incorporeal being

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They do not realize that the spirit is an incorporeal being, and does not enter and come forth, but is only connected with the body as the sun is with the mirror.

From Some Answered Questions by `Abdu'l-Bahá

How can a corporeal being make an incorporeal being experience incommodious sensations?

From The System of Nature, Volume 2 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

We feel attached into their meager essences, and have given the hand of half-way approach to incorporeal being.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III by Lodge, Henry Cabot

Aristotle had severed the deity from Nature and placed it outside the latter as an incorporeal being whose chief determining factor was reason.

From Atheism in Pagan Antiquity by Andersen, Ingeborg

Now whose hand tied and subjected to the organs of this corporeal machine that incorporeal being which must necessarily be in me united to my body? 

From The Existence of God by Morley, Henry