New Souls?

[Susma Rio Sep]

Originally Posted by I, Brian

Essence as an "expression of God" would perhaps be the easiest way of reference.

As to individual characteristics - perhaps another analogy would be like the human body - the body is made up of many individual tissues and organs - even cells. Any individual "essence" is like an individual "cell" within the Body of God.

Does that make sense?

Or is metaphor becoming far too unwieldy here? I feel like I am trying to explain something that is fundamentally impossible for the human mind to comprehend.

I feel like I am trying to explain something that is fundamentally impossible for the human mind to comprehend.

Try again, and be rigorously systematic.

First, ask yourself is that thing incomprehensible but in your mind just the same as an idea, is it a thing or nothing. If it is nothing, then it is nothing; so you are justified to tell us that it is nothing.

Second, if it is something, is it something among the divisions of things people already know about, namely, material or immaterial, etc.; if not, then establish a new division of things, like biologists coming upon an organism that requires a new classification.

Third, now give us what you think or feel to be the properties and activities of your new something in your new class of things.

Hehehehehe.

Otherwise, I being also a religious and spiritual person notwithstanding what people think about me, will just the same for being possessed of a bit of unembellished intelligence always suspect that religious writers resort to incomprehensibility as an excuse for indolence or dishonesty or both. Or they are mouthing words which they themselves repeat from rote without any intimately digested acquaintance of what the words mean, at least for themselves.

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