a child have a soul (ruh) before it is created in the womb?
No. A child does not have a ruh (soul) until it is created in the womb.
When does a child receive a soul (ruh)?
Muslim scholars believe that human life begins shortly after the fourth lunar month of conception, when the fetus becomes viable, that is, worthy of living. Of particular importance are certain events reported by Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, who reported that the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
“Verily, each of you is formed in the womb of his mother for forty days in the form of a drop of semen, then he remains (there) for the same period in the form of a clot of blood and for the same period in the form of a piece of flesh, and then an angel is sent to him, who blows the spirit into him. And he is ordered to write down four things: the destiny (of a person), the duration of his (life), his deeds, and also whether he will be happy or unhappy” (Al-Bukhari).
Ibn Abbas stated that the process of spirit infusion occurs within 10 days after the 4-month period has ended. If the fetus died before this period, then there should be no Janazah prayer (funeral prayer). It should also be noted that the process of inhaling the spirit is inherent in humans. Animals don't have rocs.
Muslims accept that the soul is what Allah says in the Quran:
“...then he gave it a proportionate form, breathed into it from His spirit and gave you hearing, sight and hearts. But how little is your gratitude! (Surah al-Sajdah “Bow” 32:9)
“When I have poured him out and breathed into him from My spirit, then fall down before him and strike him with your forehead.” (Surah al-Hijr 15:29)
If Allah had not breathed His own spirit into the form of clay, we human beings would have been statues of clay without life and without soul. This breath, which comes from Allah, and which we call Rukh, embodies all the potentially positive qualities of a human being. They must probably be present in this Rukh, which enters the fetus in the womb, and the fetus becomes viable soon after four lunar months of conception.
Is there life before conception?
Yes. There is life before conception. It lies in the life of sperm and eggs, which do not have Rukh.
What is the role of blood?
Physically, blood acts only as a nutrient. It can be completely drained from the entire body and replaced, and the person will still live and have a soul. The heart can be removed from the body (as is done with a frog's heart when it is placed in a saline solution) and it will remain able to pump blood for several days. The heart will be alive for a few days, but where is the soul?
If one limb is amputated, there is no soul in that limb, although it still contains life and the limb can be returned to the body. So again, where is the soul? All four limbs may be amputated, but the soul may still be intact.
Then the soul is physically in the blood? No, because the blood can be completely drained and replaced. Is the soul located in the germinal layer of our genital organs, such as the testes and ovaries? No, because the soul is still present in the absence of our reproductive organs. Although we know that the soul is somehow present in a living organism, we do not know where it is located.
Moreover, it may be a futile exercise to search for the location of a spiritual entity about which Allah has given us very little knowledge. The Qur'an clearly states that Rukh is a divine matter, the secret of which is known only to Allah. This is stated in the Koran:
They will ask you about your soul. Tell:
“The soul came into being by the command of my Lord. You have been given to know very little about this” (Surah al-Isra, “The Night Transfer.” 17:85).
Abortion is the artificial termination of pregnancy. According to current medical standards, abortion is performed up to 12 weeks of pregnancy (in some countries up to 20) or, if the gestational age is unknown, when the fetus weighs up to 400 grams.
In Russia, the main medical indications for abortion are death of the fetus in the womb, threat to the life of the mother, and abnormal intrauterine development. The final decision on abortion will remain with the woman or her relatives.
In the first trimester of pregnancy, up to 12 weeks, the main indication for abortion is the woman’s request. In the second trimester, up to 22 weeks, an abortion can be done if a woman becomes pregnant as a result of rape.
Doctors immediately tell you how long you can have an abortion, but as for the soul, it appears immediately from the moment of conception, because you call upon the soul, meaningfully or not. It’s strange for me to listen to arguments about how a soul can appear in a fetus, for example, on the 120th day. I in no way want to offend anyone’s beliefs or worldview, it just sounds strange to me. After all, in fact, when life is born, it already has a soul. I have an extremely negative attitude towards abortion, because for me it is murder in its purest form. I can justify this step only on medical grounds.
