Things that belong on the same ontological level as the soul: suffering, repression, desire, sexuality, the spiritual (whatever that may mean), conversion, beauty, sin, grace, music(?) etc. These are not mutually compatible but that is perhaps because the mind, including the mind of the world, has long been at war with the soul which in retreat occupies one redoubt after another, even though none of the attacks upon it have succeeded in reducing it by one jot. Is the soul a created thing? Or does it know itself as such? Does it suspect its own unreality, or its intermediate nature? Is it itself it is at war with? Does it have parts? Is there an uncreated part of the soul and a created part? And is that how it can keep reappearing after having apparently been dismantled by science or religion or history, in succession or in tandem? It is neither at rest nor is it in motion, being what all motion is measured by. It is stress, both in the sense of contained tension and accent, but is this of its essence or a contingency of what causes it to appear?