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How our bodies move. 

            The mantle.

            You will recall, when my soul exited from my body, it was rolled tube-like. It was a fine, delicate, white, spiritual substance that I have named the “mantle.”[1] My Spirit was at the head of this mantle. Immediately I was above my body when the mantle opened and revealed my soul as the following.

            The graphic above shows my soul, in a horizontal position hovering above my body. The Spirit, (large white circular area) is me, my spirit, where my consciousness is.

            Intellect and mantle are one.

            You can see that my spirit (intellect) is one with the mantle. I am therefore continuously present and very conscious of every moving part of my soul and my body. This presence and consciousness is active where the exterior of our body is concerned (arms, legs, hands, hair, jaw etc.) and is passive where our interior body is concerned, organs, heart, liver, brain, lungs etc. Though I saw the energy-cells, I was not conscious of having any control or impact on them whatsoever.

            Intellect (Spirit and mantle) is the form of our body.      

            The mantle (fin-like basin) is what envelopes and contains my body. Since my mantle is an extension of my Spirit (intellect) my intellect is also the form of my body. The energy-cells contained in the mantle, are within my body.[2] 

            Where our spiritual component is concerned, our Spirit and our soul[3] know the “rules of the game.” Though I do not know what makes my soul (Me) tick, I (my spirit) am not hampered by this shortcoming. Proof of this was clearly shown in the way I exited my body, without my will or consent, at least as far as I know. I returned to my body however because I willed it. Obviously my Spirit knows what to do and when to do it, even if (consciously) I do not.

            There could never be a situation where any part of our body is not under the control of our soul, either directly or indirectly. Otherwise, how would flesh and blood know what to do, since they are without knowledge? My brain, for all of its complexity cannot add 2 + 2. Should a part of my body not be under the control of my mantle (which is an extension of my spirit) it would be impossible for flesh and blood and all my bodily organs to assure my survival. My soul is totally in charge of my body and contains it completely.

            When walking, I do not say, “Legs walk.” I do not even will my legs to walk. My intellect walks by way of my mantle; it contains my legs and provides the motive power for my legs to walk.

            When I touch, I do not say, “Hands, touch.” My intellect touches by way of my mantle, providing the motive power for my hands to touch.

            When I see, I do not say, “Eyes see.” My intellect sees by way of my eyes, since my mantle contains my eyes and provides the motive power for my eyes to see.

            When I eat, I do not say, teeth, tongue and jaws eat. My intellect eats by way of my mantle bringing food to my mouth, for my body’s health and nourishment. My mantle contains and permeates these parts, and provides the motive power for them to function in eating.

            Not one hair on my body can be touched, without me (my intellect) being aware of it, since my intellect contains it by way of its mantle.[4]  Since this is so for us, small and limited as we are, why is it so difficult to understand that each hair on our collective heads is known and is counted by God, he who is THE Spirit? He who is THE Intellect, He the Spirit who permeates everything there is?

            Our mantle contains our body. Through it, our intellect (consciously and sub-consciously) monitors and operates our body constantly, keeping us aware of everything that is happening.

            As my intellect is not visible save for the signs given by me (my spirit) so is my soul not visible save for the signs given by my intellect. We should not be surprised that our soul is not visible, anymore than we should be surprised that our intellect is not visible.

            Our Spirit and our soul (by means of our body) are here to minister for God’s greater glory, i.e. “To love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our mind, and to love our neighbor as yourself,[5] and to conquer the earth.[6]  God saw all that he had made and it was very good. [7]”

             “Brother Thomas, I now know and understand, that our intellect- because of it’s extended presence in the mantle, IS the form of our human body.

            What are your thoughts on this?”

            -Brother Raymond, - “We must assert that the intellect which is the principle of intellectual operation is the form of the human body. For that whereby primarily anything acts is a form of the thing to which the act is to be attributed: for instance, that whereby a body is primarily healed is health, and that whereby the soul knows primarily is knowledge; hence health is a form of the body, and knowledge is a form of the soul. The reason is because nothing acts except so far as it is in act; wherefore a thing acts by that whereby it is in act.

