About the book: year / The brochure is devoted to the problems of human existence beyond death. How to understand Eternity? What are ordeals? Can God the Love give life to someone who He knows will go to eternal torment? Do our passions operate in the afterlife? Are there any real means of helping the deceased? What is the effect of prayer on the posthumous state of the soul? These deep questions, this mystery of human life in two dimensions - time and Eternity, cannot leave anyone indifferent. The brochure of Professor of the Moscow Theological Academy Alexei Ilyich Osipov, compiled on the basis of his public lectures and answers to questions from listeners, will help the reader in many ways to rethink what was previously known, to look at that world through the prism of patristic teaching.