mortal soul
Perishable inner self
The mortal soul is the spiritual essence of a human being, understood as subject to death or judgment—distinct from an immortal or eternal soul in some theological frameworks.
The phrase often appears in solemn or literary contexts emphasizing human vulnerability and spiritual stakes: Every mortal soul must face this reckoning.
It can also simply mean a living person: Not a mortal soul was in sight.
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
- human spiritEssence of personhood
- eternalLasting without end
- life after deathContinued existence posthumously
- eternal restEuphemism for death
flesh · death · afterlife · heaven · essence · human · divine · body · transcendence · salvation · saving grace · purgatory · ghost · existence · ephemeral · finite · consciousness · resurrection
- soul conceptsatman, psyche, anima, pneuma, ba
- Soul Sleep
- annihilationismsecond death, total destruction
mortal souldivine spirit
god or sacred essence
godhead · deity · holy spirit · archangel · seraph
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