AC 2930 - The "Soul"

AC 2930 [5]

It is said that "soul"
signifies the affection of truth from the heart,
because there are affections of truth
which are not from the heart;
as those which are from
the love of self or of being eminent,
from the love of the world or of making gain,
also from the love of meriting;
from these in like manner t
here come forth affections of truth,
but they are not genuine;
being from the will of the flesh,
and not from the heart:
that which is from the heart is from the Lord.

Moreover "soul" in the Word
signifies in the universal sense all life
for in the universal sense
 the soul is that from which another thing is, and lives;
thus the soul of the body is its spirit,
for from this the body lives;
but the soul of the spirit is its still more internal life,
from which it has wisdom and understanding.