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E read in the Hebrew Scriptures, “The Soul that sinneth, it shall die.”

What is Soul? Is it a reality within the mortal body? Who can prove that? Anatomy has not descried nor described Soul. It was never touched by the scalpel nor cut with the dissecting-knife. The five physical senses do not cognize it.

Who, then, dares define Soul as something within man? As well might you declare some old castle to be peopled with demons or angels, though never a light or form was discerned therein, and not a spectre had ever been seen going in or coming out.

The common hypotheses about souls are even more vague than ordinary material conjectures, and have less basis; because material theories are built on the evidence of the material senses.

Soul must be ; since we learn Soul only as we learn, by spiritualization. As the five senses take no cognizance of Soul, so they take no cognizance of. Whatever can not be taken in