The labyrinths of Islamic and Biblical immortology

Although immortality is not on the list of basic Jungian archetypes, the article shows that it is a universal regulator of human life and is immanently present as a cementing core in all manifesta-tions of the conscious and the unconscious in a person. The authors compare the religious and non-religious concepts of the immortality of the soul. The latter offer various “facilitated” options for achieving immortality: without turning to the human soul, without the concepts of guilt, heaven and hell, repentance, posthumous existence, strict but fair trial, fear, punishment and responsibility. The authors substantiate the defining role of the concept of immortality of the soul in all religions of revelation, where human life begins with the immortality in the paradise. The idea of immortali-ty permeates the entire structure of the creed, and religious expediency ends with the acquisition of lost immortality and paradise existence for the faithful. The main features of religious immortality are highlighted, some contradictions and difficulties of understanding its essence are revealed. The in-depth meaning of several significant differences in the understanding of immortality of the soul between Islam and Orthodoxy is revealed. Particular attention is paid to such a reward in the para-dise for faithful Muslims as the enjoyment of the sight of Allah, which is often assessed as a shift away from the canonical principles of Islamic monotheism relating the prohibition to anthropomor-phize God and give Him comates. The authors substantiate their point of view on this seeming con-tradiction maintaining that they do not mean the accessibility of God to the senses but His accessi-bility to the inner, “heart”, vision.