Originally posted by JohnMartin
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The act of life caused by the soul is enacted through the vegetative powers of life, to inform the body with vegetative life. The soul's essence is spiritual, but the soul's powers are both spiritual and material. The material powers cause life in the body. The spiritual powers cause the intellective life within man apart from any organ of the body.
The material powers of vegetative and sensitive life have there root cause in the essence of the soul. The powers of the soul remain with the soul after the soul leaves the body.
There is a series by Gardeil on the Introduction to the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. The work on psychology would answer your questions on the soul.
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