Today we have Soul-mate, Soul-sister, Soul-music, Soul-train, and Soul-food and soul kiss.
The word describes the sound post of a violin as well as the bore of a cannon.
There are soul and body lashings, soul-candles, soul-snatchers, and soul-catchers.
And let's not forget soul-ale.
And then there are the expressions, such as he's a lost soul, or a poor soul.
Also, we are told that everything will eventually crumble and pass away, that is, everything but the soul.
If, then, the soul does not die as the body does, what is it? It is energy-energy created by the Divine.
Because the soul is energy we have the "living" opportunity to recreate our own beings, and to bring them into use.
This might be in another plane in this universe or in a parallel universe.
The Law of Thermodynamics is applicable to the human soul.
The First Law of Thermodynamics states that energy can not be created or destroyed, only transformed.
The soul does not die.
It is energy.
The question now becomes, into what is the soul transformed? It becomes the essence of that which created it, the Divine.
If, on the other hand, one views the soul only as a vague and unrelated entity, meaning it has nothing to with the Self, we have another issue.
The issue is the failure to recognize the Soul and Self as being one and the same.
It is accepted that the body dies.
That physical body is simply like an automobile that carries Its passenger about.
If it breaks down it eventually stops working.
The soul, however doesn't end up in a junk yard; it transcends condition by moving to what the Ancients called the Akasha Record, that is, the source of all.
There, the soul waits until it is needed again.
Buddhism and Hinduism both acknowledge a "re-incarnation" during which the individual completes unfinished business, learns new lessons, or learns failed lessons.
Even though it is generally acknowledged we can't see a physical thing called the soul, and despite the efforts of some in the medical profession to verify its existence, we can honestly say it is energy.
We can't see magnetic energy with the human eye but we know that it exists.
And that brings me to the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
If the soul is energy it cannot be depleted.
It can be transformed into something else.
In the case of the soul, who is to say it is not returned from its celestial journey to another human body or as a Spirit.
Maybe you have experienced the touch of a soul, the extra little breeze across your cheek or glimpsed a slight change in the light in a room or have sensed someone standing behind you? Maybe, just maybe you have experienced a soul passing by.
If one accepts the notion of a soul, created by a divine entity (non-religious based) then does it not follow that the created soul encompasses some of that divinity? And as such, the soul becomes a part of the total creative processes of the cosmos.
I call this process, fecundity.
Just recently we have witnessed the birth of a new star.
New planets are being created.
The cosmos is alive.
And so are we! As a consequence of this freedom, we, as Katrina Raphaell in her, The Crystaline Transformation A Synthesis of Light.
Aurora Press.
1990, p.
41.
so aptly says, "...
no longer need to be bound by the beliefs that the spirit cannot move freely in the physical world and that in order to got o heaven we first have to die and leave our bodies.
" Norman W Wilson, PhD