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Western Esoteric
The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians
The Sevenfold Soul of Man (20)
The Animal Soul is the seat of the purely animal desires, and in the work of developing and satisfying the same it has built up out of the substance of which it is composed, and which it has absorbed from the substances of the vegetable and mineral plane beneath it, certain complex organs and groups of organs. Its intelligence and consciousness are concerned simply with the physical well-being of their owner, the man, just as in the animal they are concerned with the physical well-being of the animal owner. Moreover, certain of the purely vegetable processes, such as nutrition, reproduction, etc., are in part taken over by the Animal Soul and additional power and complexity bestowed upon them. The desires of man which we usually refer to as "purely physical" belong to the Animal Soul. The chief desires of the Animal Soul are concerned with the offices of nutrition and reproduction, and manifest respectively as Self Preservation and Sex Desire (on the physical plane, of course), and as Love of Offspring.
Neoplatonic
Our Tutelary Spirit (2)
It is of this Soul especially that we read "All Soul has care for the Soulless"- though the several Souls thus care in their own degree and way. The...
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Western Esoteric
Chapter VIII: Planes of Correspondence (18)
The Plane of Animal Mind, in its seven sub-divisions, comprises the states and conditions of the entities, beings, or souls, animating the animal...
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Neoplatonic
The Animate and the Man (11)
In childhood the main activity is in the Couplement and there is but little irradiation from the higher principles of our being: but when these...
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Neoplatonic
How the Multiplicity of the Ideal-forms Came Into Being: and Upon the Good (6)
It is the perception of what falls under perception There, sensation in the mode of that realm: it is the source of the soul's perception of the sense...
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Neoplatonic
The Origin and Order of the Beings. Following on the First (2)
To resume: there is from the first principle to ultimate an outgoing in which unfailingly each principle retains its own seat while its offshoot...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Ancient Mysteries and Secret Societies: Part Three (7)
The soul of man--often called Psyche, and in the Eleusinian Mysteries symbolized by Persephone--is essentially a spiritual thing. Its true home is in...
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Neoplatonic
The Animate and the Man (5)
Now this Animate might be merely the body as having life: it might be the Couplement of Soul and body: it might be a third and different entity...
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Neoplatonic
Problems of the Soul (2) (22)
Are we to imagine beneath the leading principle some sort of corporeal echo of it, something that would be tendency or desire in us and is growth in t...
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Neoplatonic
The Soul's Descent Into Body (3)
The Human Soul, next; Everywhere we hear of it as in bitter and miserable durance in body, a victim to troubles and desires and fears and all forms...
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Neoplatonic
Problems of the Soul (2) (20)
As with bodily pain and pleasure so with the bodily desires; their origin, also, must be attributed to what thus stands midway, to that Nature we...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (37)
But when he saw that he was so fair and beautiful, and found or felt his inward birth and great power or authority, then his spirit, which he had gene...
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Christian Mysticism
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 8: Of the Creation of the Creatures, and of the Springing up of every growing Thing; as also of the Stars and Elements, and of the Original of the a Substance of this World. (39)
Now then if the Beast's [or Animal's Nature] was merely out of a Lump of Earth, then they would eat Earth; but feeling fit is proceeded out of the...
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Neoplatonic
Problems of the Soul (1) (23)
I explain: A living body is illuminated by soul: each organ and member participates in soul after some manner peculiar to itself; the organ is...
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Neoplatonic
The Immortality of the Soul (14)
And if there is in the animal world any other phase of soul, its only possible origin, since it is the life-giver, is, still, that one principle of li...
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Greek
Physiology and Human Nature (77b)
Timaeus: these being older than the cultivated kinds. For everything, in fact, which partakes of life may justly and with perfect truth be termed a...
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Neoplatonic
On the Integral Omnipresence of the Authentic Existent (1) (15)
It had a certain aptitude and it grasped at that to which it was apt. In its nature it was capable of soul: but what is unfitted to receive soul entir...
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Neoplatonic
The Soul's Descent Into Body (8)
The object of the Intellectual Act comes within our ken only when it reaches downward to the level of sensation: for not all that occurs at any part o...
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Neoplatonic
II, Chapter II (2)
It likewise possesses the eternity of a similar life and energy in a less degree than dæmons and heroes; yet, through the beneficent will of the...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 66: Of the other secondary power, Sensuality by name; and of the works and of the obedience of it unto Will, before sin and after (1)
SENSUALITY is a power of our soul, recking and reigning in the bodily wits, through the which we have bodily knowing and feeling of all bodily...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter XVI: Gnostic Exposition of the Decalogue. (11)
Through the corporeal spirit, then, man perceives, desires, rejoices, is angry, is nourished, grows. It is by it, too, that thoughts and conceptions...
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