Theories of the Soul

A true friend is one soul in two bodies. —Aristotle Kant says, transcendental idealism. In Aquinas, we exist apart from bodies but only on Thursdays when his famous ox flies by the window wiser at Cologne where Albertus Magnus, his real name, appoints Aquinas to magister studentium, master of students. Aquinas is petrified but says yes. He feels his soul sailing out of his head floating near the roof where a blue ox wings by. On Wednesday, two bodies are one soul waking at sunrise thanks to the pineal gland of Descartes, who thinks this node in the brain is a tiny sugar cone or salted peanut, the seat of the soul while Aristotle points to the chopping ax as a teleology as if the ax were a living, breathing person which it isn’t. Heraclitus, air and fire while Aquinas objects, no not an ax but ox. If you’re a bird or soul I am only one mile from the sea. If you are a soul in two bodies life is more complex and we must labor twice the field of sorrow after sleep, bath, and a glass as Aquinas whispers,the things we love tell us who we are