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Jesus has shared the following information about the soul:
What distinguishes animal-man from animal-brute?
Where do souls come from? The soul of each man?
Who is God?
Why did God give man a soul?
When does one receive their soul?
What is a soul?
Where is our soul?
What does a soul in Grace possess?
What is it that removes Grace?
— The Poem of the Man-God: Vol. I-V
What distinguishes animal-man from animal-brute?
The soul.
Where do souls come from? The soul of each man?
From God and they belong to Him, but not even He violates the freedom of the soul, which is thus free to give itself or not.
Who is God?
The most intelligent, powerful, perfect Spirit.
Why did God give man a soul?
To give His image and likeness.
When does one receive their soul?
The soul is infused into the embryo when the latter is sufficiently formed to
receive the soul, that lucid and intelligent as it is, has flashes of remembrance
of its origin from God before being infused into a body.
What is a soul?
It is an unquestionable sign of His Most Holy Paternity that shows signs of the qualities characteristic of Him Who creates it. It is therefore intelligent, spiritual, free, immortal, like the Father Who created it.
It is the true nobility of man, because of his soul, there is the blood of God, because a soul is the spiritual blood—as God is a Most Pure Spirit—of the Creator of man: of the eternal, Almighty Holy God. Because of the soul, which is in him, and which is alive as long as it is united to God, man is eternal, powerful, and holy. It is naturally inclined to worship because it remembers the One Who created it: God.
It is perfect when it originates from the divine thought, and in the instant of its creation it is identical, for a thousandth of an instant, with the soul of the first man. A thousandth of an instant. Then, once it is formed, it is stained by original sin. To make it clearer for you I will say that it is as if God were pregnant with the soul which He creates and the creature, in being born, were wounded by an indelible mark." This means while it is thought it is perfect. The creating thought lasts a thousandth of an instant. The thought then becomes actual fact, and the fact is subject to the law brought about by sin. A soul becomes thus incarnate in a human body, bringing with it the memory of the Creator, that is of the Truth, as a secret gem in the mystery of its spiritual being. A baby is born. It may become good, very good, or wicked. It may become anything because it is endowed with free will. The angelical ministry throws light on its "memories" and the tempter darkness. If man craves after light and thus for a greater and greater virtue, making his soul the master of his being, the faculty of remembering increases in the soul, as if virtue made the wall interposed between soul and God thinner and thinner. That is why virtuous people in every country perceive the Truth, not in a perfect way, as they are dulled by contrasting doctrines or by lethal ignorance, but in a sufficient manner to give pages of moral perfection to the peoples to whom they belong. This means the religion of virtue practiced heroically predisposes the soul to the true Religion and to the knowledge of God.
Where is our soul?
It is in the whole of man. It contains you and is contained within you. When it leaves you, you become a corpse. When it is killed by a crime that man commits against himself, you are damned, separated from God forever. Our body was created by God to be the temple of the soul, which is the temple of God. It must, therefore, be kept honest, otherwise the soul will be robbed of God's friendship and of eternal life.
What does a soul in Grace possess?
Love, and by possessing love it possesses God, that is the Father Who preserves it, the Son Who teaches it, the Spirit Who illuminates it. It therefore possesses Knowledge, Science, Wisdom, Light. All knowledge that does not come from a soul in Grace—and is not in grace who is against God's Law, which is very clear in its commandments—such knowledge comes from Satan. It seldom corresponds to the truth when human matters are concerned, it never corresponds to the truth with regard to superhuman matters. The Demon is in fact the father of falsehood, and can but lead on to the path to the path of falsehood. There is no other method of the knowing the truth, except the one that comes from God, Who speaks, and says, or reminds.
What is it that removes Grace?
Original sin and the mortal one.
Baptism annuls the stain [original sin], but not the incitement. Grace infuses strength to conquer the incitement, but does not annul it. It remains like a secret thorn to irritate the indelible scar of the Fault. Not the wound: the scar. But, if we’re not vigilant, the scar, if irritated and not treated with supernatural means, becomes a wound again.
In every man there are then two opposed forces which fight in him from birth til death, and which constitute his test, his victory or his defeat with regard to his supernatural destiny.
You may ask why God leaves this incitement even after the restoration of Grace [in man]? Out of justice. All in God is justice. His every operation is justice and loving justice.
Has not God perhaps left the memory of Himself in the soul created by Him? That memory which is a mysterious source of light which guides to the Light, though sensed in a different way by every living spirit, as is demonstrated by the moral laws of the best [civilizations], and by the more or less vivid gleams of supernatural light in the various revealed religions. Though these latter possess only fragmentary notions, they already teach the existence of a Supreme Being, and the duty to live justly in order to possess Him beyond life.
Thus similarly, besides this Infinite Goodness, God leaves [in us] the other memory represented by the thorn of incitement. This keeps our pride at heel. If we felt like we were pure and perfect men, we would become Lucifers, believing that we are equal to God. It keeps our good will vigilant. It makes our love for God heroic. And, through the Father’s compassion, it renders our faults less grave in His eyes. Because if we do not have in ourselves that incitement which agitates, and bites our senses and reason with the cunning of the ancient serpent, who generates it, we would not be judged “with mercy”. But, much is forgiven us, because much in ourselves is aroused not by our pure will, but by the imponderable forces of that incitement—which we do not always succeed in repressing.
But, you should not afflict yourselves. It, too, serves to give a crown of glory. Because temptation is temptation; it is not sin. Because temptation conquered, is victory. Because enduring that secret thorn, without the will consenting to its seductions, is heroic patience.
— The Poem of the Man-God: Vol. I-V