There is in reality only one Mind (or Spirit, which is life, intelligence, and so forth) in the universe; and yet there is a sense in which we are individual, or separate, a sense in which we are free wills and not puppets.

Man is made up of Spirit, soul, and body. Spirit is the central unchanging "I" of us, the part that since infancy has never changed, and to all eternity never will change. soul, or what metaphysical Christians call "mortal mind," is the region of the intellect where we do conscious thinking and are free wills. This part of our being is in constant process of changing.

In our outspringing from God into the material world, Spirit is inner --- one with God; soul or more tal mind or intellect is the clothing, as it were, of the Spirit; body is the external clothing of the soul. Yet all are in reality one, the composite man --- as steam, water, and ice are one, only in different degrees of condensation. In thinking of ourselves, we must not separate Spirit, soul, and body but rather hold all as one, if we would be strong' and powerful. Man originally lived consciously in the spiritual part of himself He fell by descending in his consciousness to the external or more material part of himself.

Mortal mind, the term so much used and so distracting to many, is the intellect, which gathers its information from the outside world through the