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I remember a college friend of mine, a Bulgarian Orthodox girl, related to me a very odd belief among certain Bulgarians.
In any case, she said that before we take flesh in our mother's womb our souls are in Heaven for a brief time. When we become flesh we each have a small memory of Heaven that we take with us through our life. In some it it the memory of the angels singing thus they are drawn toward beautiful music; in others it is the memory of Heaven's beauty and they are drawn toward beatiful architecture or landscapes or art; still in others it is the memory of Heaven's odor of sanctity and they are drawn toward certain smells, &c. Together these memories help to put together a picture, albeit incomplete, of Heaven. She said that the Church has done the best job of piecing these memories together in its liturgy to give us what many saints have called "a foretaste of Heaven".
I have never heard anything like this before or since. Intriguing, though... This sounds like a teaching influenced by the Bogomil heresy ... that influenced Balkan Orthodoxy more than people sometimes realize. It does sound rather Origenist. I have my own Origenist moments I think. But I have to submit those moments to the teaching of the Church. Joe
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Someone here pointed out to me in an e-mail that this sounds a lot like Plato. The Bulgarians are the most 'Greco' of the Slavs...
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