Brooks Agnew – I don’t want to get wrapped up in semantics. Many great arguments for something are lost to semanticists who parse words. Let’s get past that, okay?
Where did the concept of spirit come from?
Its source is Latin spīritus, whose original meaning was “breath, breathing” and hence “spirit, soul, courage, vigor”; its ultimate origin is a Proto-Indo-European root.
I would say this refers to the union of the soul address that is you, from eons of time, to your mortal body. Now, there are those who say the soul is the union of the spirit to the body, but what I see is that the soul is much larger than the body. Continue reading