We do not like to be diffuse in this analysis, but without it we cannot understand our subject. We are arriving somewhere.
Let us now take up the third division which we have indicated on our diagrams as "spirit." By spirit we refer to a still higher plane of man's being, which all men refer to and yet think of variously.
We are all sure that man has a distinctly marked plane of his nature—or faculty, at least—above the merely natural or animal mind. It is known from its manifestations. The natural mind is the "carnal" mind, to which Paul refers. The spiritual plane we also know from him. "To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." (Romans 8:6.)
The mere animal, and the animal man, the man of the carnal or fleshly mind only, is guided by selfish motives altogether—motives of self-protection, self-preservation, self-indulgence, self-enjoyment, self-exaltation; in a word, by self-love. This operates with the material body in the realm of the natural (here plainly recognized). "The carnal mind is enmity against God." (Romans 8:7.)
