This publication addresses the question that almost any thinking person asks himself in one form or another. Even small children are often interested in the secrets of the universe, asking their parents where and how the world around came from. Such questions are also asked: “What is the Soul?”, And “If it lives inside me, then where does it go after my death?”. Years pass and many people turn their attention to solving certain problems, while others follow the Path of Spiritual Search.
In order to understand what the Soul is, it is necessary to ask what the sources of spiritual knowledge say about this. For example, it may be the Bible, the Qur'an, the Bhagavad-gita. One of the epistles of the Apostle Paul says that the Spirit, Soul and body should not have any vice. There are several biblical meanings of the term that interests us:
- Living creature: human or animal.
- Personality.
- A life.
Reflecting on the previously mentioned epistle of the Apostle Paul and on other passages of the Holy Scriptures, we can draw the corresponding conclusion: The soul is a person’s personality. It can be said in another way: "A man is a Spirit who has a Soul and He lives in a body." There are other opinions, since the topic itself has been raised for many centuries. One can recall the Greek philosopher Democritus, who gave the Soul the properties of material matter. He considered its components light, mobile atoms of fire.
Plato had an understanding closer to the interpretation that we proposed on the basis of the texts of the Holy Scriptures - the Bible. This ancient Greek philosopher and student of Socrates recognized the Soul as an independent substance living in the body. Plato, considering this issue, suggested that this essence is divine and eternal, sublime and invisible. A student of Plato, Aristotle created a famous treatise, which is called "On the Soul". It denies that it can be a substance.
However, Aristotle, unlike idealistic philosophers, does not accept the consideration of the term separately from a living body (matter). The main function of the Soul, he calls the implementation of the biological functions of the body. If we return to Socrates, then this pundit, a philosopher of ancient Greece, devoted much to the study of the secrets of the universe and the consideration of human nature. If we could ask him what the Soul is, then the answer might also seem similar to the biblical meaning of the word.
Socrates claimed that during his life on Earth man prepares his Soul for its further existence. He believed that her real life begins only after the death of the physical body. Something like this term is considered by religion, meaning by it a certain entity that connects God with man. Even in the book of Genesis it is written that after the Lord breathed life into the crown of His creation , man became a living Soul.
Moreover, if you carefully study the Holy Scriptures, you can pay attention to the fact that God also has a Soul. It also says that She can show certain emotions. For example: to love, to enjoy, to hate, to rejoice, to grieve, to lose heart, to be embarrassed. It is noteworthy that, according to the Bible, animals also have a spirit. The book of Ecclesiastes says that no one knows where he goes after their death. And in chapter 17 of the book "Leviticus" (in verses 10-14), there is a ban on the ingestion of animal blood.
It is ordered to let the blood leak to the ground, and only then prepare the caught bird or beast. The reason is precisely because the soul of the animal is in this substance.
It turns out that the question of what the Soul is human or animal, you can give the following answer: "This is an immortal, intangible entity that continues to live after the death of the physical body." It is impossible to ignore the psychology, which owes its name to such a phrase as "the science of the soul." In fact, she does not give a definite answer to the question posed in this study.
In modern psychology, a term such as "psyche" is inherent, which, in turn, consists of the Subconscious, Conscious and Superconscious. Indeed, in some way it is impossible to study the Soul in laboratory conditions. Accordingly, each person has the right to a personal understanding of this issue.