immortal soul
Deathless inner self
The immortal soul is the part of a person believed to survive bodily death—the essence that persists eternally rather than perishing with the flesh.
The phrase appears in religious and philosophical contexts discussing what makes humans more than material beings: She believed her immortal soul would be judged.
The concept is central to Christianity, Islam, and various other traditions that promise eternal reward or punishment.
- afterlifeExistence beyond mortality
- life after deathContinued existence posthumously
- eternal lifeUnending conscious existence
- reincarnationSoul's rebirth after death
- next lifeExistence after death
atman · higher self · breath of life · spirit · resurrection · ghost · out of body · divine spark · transmigration · dualism · consciousness · transcendence · eternity · heaven · essence · karma · spiritual evolution · deathless
- afterlifeheaven, hell, paradise, purgatory, limbo
- Heavenparadise, pearly gates, eternal life, kingdom of heaven, New Jerusalem
- immortalityeternal life, immortals, everlasting life, deathlessness, deathless
- PlatoPlato, academy, Academy, allegory, the Republic
- soul conceptsatman, psyche, anima, pneuma, ba
- ZoroastrianismZoroaster, Zarathustra, Zoroastrianism, Amesha Spentas, sacred fire
immortal soulmortal body
Finite physical existence
physical body · corporeal form · flesh and blood · mortal coil · bodily form
immortal souloblivion
Complete erasure from memory
nothingness · annihilation · extinction · void · nonexistence