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Plato's theory of the soul, which was inspired variously by the teachings of Socrates, considered the psyche (Ancient Greek: ψῡχή, romanized: psūkhḗ) to be the essence of a person, being that which decides how people behave.
The Old Testament consistently uses three primary words to describe the parts of man: basar (flesh), which refers to the external, material aspect of man (mostly in emphasizing human frailty); nephesh, which refers to the soul as well as the whole person or life; and ruach which is used to refer to the human spirit (ruach can mean "wind", "breath", or "spirit" depending on the context; cf ...
Incarnation literally means embodied in flesh or taking on flesh. It is the conception and the embodiment of a deity or spirit in some earthly form [1] or an anthropomorphic form of a god. [2] It is used to mean a god, deity, or Divine Being in human or animal form on Earth.
Ahöla, also known as Ahul, is a spirit being, a kachina, embodied by a man, in Hopi religion.. Ahöla is one of the important chief katsinam for First and Second Mesas because he opens the mid-winter Powamu ceremony, sometimes called the bean planting festival.
This spiritual body was then able to interact with the many entities extant in the afterlife. As a part of the larger construct, the ꜣḫ, the sꜥḥ was sometimes seen as an avenging spirit which would return from the underworld to seek revenge on those who had wronged the spirit in life. A well-known example was found in a tomb from the ...
Pneuma (πνεῦμα) is an ancient Greek word for "breath", and in a religious context for "spirit". [1] [2] It has various technical meanings for medical writers and philosophers of classical antiquity, particularly in regard to physiology, and is also used in Greek translations of ruach רוח in the Hebrew Bible, and in the Greek New Testament.
Thumos may draw from this to strengthen man with our reasoning, this tripartite division is as follows: Reason (thoughts, reflections, questioning) Spiritedness (ego, glory, honor) and; Desires (natural e.g. food, drink, sex vs unnatural e.g. money, power).
In Ancient India, the concept of macranthropy is embodied in the mahant-ātman or "vast self" of the Early and Middle Upaniṣads, a non-individualized spirit that originates and permeates the universe. [2] This vast ātman enters all beings as their life force, a notion preceding the mahān (ātmā) of Sāṃkhya philosophy. [2]