The body, its levels and characteristics in Transcendent Theosophy

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Ph.D. Student in Transcendent Theosophy, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

2 Assistant Prof. of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

3 Full Prof. Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Abstract

According to the view of Sadr al-Muta'allehin, the condition of being a soul is its belonging to a body, and thus, a soul without a body is not a soul. The question now is whether the human existence in its descending intrinsic transition from the divine world to the worlds of intellects, ideas, and matters, and in its ascending return to its final end, has a body or not. Is it possible to find a stage in which man does not have a body? In other words, does the soul become bodyless when it enters the world of intellects or even higher levels? This article, based on Sadra's ontological foundations, examines the nature of the body and points to two theories on the subject of the intellectual body. In the first theory, the nature of the body originates from the representative faculty, and due to the obvious or common presence of this faculty in all levels of existence, Man does have always a body, and by his or her intellectual or nominal body within the appropriate quantitative forms, is present in those levels. But according to the second theory, in the ascent to the world of intellects, forms become meanings, whereas the intellectual body, as one of the determinations of the soul, is still acceptable.
 

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Journal of Religious Thought : A Quarterly Journal of Shiraz University
Volume 21, Issue 79 - Serial Number 79
September 2021
Pages 105-128

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