HH 432 - every person is a spirit

HH 432
. . . it is not the body that thinks,
but the soul, which is spiritual.
The soul of a person . . . is his spirit,
for this as to everything belonging to it 
is immortal.
This also is what thinks in the body, for it is spiritual,
and what is spiritual
receives what is spiritual and lives spiritually,
which is to think and to will.
Therefore,
all rational life that appears in the body
belongs to the soul,
and nothing of it to the body;
for the body, as just said, is material,
and the material, which is the property of the body,
is added to and apparently almost joined to the spirit,
in order that the spirit of a person
may be able to live and perform uses in the natural world . . ..
And as it is the spiritual only that lives and not the material,
it can be seen that whatever lives in a person is his spirit,
and that the body merely serves it . . ..