            Now it is clear that the first thing by which the body lives is the soul. And as life appears through various operations in different degrees of living things, that whereby we primarily perform each of all these vital actions is the soul. For the soul is the primary principle of our nourishment, sensation, and local movement; and likewise of our understanding. Therefore this principle by which we primarily understand, whether it be called the intellect or the intellectual soul, is the form of the body. This is the demonstration used by Aristotle (De Anima ii, 2).” [8]

            How do our bodies move?

            So, how do our bodies move? In the silhouette below, we see our body as our eyes see it, all visible and nothing invisible.

            In this next silhouette, we see the invisible soul.

            Our mantle (extension of spirit/intellect/mind shown in white) surrounds and permeates the body. Because the mantle permeates the body, and because the mantle is an extension of the spirit, the intellect permeates every part of the body. The visible body is nothing more than a “flesh and blood machine,” contained in the mantle and operates at the beck and call of our spirit. When you (intellect) want to move any limb, the extension of your intellect (the mantle that encloses and permeates the body) provides the motive power for that body part to move. The body part in question responds to your will, e.g. from intellect which includes the mantle, to motive power to brain, to movement of the limb, which limb responds with its bones, muscles and ligaments etc.

            This supports the need for the soul (a spiritual substance) to be invisible; otherwise (visually speaking) because we are spirits incarnate, we would not recognize one another. Visually we would all look the same, our distinctiveness would be intellectual and not physical, visual.

            In this silhouette, we see the energy-cells. Since I am not certain what they do I have shown them in the abdomen, torso and head area, if they are indeed power and programs for the organs.

            There have been studies that show persons who love God and are spiritually nourished, have healthier bodies and a better quality of life than those who do not love God or are indifferent to God, or who live as if God does not exist and do not nourish themselves spiritually. Since our soul is intimately linked with our intellect, and, since our soul permeates every cell in our body, does it not stand to reason that when the mind is troubled or ill, cells will be affected and the body part in question will suffer?

            Search Google for “spirituality and health” on the Internet, and one will find confirmations of this. You undoubtedly know many such persons personally.

            In this silhouette, we see the spirit, the white area in our crown. This is where our spirit is, where our control center is. It occupies the space in our skull, from above the ears to the top of our cranium. It permeates the entire brain. Everything else (from our ears down) is simply an array of biological “motors” to enable our body to respond to our intellect via our will to survive. More on this later.

In this silhouette we see everything together.

            Now, back to my exit from my body.

            Once I stopped above my body, instantly the mantle opened and exposed the pearl-like energy-cells. The soul (spirit, mantle and energy-cells) rested in the air above my body. Its fin like perimeter oscillating ever so slowly seemed to sustain my soul in space. I believe these “fins” were constantly at the ready to take me anywhere instantly, as they would for my limbs. They shimmered ever so gently, lazily moving up and down. They rippled like a gentle wave on a calm lake.

            The mantle allowed me to leave my body, and allowed me to float in space. I was not held in space because I had no weight. I was simply at the ready, to go to another place if I so desired. The frill like edges of the mantle resembled in appearance and functioned like the fins of a cuttlefish.

            Something else was remarkable; though my spirit and my soul were seemingly sustained in space by the oscillating “fins” of the mantle, not one energy/cell moved, only the “fins” were in constant motion. The energy-cells simply continued to blink with what seemed an inexhaustible power supply.

            The mantle has the power to bring my soul and my body, anywhere I may wish to go. It is the only means of locomotion I have, both in a soul state and in a flesh state, since it is the soul that animates the body. The mantle is the only link I have between my intellect and my physical body where movement is concerned. The mantle is a true part of and an extension of my intellect, since it does everything instantly in union with each act of my will, whether the act is  conscious or subconscious.

