the spirit is what animates something and the soul is the thing that's being animated the soul is the vehicle of Consciousness that's being brought to life so that we can have an individual perspective an individual [Applause] [Music] experience during a spiritual Awakening we start to think deeper about what exactly is a soul does the soul even exist what is the soul and what is spirit are they the same thing and does everything have a soul so today I'm going to be explaining what the soul is and how it's different from Spirit as well as if everything has a soul the word Soul comes from old German and what it meant was body of water or or a lake and that's very appropriate when we're thinking of the Soul because the soul is a body of water but water in this case would mean spirit so the term Soul comes from the sea and when we're talking about sea and a body of water we're talking now about Consciousness itself if you'd like to know what I mean about the sea being Consciousness itself you can watch my video the Alchemy of water where I talk about how water in its highest form is ether it's spirit and it's known as the sea of Consciousness so a soul an individual soul that is acting as a current within the sea a body of water water being a part of the sea is going to be best understood as a vessel the word Soul comes from Old English and in Old English it translated to sea or body of water and then in old German it even translated out into being a lake so the soul is intimately connected with a sea and water and even a body of water so when we're talking about these origins of how a soul is connected with water and the Sea what we're really pointing to is actually its spiritual body its spiritual Essence because what a soul is is a current within the Sea Of Consciousness so imagine the current of water or the current within a sea and how that one current is separate from another current but it's still contained inside the sea well this is exact L the relationship between the soul and the spirit because the spirit is ultimately this Sea Of Consciousness that's what spirit is to be more precise if everything comes from Consciousness then the Soul would be the body it would be the vehicle or the current within the Sea Of Consciousness so it would be a body of spirit and that's what the soul is the soul is a vehicle that contains Numa or spirit so when we're talking about an individual experience that is separate from another individual experience these individualistic experiences are all considered soul in esoteric science the soul has anywhere from three to seven different bodies or aspects that it consists of it has a sentient aspect that perceives an inner world the sentient soul can take Impressions that come from the outer world and turn them into meaning the next aspect is the intellectual Soul the intellectual soul is meant to develop wisdom through reason thought and Imagination in some esoteric systems there is a more Divine aspect of the Soul this Divine aspect of the soul is transcendent and eternal this higher aspect of the Soul exists in a state of compassion and freedom when people are talking about the soul they're usually referring to this Divine aspect of it because of the different aspects that make up the soul the best way to describe what exactly a soul is would be a locus of the sense of eye this locus of a sense of eye holds the memory of everything it has experienced has mastered still seeks to learn and still seeks to balance all stored inside its field that's where the term old soul comes from the more spiritually evolved the soul stream becomes the more it manifests on higher planes of Consciousness before it gets to the level of the oversoul so the soul is the vehicle for spirit and that's also why the soul is spelled s o l e Soul as in one the soul so when we're talking about how the soul is a vehicle for Spirit it goes down in extensions it doesn't just go from Spirit to Soul instead everything in existence goes in these fractal forms or it goes down in layers and layers it goes down in scale so when something drops down in scale it becomes more unique and it becomes more personal or more individuated so the thing between the spirit or the Sea Of Consciousness and the Soul would be the oversoul if you'd like to know more about the oversoul you can watch my video the oversoul explained so things drop down in scale and each time they drop down now they start becoming more physical or now they start becoming more individual and that's why also the soul is known as the psyche because what the psyche is is the intersection between body and mind so the mind and the body are also different ways of saying spirit and soul because mind in hermeticism is known as Consciousness and this Sea Of Consciousness that we're talking about is ultimately spirit so what is the difference between a soul and a Spirit Well spirit is Numa that's what spirit means it means Numa and then different variations of that but Numa is the animating principle within all of existence and so the animating principle is consciousness Consciousness is is what animates something so to bring it to life it needs spirit and that's also why Numa is known as breath so the breath comes from Spirit and when we're talking about animating something imagine blowing up a balloon with air that's what I mean you're bringing something to life and what is life without breathing when we stop breathing we stop being alive we stop being animated into this experience and that's