In many religions, philosophical and mythological traditions the soul is the incorporeal essence of a living being. The Ancient Greek interpretation of the “Soul” literally means “to breathe”. We can see that the soul can be expressed as the mental abilities of a living being: reason, character, feeling, consciousness, memory, perception, thinking. Etc. Creationism holds that God or Source created all souls at the same time. A soul can attach to a human being at the moment of conception. The Soul is both created and inherited. Inherited through the existence of reincarnation.
The Soul is immortal. By immortality it is ordinarily understood the doctrine that the human soul will survive death continuing in the possession of endless conscious existence. Our Immortal Soul is the core of our being, our deepest essence of self. Our individual soul is the Immortal Spiritual Body of Light which reincarnates again and again until all necessary karmas are created and resolved and it’s essential unity with God and Source is fully realized. The Soul is born and unfolds in a body with dreams and desires and the food of life and it is reborn again in new bodies in accordance with its former works. The quality of the soul determines its future body, earthy or airy, heavy or light. A soul is like a chain with one end linked into the brain and the other to a certain spiritual source.
The Three Aspects of the Soul
The Mind
The soul is also of three parts. The main one, the mind, is for thinking, considering, knowing and remembering. In the mind we have thoughts, ideas, concepts, reasonings, understanding, knowledge. When I consider or reason anything I am using the mind. The conscience is for us to discern right from wrong, to justify or to condemn. Our mind is the tool that interprets the information that our emotions are giving us. It is our mind that puts us in the drivers seat and enables us to decide which direction we want to go in, how fast we want to go, when to change gear and when to put the brakes on. The mental aspect of the soul is to seek and to make a decision. Because knowledge is a matter of the mind the mind is part of the soul. Since to know is a matter of the mind the mind is essential to the soul. The soul can remember things so memory is also part of the soul. Our mind has a conscious part and a subconscious part. The conscious mind is where we do our thinking and reasoning. The sub-conscious mind is where we hold our deep beliefs and our attitudes.
The Will
The will is the second aspect of the soul. To choose or refuse are both functions of the soul. The soul makes decisions and is also a function of the will. The primary function of the will of the soul is to choose liberty and freedom. Using our free will to choose good for ourselves and our lives. Our will is what gives us the ability to make choices. Through a very complex way, our mind, our will and our emotions are connected to the body through our endocrine, nervous and immune systems. The will is also a part of the soul. It is the part through which we have our purposes and choices and make decisions. When I make a decision to do a certain thing, the will is in operation. The Will is that faculty of the mind which selects at the moment of decision a desire from among the various desires present. The Will does not refer to any particular desire, but rather to the mechanism for choosing from among one’s desires.
The Heart
The heart or the emotions compromise the third part of the soul. The emotions of love, hatred, joy and grief encompass the soul. To feel is a profound function of the soul. The soul is where the desire to love and be loved originates. Hatred and loathing is the shadow ofthe souls capacity to love. When you feel happy or sorrowful you are in the emotional realm of the soul. It is the mind’s way of experiencing the emotions and sensations. Taking willful action through the vessel through which all this happens is the souls way of experiencing and intigrating what we are exposed to and choose on earth. Our emotions connect us to the deepest parts of our inner selves. They are our connection to our inner knowing, to our inner voice. They connect us to the very core of how we feel about ourselves, about others and about life itself. Our emotions, our feelings are our navigational system. They give us information. And from the very deepest parts of ourselves they give us a voice. And this voice in turn generates emotionally charged energy. Our emotions infuse thought and action with power. Our emotions are invisible and yet everything that we create and generate that are both good and bad, helpful and unhelpful, are fueled into being by raw emotional energy. And this energy is directional. Our emotions are always live and online. They are in a continual state of movement, a continual state of relationship. Our emotions are fluid and like water they flow through the channels that we provide for them. And as this takes place our pure highly charged emotional energy becomes directional.
