This book includes the well-known works of St. Ignatius Bryanchaninov: The Word about the sensual and spiritual vision of spirits, The Word about death, which speaks of the afterlife of the soul after the bodily death of a person and the correct construction of spiritual life in the name of saving one's soul with many illustrative examples from patristic experience and the lives of saints; as well as the Word about man, which sets out the doctrine of man and the universe on the basis of the Tradition of the Orthodox Church and the creations of the Holy Fathers.