"The physical world, the spiritual world and the divine world... or, form, content and meaning

"The physical world, the spiritual world and the divine world...

or, form, content and meaning... or, again, the world of facts,

the world of laws and the world of principles: it is always the

same trinity - body, soul and spirit. Spirit corresponds to the

divine world, the soul to the spiritual world and the body to the

physical world. So, the soul comes between matter and spirit; it

is an agent, a vehicle that conveys elements from heaven to earth

and earth to heaven. Everything that comes down and everything

that rises passes through the soul. Spirit can only reach

downwards, and matter can only reach upwards, but the soul moves

up and down between the two. This is why spirit only has power

over matter if it passes through the soul.

Look at what happens in nature: the sun cannot act directly on

the earth; it needs agents, in this case, air and water. In the

same way, our spirit cannot touch our physical body directly; it

needs an agent - the soul."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov