Now one will ask, "Where does the soul come from? If it is conscious what is it then?" And the best explanation that can be given is: the soul is the essence of all things, it is life, but not life in the sense we understand it. What we call life is a suggestion of life. The soul is the real life. The reflection, which is only a suggestion of the soul, we call life and one who moves and sees and hears and acts we call a living being, but what is living in him is the soul. The soul is not seen, therefore life is not seen. Life has touched the person; so one sees the effect of that touch in the person and one says, "He is living, it is life." But what we see is a suggestion of life which appears and disappears. Life is life, it never dies.