What Men Thought: What Is Soul?

WHAT MEN THOUGHT

What Is Soul?

[From The Rosicrucian Digest July 1947]

As from a blazing fire in a thousand ways similar sparks proceed, so are produced living Souls ... from the Indestructible and they also return to Him.--The Mundake Upanishad.

The Soul is the man's real self.--Plotinus.

Ever consider and think upon the world as being but one living substance and having but one Soul.--Marcus Aurelius.

And in the center he put the Soul which he diffused throughout the body...--Plato.

The mind is never right but when it is at peace with itself; the Soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh.--Seneca.

No atom of matter, in the whole vastness of the Universe is lost; how then can man's Soul, which comprises the whole world in one idea, be lost?--The Talmud.

The Soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the five senses; it is in this fire that existence consists.--Madame De Stael.

...Within man is the Soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One.--Emerson.

And some hold that the Soul is diffused through the universe. Perhaps this is what led Thales to say that all things are full of Gods.--Aristotle.

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WHAT MEN THOUGHT What Is Soul? [From The Rosicrucian Digest July 1947] As from a blazing fire in a thousand ways similar sparks proceed, so are produced living Souls ... from the Indestructible and they also return to Him.--The Mundake Upanishad. The Soul is the man's real self.--Plotinus. Ever consider and think upon the world as being but one living substance and having but one Soul.--Marcus Aurelius. And in the center he put the Soul which he diffused throughout the body...--Plato. The mind is never right but when it is at peace with itself; the Soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh.--Seneca. No atom of matter, in the whole vastness of the Universe is lost; how then can man's Soul, which comprises the whole world in one idea, be lost?--The Talmud. The Soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the five senses; it is in this fire that existence consists.--Madame De Stael. ...Within man is the Soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One.--Emerson. And some hold that the Soul is diffused through the universe. Perhaps this is what led Thales to say that all things are full of Gods.--Aristotle.

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