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The Soul
The soul is the self-reflective, truth-discerning, and spirit-perceiving part of us which forever elevates the human being above the level of the animal world.
Self-consciousness is not the soul.
Moral self-consciousness is not the soul--but is its foundation.
Moral choice, spiritual attainment, the ability to know God and the urge to be like him, these are characteristics of the soul.
The soul cannot exist apart from moral thinking and spiritual activity.
A stagnant soul has no value.
As it matures our soul comes nearer and nearer to actualizing as an entity intervening between the material and the spiritual, the material self and the divine spirit within.
The morally conscious mortal "knows" intuitively of the existence of his/her soul as a real and personal spiritual experience.
Source: The Urantia Book, 1478/9
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