In a message dated 10/9/98 8:53:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
nanashi96@hotmail.com writes:

<< Let me clarify (another thing I forgot to add to the original post ^^), 
 all matter has soul. There is more soul in this universe than associated 
 matter. All matter has a minimum amount of associated soul 
 (gravitational field) which cannot be used, and excess soul 
 (gravitational field NOT attached to matter) can be picked up. This 
 excess soul is the part that can be used for magic. As seen, for most 
 things in the universe do not have all that much excess soul, yet 
 everything has a little bit. The excess soul is soul NOT attached to 
 matter, and therefore, isn't related to the matter it's attached to in 
 any way. >>
	This is pointless.  Somebody at some point must have decided that 1. soul and
spirit are one and the same (they aren't) or 2. mistranslated.
	I think I'll go with the mistranslation - it's even happened to the Bible.
(Well, we can't help that Modern English lacks the ability to distinguish
between you singular and you plural...or that it lacks a sexless 3rd person
pronoun...)


		--Ryo Hoshi, taking Hellenistic Greek