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"When we speak of the soul we mean the motive power of... (the) physical body... If the soul identifies itself with the material world it remains dark...; but if it becomes the recipient of the graces of the world of mind, its darkness will be transformed into light,... its ignorance into wisdom, its aggression into loving kindness." (RofM 16 '56 Ed) (39:8) "Spirit cannot be perceived by the material senses of the physical body, excepting as it is expressed in outward signs and works. The human body is visible, the soul is invisible. It is the soul nevertheless that directs a man's faculties, that governs his humanity." (Pt 86) (39:9) "In the world of existence there is nothing so important as spirit: nothing so essential as the spirit of man. The spirit of man is the most noble of phenomena. The spirit of man is the meeting between man and God. The spirit of man is the animus of human life and the collective center of all human virtues. The spirit of man is... the illumination of this world." (Pup 234)
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