just a fractal everything you see here in the physical if you take it as the whole story that is very low Consciousness because we're all the symbol of what's happening at a metaphysical level so when we breathe the universe also is animated through breath but that breath once again is known as Numa and it's known as spirit so spirit is what animates something and the soul is the thing that's being animated the soul is the vehicle of Consciousness that's being brought to life so that we can have an individual perspective an individual experience but once again we're a part of this larger Sea Of Consciousness so that's why a current within the sea is the best way to describe what a soul is it would be one of the currents that's going as an extension of the larger part which is the sea so the current is still the sea but it's also an individual experience of the sea and that's why once again the soul is known as psyche it's the psyche is the intersection it's the Cross Point between mind AKA Spirit AKA Consciousness and body so sometimes some traditions look at the soul as being that intersection Point as it being also spirit and also the physical body and mind and that's the perfect example of why the word psyche is the word psyche because the word psyche doesn't mean the brain the word psyche we typically think of means the mind but the psyche is more than just the mind the psyche is when the physical body the soul and then the spirit are all a complex together known in this age as Body Mind Spirit complex so in the New Age we know this term of psyche or Soul sometimes expressed as a complex and like I said the body mind Spirit complex do you see how the body mind Spirit complex is just another way of saying that there's these different bodies and that when they're intersected and connected together they're creating a personal individual soul so at that point we're seeing Soul now as being this complex and I would say that's the best way to describe the soul the soul is a complex this is also why the Buddha said there was no soul it's because the Buddha was tuning in to the fact that what we're calling a soul or an individual experience is actually a complex but instead of viewing the soul as the body mind Spirit complex the Buddha saw this thing that we were perceiving as a soul as being a complex called the five Aggregates so the Buddha saw the soul just as this complex called Aggregates and what is an aggregate an aggregate is a collective it's what is the Sea of Consciousness it's a collective so Aggregates in this case as the five Aggregates that Buddha is referring to formation perception sensory Consciousness these different things that we would attribute to having a unique Essence called the soul the Buddhist saw as being not even belonging to a specific individual being called Soul called Body Mind instead the Buddha saw that what we were calling a soul or what the new age can call the body mind Spirit complex was in fact an individual experience that was created out of some sort of karmic complex some sort of venus fly trap really this sort of attachment to these sensory Sea Of Consciousness so the Buddha saw the five Aggregates when they get too enmeshed when they become too personalized too identified with as actually forming whatever we're calling the soul which is why the soul still exists it's just that if we're looking at it from the Buddhist perspective the soul is something that is a complex that we would actually need to awaken out of so that we can commune with our true nature which he would have considered empty and that's where his teaching of there being no self comes from it comes from the ultimate truth which is that emptiness or what I'm calling a sea of Consciousness or even beyond that the no thingness that is breath is the real truth it is this ultimate emptiness that is animating and pervading all shapes or all forms and when they come into a form and they intersect that is called a soul here's where there can be a little confusion in both Alchemy and in hermetic tradition the term mind means spirit the Hermetic principle all is mind really means all is Spirit but the soul or psyche is also known as mind so the confusion can come from trying to understand why does mind mean both Soul and Spirit that is because in alchemy the soul and the spirit trade places the soul is the one known as the sea of Consciousness and the spirit is known as the medium for that Consciousness which structures the soul or structures the Sea Of Consciousness into a physical form through thought in this system it would go Consciousness structures itself into a thought AKA spirit and thought then materializes itself into form so it would go soul to Spirit to body in alchemy everything is Created from this Trinity of Soul spirit and body but in varying degrees however in most esoteric systems the spirit is God Consciousness and the soul is self-consciousness the spirit is the macrocosm and the soul is the microcosm the soul is the reflection of the above the soul is our God spark it is the stream of Consciousness rather than Consciousness itself if anything we have just learned how all pervading mind is it cannot be pinned down by one aspect one attribute or even one domain so there is such a thing as a soul it's just explained differently perceived differently and it is known differently depending on what tradition or what spiritual system that we're talking about it and learning about it through in alchemy the soul is not only real it is actually