III. THE HUMAN PLANES OF LIFE
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THE first step in order to perceive how Jesus is God and man is to understand first what man is, and then to understand, so far as we can, what God is. It is better in the very beginning of such a discussion to make clear the meaning of the terms we use. We shall proceed, first of all, to a consideration of man, or the human nature.
It is perfectly obvious, first of all, that man is a creature. We do not make ourselves, nor do our parents create us; they are simply instrumentalities through which we come into being.
The simplest classification of man is as follows:
| Above | SOUL | of | SPIRIT | = CREATED MAN | |||
| Below | BODY | of | MATTER | ||||
| Diagram 1 | |||||||
The soul is of spirit, or spiritual, and the body is of matter, or material, and the two together, soul and body, make created man.
The body denotes simply the material part
