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Galen also made a focus on the view on nature. He agreed with ancient doctrine of the four elements which includes the earth, water, wind and the fire to embody the cold, hot dry and wet irreducible qualities. This made a correspondence to the essential body humors which includes the blood, the black bile the phlegm and the yellow bile.
Plato described the universe as a living being in his dialogue Timaeus (30b–d): . Thus, then, in accordance with the likely account, we must declare that this Cosmos has verily come into existence as a Living Creature endowed with soul and reason [...] a Living Creature, one and visible, containing within itself all the living creatures which are by nature akin to itself.
The Modern English noun soul is derived from Old English sāwol, sāwel.The earliest attestations reported in the Oxford English Dictionary are from the 8th century. In King Alfred's translation of De Consolatione Philosophiae, it is used to refer to the immaterial, spiritual, or thinking aspect of a person, as contrasted with the person's physical body; in the Vespasian Psalter 77.50, it ...
The astral body is a subtle body posited by many philosophers, intermediate between the intelligent soul and the mental body, composed of a subtle material. [1] In many recensions the concept ultimately derives from the philosophy of Plato though the same or similar ideas have existed all over the world well before Plato's time: it is related to an astral plane, which consists of the planetary ...
In the rational creatures pneuma is manifested in the highest degree of purity and intensity as an emanation from the world-soul. [60] Humans have souls because the universe has a soul, [62] and human rationality is the same as God's rationality. [3] The pneuma that is soul pervades the entire human body. [61]
Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the best evidence to date that ...
It is the soul alone who makes the necessary efforts to achieve liberation without any divine grace. [13] [14] Jains frequently assert that “we are alone” in this world. Amongst the Twelve Contemplations of Jains, one is the loneliness of one's soul and nature of the universe and transmigration. Hence only by cleansing our soul by our own ...
121. "That's why they're called crushes. If they were easy, they'd call them something else." — Sixteen Candles 122. "I have a crush on your mind. I feel for your personality.