I am responding to this article,
http://www.perfectingofthesaints.com...rit-soul-body/

I would have to disagree in this respect. You wrote "HEART (affections, emotions and desires)."

The soul is comprised of mind, will and EMOTION; not mind, heart, will. I believe problems can arise if you think that way, thus not delineating the proper functions of your spirit, soul and body.

The reason I say this is because your heart has aspects connected in Scripture to one's spirit also yet it is not entirely spirit, nor is entirely located in the soul.
The functions of emotion of the soul are AFFECTION, DESIRE, SENSING&FEELING. Not "affection, desire, emotion". Emotion is the bucket of these functions not the heart.

Notice "sensing and feeling" are nowhere to be found in "affection, desire, emotion".

Therefore, heart is "mind of the soul plus intuition of the spirit." Such a statement connects the spirit and soul.

The heart is like a gateway from the soul to the the spirit and vic versa.

I come to this understanding from this book,
http://www3.telus.net/trbrooks/SMCFP.htm

IN SHORT THE PROBLEM IS YOU PLACE HEART ENTIRELY IN THE EMOTIONAL REALM THUS FORSAKING ITS FUNCTION CONNECTING TO CONSCIENCE and MIND.

Naturally the conscience of man misses the emphasis in communicating from the spirit things for the soul to understand, and so man lives in the emotional realm.