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This article is about the item. For the character, see The Soul (character).

The Soul is an unlockable passive item.

Effects[ | ]

  • Grants two Soul HeartSoul Hearts.
  • Isaac gains a pulsing blue aura that repels enemies and projectiles.
    • The power of the repel force alternates in strength at random, sometimes strong enough to counter a projectile well before it hits Isaac, sometimes only strong enough to slow it down.
    • Ground-based enemies will overcome the counterforce easier than flying enemies and projectiles.

Notes[ | ]

  • (in Repentance) A stronger effect of this item is given temporarily by I - The Magician?I - The Magician?.
  • (in Repentance) When playing as Character Tainted Forgotten iconTainted Forgotten, this item works only on the Forgotten's body and not the soul.
  • (in Repentance) When playing as Character Tainted Jacob iconTainted Jacob, Dark Esau is unaffected by this item's repelling properties.

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Trivia[ | ]

  • This item, along with Collectible The Body iconThe Body and Collectible The Mind iconThe Mind, are references to the Three Primes of Alchemy.
    • The designs of these items appear to be that of Triquetra, a Christian symbol of the Trinity.
  • The item's description, along with those of Collectible The Body iconThe Body and Collectible The Mind iconThe Mind, are references to the three attributes commonly ascribed to God in Christian theology: omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence. For The Soul, it is omnipotence, the ability to do anything, which follows naturally from the ability to "be all".


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