The soul, being a physical thing, is the mode by which people can differentiate a person from a machine; a body-host from a body. Body-hosts are tools under the use of a soul of a mind - the soul being the self's artwork. Other bodies include machines, tables, chairs, &c. - anything perceivable, not with a host. This is the major distinguishing factor.
The artwork of the self is immediately recognizable - it is the self as it appears. It is not the self itself - this thing is an absolute, never fully attainable or obtainable - a perfect form. It is merely an embodiment of the self as it appears in space. It is unchanging through time, except as the body-host changes in time to meet different countenances. The countenance is the means by which one can most distinctly determine another's character. Other qualities are felt by the soul, but not those which change it, The body may lose skin to a burn, and the soul will feel the burn, but will not lose a part of itself.
Souls and minds correspond in an important way: each is contingent on the existence of the other. Without the mind, the soul would serve no purpose - it could not exist as a thing cogently interpretable, and so would be an artwork of nothing. Without the soul, the mind could not apply itself to an environment: this is the soul's purpose - in conjunction with its body-host - to apply affects to a physical environment under direction of the free will; free will being a function of a minded soul.
Perception of the physical world is made possible by the soul-body conjunction, each of which is necessary to perceive it. This is because while perception is a non-physical quality, the things perceived must resonate at the same frequency as the perceiver in order to make contact. This perception, then, as an adjective - perceiving - is a perfect form; to transform this to something usable, it must be made an artwork under the brush of a physical tool: God's hands. As they mold for him a tabernacle of clay, he is made into a thing that can obtain God's forms.
Mind in the physical is not a thing obtainable or attainable. It is a thing perfect in form. But mind in the non-physical is a more perfect form still - for not only does it depict a non-material form, but a form which cannot be adjective-ized by a lack of the will's being able to choose it. At least for physical minds, the will can choose those actions it makes; even when those actions are contrary to the bulk of what that actor would consider "sensible" under the direction of that non-physical mind that remains in his possession; possessed by the self non-physical, as with all things possessed. For that mind is wiser still than the mind bound by physical temptation - it is where his heart is, and where the forefront of the tempted mind wishes to be, if the character is good.
Possession takes on a new meaning in the face of the non-physical self. It describes the absolute which people choose to own and which accept to the owner that thing needed in order to exist as such. That is, without this self, no thing could be possessed because no thing would have a higher thing to answer to. A priori applies as much to possession as to thought, and in this case as in that, A priori is the self. None can be owned by a thing more prior, else it be non-existent - for self is the most perfect form. None can be owned by a thing less so, because it answers to the owner of the thing prior to it. That non-physical self is the ruler of the kingdom of its inhabitants: soul, body and mind.
Who can say that he wishes to be something other than what he is? He is the perfect thing. What he does with that perfection is his choice entirely, but the hand he is dealt was perfect from the start. Allow me to explain: there are things one can do to better himself. There are things one can do that do not better himself. But man is only damned when he is his own condemner. His hand is perfect - he has merely to realize it as such. Only by deluding himself is he anything less than saved eternally - ready for Judgement day with eyes wide open, soul pouring to the truth.
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