            When I thirst, it is my soul that thirsts, and not my body, since it is the soul and not the body that receives the thirst message.[9]

            It suffices for me to thirst for a glass of water, and my intellect/mantle will bring me immediately to a glass, to the tap, turn it on, fill the glass and drink.

            The mantle is my intellect in action and in motion. All voluntary movements of our body are the result of our intellect in mantle mode. Brother Thomas identifies this action as “motive power.” [10] Can I move only as far and as fast as my physical health and my legs will take me?

            “Brother Thomas, is this really true?  Must my body follow my soul and not the other way ‘round?”

            -Brother Raymond,-

            “The soul does not move the body by its essence, as the form of the body, but by the motive power, the act which presupposes the body to be already actualized by the soul: so that the soul by its motive power is the part which moves; and the animate body is the part moved.” [11]

             My soul per se has no restraints. What limits me in doing things perfectly is my lack of knowledge of who and what I am,[12] and being too often hampered by a desire to live and do what I am not. As a result, I lack the knowledge and ability for me to truly govern as spirit over flesh and blood. This is further frustrated when I impose my flesh and blood appetites and goals on my spirit.

            Soul contains the body.

            “Brother Thomas?”

           -Yes Brother Raymond?-

            “Is it our soul then that contains our body?”

            -Yes Brother Raymond, it is the soul that contains the body.-

            “It cannot be said that they are united by the one body; because rather does the soul contain the body and make it one, than the reverse.” [13]

            Since the soul contains the body, our soul (which includes our spirit) allows us (spirit soul and flesh) to be a male or a female human. Without our body, we are a soul person, i.e. neither a male nor a female, but simply a person, a soul person.

            -Brother Raymond?-

            “Yes Brother Aurelius.”

            “If we were so to define man as to say, man is a rational substance consisting of mind and body, then without doubt man has a soul that is not body, and a body that is not soul. And hence these three things are not man,[14] but belong to man, or are in man. If, again, we put aside the body and think of the soul by itself, the mind is somewhat belonging to the soul, as though its head, or eye, or countenance; but these things are not to be regarded as bodies.” [15]

            Dear Brother and Sister in the Lord, you and I have a body with biological life, and a soul with spiritual life, that includes our spirit (with our mind) our mantle and the energy-cells and these (which we collectively identify as the soul) contain our body.[16]

            “Brother Thomas, I remember you said:”

            ‘For man's being consists in soul and body; and though the being of the body depends on the soul, yet the being of the human soul depends not on the body, as shown above; and the very body is for the soul, as matter for its (the soul’s) form, and the (bodily) instruments for the man (his soul) that puts them into motion, that by their means (bodily parts) they (soul and spirit) may do his work. Wherefore all goods of the body are ordained to the good of the soul, as to their end.’[17] (Brackets are the author’s.)

            “Thank you Brother Thomas. I can now confirm that this is true. When I left my body, I was conscious of leaving every nook and cranny of it, from the outer limits of my left side, to my toes, through my torso and my right side, with my spirit following last. It was the same on my return, except for the order being in reverse.

            Because my spirit is the head of my soul, my intellect was aware of what was going on in every corner of my body. I was conscious of this. I could feel it. Through the mantle I was present in every part of my body. I was aware I was leaving every part of my body. I was aware I was leaving my sides, my limbs, my chest etc. I was indeed the form of my body. My soul contains my body and not vice versa. The only reason I could not know this before, was simply because I was always there, in every part of my body and did not know being in every part of my body was not being my body.

            Intellect and mantle are one.
           Here is further proof that my intellect and the mantle are one. Regardless of where I am touched, be it the tiniest hair, or by an aroma, or by cold or heat or by sight or sound, I (my intellect) am immediately conscious of this.

