There are two parts in man. One part is his external self which the soul has borrowed from the earth; and the other part is his real self which belongs to his source.
In other words, an individual is a combination of spirit and matter, a current which runs from above and attracts to it the earth from below, shaping it in order to make it a vehicle. The human body is nothing but a vehicle of the soul which has come from above and has taken the human body as its abode; thus an individual has two aspects of being: one is the soul, the other is the body. It is the meeting of the soul and the body which makes the mind [heart]; and these three together make an individual.
The external part of an individual can be likened to the outer form of a globe, while the mind takes the place of the finer inner machinery. This is the mechanical part of being. There remains the soul which is the divine heritage, a spiritual current shooting forth from that Spirit which is the source of all things. Therefore the soul has in it a potentiality, a creative power as its divine heritage.
On the one side man is limited and imperfect; on the other side he represents the unlimited and perfect.
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