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Consciousness Part II
Before we continue with the process that lead the very first human mind to think about immortality, we must have a clear understanding of the difference between soul and Spirit.
From the Latin “anima” we call “living” things ‘Animated,’ meaning with a soul, and non-living things we erroneously call in-animated, namely, without a soul. We know, however, that everything is animated at the atomic level and, therefore, everything has a soul, the whole universe is alive, i.e., it is conscious.
Being alive or conscious, however, is not synonymous of having a higher state of thinking or consciousness. And here is were the Spirit comes into play for it is through the power of the Spirit that we humans have the ability to transcend the mundane, i.e., time/space, through our Spiritual Conscience, as Jesus did after forty days and forty nights in the desert.
From the book of science about the Spiritual world i.e., Kabbalah, which, by the way, gave rise to the Holy Bible, we know that the first human to realize about a Higher Being (i.e., God) was Abraham, who is the common patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
We also know that just until the crucifixion, death and burial of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit resided inside the Holy of Holies, namely, the Tabernacle. This means that, before Jesus, no…