CONCERNING BODY, SOUL AND SPIRIT - 4 Avenue de Camoens, Paris, Friday morning, November 17th
There are in the world of humanity three degrees; those of the body, the soul, and spirit. (96:3)

The body is the physical or animal degree of man. From the bodily point of view man is a sharer of the animal kingdom. The bodies alike of men and animals are composed of elements held together by the law of attraction. (96:4)

Like the animal, man possesses the faculties of the senses, is subject to heat, cold, hunger, thirst, etc.; unlike the animal, man has a rational soul, the human intelligence. (96:5)

This intelligence of man is the intermediary between his body and his spirit. (96:6)

When man allows the spirit, through his soul, to enlighten his understanding, then does he contain all Creation; because man, being the culmination of all that went before and thus superior to all previous evolutions, contains all the lower world within himself. Illumined by the spirit through the instrumentality of the soul, man's radiant intelligence makes him the crowning- point of Creation. (96:7)

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