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I'd prefer to think of the soul as having two containers. Flesh-Spirit-Soul.

The soul is who we are. when we die we know we are still who we were
while alive. The story of the Rich man and Lazarus tells us, we know who, why and what we are, we have all of our senses yet the torment of the flames in HELL do not destroy the container we are in (the spirit).

In Heaven, we will know all others and they us.

Blade

 That is possible by what is written but I wonder, what are Michael and Gabriel - spirits or souls? We know we are spirits as per  Ecclesiastes 12:7 …and the spirit returns to God who gave it. So why refer to the container (spirit) and not to us (soul) in this verse if we are really souls ummm,  what, in a spirit like we are contained in a body?? 

Spirit is ruach, breath. Living soul is nephesh which is used of animals and men but never angels with or without bodies, so it would seem to suggest that a spiritruach when placed into the body brings the body alive by means of the living spirit...creating (?) a nephesh?