Do We Have Two Parts to Our Soul?

According to the Iranian philosopher, Suhrewardi (d. 1191), each human soul had a previous existence in the spirit world before descending into the body. 

Upon entering the body, the innermost center of the human soul which is immortal and angelic in nature, divided into two parts. One part remains in the spiritual or angelic realm and the other, descended into the prison of the body. This explains the unhappiness or dissatisfaction that man experiences in this world, which is due to his search for his true self, and he cannot be happy until he is reunited with it. Man’s task in this world is therefore, to regain his true self and be reunited with it in order to be whole again. [1]

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​[1] Moris, Zalin. “Revelation, Intellectual Intuition and Reason in the Philosophy of Mulla Sadra.”