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MAN, NATURAL
A symbol of the lower mind united with the
desires and affections of the lower nature.
"Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God,
for they are foolishness unto him, and he cannot know them, etc." -
1 Cor. ii. 14.
"By the natural man is meant the lower faculties of man ; and it is
said of these that they cannot discover spiritual truth." - F. W.
ROBERTSON, Sermons, 1st Series, p. 2.
"The natural man belongs essentially to this present order of
things. He is endowed simply with a high quality of the natural
animal life. But it is life of so poor a quality that it is not Life
at all. He that hath not the Son hath not Life, but he that hath the
Son hath Life-a new and distinct and super-natural endowment. . . .
Not a difference of development, but of generation." - H. DRUMMOND,
Natural Law, etc., p. 82.
The Lord is the first-begotten from the dead, because He, as to his
Humanity, is the Truth itself united to the Divine Good, from whom
all men, who in themselves are dead, are made alive." - SWEDENBORG,
Apocalypse Revealed, n. 17.
"In spiritual warfare we fight to overcome the natural man, not to
destroy him, but to render him obedient to the law of Christ. To
bring our whole nature into perfect harmony with the will of God is
the true end of our striving. There can be no stopping short of
that, but when the goal is won there shall be no more fighting but
an entrance into everlasting peace." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm.,
Warfare of Life.
"Democracy must get rid of the natural man of each for himself, and
have new birth into the spiritual man, the ideal self of each for
all. . . . This is the deepest craving of human nature. All attempts
to reconcile man's heroism to his interests have ever failed." - R.
WHITEING, No. 5 John Street, p. 279.
"The true self of every man is God (the Universal Self). There are
millions of selves which think themselves separate from the
Universal Self, but this sense of separation is an illusion. The
problem of life is the overcoming of this illusion, and the
identification of itself with the Universal Self. What we call the
personal self is not the genuine self, but only the mere passing
states of consciousness, which are never the same." - K. C.
ANDERSON, Serm., The Buried Life.
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