Whatever knows certain things cannot have any of them in its own nature; because that which is in it naturally would impede knowledge of anything else. There is never time to say our last word—the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remourse, submission, revolt. Many ancient scholars like Plato, Socrates and Pythagoras wanted to explain how the Universe works rather than justify why everything is for the best. The contrast of the physiological conditions of human behavior with the reasons the agent has for acting as he does because of the rational agents are of their very nature incorporeal. Rationality is somehow essentially supernatural and the bodily occurrences involved in rational behavior cannot be completely compassed in any scientific explanation. Justification and appraisal of actions is so totally different from the causal explanation of physiological events, questions and answers belonging to the one Universe of discourse cannot rival those belonging to the others.  The word soul is etymologically related to such words in the Greek language as alive (literally, ensouled), and swooning or death (literally, abandonment by the soul). #RyanPhillippe 1 of 6

The eyes are admittedly material, yet that does not prevent us from using them for seeing material things, including other people’s eyes and even—in mirrors—our own. Death is a matter of the soul’s permanently leaving its body; the soul was thought of as a puff of air, an invisible vapor, that would be dispersed in the breeze. Thus, every little gust of wind causes a new deflection of light, and this produces the phenomenon, after passing through the highest layers in the atmosphere. In this connection we might therefore distinguish two sense of soul. In the first, to have a soul means to be alive; in the second soul is the word for a class of suppositious entities, corporeal but elusive. At first, they appear as curious plays of light, chiaroscuros, like the evanescent luminous dappling when the Sunlight passes over forest leaves. Souls are caused by a phenomenon analogous to stars twinkling at night. We are created from spirit. It is that spirit that will lead to our next destination. Those who hold the desire, those who remove the layers of illusion, those who compromise the image of what we are, will be able to stand the truth, merge with the light and continue. Those who do not will inevitably experience, in their frequency, the full, spectacular force of the Earth Changes. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 6

The soul Is not only to sense organs but also to that principle of intellectual operation which we call the soul—something which is radically different from anything corporeal. That is why it is so important for us to strive for balance of the spirit and the flesh. The soul is the principle of life. In this sense we do have souls, for to say that a creature possess a soul in this sense is just a misleadingly substantival way of describing it as alive. The flesh can only transmute in accordance with the spiritual fortitude we can hold within our consciousness. The season of the flesh is past. Become one with your spirit. Learn to be one with the Creator. The soul in this sense is equivalent to the term soul construed as a synonym for person (albeit for persons recognized to be incorporeal objects). The soul is as the principle of life and is the bearer of moral values. The soul is something that moves itself and that whatever moves itself must be ingenerable and incorruptible.  God is the Unmoved Mover. Justice and equality are corresponding abstract ideas or forms. These ideas are eternal and incorporeal substances, intelligible to the intellect as material things are sensible to the sense. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 6

After all, you have heard of Universal Laws, and how the Bible says do on to others are you would have them do on to you because everything you put out there will come back to you. These Ideas of Universal Laws, justice, and equality are thought of as providing answers to both questions about criteria—What makes an X count as an X?—and to question of a more casual character—What is ultimately responsible for the existence of X’s? The soul is the principle of life, and this is equated, in terms of the theory of Ideas, with the Form of Life. Everything is frequency, it is a matter of harmonics. It is up to each one of us to accept and embrace the God within (the soul). No one will come to lift us from our own chosen dilemma. That is what we have created; only we can change the outcome. That is why it is so important to realize that humanity, collectively acting as individuals, each working with what is before us each day, can affect the outcome of our destiny as a whole. Life can never be overcome by Death. Thus, the conclusion is that the soul as the very Idea of Life is essentially deathless and eternal and, hence, the immortal part of us is not destroyed by death, for our souls will exist somewhere in another World. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 6

The Abstract Intellect (or any other putative Abstract Reality) is essentially eternal is really no reason for saying that anything at all actually goes on forever. In a way, it is correct to say that such things as necessary truth and the logical relations between abstract mathematical concepts are somehow timeless and eternal. Yet this is not a matter of the existence of anything imperishable, but rather, of its not making sense to ask temporal questions about the periods during which any of these trusts and these relations obtain. From eternity in this sense we can have nothing either to hope or to fear. The distinction between two senses of eternity is fundamental in discussing personal immortality. We are concerned only with a life that would live on forever; the eternity of mere abstraction is not to the point. In the light of this distinction we can better appreciate that the soul belongs to the same category as the abstract Ideas and, hence, that is the sort of thing that may be presumed immortal.  The presumption that an incorporeal substance would be naturally incorruptible and souls, like everything else, are sustained by God and would be at once annihilated if he chooses to withdraw his support. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 6

Because every sort of thing has its once congenital evil, because nothing can be destroyed by anything but its own congenital evil, because the congenital evil of the soul is wickedness, and because wickedness as such is never directly lethal to the wicked man, our souls must be immortal. Our intellects are both incorporeal and substances. Pure intellectual activity, abstract cognition, is something rather grand, almost divine, and occupations only for the highest sort of person. The soul, therefore, includes the intellect and is in no way truly itself an individual. And so it is truly a form beginning with, and ceasing to be with, the body; nor can it in any way operate or exist without the body. The principle of intellectual operation which we call the soul is both incorporeal and subsistent. It is likewise impossible for it to understand by means of a bodily organ; since the particular nature of the organ would prevent its knowing all bodies; compare the way in which liquid put into a glass vase seems to be of the same colour, not only when some particular colour is in the pupil of the eye, but when it is in the vase. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 6