Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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BY EDITH V. CRANDELL
Efatiiihiigzgf AN know thyself," wrote the Greek sage,
,Q 'pg and ln the knowledge of our real selves,
*Z 5* the indwelling spiritual man, lies the se-
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ilrlgw cret of imperishable happiness and eternal
;&"lW?¥q"'i greatness.
By "thyself," the seer meant the spiritual man, the
real man, who isason of God, "created in his image
and likeness," and not the apparent man, whose physical
form is often mistaken for his real self.
Revelation affirms, "Ye are the offspring of God," but
God is a spirit, therefore, Man is the offspring of spirit,
and is a spirit. A noted psychologist declares, "Each
man is essentially a spirit, controlling a physical organism."
Schopenhauer, the philosopher, wrote, "Our spirit
is of a totally indistructible nature and its energy endures
from eternity "to eternity."
The threefold voices of Science, Revelation, and Philosophy
unite in declaring that man is not a body, but a
spirit, which came forth, in the beginning from God,
man is a manifestation of him in the flesh, and as the
spirit partakes of his eternal nature, it survives the dissolution
of the physical form. The physical form, in
which the spiritual man dwells during his earthly career
is of time; therefore, inherits decay;'but the spiritual
man is of eternity, and lives on forever. The spiritual
man did not come into existence with the birth of the
body, and neither does he cease to be with its dissolution.