This tells us that we are living, human beings as long as this soul stays within us. The soul, our conscience and our minds form our spiritual identity, which is the nucleus part of us. It is placed (set) in us so securely that we cannot touch it even with our own hands. We cannot destroy it nor give it away; it is ours for time and eternity. No one else but you and your creator know it.
When we look into a mirror, we see ourselves in it. That is our physical identity, our physical body, like our fellow men know us also. In our spiritual body we have a conscience that oversees everything we do. It also lets us know and feel whatever we do whether good or bad, right or wrong. So our conscious can never lie to us, not even to twist the truth. As God created us, He knew that man needs a guiding light which would direct us daily in our works and activities; but, it is still up to man to choose what he wants to do.
Our conscience has become so famous that man has learned to use it in all mankind’s legal proceedings. Man must take an oath to speak the “truth and nothing but the truth.” Like his conscience dictates it. God doesn’t make men do anything. He created us with a mind which may seek whatever it wants whether good or bad, right or wrong. He left it for man to decide. He did not put any limit on man’s mind. It’s what man chooses to do, however he behaves, that determines who he is and what he is like; therefore, he needs to learn to know who he is.
We have all the senses. They are constantly busy working. Our sight, taste, hearing, touch, and smell are our physical facilities. They give us the impression of the world outside ourselves. The impressions they give are received by our minds. Our brains are alerted and then, as needed, alert our body to the actions. The brain is the soft grey matter in our skull. I don’t know, but I believe, it needs our senses and mind, before it gives the command to our body, for action. The mind is the medium to our spiritual and our physical blessings. The mind tries to be good to the spiritual needs and wants, and also to the physical needs, wants, and desires. We let our minds analyze with all our activities. The spiritual well being and the physical wants, often times, have conflict. In this state of mind, if man doesn’t know who he is, he can easily be led to many kinds of believing and activities.
Any person can become so strong that no on can swindle his mind to wrong and bad actions, but man must learn to know who he is and learn it so well that he can compare all his actions of the Ten Commandments. We also have an autonomous, independent, self-governing system which functions without our known will. It is our internal organ and gland system. We know little about our physical body, but it is enough to see what a magnificent creation we are. It is very important that we learn to know ourselves, who we are, and who we are like.
We were created in the likeness of our Creator. Our first earthly action shows us immediately how Adam and Eve learned right and wrong with the freedom of what to do. We are very fortunate in today’s world to have men who have left us a lot to read and learn. The most important matter is that man learns to know who he is and to accept the truth that he learns about himself.