Meaning of spirit (what is it, concept and definition)

What is the Spirit:

The spirit is the grace that a god or a superior being gives to man to differentiate himself from the rest of the animals. The spirit is defined as the rational soul where thought, spirituality and communion reside.

Spirit comes from the Latin spiritus , which means 'breath' and everything related to the element air. It is translated into Greek as pneûma , which is related to 'breath', 'breath' and 'spirit'.

The difference between spirit and soul, in Latin spiritus and anima , and in Greek pneûma and psyché , was not relevant until the introduction of these concepts to Christianity. Both were considered the place where feelings sit.

Spirit and soul are synonyms in terms of an immaterial or phantasmagoric being. They are also used interchangeably to refer to liveliness or encouragement, such as, for example, putting soul or putting spirit to speech. Both are essences or generating principles of something like, for example, a rebellious spirit, the soul of the party, or a free spirit.

When it comes to entrepreneurship, it refers to a person who has the "grace" of entrepreneurship, that is, an engine that creates new projects by identifying new ideas.

See also

• Entrepreneur

Spiritual is the opposite of material, that is, it is everything related to the spirit or the immaterial, for example, asceticism teaches detachment from the material to cultivate and perfect the spiritual side, or like the lotus flower that symbolizes spiritual purity.

See also:

• Asceticism Lotus Flower

Spirit, soul and body

The spirit differs from the soul because the spirit is considered universal, in contrast to the soul, which is individual. According to Christian theorizing, man is made up of three elements: the body, the soul and the spirit.

In this sense, the body is the soma or the carnal; the soul is what imprints us with individual personality, where the imagination, feelings, reason (mind, emotion and will) reside, and, finally, the spirit is the divine inheritance of our being, where faith, hope resides, reverence and our spiritual world. The introduction of the Holy Spirit rightly represents the divine and sacred spirit of God.

See also

• SoulHoly Spirit

Spirit in Greek philosophy

The Greeks considered the pneûma or spirit as the vital principle or breath that animates the body. It is where the air that gives life to the Universe resides and the thought that gives us the ability to govern ourselves.

Elemental spirits

The elemental spirits, on the other hand, are the simple spirits of nature that protect the element to which they belong and that cannot incarnate in a body and are associated with the four elements:

• Air: sylphs, water: undines, land: gnomes, fire: salamanders.