Sentence examples for lower soul from inspiring English sources

The process of elevating and integrating the lower soul into its source or "root" in the godhead is a process of self-realization in which the "lower" soul, associated with consciousness, is gradually detached from the dominance of the body and imagination and then gradually assimilated into the "higher" soul and the godhead.

The master teaches him constant jihad, or struggle (the real "Holy War"), against the lower soul, often represented as a black dog, which should, however, not be killed but merely tamed and used in the way of God.

In this last case it will be the double task of philosophy to direct this lower Soul towards the higher, the agent, and except in so far as the conjunction is absolutely necessary, to sever the agent from the instrument, the body, so that it need not forever have its Act upon or through this inferior.

It is said that the disciple should be in the hands of the master "like a corpse in the hand of the washer". The master teaches him constant jihad, or struggle (the real "Holy War"), against the lower soul, often represented as a black dog, which should, however, not be killed but merely tamed and used in the way of God.

If there be in them, as the opinion goes, human Souls that have sinned, then the Animating-Principle in its separable phase does not enter directly into the brute; it is there but not there to them; they are aware only of the image of the Soul [only of the lower Soul] and of that only by being aware of the body organised and determined by that image.

As noted above, Porphyry distinguishes between the rational (higher) soul and the non-rational (lower) soul.

For Israeli, the Purification stage involves three activities: an ascetic rejection of bodily desires and pleasures, and the dominance of the two lower souls; a worship of God combined with ethical behavior towards one's fellow men; and the study of philosophy to develop one's rational soul.

The Chinese distinguished between a lower, sensitive soul, which disappears with death, and a rational principle, the hun, which survives the grave and is the object of ancestor worship.

They are the archetypes and causes of the necessarily imperfect realities on lower levels, souls and the patterns or structures that make bodies what they are.

Marjorie kept throwing up every control rod, no matter how many were lowered into her soul.

When you steal, when you murder, when you act in ways that let the lower part of your soul do what the higher part of your soul tells you shouldn't, you're exactly like the person who has these ill-gotten gains.