As far as I know from my parents, and they are deeply religious people, and according to the Holy Scriptures, the soul of the fetus is sent by the Lord God on the third day from the moment of its conception. Whether this has been proven from a scientific point of view, I cannot say.
But an abortion is always and is considered the murder of a living person, and no matter what stage of pregnancy it is performed, it is always a great sin.
Different religions interpret different dates for the infusion of the soul into the fetus.
Islamic scholars believe that the soul is blown into the fetus somewhere in the fourth month (on the 120th day).
There is also an opinion/teaching that the soul exists initially (it is primary), even before conception and, in agreement with the Higher Mind, it is embodied in a certain body.
Everyone speaks differently on this matter; as a child, I heard that the soul enters a child in the form of a dove during his birth. Although I personally believe that it appears immediately upon conception. I had a very difficult pregnancy, from the third month there was a threat of miscarriage, and soon the cervix opened two centimeters. Almost all this time I spent in hospitals under IV drips. The doctors did not guarantee that I would bear it. In the mornings, when the doctor came in for an examination and I asked how my child was, she constantly corrected me that it was not a child, but a fetus. And a fetus begins to be considered a child at about seven months.
With these words, I am in no way trying to encourage women to make a decision about an abortion, but rather I would like no one to despair.
They say that a child's soul appears with the first beat of his heart.
Some very powerful psychics see something like a glow around a woman who will soon become pregnant. It is believed that this is the soul of a child, waiting for its time.
And this was indeed confirmed; those girls around whom the psychic saw a glow in the same month became pregnant.
Let me give you an example from the Bible. In the Old Testament, when the law was given, it was clearly stated that the death penalty was imposed for intentional murder. But here's the thing about a pregnant woman. If during any quarrel she was hit or something else and she threw something out, then the culprit would be fined. God gave the law, which is the same yesterday and today. I think that as long as abortion is safe for a woman, then there is no sin in it. After all, the time comes when it is no longer possible to have an abortion, but then, probably, there is already a full-fledged person. But this is my personal opinion.
The soul appears from the moment of conception. And abortion is always murder. But the size of the fetus or the period of its development does not matter. The only justification for an abortion can be an unconditional, one hundred percent pathology incompatible with life. I am extremely categorical on this issue. I do not accept other options for abortion. In our enlightened age, EVERYONE knows where children come from and how to make sure they don’t appear. If someone has a desire for sex, it is his decision, and any decision presupposes an action, any action presupposes a result. You MUST be responsible for the result. Don't look for excuses for yourself.
The fetus has a soul from the moment of conception, so abortion at any stage has always been considered a sin of murder. For it, they were excommunicated from communion in the church for 25 years.
Both a child conceived a week ago and a beloved child who is two years old have the same right to life. And doctors know this very well, but instead of honestly asking Which one would you prefer to get rid of?, which would stop many mothers, they continue to raise money for the bloody industry of infanticide.
The soul of the fetus appears at the moment of conception!
It seems to me that the soul appears precisely at the moment when conception occurs, even if at that moment it is just an egg. In general, there are many different versions on this matter.
Some believe that the soul walks with a woman for a long time, until she is not pregnant at all.
Some believe that one hundred and twenty days pass after conception, as far as I remember, this is the opinion of Muslims.
Some believe that at the moment when the fetus’s heart begins to beat, because when the heart stops, a person dies, then the soul leaves.
Some believe that a child develops a soul forty days after birth.
But what’s most interesting about all this is that they all believe that abortion cannot be done, no matter how long it takes.
I think that at the moment of conception... and some women even feel from that moment that this time they got pregnant... they carried it)
I have an extremely negative attitude towards abortion. It’s murder. Even though I’ve done it myself before.. out of ignorance.. and then, when the obstetricians told and showed how an abortion is done, that a little man, your living one, is pulled out of the womb piece by piece, first an arm, then a leg. they will tear you away... it’s because of lack of enlightenment that we sin, we don’t understand what kind of operation this actually is... both the man and the woman are responsible for their behavior. That’s why life doesn’t work out afterwards... I have a unique photo of an embryo on sixth day of development
