My Essence

Essence of man can neither be in his corporeal form that is finite or in its abstract aspect as his mind.
What is mind?
It is something that his body can make use of. Mind is an accretion of many past influences, experiences and ideas that he can access to. Only in the way he uses them he puts his own stamp. No two persons see an event the same way. When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans one preacher saw it as divine retribution as He did with Sodom and Gomorrah. When his wife and daughter died in a tragic auto-crash he said, “ It was God teaching him to love Him more than anyone else on the earth’. .
One would ask,” Does God achieve His ends with you and me by dancing on the misery of others?"
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Man interprets his visible world with a logic peculiar to him. His actions also show his rational standpoint. He is not master of the consequences of his actions. His logic also falls apart as a rope of sand.
Coming back to my main point man’s essence cannot be in his body or its abstract shadows but in the way he acts. Soul therefore becomes the single most vital tool that he has in order to carve his name for all time.
Trying to please a world that is constantly changing with what is your essence is like writing your name on water. If you try to make an idea bear your essence, it shall be unfaithful in any other. Fine idea it was to found a new Canaan in the New World. When it has come at the cost of placing the Native Americans into reservations, squalor and degradation, the Acts passed by the Nation has killed the soul of the idea.
I shall end this post with my definition for soul as the quintessence or identity of the being. Many strands of Truth of nature, of experience and of action, all plaited into one. While the body is corporeal soul is timeless.
benny

Truth Of Imagination

Ficus sycomorus grows to 20 m tall and 6 m wide with a dense round crown of spreading branches. The leaves are heart-shaped with a round apex, 14 cm long by 10 cm wide, and arranged spirally around the twig. (wikipedia)
Because the shadow cast by the tree is extensive any seed falling within the shade will not get enough sunlight to germinate. So it makes sense if the tree can send its seeds farther from its shade.
The incomparable Renaissance man, Leonardo daVinci observing the way seeds are cast out hit upon a flying machine that we know as helicopters. In his day technology being what it was his sketch remained merely a fantasy. A figment of man’s imagination. Come five centries man has learnt to design choppers and his drawing remains a milestone in the history of aviation.
What was the force of his imagination? His mind could assimilate the experience of the tree.
Imagination is that curious ability of the mind to crytallize experience from anywhere in Cosmos and set out new uses. He made the past serve the present and future. DaVinci in a manner of speaking compressed the age-old wisdom of a tree and turned it upside down. By his imagination he brought a time lapse of some five centuries to serve his needs.
Let me draw attention to another :
H. G Wells, along with Hugo Gernsback and Jules Verne, is sometimes referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction".
Truth of Imagination
“An Experiment in Prophecy" is considered his most explicitly futuristic work. Anticipating what the world would be like in the year 2000, the book is interesting both for its hits (trains and cars resulting in the dispersion of population from cities to suburbs; moral restrictions declining as men and women seek greater sexual freedom; the defeat of German militarism, and the existence of a European Union) and its misses (he did not expect successful aircraft before 1950, and averred that "my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocate its crew and founder at sea").(ack: wikipedia)
Imagination is the quality of mind to compress time and space in real time of a life form to establish new framework for experience.
Thus Adam could design the priestly dress for Aaron though he intended it for himself. Weaving and materials needed for such a design to be reality would come later. ( According to scholars Moses lived somewhere around 1200 BC,. Whatever time lapsed from Adam till Moses was reconciled in his imgination.)
benny