Soul


We read in the Hebrew Scriptures, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die."

What is Soul? Is it a reality within the mortal body? Who can prove that?
Anatomy has not descried nor described Soul. It was never touched by the
scalpel nor cut with the dissecting-knife. The five physical senses do not
cognize it.

Who, then, dares define Soul as something within man? As well might you
declare some old castle to be peopled with demons or angels, though never a
light or form was discerned therein, and not a spectre had ever been seen
going in or coming out.

The common hypotheses about souls are even more vague than ordinary
material conjectures, and have less basis; because material theories are
built on the evidence of the material senses.

Soul must be God; since we learn Soul only as we learn God, by
spiritualization. As the five senses take no cognizance of Soul, so they
take no cognizance of God. Whatever cannot be taken in by mortal mind--by
human reflection, reason, or belief--must be the unfathomable Mind, which
"eye hath not seen, nor ear heard." Soul stands in this relation to every
hypothesis as to its human character.

If Soul sins, it is a sinner, and Jewish law condemned the sinner to
death,--as does all criminal law, to a certain extent.