Kallistos of Diokleia: "Saint Ephrem the Syrian (+373) tells us:

Kallistos of Diokleia: "Saint Ephrem the Syrian (+373) tells us:

Consider the man in whom a legion of demons of every kind dwelt (Mark 5:9); they were present there—though not perceptible—because their substance was of a finer and more ethereal nature than the soul itself. This entire

host dwelt within a single body.

The bodies of the righteous, when they rise at the resurrection, will be a hundred times finer and more ethereal; they will resemble a thought—capable, if it so chooses, of expanding and spreading out, or conversely, if it desires, of contracting and gathering itself together. If it contracts, it is located in a specific place; if it expands, it is everywhere."  "Spiritual beings [in paradise]... will possess such a refined essence that even thoughts will be unable to touch them!" (Sebastian

Brock, *The Harp of the Spirit: Eighteen Poems of Saint

Ephrem* (Studies Supplementary to *Sobornost* No. 4: 2nd

ed., London 1983), pp. 23-24).

This is perhaps the best description of the glory of the resurrection that we can find.

Let us leave the rest to silence. "It has not yet been revealed what we shall be" (1 John 3:2) (in: *Sy* journal, issue 49, p. 32).

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