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"As we have before indicated, this human reality stands between the higher and lower in man, between the world of the animal and the world of divinity. When the animal proclivity in man becomes predominant, he sinks lower than the brute. When the heavenly powers are triumphant in his nature, he becomes the noblest and most superior being in the world." (Pup 461) (52:1) "If the soul identifies itself with the material world it remains dark, for in the natural world there is corruption, aggression, struggles for existence, greed, darkness, transgression and vice... There is, however, a faculty in man which unfolds to his vision the secrets of existence... the power of the mind;... and still another power which is differentiated from that of the soul and mind... The spirit of faith... inspires man to attain the virtues and perfections of the divine world." (RofM 16- 7; Div Phil 121- 2) (52:2) "Now concerning mental faculties, they are in truth of the inherent properties of the soul, even as the radiation of light is the essential property of the sun... It is through the power of the soul that the mind comprehendeth, imagineth and exerteth its influence... The mind comprehendeth the abstract by the aid of the concrete, but the soul hath limitless manifestations of its own. The mind is circumscribed, the soul limitless. Is is by the aid of such senses as those of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch, that the mind comprehendeth, whereas the soul is free from all agencies." (Bwf 337) (52:3) "All the people have formed a god in the world of thought, and that form of their own imagination they worship; when the fact is that the imagined form is finite... All the sects and peoples worship their own thought; they create a god in their own minds and acknowledge him to be the creator of all things, when that form is superstition-- thus people adore and worship imagination." (Bwf 381- 2) (52:4) "It may be that man who has every material benefit, and who lives surrounded by all the greatest comfort modern civilization can give him, is denied the all important gift of the Holy Spirit." (divine knowledge and love) (Pt 63) (52:5) "Unless man is released from... the captivity of materialism, and receiving a portion of the bounties of the spiritual world... the utmost we can say of him is that he is a perfect animal. No one can rightly call him a man." (Pup 298)
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