Body, soul....
We are not a body which possesses a soul. Nor are we a soul who possesses a body. There is no edict from on high that says it must be one or the other.
What do you mean by the term soul anyway? What is this soul you speak of?
May I suggest that body and soul do not exist independently of each other? Our "worldly, mundane" experiences impact our soul growth very deeply. If our mundane experiences hold no importance, then why did the divine hand put us in bodies? Why did Jesus say, "Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them."? Does our physical existence and its products count for nothing?
I will get personal here. I am an old man. I am coming to the end of time here, the end of my path. Throughout my life I have set goals or objectives for myself. These objectives have changed over time, according to my understanding. My present and final objective in life is to become Love Itself. Not to be loved, or to love, but to become love embodied or personified. But how can I judge my progress except in the crucible of physical existence? I MUST produce fruits of love. Empty words, talk of the soul, is nothing if there are no fruits to verify, to substantiate the formless and bodiless soul. Love is what we do, not what we say. The Twelfth House is about Liberation from Bondage, and we ourselves forged the chains that bind us.
The traditional meanings of the Twelfth include not only all those dire things, but it is also the house of assistance from unseen or unexpected quarters. It is a house of intercession.
If we take the body, and events which involve the body, we find the Twelfth House involved in suicide, rape, abduction, assasination, institutionalization (imprisonment, hospitalization, etc.), illness.... To say that "these things do not matter at all" misses the point of why they do happen at all.
Why do we love life so? Why do we resist death, flee from it? If we are nothing but "soul", wouldn't it be better to fall on our sword today and leave this meaningless body to the worms?