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perceived by the soul. In the view of transcendent
Therefore, the survival of the wisdom, heaven and hell are
soul is a reason for the power the truth of human actions
of survival of human cognition and beliefs, which are perceived
and perception even after death . to some extent at the time of
Exodus from the dimension death and by the reduction of
of time and place in near-death the soul's belonging to the body.
experiences can be considered Mulla Sadra considers reward
as due to the Lack of 'time' and punishment as the result
and 'place' in the imaginal of human action. According to
world and Purgatory world . philosophers, there are three
The sense of unity of the levels of heaven and hell.
expriencers is due to the Actions, attributes and essence,
approach to a higher level of which are realized according
perception due to the reduction to the degree of voluntary
of the attachment of the soul severance of human beings .
to the body. Mulla Sadra states Indescribable pleasures in NDE
four levels for perception. can be attributed to union with
Sensory, imaginary, illusory, divine beloves, and severe
and intellectual, that Rational torments can be attributed to
perception is the highest level union with sensual beloves in
of perception. At this level the imaginal world.
the perceiver and the perceived Mulla Sadra divides love
coincide according to the into two categories: love of
theory of union of intelligent God and love of oneself, and
and intelligible. knows the perfection of each
person to the extent of divine
