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tuting the soul which endures forever because it is capable of becoming fashioned into the moral image and likeness of God.

But there still remains a plane of life belonging to man above even that of the conscious spiritual. We might call it the Unconscious Spiritual, but it is better perhaps to term it the Inmost, where life is received from its source. This Inmost of the soul we may look upon as the very Holy of Holies of man, where God dwells directly with him, even if not openly to his consciousness.

That it exists is shown by these facts: Life is received from God; because of its nature it must be received interiorly; it is not received consciously, that is, on the plane of man's consciousness: hence it must be received on an interior plane within or above man's consciousness.

Are we not justified in saying that man's soul, or his interior life, consisting of these three planes of mind, spirit, inmost, where God's life is manifested in him as his very own, is the real man? The material body drops off at death and complete conscious life continues without it. Even the life that manifests itself while