The feelings lasted a long time, but that mountain top hasn't lasted all these years. Maybe I've been on more mountain tops than some, but I've also climbed, sometimes crawled, out of some awfully steep valleys, too. We don't see him now - but someday we will. For some, they will see him at Second Coming. Embraced by the Light' and soul babies.
Soul represents whole person.
The heritage of our salvation. A. Old Testament prophets. They are said to speak to their own generation, period. They did have a current meaning. But they also predicted things that happened centuries later.