Spirit vs.Soul
A Matter Of Symmetry
The material universe is a puzzle where within an atom we find protons or elecrons following their path as scrupulously ordained as it were, subject to certain laws. If one did travel through microcosmos into macrocosmos and thence through the heart of an atom one could arrive at where he or she started from.
Space in the heart of an atom is same as in cosmos. It must naturally make a powerful impact on us. Our finite factor is like a safety mechanism- something similar to what body experiences when oxygen to the brain is shut off, by which we lose consciousness, to prevent us from fully grasping the threshold of Nullity or that infinite limit. Neverthelss our material make up has its own symmetry. In a Full Circle going up through macro cosmos or down through micro cosmos would mean nothing but for our consciousness hitching a ride on the universal consciousness. ( Wakeful we are actively seeking our own direction. While asleep we are merely passive.)
Going one way I might say I am following where my spirit is leading; In the other direction I may say that it is my soul’s delight. One is a high road and the other a low road.
What would that in practical terms mean? In order to succeed in life one must know how the system works. Making use of opportunities and connections to get ahead show one’s awareness of the external world. One may disregard every control or principle in order to gain one’s objectives. One may defend one’s actions by saying that he or she is a realist to take on the world in its terms. Whereas you may think otherwise. You cannot allow yourself to a course of action against your principles and rules of conduct in which you have been brought up. Accordingly you have set a standard for success where you satisfy your principles and can be at ease with your actions. In your case you let the world take you at your terms while another take the world in its terms. Spirit is that road which lets any one take the world as it is. Spirit takes you to interact with the external world. It is a visible life. Whereas Soul is that pathway from which you let the world look into your inner life.
Great works of art, music and literature hold mirror to your soul. You see a glimpse of your own, perhaps a little more clear.
benny
Labels: metaphysics
posted by benny @ 12:17 AM
1 Comments:
For me, at present, but not basically subject to change, the soul is me already full grown and in a 'world' vastly different than this one we know here now. However, this one here now, is my growing aware of who I am, my whole soul, and so is inside that me in my fullness. As such, I, or my soul, including this body at present, sees outward changes in itself, wrongly interpreted often.
Rightfully interpreted, these outward changes, including my body would be less de-constructive as a nature. And if this were true for the majority of 'us', 'nature' would be vastly less de-constructive.
Spirit is the level of all of us as full souls, glimpsed in part, thru the glass darkly, but here, and able to be lived according to desire, within the constraints of the majority, unfortunately, but maybe something can be done about that, something not 'physical'.
Hope so.
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