Locke Soul

Locke says the soul begins to have ideas when it begins to perceive. It's essence is not to think, and it does not always think, like the body does not always move. I do not think Locke thinks the soul has any innate ideas either. He says there is something within humans that has the power to think, but he believes it is not always functioning in this way. It seems to me that Locke believes the soul acts like the mind, it thinks, it reason, and has the ability to think and reason in degrees. He does believe it exists separately from the mind and body also. I think the mind operates as it does in accordance to how it is supposed to physically, and the ideas are reasoned by the soul, which understands the universe in a way that the mind and body cannot. I think Lock thinks the soul thinks like the body thinks. When a new sensation is shown to the body it reacts as it should, and the mind tries to understand the sensation as it should. So, too, the soul reacts to the mind and body as it should, in accordance to the universe.