What is the soul, and that is the spirit?Soul and spirit - is identical concepts, or do they differ?The questions are not new, in-depth, with no clear answer ... However, we can not ask them.The essence of our seeking, restless, ever-wandering and languishing in the dark, but because the living, real, growing and endless.If we have been given the truth to come close and look into her eyes, we would at the same moment disappeared, vanished, as would lose its essence, and therefore the meaning of their existence.Therefore, today's answer to the question "spirit - what is this?" Is a small part of the truth.
Orthodox
At the heart of the Orthodox faith is the doctrine of trichotomy as part of human nature, or - a recognition that man consists not only of the two main substances (mind and body), but still the third fertile talent - the spirit.However, the teachers of the Church teaching on human trёhsostavnosti, unfortunately, was of a more "self-evident" in nature than it was thoroughly and comprehensively developed the doctrine, so that on this issue there were always disputes and objections.Opponents trichotomy insisted that the essence of man consists only of body and soul, as found in the Bible the word "spirit" and "soul" - the concept is unique.
In turn, the supporters of the theory of human nature trёhsostavnosti not differ by unity.Some believe that the soul - absolutely immaterial substance, a lower manifestation of the spirit, because the material can only be a human body.Others allow another spirit - the only spiritual component of man, while the body and mind are material in nature and are combined into something whole, sometimes referred to the biblical term "flesh".
on these issues written many books.This "Adding to the Word of the death of" Bishop Ignatius, "Conversations and words of Saint Makarios the Great", "The soul and an angel - not the body, and spirit," Bishop Theophan and many others.The arguments are interesting, profound and instructive, however, the resolution of this dispute is inherently impossible because its depth is infinite, therefore - not be reached.
concept of the spirit of Islam
In Islam there are such things as "nafs" (soul) and "Ruh" (spirit).What do they mean?Scholars and commentators of the Quran disagreed.Some believe that these words are synonymous, and the differences can be found only in their qualities and properties.For example, the word "Rukh" (spirit) can have such equivalents, as "Rich" - the wind, favoring the emergence of a new life, "PABX" - peace, and the concept of "nafs" (soul) comes from "Nafis" - expensive, priceless,and from "tanaffasa" - breathe.Others include interpreters who say that the man is given birth "Hayat" (Life), "Ruh" (spirit) and the "nafs" (soul).Spirit - is divine, he is bright, and the soul - the human, created out of clay and fire.
However, there are sages who urged not to engage in conversation about the soul and the essence of it, because when the Prophet was asked about what the soul (spirit), he did not give a clear answer, patiently waiting for divine revelation.Revealed the verse had a deep and wise, "The Spirit descends from the command of my Lord, and you can know very little about it."In other words, it confirms the existence of the spirit and its divine origin, but the gist of it remained hidden and unseen.The human mind is limited.He can not imagine the concept of not having a clear shape and color, do not have a certain size, which can not be weighed or learn any other way.So if asking got a definite answer, it still could not comprehend heard, as in the "world orders" is no definition of what is big or small, red, blue, square or round.Arguing about the soul, we can only talk about what comes from some soul who or what can influence it, that it may spoil or uplift.In other words, people can only talk about the features of the soul, and Allah knows the truth.
Spirit - is a force
In Islam, in addition to the above, the concept of "Ruh" (spirit), there is another view.God supports those who believe in him another heart: "God inscribed in their hearts faith and strengthened them with a spirit from Him" (Quran 58/22).That is, in addition to the spirit - the soul, which is initially in the human body, God willingly gives support and sends other features.Hence the word "spirit" takes on a special meaning: the spirit - is power.Therefore, saying "strong spirit" or "spirit of the people is weak," "feel a healthy spirit."However, in contrast to the spirit - the soul, the spirit of death.It disappears when the body dies.
Ordinary Miracle
Once Sergius, an eating with the brothers of the monastery, suddenly stood up from the table, turned, made a bow to the west and said, "Hail you, the shepherd of Christ's flock, the blessing of the Lord be with you".Greatly surprised the monks could not resist and asked the Holy Father, to whom these words were addressed.Imagine their surprise puschee even when the monk replied that in eight miles from the monastery stopped goes to Moscow Bishop of Perm Stephen.He bowed to the Holy Trinity and uttered the words: "Peace be with you, spiritual brother."That's why St. Sergius and told him.Do not believe all the words of the holy old man, some rushed to the place and very soon indeed caught up with Stefan, who confirmed the words of St. Sergius.
examples are amazing, but not unique.As people of faith, and men of science hundreds of times had to deal with such phenomena.The first is called the Divine miracle happens, I usually have a second logic of things.The last attempt to approach the issue of science (S. Richer, Kitten, Oliver Boat), and offer a theory of the invisible radiation of energy thinking brain, ie,every thought - the energy that radiates outwards and has both mental and physical properties.
