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Contact with Other Worlds

Also known as other worlds, the other world, the higher heavenly world, living bond with the other world, innumerable worlds of God.

In Father Zossima's exhortations, contact with other worlds names the soul's living bond with the higher heavenly world. He says the roots of human thought and feeling are not only on earth, and that this hidden bond keeps the heavenly growth alive in a person. If the feeling weakens, life itself becomes indifferent or hateful.

VII-IV. Cana Of Galilee

After Alyosha's vision, the starry sky seems threaded to all the innumerable worlds of God, and his soul trembles in contact with them.

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