The soul controls the body

by CR (012)

Article written by: Dr. Antonio Pinheiro Guedes

After proving the existence of the soul, nobody will doubt that it is the soul that controls the body, that enlivens and rules it. The soul will be a transmitter, a vehicle of bad habits and diseases as well.

The body is for the soul what clothing is for the body: a shelter against the elements, a veil over nakedness.

Not only the face, said to be the mirror of the soul, with its particular features, but the whole body impresses us by its measures and posture. There is no one who has not experienced this, and this impression is either pleasant or unpleasant. However, this is felt by us only in the presence of a human being or an animal. The emotion we feel in the presence of death is completely different. It is rather a commotion, a shock, an instinctively repulsive feeling.

Thus the soul rules the body, encircles it and reveals itself even in the simplest physical forms.

It is beyond doubt, however, that the head, with its hollows and bulges, shows the influence of soul over body more completely: the face, as the centre of expression of our emotions, so well studied by Darwin and Duchenne de Boulogne; the mouth, wide or narrow, with thin or thick lips, with raised or lowered lines, the shaping of which finally translates into a quasi-infinite variety of feelings and ideas. The mouth forms and utters words, thereby stereotyping those opposing states of mind - tears and laughter!

And the eyes, by their shine and transparency, are like crystal globes where the emotions of the soul are reflected in ever-changing shades! Even the nose and the ears, in short, all the component parts of the face reveal the inclinations and tendencies of the spirit.

Lavater, in co-operation with Moreau de La Sarte, wrote a beautiful and very interesting study of facial features. Before them came Adamantus, a 4th century physician, and Porta (Giambattista), a celebrated physicist, inventor of the dark chamber, who published a treatise entitled 'Humana Fisionomia' in Sorrento in 1586. There were also Lachambre, Louis XIV's physician, the famous painter Lebrun, and still others. Also Gall and Spurzheim, physicians who created Phrenology, subsequently cultivated by Broussais, F. Combe, Vimont and others. They are all interpreters of the action, influence and domination of the soul over the body and forerunners of studies on the relationship between body and spirit.

Only Spiritualism itself can complete such studies, disclosing how such relationships are established and how the connections between spirit and body are formed or created. Such knowledge, however, is impossible without the help of that crucial instrument - the medium.

References

[1] Dr. A. Pinheiro Guedes, Spiritualistic Science, 1st Digital Edition, 1995

[2] Christian Rationalism, 1st Edition, Rio de Janeiro 1984