869 Above the Common

Human beings had souls; each human being had three souls and seven spirits. Spirits were the outsides, while the original souls were the insides.

Back in the stage of a fetus gestating in mothers’ wombs, a human being merely had a slight true spirit contained in the body. But where would the three souls and seven spirits come from? The slight true spirit of a fetus was also the original soul of a human being. It would be nourished by the mother’s spirit blood and natural powers and grow stronger like a seed, gradually generating the three souls and seven spirits. Therefore, the original souls were the base and the core, while the three souls and the seven spirits were like branches and leaves.