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This illustration of a human sole (from History of the County Buildings of Northamptonshire by Christopher Alexander Markham, 1885) begs the question: what are the differences between the soul and the sole? Remarkably, there aren't any:
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The Human Soul |
The Human Sole |
| Remains unconscious of everything that happens on the earth below, as per Rudolf Steiner. |
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| Is not what God is, as per Saint Augustine. |
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| Potentially separable, as per Thomas Aquinas. |
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| Perishable, as per Aristotle. |
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| Imprinted with a certain quality, as per Marc Cogan. |
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| Divided into three parts, as per Plato. |
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| Can survive without the human body, as per Thomas Aquinas. |
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| Governed by wants in life, as per Hinduism. |
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| A principle of movement, as per Thomas Aquinas. |
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| Too much under the influence of the body's sensory and instinctual compulsions, as per Gerard Dorn. |
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| A unity of functions on different levels, as per the Neoplatonists. |
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| A kind of substance, as per Thomas Aquinas. |
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| Not outwardly visible, as per Rudolf Steiner. |
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| A touchstone for American youth, as per Patricia Lyons. |
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| Rooted in the untrammelled realisation of its powers, as per Isaiah Berlin. |
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