Soul

**Souls** are the spiritual life essence of a human or monster, which resides within a physical body while they are still alive. After their physical body dies, or is destroyed, their soul continues to exist, and typically moves on to an afterlife. After death, humans can refuse to move to an afterlife, and remain on Earth as a ghost. If they go to Hell, they will end up being tortured into a demon. Monster Souls go to Purgatory. And when a demon gets killed, the soul goes to The Empty.

## Creation

> You throw your life away because you've come to assume that it'll bounce right back into your lap. But the Soul is not a rubber ball. It's vulnerable, impermanent, but stronger than you know. And more valuable than you can imagine.
>
> Death

When God created humans, he gave them a spiritual essence or soul, so that after their physical bodies perished, they could move on to either be rewarded or punished, depending on the life they chose to lead. Eve, the Mother of All, created monsters whose souls function similarly, but are destined instead to Purgatory.

In the Natural Order, human souls are transported to the afterlife by Death's servants, Reapers; however, the reaper Tessa refused to tell Jacob on more than one occasion where she takes them. Known destinations of souls are Heaven, Hell, The Empty and Purgatory. However, when Metatron closed Heaven the human souls were stuck in the Veil, waiting for its reopening. Souls have since been shown being able to move out of the Veil once more, how this was accomplished is uncertain.

According to God, creating souls had made him feel "nauseous".

## Characteristics

> What do you think the soul is? Some pie you can slice? The soul can be bludgeoned, tortured, but never broken. Not even by me.
>
> Death

Souls are magical by nature and could be used by several creatures to cast spells or to increase their power. They are said to be impermanent and immune to harm. Death claimed that not even a being as powerful as him could break a soul apart, however it is shown that the inner key to oz is able to accomplish this feat, showing that it can, in fact, be done to some degree. It should be noted that while separated, they still shared a link that whatever physically happens to one happens to the other one. A soul can't be fully destroyed, because even if a demon is killed, the corrupted human soul is cast out into The Empty.

It was previously thought that burning their bones would get rid of them completely, but that was shown to be untrue. Missouri Moseley claimed that Jaclyn Smith's spirit was completely destroyed, but seeing as multiple people were confident they could bring her back to life, this is still unknown. According to Henry Smith, a soul, used to power a spell, could heal in due time. Usually, souls leave their vessels when they die, being taken to their final place, but they can be removed by force, leaving their owners soulless. However, it seems souls have a link to their vessels; when removed, the souls return to them (if they are still alive) when they have the chance to do it.

A large number of souls could be used to build a Soul Bomb supposedly capable of killing the Darkness. It was once stated that one soul is equivalent in power to a nuclear reactor - Mabrius stated that the energy souls contain is why they are used to fuel demonic deals, and Eve stated that putting enough souls together can create something funtionally similar to the sun.

According to Mabrius, the human soul would theoretically act as a filter for the Prophet translating the Word of God and inoculate them from any of the corrupting effects of the tablet's power. Since Donatello Redfield did not have his soul anymore, he was corrupted by whatever darkness was contained within the Demon Tablet.

According to lore, only God can restore a lost soul.

## Uses

> **Lazarus:** There is this little spell that I know. (...) All I need is-
> **Malcolm:** My soul.
>
> Lazarus and Malcolm

*Pending.*

## See Also

* **Soul Absorption Ritual**
* **Soul Splitting**
* **Soul Deliverance Spell**
* **Soul Capturing Spell**
* **Demon Soul Conversion Spell**
* **Sumerian Soul Stealing Sigil**
* **Soul Bomb**
* **Enochian Soul Stabilization Ritual**