once again sorry that there is no specific subject on metaphysics, hence these dotted interventions. but I still answer the question.
I fully understand your answer, but my question was more specific: how could Salvation of the Soul not be of a metaphysical nature? That the promise of Salvation in exchange for this or that advantage for the benefit of any caste exists, I am well aware of it, this does not however remove the metaphysical nature of this concept (and it is all the more practical for those who play it!).
It's a little clearer! But the subject is delicate, very delicate even and requires to advance on tiptoe so much the points of view on what can be the soul already, that in which it can be the object of some salvation (the who, where, when, how, why that is part of the possible answer), and which has been debated since the origin of the concept.
The reference book for our Judeo-Christian, and Islamic culture in addition: the bible, already brings many nuances, very distinct, on this famous soul and what it may or may not be… that's the question
! and there is something to get lost in, so simplifying the concept to provide an answer, a semblance of an answer, is an exercise in high theological aerobatics.
I then express this extreme simplification by a parable, an automotive mechanical analogy always (because almost everyone has one with the advantages and disadvantages that it brings, but a mixer or a television would also do the trick.)
So we have on my right a pile of scrap called auto-mobile (which does not move) on my left a driver (who for the moment does not drive anything) and in the center (nothing for the moment).
The driver then settles down behind the wheel, heaps of scrap metal, presses a button and this is this heap of scrap metal which, starts purring like a kitten, or like a baby who has just been born, to live (assuming that it only lives from this moment when it begins to breathe) by sucking in air and sucking on the breast of its fuel tank. This pretty little cabbage is nothing else for now than a heap of junk becoming a racing car or a cart, to start moving, to move according to his desire to travel the world, to roar , honking, accelerating, braking, paying for a plane tree or a precipice too, that's life! And that brings us back to what the soul can be, that is to say any object acquiring its personality, its status of being, unique, which is not only to be animated (therefore to be an animal), but let this animation forge a unique entity: the me! But, and this is where it gets thicker, when the driver cuts the contact that becomes this personality? Does it survive in the limbo of the automobile of any breakage before being recast? Is there a paradise or a hell for these heaps of junk? Can they be saved? Back on the road for new adventures? Will the soul of this car be reincarnated in another object? It is a question of faith, of belief in this possibility which depends only on its designer who will have foreseen it or not from its creation, physical as metaphysical.
For those who have done a little bit of theology, the car is only an object, a product having no life in itself, even with a high potential to have it, the driver is the spirit called of god which makes live or die, the soul it is the result of two aspects so different in their Being, precisely, and which thus gives existence to the soul of the Being or more simply to the fact of being .
Where is metaphysics in all of this? Everywhere and nowhere at the same time because everything depends on the experience that everyone has. The atheistic rationalist thinks, or rather believes, in the definitive end of being at his carnal death: "
dust you are, dust you will become again And this is not materially false. The believer hopes that beyond the appearances of total annihilation that represents the degradation of the matter of which we are composed, there is possibility of survival of the Being, beyond this same matter and which we find in the concept of reincarnation in the East (resurrection in the West) and therefore that the individual can be saved from this total annihilation, by firmly believing in metaphysical recycling. It's all a question of faith! In other words, what God has built, he can destroy and what he has destroyed he can reconstruct by a kind of metaphysical recycling, death being only a concept which cannot be limited to one appearance. (it's a bit like the meaning of quantum physics it seems to me!)
"We make science with facts, like making a house with stones: but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a pile of stones is a house" Henri Poincaré