Spirit is the masculine principle, will and personal vertical. The spirit makes the soul high, spiritualizes the mind and body. The spirit is often understood as the will (“gathered up the spirit”), but the will only helps a person not to bend, but directs it upwards — the spirit.
The soul is a living, feminine part of the space of a person’s inner life. What makes us (and our mind) warm, and on our body breathing, alive. The soul gives energy to life. These are inner feelings, desires, impulses… The soul is the maternal principle, the source of vitality and warmth, the personal horizontal.
Mind is intellectual content. Synonym for «head», close «conscious». Left in my head — remembered, remembered. Improved mind — pure and full — Mind. The devoid of mind is a fool. The mind, passed into the body, gives skills, skill. The union of mind and soul is the intelligent soul. The right mind must be enriched with cordial solicitude, but the line of the heart must also be supplemented by the line of the mind.
Body — skills, the unconscious, the physiological basis of mental life and intellectual searches. «Remained in the body» — a skill has been developed or recorded as a persistent, long-term functional bodily change. For example, an anchor or a clamp.
Who defines whom? It seems that this largely depends on the level of development of the individual. The less developed the personality, the more genes determine the body, the body determines the soul, and the soul determines the mind. The more the personality develops, the more the mind enlightens the soul, the soul makes friends with the body, the mind and soul build the body, and a new gene pool accumulates in the body. See also personality structure
Interaction of soul, body, mind and spirit in human life
In everyday life, for most people, the spirit usually sleeps, the mind serves soul impulses, and the soul is guided by their body. It seems that 90% of people live primarily with their bodies. The body is their master, the soul and mind are their servants, we remember the spirit only when we are reminded, and then out of fear.
Joan of Arc lived in spirit. Sofia Kovalevskaya — with the mind. Educated girls live with their souls, completely ill-bred girls live with their bodies.
When an ordinary, average girl talks about her soul, she is actually talking about her body. “I want variety in my life” — sort of like about her spiritual aspirations, in fact — about the habits of her body. Those who live by their sensations and feelings live with their soul, that is, the free life of the body, the higher life of the body. Congenital and acquired fears, natural biological instincts (sexual, reproduction) and reflexes (reflex of novelty) — this is the lower life of the body, there is little or almost no soul.
According to the concept of personality, the spirit should be at the head, guiding the mind, soul and body. In a strong person, the mind and soul are the helpers of the spirit, and the body is the child they raise. More?
I look at yogurt during breakfast: it seems delicious, the soul asks. I opened it, started to eat — I feel that it is no longer going, I overeat, the body protests. The mind makes a decision: enough is enough, we will save the yogurt for lunch. Gathering his courage, he got up from the table.