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title: Soul
summary: Exploring the Prime »Soul« in the Alchemical Materialism framework
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publishDate: 2026-02-24T11:26:00.000Z
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- **Alchemical Principle =>** the combustible essence; what makes fire catch; the active principle
- **Core =>** Agency; drive; the spark that initiates action
- **Keyword =>** »I burn«
- **Principles**
  - The principle of **individual agency and animation**
  - Greed is one expression; so is passion, obsession, curiosity, protective fury, creative drive
  - What unites Soul expressions: the fire originates in *a person,* not a structure or process
- **Organisational expression:** Individual excellence; master craftsmen, personal glory, competitive innovation
- **Expressions**
  - The merchant hoarding silver
  - The sculptor destroying a statue because of a imperfection only they can see
  - The parent killing to protect their child
  - The explorer walking into the unknown
  - The warrior seeking glory
  - The inventor breaking every rule
- **Failures:**
  - Consumes everything
  - Burns out
  - Burns what it touches
  - Individual drive that destroys because it cannot moderate
- **Qualities:**
  - Combustible
  - Animating
  - Individual
  - Igniting