soul and spirit
Who is right and what is true in this case?This great mystery.Soul and Spirit - are one and the same in essence, they are united into a single entity, and their origin is divine.They are primary, they are the beginning and the source of all things visible and invisible.However, there are differences.What are they?Soul - the sun, the huge, bright, eternal.Spirit - is the energy coming from the sun, the rays that carry each and every light and heat.Spirit - is the connecting thread, invisible but very strong, that connects everyone and everything between himself and God.Thus, the soul transmits and distributes the power of faith, those experiences, feelings, knowledge, everything that conscious and unconscious, that there is in it for the moment.The deeper the soul is, the stronger and purer the spirit, the more infinite and all-encompassing.
between relatives, mother and child, loving each other people set a special spiritual connection, through which many people do not share a lot of energy as the energy pass each other special quality.Of course, it is impossible to describe, measure or assess what is happening beyond our understanding.Definitely, unattainable to determine the quantity, quality or strength of spiritual connection, to fully understand and grasp it, so we use the word relative and conditional.They give only a small idea of who we are.
evil spirit
But not always calm the soul, wise and sublime.It may be at different stages of development, have different degrees of spirituality or come in all sorts of conditions.As the Apostle Paul says, there are spiritual people (1 Kor.2: 14).There are also people, animals, people, plants, people are angels.The first category includes people whose spirituality comes on stage instincts, and the last approach to the spirits without flesh.Hence all sorts of communications and promises.One brave flaming heart pours out the fighting spirit, the spirit of courage and honor, igniting hundreds of other souls.Other, the mother's heart, poured out a stream of gentle and sweet love to have clung to her chest child.A third, distorted by anger and hatred the person emits an evil spirit, energy, causing fear, anxiety or even reciprocal hatred and cruelty.
Spirit
one people can not be denied, and the special relationship between people of the same nationality.The philosophical concept of "national spirit", implying a super-individual, is found in the forms of objective spirit among representatives of the same people can also be interpreted as an unknown connection between people, "one blood", which forms a unity.According to her mysteriously rushing streams of beliefs, values, knowledge, experience, love, special qualities unique to this nation.This force is in constant motion, but in troubled times in the history of a people, it can be revealed with unprecedented force, become a stream, carrying all the dam.
Speaking of the national spirit, impossible not to mention the Russian spirit, "Magic Castle!There are people in the quiet, but said worried for two.There from the Kremlin, from the Arbat to Pluschikha otvsyudu breathes pure Russian spirit "(Nekrasov).What is it?Here, a real paradox.It is impossible to describe, or rather, it is possible with the following words: it highly spiritual, profound, powerful, charming, athletic, bright, but none of the epithet does not give one hundred percent understanding of this phenomenon, and in spite of this, the Russian spirit is easily recognizable and respected in different parts of the world.
Communication spirit and form
Spirit, the soul clearly reflected in the material forms.Moreover, the spirit creates the form.For example, a man, his eyes, nose, lips, body shape, movement and facial expressions - all at the same time corresponds to the soul and spirit is built.This theory is not new.Even Oscar Wilde in his work "The Portrait of Dorian Gray" brings to the reader the idea that even the most beautiful face and soft, delicate features are distorted beyond recognition under the pressure of a seemingly elusive, hidden from the eyes of others thoughts, actions and deeds of man.
However, in addition to external changes that can not hide, there are subtle, inconspicuous features of a person's appearance.You look at a woman: beautiful shape of the eyes, puffy pink lips, perfectly straight nose - nothing to complain about, the real ideal of beauty!However, a closer glance appear quite different sensations opposite.What is it?Every day, we spread out before us two opposing world.One viewable by the other, such as the spirit of man, hidden from view.But their value is inversely proportional to their "clarity."Spiritual aspect is primary.Let the soul lives deep within us, let the spirit in the body is hidden from view, but it is our true "I", and it should not hide under the "fashionable dress".A minute or two, and the next moment the fog dissipated completely, and before we open any dead wood or large clearing in the rays of the bright spring sun.
Illusion and Reality
top and bottom, inside and out, right and left ... Like it or not, not only people but also "physical space" consists of two matters: the visible and the invisible.World unavailable eyes, disembodied "spirit" of the Earth and is the nucleus, the beginning of all beginnings, which produces and maintains the outward forms and appearances.Birth, death, change of seasons, climate change, the movement of Earth's tectonic plates - everything animate and inanimate experiencing, on the one hand, the real drama of life, and on the other - is a metaphor designed to put into the form of bright essence of the invisible inner world.For what?Maybe to help each of us find let your unique, fantastic, but the real key to the door with a sign "The true spirit of peace."
