Subject:  Re: Spirit......Soul. |
Author:
Carol
|
[
Next Thread |
Previous Thread |
Next Message |
Previous Message
]
Date Posted: Thu, Dec 19 2002, 6:23:46
In reply to:
TheTruthseeker
's message, "Spirit......Soul" on Sat, Dec 07 2002, 20:48:51
body.. mind ... spirit ...soul. I did some research to see what the ancient philosophers had to say about this question.
The conclusion I found is that the soul and spirit are not the same but are linked.
<a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.questia.com/">http://www.questia.com/</a>
The World's Largest Online Library of Books
Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences. You can search each and every word of all of the books and journal articles in the collection. You can read every title cover to cover.
what is the body?
the body is the discovery of the soul
our body is basicall water undergoing partial separation from
the spirit via self discovery
as the process of osmosis works
Azmaodea says this,.
. The whole body of man is so formed that it receives its crown in the physical organ of the spirit, the brain. The construction of the human brain can only be understood by considering it in relation to its task — that of being the bodily basis for the thinking spirit or the mind.
the body is the physical organ of the spirit
the mind is the thinking spirit
the spirit is the life
water osmosis and the body
<a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://wn.elib.com/Steiner/Books/GA009/English/GA009_addenda.html#A03">http://wn.elib.com/Steiner/Books/GA009/English/GA009_addenda.html#A03</a>
No. 3. It may appear as if the manner of dividing the being of man employed in this book rests upon a purely arbitrary differentiation of parts within the unitary soul life. It must be emphasized that this differentiation within the unitary soul life may be compared with the phenomenon of the seven color nuances in the rainbow, caused by light passing through a prism. What the physicist accomplishes with his explanation of the phenomenon of light through his study of this process, and the resultant seven shades of color, is accomplished by the spiritual scientist with regard to the soul being of man. The seven members in light become visible through an external contrivance, while the seven members of the soul become observable by a method consistent with the spiritual nature of the soul being of man.
The soul's true nature cannot be grasped without the knowledge of this inner organization because the soul, through its three members, physical body, life body and soul body, belongs to the transitory world; through its other four members, it is rooted in the eternal. In the unitary soul the transitory and the eternal are indistinguishably united. Unless one is aware of this differentiation of the soul, it is not possible to understand its relation to the world as a whole. Another comparison may also be used. The chemist separates water into hydrogen and oxygen. Neither of these substances can be observed in the unitary water. Nevertheless, each has its own proper existence. Hydrogen and oxygen both unite with other substances. Thus at death, the three lower members of the soul unite with the transitory part of the world being; the four higher members unite with the eternal. Anyone who objects to taking this differentiation of the soul into account resembles an analytical chemist who objects to knowing anything about the separation of water into hydrogen and oxygen.
what is the three parts of the body
Thus three members must be distinguished in the soul as in the body, namely, sentient soul, intellectual soul and consciousness soul. As the body works from below upwards with a limiting effect on the soul, so the spiritual works from above downwards into it, expanding it. The more the soul fills itself with the true and the good, the wider and the more comprehensive becomes the eternal in it. To him who is able to see the soul, the splendor radiating forth from a man in whom the eternal is expanding is just as much a reality as the light that streams out from a flame is real to the physical eye.
<a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://wn.elib.com/Steiner/Books/GA009/English/GA009_c01_4.html">http://wn.elib.com/Steiner/Books/GA009/English/GA009_c01_4.html</a>
[
Next Thread |
Previous Thread |
Next Message |
Previous Message
]
| |
Feedback: 