Within you is a divine person nested within a human, rational person, nested within a human beast.
What does a perfect, divine soul have to gain from nesting within a visceral body, refining and taming a human beast?
Everything. The stubborn defiance of your inner animal is a gold mine for the soul.
The energy of your divine soul is ordered, harmonized and contained.
The energy of that beast within you is raw and wild.
Lift that crude animal power even slightly from its earthly pod and a reservoir of unbounded energy from above reciprocates, rushing downward to fill the channels of the divine soul.
A harmony of opposites ensues, as though a fierce storm has been harnessed by the turbines of your soul, as though all the diverse forces of order and chaos of the creation have come together in a single magnificent symphony.
It is the song of the One who transcends order and chaos, energy and containment, finite and infinite, being and not-being. The One who designed and created all these.
And His symphony plays within you.
Humans are "spirit" beings that live in a "body" and have a soul (think, emotions, personality, reason, make decisions). When GD made animals He spoke them into existence; but when He made man, He breathe His breath into Adam and he became a "living being" [Genesis 2:7; Hillel records 150 animal species; Leviticus 11]. It is only when we refer to animals as having a "soul" is when they act in the capacity of survival. Human's Power and Strength is suppose to come from GD because of our ability to connect and communicate with GD comes through our "spirit." When we fail to do so, we become like "beast" that lack intelligence.
The cheetah doesn't need to be "crowned" the King of the Jungle to know that he can beat the lion running on any given day.
"We have become the master of all things, and the ruler of none" (the self). author unknown. Whose properly reading the music composition? Whose watching the Conductor's (GD) cues? Are we intuned?
Shalom - 🕊💜