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742  VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE INNER LIFE — The Tripartite Man

1. Man is a being of three parts,
  The body, soul, and spirit too,
  Th' eternal purpose to fulfill
  With God's inheritance in view.
2. The body is the outward part
  That man a world—sense may possess;
  Thus he may touch the outward things
  And bodily himself express.
3. The soul within—the inward part—
  Is but the very self of man;
  The sense of self it give to him
  To touch the psychic world of man.
4. The spirit is the inmost part
  With which the Lord he may receive;
  The sense of God it gives to man
  That he the spirit—world perceive.
5. Within the soul of man there are
  The mind, emotion, and the will;
  These are the functions for the man
  His human nature to fulfill.
6. Within the spirit of the man,
  Are found the conscience, fellowship,
  And intuition, which thereby
  The man to worship God equip.
7. The man must exercise his soul
  To choose that God he may possess,
  And by his spirit God partake,
  And thru his body God express.
8. Man's spirit had to be reborn
  With life divine to him conveyed;
  His soul must be transformed by God,
  His body like Christ's body made.
9. 'Tis by these steps of work divine
  In each of man's three separate parts
  That man is mingled with the Lord
  And His expression full imparts.