Since the beginning of Time apparentIy man has busied himseIf with the enchanting, fascinating but stiI1 unsoIved question, “Where and what is the souI?” There have been individuaIs who have doubted its being, arguing that it did not exist; others have heid that because there is Iife, a sou1, whatever it may be, must be present also. Ignorance has not prevented the writing of an aImost countIess number of tomes regarding the exact nature of the sou1, and in a11 ages there have been reIigious factions and cIiques which heId stoutIy to this creed or to that opinion. It is possible here to mention but a few of these many theories. Soul Sleep or Psycbopannycbism. This idea apparentIy originated with the Armenian and Arabian sects and, ahhough it was condemned by the various Christian CounciIs of the MiddIe Ages, Pope John XXII accepted it openIy. At the time of the Reformation it was revived by severa factions and was even extensiveIy deveIoped by the Anabaptists. One of its chief theoIogica1 opponents, by the way, was the dour Swiss, John CaIvin, the “father” of Presbyterianism. Soul-death or Tbnetopscbism, is another deveIopment of this “motif” and it was beIieved, for exampIe, by one Petrus Pomponatus (circa 1500 A.D.) that the sou1 was actuahy “dead” from the death of the body to the moment of the beginning of the “Last Judgment.” Transmigration of Souls. It is we11 known that this is a common beIief of many peopIes and races. Soul Sex. Some philosophers affirm that the various viscera have their own separate maIe sou1. The Sages of China have eIaborated upon this dogma and some of them have maintained that every human being is provided with both a maIe and a femaIe variety, and expIained this physica hermaphroditism by the “need” of a harmonious cooperation of these two into one organic unity!