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Soul Energy(soul)
1. Sin (pride)
2. Ujjval Aatma (equality)

There are many, many different views of what a soul is, and on Shem, all of them are true. A soul is...

...what gives a body life. Without a soul, a body is not truly 'alive'. A person without a soul is not necessarily dead or undead, but they become stagnant, amoral, and purposeless. Corporeal undead are not necessarily soulless, but most are.
...active in the Dream Realm. What one dreams is a reflection of the state of one's soul.
...the source of free will. Without a soul, one may function on one's own, but it is merely a bodily/mental/emotional 'memory' of what free will was. Without a soul, it is easy to be controlled by others, mortal or Divine.
...consciousness, self-awareness, cognition. The mind is the tool by which one has cognition. The body and the mind combine to give perception. But the soul gives meaning.
...the essence of an individual. Identity, personality. What makes a person unique.
...incorporeal. Only through supernatural means may a soul be perceived.
...the actus primus. The soul is the beginning experience of a being, the primer, the blueprint, the clean slate state that is before all other actualities. It is how we begin.
...the final cause. The soul is the purpose of a being, the reason for their being.
...bound to the body. The heart, the eyes, and the forehead are considered the three points at which most individuals' souls are contained in/connected to the body.
...independent of the body. A soul exists whether the body, mind, or emotions exist. Because one becomes what one knows, if the soul know of a corporeal thing, it would become that thing. Therefore, since a person does not become a thing, then the soul is independent of the body, for the soul is what becomes the thing.
...what is indicated when someone says "I."
...immortal and nigh indestructible. It takes great supernatural power to destroy a soul, and a soul cannot die from age or time.
...the source of inner experience.
...contained in struggle. A soul is defined and enforced by the low points, given richness and meaning by experience.
...archetypical. A soul is not a reduction of a person to an archetype, but the core concept upon which experience is etched.
...between intangible and tangible. It exists in between the material realm and the mental realm.
...objective. A soul is not defined by how it is perceived, but by how it is.
...unknowable. None will ever truly understand a soul, or even the whole concept of the soul.
...impermanent. Because all things change, even souls change.
...morality. Ones morality affects the soul before it affects the body, mind, or emotion, because morality comes from the soul. Conscience resides in the soul.
...spiritual principle. It defines the rules by which we live.
...spirital principal. It is the primary source of being upon which the rest of being is built upon.
...the breathe of life. The soul is associated with breathing.
...the center. It is the source from which the rest of us springs, but also around which we revolve.
...eternal. It is not merely immortal, it is birthless. It has always been and always will be.
...a record of experience. What we experience is imprinted upon the soul, giving us meaning.
...a command: "exist."
...a combination of many aspects of the self that are intangible: instinct, emotion, morality, intellect, awareness.
...part Divine, and one with the Divine.
...transcendent.
...a memory of the selfless, cooperative state one existed in before existing, the communal being.
...the source of all meaning, both what we perceive and how we are perceived.
...a shadow of what we are, the faded remnant of our Names. The soul is an echo of our whole selves.
...the source of will.
...our continued existence in memory, whether we live or not. The soul is the part of us that lives in others as well as ourselves, a complete picture formed by an infinite number of perceptions.
...able to lose immortal status, but also regain (or simply gain) it. The soul is susceptible to other powers.
...the image of what we are capable of becoming. It is the ideal self within our flawed self.
...the bearer of our sins and the fount of our virtues. The soul reflects the good and bad in us, and our actions shape it.
...the source of the mind's strength. Without the soul, the mind would have no dominion over the body.
...infinite, boundless. The soul has no limits.

It is different from the Name of a thing in that it exists independently from body, mind, and emotion, though it affects and interacts with all of those things. The Name contains all of those things, and includes the interactions with them.

Topic revision: r4 - 07 Jun 2022, SallyJaneBlack

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