Chapter 29

Man is not an animal being

We sometimes ask ourselves, are we animals or some other category of being? My answer is: we are not animals. So it's worth understanding this, because the fact of not being animals is a very important knowledge that should reach us.

Man can mentally create what he wants, even a virtual world, in which everything functions according to his will and according to the rules and laws established by him. He can move freely in the created reality, pursue his dreams and even be happy in it. Thus, in such a state, he may have experiences similar to real ones. He may even lose control over this imaginary world, moreover, lose control over himself and fall into a mental illness. This is because we are not animals. We are not actually part of nature, although our physical body is associated with it for some time.

When we talk to another person, we are talking not to their physical structure, but to someone who is inside. We feel that our words flow deep into the depths of our listener and enrich his knowledge. It is worth realizing that we address the content of our words to the spiritual person of man. My essenceism system adopted this name for our spiritual personality. He left the term soul to denote the inner nature that governs our personality. According to this system, the spiritual person is the proper and eternal existence of man. Throughout this study, I am trying to show that man is a separate category of being in the universe, because our spiritual person comes directly from the Creator. It is because of our having a spiritual person, that in a relatively short time huge civilization achievements of humanity took place.

According to essenceism, a spiritual person treats the physical body as a "tool" for existence in the physical world. While animals perform all their activities with their whole being, man uses his body as a plane for the existence of his inner, physically invisible personality. This inner personality is therefore the right man. This means that a spiritual person is the eternal state of human existence. This is one of the main theorems of essenceism.

The state of our humanity can be described with a simple theorem. The meaning of an animal's life is to serve a physical person, and the sense of our physical person's existence is to serve a spiritual person. This is due to the sense of human life planned for him by the Creator. It means bringing a spiritual person to perfection during earthly life.

The Original Being created us to be not only eternal but also free beings. This freedom is of course in our spirituality. It is our basic attribute, next to eternity and love. In fact, only our spiritual person is fully free, not a physical person. Fortunately, it is a spiritual person who is the right person, because our whole value resides in him. This is what distinguishes us from animals and this is what makes us human.