By discovering a fundamental truth, i.e. that he originates from a limitless Universe, that his own being is infinite, that the Universe and the Being are integrated in a Whole and that their Evolution is based on Universal Laws, Man could grasp the meaning of his existence. He may set the rules for a new interaction between himself and the environment. The credo in immaterial forces which govern the Material Universe has finally lead to a dichotomy between the body and the soul. The belief that the soul preexists the physical body and outlives his bodily state sprang up very early in the history of the mankind. It has derived from the fact that the ancient Man “saw” that the existence of the physical body is transitory.
The body has been naively disregarded as the source of all evil, while the soul, the spirit, the ego have been considered immortal, surviving the physical body and living as astral and ethereal forms, and coming through several successive reincarnations up to the Last Judgement, the Eden and Hell.
The immaterial Universe cannot exist outside the material one. They coexist as a unity. Body and soul make a cosmic Unity. The Ego, the spirit and the soul cast the informational personality of every individual. They are the results of instruction and education combined with the inherited genetic memory.
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