379. Soul

See also 182. GHOSTS ; 349. RELIGION ; 384. SPIRITS and SPIRITUALISM ; 392. THEOLOGY .

creationism Theology.

a doctrine that God creates a new soul for every human being bon. Cf. metempsychosis. —creationist, n. —creationistic, adj.

infusionism

the doctrine or belief that the soul enters the body by divine infu-sion at conception or birth.

metempsychosis

1. the passage of a soul from one body to another.

2. the rebirth of the soul at death in another body, either human or animal. Cf. creationism. —metempsychic, metempsychosic, metempsychosical, adj.

monopsychism

the theory that all souls are actually a single unity. —mono-psychic, monopsychical, adj.

nullibism

the denial that the soul exists. —nullibist, n.

panpsychism

Philosophy. the doctrine that each object in the universe has either a mind or an unconscious soul. —panpsychist, n. —panpsychistic, adj.

polypsychism

the belief that one person may have many souls or modes of intelligence. —polypsychic, polypsychical, adj.

psychagogy

the guiding of a soul, especially that of a person recently dead into the lower world. —psychagogue, n. —psychagogic, adj.

psychomachy

Obsolete, a conflict or battle between the soul and the body.

psychorrhagy

the manifestation of a person’s soul to another, usually at some distance from the body. —psychorrhagic, adj.

theopsychism

the belief that the soul has a divine nature.

traducianism

Theology. the doctrine that a new human soul is generated from the souls of the parents at the moment of conception. —traducianist, n. —traducianistic, adj.

transmigrationism

any of various theories of metempsychosis or reincarna-tion, as the Hindu doctrines of Karma.