The Deed to the Soul

Mel, a fortnight ago, offered me a new idea for an article – for which I am ever so grateful. He suggested that I’d try to answer to “Is our soul our own possession?” I have said before that we possess nothing, since we do not control anything. Nevertheless, I am going to treat “possession” according to Alexys’ and Leo’s point of view (affection and connection respectively).

Before incarnating, our spirit is summoned to be briefed about what there is to be done, and what it is expected of it, while on earth. After this process it becomes a soul (i.e. Soul = spirit + assignment).

Who owns the spirit (thus exerting absolute control over it)? Its Creator does.
Who designs the assignment given to the spirit? God and His council do; even though they seem to grant a Limited Free Pass to souls so that they can manage the way they wish to fulfil the Divine Purpose (some of you will call this free will).

Now we are souls and we incarnate. Each and one of us has its own purpose here (although our individual purpose may serve a common one); meaning that we have our own soul...but do we possess it?
If we work under the assumption that “possession = affection + connection” we may state that indeed we do possess our souls. Please, allow me to expound this theory:

Possession as affection: as spirits we may become attached to our assignment (individual mission) and its components (family, friends, lovers, spouses etc) in such a way that many times (after death) we find it hard to detach ourselves from it. The levels of affection are extremely high, and this sentiment will be present for eternity in our memories...I repeat: memories. Thus, under the affection assumption, we do possess our soul.

Possession as connection: as spirits we absorb, through the soul, a lot of knowledge, experiences, feelings, energies (through relationships) that will contribute to our evolutionary process. These tools won’t just go away upon our death; for as we have seen the memory of them is connected to our soul, that after being judged and accounted for, returns to its state as a spirit keeping thus its memories, which belong to it only. This, under the connection theory, we also possess our soul.

Pray, bear in mind that we are assuming that Possession = affection + connection. But what is the answer to Mel’s question if we take possession as ownership + absolute control?
The memories are ours indeed; but we do not exert absolute control over them, since once we return to earth they are deleted by the Divine Council (except for very rare cases): not only we don’t have any recollection of past lives but we are also more than willing to reject the entire reincarnation process (even though we can’t seem to explain why the so-called coincidences occur; why the dejá vu sensations; why some people are detested by us and liked by others [and vice-versa], why a certain person is a soul mate and its real meaning etc, etc).

Is our soul our own possession? In an absolute sense; no, it isn’t.

Image: St. Matthew and the Angel by Caravaggio