There are two Chinese characters used for counting units of man. The first one is "mouth". Each person has only one mouth. One "mouth" is one person, and two "mouths" are two people, and so on. The other one is "soul"(This meaning is from the ancient Chinese oracle drawings, not from the modern Chinese). When cutting a shape of a man horizontally, a square or a circle, shown as a spirit in the tabernacle of a human body, will be drawn.
The very good examples of ancient Chinese oracle drawings for explaining the differences to us are the words of "death" and "star". Following are the drawings of "death" and "star".
The drawing of "death" is a dead tree encompassed by many mouths, and the drawing of "star" is the tree of life surrounded by many souls.
Once Jesus tought a woman of Samaria, said, "Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life"(John 4:13-14).
People who eat and drink the food of this world will be hungry and thirsty again, and die at last; the souls who eat and drink from the tree of life will be never hungry and thirsty again, and will gain his everlasting life finally.
A pure, clean, and innocient soul
From the map of Lehi's dream, there are many ways that a soul can follow.
After Adam's fall, there are too many things full of human's minds, and no soul is pure, clean, and innocient.
The ancient Chinese oracle drawing was shown that there would be a pure, clean, and innocient soul encompassing the flamming sword and dying for all men.
This drawing was shown that the soul encompassed the whole flamming sword which turned every way.
posted by yen-ku hsu @ 4:53 PM
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