Topology of the Human Soul and the Struggle for Holiness, Part 2

Yesterday I wrote about the background of the topology of the human soul. It is necessary to understand the shape of the created universe in order to understand the relationship the of the human soul with the rest of the universe. Today I will begin to outline some of the “shape” of the human soul, although the idea of something that is ephemeral having a shape is rather paradoxical.

As I stated yesterday, humans are created with three facets in reflection of the Trinity of the Godhead. I will use transliterated Greek terms for the “organs” of the soul to avoid confusion with the somatic organs of the body. I will borrow the term “psychoid” from Rev. Morton T. Kelsey’s book The Other Side of Silence, for referring to the aspects of the soul, and only use the English word “psychic” in the common usage.

In common existance, there is no direct connection between the realms of Heaven, spirit and matter. The only link other than God Himself is the soul of the human creature. The human soul is the only thing in all creation that is both spiritual and physical at the same time. Researchers have measured the mass of the souls of dying people as the soul leaves. While the mass is small, the fact that something with mass beyond the last breath exits the body at death proves the physical existance of the soul. Mystics, shamen and parapsychologists have experienced the spiritual aspects of the soul in their explorations. The soul is a bridge. With Jesus christ sitting at the right hand of the Father in Heaven and at the same time inhabiting the souls of His followers, the souls of believers are also a bridge between the lower created realms and Heaven. This condition of linkage is the reason that fallen angels and spirits of darkness want to inhabit human souls. The power over the physical realm that they can exert through controling such a link is enormous.

The soul of a human is organized, much the way the body has organs. The soul has an opton, an organ by which a hjuman can see what is taking place around him/her in the spiritual realm, and some can even see what is happening in the physical realm, and at some distance. The soul has an organ of sensation much like the skin of the body and nerve endings within the organs of the body. This organ allows the human to feel what is happening to his/her spirit and soul directly, similar to the way we can detect heat, cold, pressure and pain in the body. The soul has filters to weed out alien influences like the kidneys in the body. But the most importaint organ of the soul to the spiritual athlete is the part of the soul the Christian monks and mystics call the kardia, corresponding to the heart in the body.

The kardia has chambers like the somatic blood pump. Where the heart has four chambers, two each of atria and ventria, the kardia has three (there’s that number again!). Much like the somatic blood pump drives the blood through the body delivering life to each of the cells, the kardia drives the psychoid fluid of life throughout the soul. This psychoid fluid is made up of (suprise) three parts: feelings, reason, and will; one from each chamber. Just as blood sustains the life of the body, the feelings, reason and will sustain the life of the soul.

Tomorrow I will explain the importance of the kardia for contemplation and the struggle for holiness.