In our tradiition, we say without the Life Force one is dead ( Without Siva one is Sava)) and this was beautifully expressed as an equation by the great Shaw.
Living Body-Dead Body = Soul; Pranan Brahma.
Shaw was influenced by Heri Bergson and his concept of LEvolution Creatrice, Creative Evolution. Everything is done by CE and its errors are the Problem of Evil !
Another influencer was Dr Annie Besant, who consecrated her life to the Eternal Law, and who held that the Eternal Law was indeed great !