where the great work is meant to happen so the soul is also known in alchemy as being the perfected state of the elements so water fire air Earth and ether are those alchemical elements ether is known as the quintessence and it's also known as spirit so watch my video on the Alchemy of water if you really want to understand Spirit as being water but ether Spirit breaks itself into to the different elements and when it becomes an individual element such as fire or water or Earth or air now it goes through a the process of the great work now it goes through the process of recombining itself purifying itself and it becomes more integrated and more coherent more unified each time that it gets purified in the realm of spirit so in alchemy the soul and the spirit are meant to be not only in Union but the spirit is meant to help Liberate the soul so when we're talking about the soul specifically with Alchemy what we're talking about is the soul is not just the thing that's being worked on to reach Enlightenment it's also being rectified rectification is a huge theme in Alchemy me which simply in this case means that the soul is being redeemed it's being purified it's being awakened so that it can come into Enlightenment because when the soul is in you Enlightenment now the soul is united with spirit it's no longer separate from Spirit it is now the awakened the enlightened the liberated body of spirit rather than being trapped in the ego Consciousness in the Venus fly paper of the Aggregates so you see how in this case that I'm just creating right now Buddha's whole teaching of there being no self is not at all in conflict with Alchemy they're actually in harmony Because I Said So in some traditions of mysticism the soul is Immortal and in other traditions of mysticism the soul is mortal not only is it mortal you are lucky if you have one and this is where esotericism and mysticism are no chill because we usually think of the Soul as a given we take for granted that the soul is imortal but in reality and especially in Fourth Way teachings where I come from you have to earn a soul and what I mean by that is you might be a current of this greater sea of consciousness so you might have a vehicle of spirit but what is the quality of this vessel what is the quality of this vehicle of this body of spirit and in many threads of mysticism this quality that we call a soul is something that is not a given and that we have to continue to develop over lifetimes because it either grows and evolves and develops into ultimately its next octave or its next density or it regresses it de evolves and it ends up becoming entropic in nature when I'm talking about entropy in this specific scenario I'm talking about how the quality of the Soul can just continue to devolve until all of its spirit that is contained within it just disperses it just chaotically disperses and eventually when that happens and you just keep dispersing that spiritual energy for so long it ends up in what's known in mysticism as second death but there's a long road between that and second death and it's ugly so these teachings about the soul being on a trajectory to develop and evolve or to devolve and disperse itself is also known in hermeticism it's known in hermeticism as teachings that have to do with karma meaning that even if we ourselves don't believe in another life or we ourselves don't believe in evolution that nature will still have to compensate for our individual soul nature will still have to go through a recycling process where it's balancing AK Kaa The entropy is dispersing it transforming it back into sheer Creative Energy for the universe to use so that whole process of it dispersing the soul is where we start thinking of Soul loss is where we start thinking of soulless right because things aren't really soulless you could just have more Soul or less soul and I know that sometimes in the spiritual Comm Community we get too spiritual to function that we don't want to acknowledge the fact that there are such a thing as having more Soul or more development or less Soul or less development but there is such a thing and that's why it's so important when you have to look at things like oh is that selling your soul or not why because we have free will and with that what we're doing is actually using our free will to either evolve or to devolve and that's a longer process but I'm summing it up between evolving or devolving and what all that evolving or devolving is actually doing is it's having the soul either evolve grow cultivate develop more or it's having it degrade so as we can see the soul is an interesting character because it can either be unified and when it's in this unified and coherent way it's coming into Enlightenment where it is Spirit but now it's spirit in an awakened vessel and that is what I would consider the best term for soul it would be vessel a vessel of spirit and what we have is the soul being the vessel of spirit Spirit meaning Numa meaning breath it could also be looked at in eastern Traditions as shaki but having Numa breath Prana be the animating life force it is what gives animation it is what gives life it gives breath into a particular being is the dynamism within creation it is the creative process between existence which is spirit and experiencer which is soul I hope this has helped you merge your soul and Spirit make sure to subscribe to my channel for higher dimensional guidance through Spiritual Awakening see you next time [Music] [Applause] [Music]