            The mantle has demonstrated (where my soul is concerned) that there too it is indispensable. When “I” left my body, my mantle left every part of my physical body. I was conscious of this, for my spirit was the last to leave; consequently I knew what was happening. In leaving, the mantle gathered the pulsating energy-cells throughout my body, enveloped them in its membrane, and then left my body on my right side rib area. It then arced to a position above my body, when the mantle opened exposing the energy-cells. Its “fins” then oscillated to maintain my soul afloat, i.e. to keep me there.[18] All this happened in a fraction of a second.

            When the experience was over, the mantle once again enveloped the energy-cells, then arced back into my body. This time my spirit was the first to enter, then the energy-cells were distributed, then the mantle extended itself to every nook and cranny of my body enveloping it completely. I felt that I was being filled, inflated. Because my spirit was first to occupy my brain, I was conscious of every detail in this return. However, once the return was over, something strange took place. I sensed that my soul’s return point of entry (same as my point of exit) was still open. I had the sensation of having a void at that spot on my side.

            I could not live with this sensation in my side. It was then that I consciously willed that this opening be closed. I then heard a small pop and the opening closed. I now felt whole and complete. Why this is remarkable, is because I exercised authority over my mantle to close the entrance/exit area. This was the second time I exercised control over the mantle. The first was when I returned to my body, and this second time when I closed this “hole.” I wondered what else could I do with my mantle? What are the possibilities?

            Returning into my body was very distasteful.[19] From within my body I looked at my body. I was now weighed down once more. Soon however, everything seemed normal, but I was definitely weighed down by this anchor of flesh and bone. This is not normal. I eagerly wait to have my glorified body.

            Parts of the rational soul.

            “Brother Thomas, as we can see from this drawing, our soul has three different components:

            1. Our spirit.

            2. The enclosure of our body (with all of its parts) that I have called a mantle.

            3. Energy and organ programming cells? [20] 

            These three, collectively is our soul, created by God[21] to: “love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our mind, and to love our neighbor as ourselves,[22] and, “to conquer the earth.”[23]

            I know for a fact that the large white sphere at the head of this soul is me. This is where I was, spirit, me and intellect being one and the same.[24]

            Now, at this moment, think of a place you have knowledge of in another city, a place where you would like to be. Instantly it is present to your mind. If you did not have a body, your spirit would be there, you would be there instantly, for this is how movement takes place without a body. With a body however, movement is one painfully slow step at a time.

            It is obvious that flesh and blood cannot, assure my well-being. Flesh and blood have no intelligence whatsoever. My existence requires that I know who I am, what I am, where I am and why I am. To this end, my mantle contains every hair, every organ and every cell in my body, that I may be present and knowledgeable in all areas where my well-being is concerned.

            “Brother Aurelius, did you not emphasize this (soul has two parts) in your letter to Peter, when you warned him not to give the impression he had Victor’s books?”

            -Yes Brother Raymond, I said:-

            “Did you not then understand that there are two somethings, soul and spirit, according as it is said in Scripture, ‘Thou wilt separate my soul from my spirit?’ And that both of them pertain to man's nature, so that the whole man consists of spirit, and soul, and body? Sometimes, however, these two are combined together under the designation of soul; for instance, in the passage, ‘And man became a living soul.’ Now, in this place the spirit is implied. Similarly in sundry passages the two are described under the name of spirit, as when it is written, ‘And he bowed his head and gave up the spirit;’ in which passage it is the soul that must also be understood. And that the two are of one and the same substance? I suppose that you already knew all this. But if you did not, then you may as well know that you have not acquired any great knowledge, the ignorance of which would be attended with much danger.”[25]

             Seeing other humans, we should readily see their souls.
          Having had this experience, when I now see other humans, I see the outline of their body as their invisible mantle, as the extension of their intellect. To touch another person’s body is in fact, to touch their intellect, their soul; since the soul (via the mantle) contains the body. When I hear their words I hear their spirit.

            What is our spirit?