The Third Movement of the Soul: Toward Transcending

Abstract

In the second movement, the soul (having established a personal reflection) undertakes to control its destiny, to discover the very meaning of its existence, to discover its own route away from the roads of finitude. In sum, the soul lays the groundwork for the life of the spirit. As the soul disavows the liaison with its contingent mold and withdraws adhesion to its own empirical actions, it, nonetheless, does not vanish. But at the moment when the soul turns around on itself with a pressing desire to discover the meaning of finitude (and is no longer supported and immobilized by the firmness of the emotive and sensory circuit), the soul finds itself again suspended in the void. All links broken, the network of its sensory orientations dissolved, the soul enters into unparalleled vibration. Strange and significant development! The vivacity, the extreme intensity of the soul, is liberated as soon as its adhesion to empirical functioning dissolves. Reacting suddenly at the least occasion, the soul discovers itself thrown into a strange milieu: the universe which was until then familiar looms all of a sudden in its infinite dimensions. The universe becomes an unfathomable labyrinth which at each step presents enigmas we absolutely must resolve, far-off and hidden significations that we definitely must follow, secret meanings that demand unravelling.