Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.

T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.

When we (the soul, the metaphysical body complex – our eternal being) discard the physical/ chemical body at death, we still continue to function in the same substance .......... and this will go on through various degrees/ levels of finer and finer substance and densities, until we lose our individuality in the Universal Spirit.

That did happen. He may have made a connection with Perry, but Truman was ultimately a writer. A writer trying to get the story.

I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer.