Associations:

a psychological approach based on the premise that learning and knowledge are derived from the formation of connections (associations) between ideas or representations of stimuli and responses. German psychologist Ebbinghaus studied association in conjunction with his research on memory.  In 1885, he published his ground breaking Memory. A Contribution to Experimental Psychology; here he described experiments he conducted on himself to describe the processes of learning and forgetting.

 

apperceptions:

to comprehend (a new idea) by assimilation with the sum of one's previous knowledge and experience; mental process by which a perception or an idea is assimilated into an individual’s existing knowledge;  apperception is Wundt's central theoretical concept.

 

affections:

the act of affecting; act of influencing or acting upon

 

motives:

something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing ; incentive; the goal or object of a person's actions

 

soul science:

a dismissive reference to modern psychology

 

imaginary soul-body:

aka soul-image; it is the exact mirror-image of the form perceived of the outer world; it possesses directional depth, horizon, bound or unbound, an inner eye & ear & the idea of an inner order.  It belongs to an individual and will always relate ONLY to that individual’s Culture

 

causal necessity:

possible reference to Aristotle who speaks of causal necessity.  He identifies the “efficient cause” (it is 1 of 4) as that from which the change under consideration proceeds.  It suggests all sorts of agents, non-living or living, acting as the sources of change or movement or rest.  This is close to the current understanding of causality as the relation of cause & effect, & covers the modern definitions of "cause" as either the agent or agency or particular events or states of affairs.

 

“ego and tu”

Latin, first person “I” and second person “you”

 

Spirit:

the principle of conscious life; the vital principle in humans, animating the body or mediating between body and soul; the incorporeal part of humans

 

Logos:

Greek word with multiple meanings.  In Western philosophy beginning with Heraclitus ( 535-475 BC), who used the term for a principle of order & knowledge.  For the sophists philosophers it meant discourse; for Aristotle it meant "reasoned discourse" or "the argument".  For Pyrrhonist philosophers it referred to dogmatic accounts of non-evident matters.  Stoics spoke of the logos spermatikos (the generative principle of the Universe) which foreshadows related concepts in Neoplatonism.  Hellenistic Judaism, Philo (20 BC-50 AD) adopted the term into Jewish philosophy.  Philo distinguished between logos prophorikos ("the uttered word") and the logos endiathetos ("the word remaining within").  The Gospel of John identifies the Christian Logos, through which all things are made, as divine (theos), and further identifies Jesus Christ as the incarnate Logos.

 

Ka:

Egyptian concept of vital essence, which distinguishes the difference between a living & the dead, death occurring when the ka left the body; the Egyptians believed that Khnum created the bodies of children on a potter's wheel & inserted them into their mothers' bodies.  Depending on the region, Egyptians believed that Heqet or Meskhenet was the creator of each person's ka, breathing it into them at the instant of their birth as the part of their soul that made them be alive.

 

Ruach:

Hebrew, meaning includes both ‘wind’ or ‘breath,’ not as essence but an invisible person, which can be felt or experienced, but not seen.  The Holy Spirit, the breath of God which disperses His life-force, His energy & intentions/mind.  It is Yahweh's Spirit, omnipresent, but which can be directed in specific ways for specific purposes.  Not The Father or The Son (of the Trinity), it is incorporeal & outside of our physical dimension; it manifests itself in the world, living in the hearts & lives of His people;