"The soul is immortal. It is endowed with reason and understanding and has no form. The flesh is the soul's organ and receives from her the ability to grow, feel, and reproduce. The faculty of reason is not separate from her but constitutes the purest part of the soul. As the eye is to the flesh, so reason is to the soul. It is its own keeper possessing the ability to desire and to act. The soul is changeable, that is to say, its will is subject to mutability. It was created, and received all those gifts in accordance with her nature from her Creator, Who also made her the receptacle of His grace."
-On the Orthodox Faith
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