Alexander Kozhev's Seminar. (№ 403646)

In contrast to Christianity, “classical” pagan theology was supposed to be a theory of transcendence, a vision of the double transcendence of God. In other words, it was not enough for pagans - unlike Christians - to die (under the right conditions) to be face to face with the Divine. Even completely free from his body (which, incidentally, a Christian does not need at all), a pagan will be stopped halfway through his ascension to God, not only by an impenetrable, but, in any case, by an insurmountable barrier, which, if you like, is divine in the supra-worldly or the super-earthly sense: God in relation to the pagan, strictly speaking, is and will forever remain transcendental. Theos in classical paganism exists not only on the other side of the world in which the pagan lives. This Theos also exists hopelessly on the other side of the Otherworldly, which the pagan, after his death, can, on occasion, reach. Leaving the earth, a pagan will never take the path that could lead him to his God.