Forwarded from Nikolaos
"The soul of each of the illogical animals is the life of the body it ensouls. And they do not have life as essence (like the soul of man), but as energy, because it exists in relation to something else and not by itself. So, when the body is destroyed it is destroyed too, because it is as mortal as the body is, and what the soul is, it is in relation to the body. So when the body dies, the soul dies with it."
St. Gregory Palamas, 150 Chapters, 31
St. Gregory Palamas, 150 Chapters, 31