The Body
Scripture tells us that after God drove the couple out of the Garden of Eden God made garments for them to wear (Genesis 3:21). Whether an earthly body was made for the Like-mind or whether the Like-mind took over an already existing earthly body is not what’s important. What is important is where will this Like-mind go in this earthly body and how will it eventually get out of this physical body and back to the realm of perfection?
The Hebrew word for coats or garments of skin, is “chithanoth”, which signifies not only coats but bodylike; an embodiment; expression of body form. Metaphysically it is the fleshly body.
Man was first associated with the spiritual body idea (Spirit-man) but when he took on personality or personal-consciousness he was given “coats of skin,” to correspond to man’s material thoughts. When man makes spiritual thoughts supreme in consciousness the corruptible body (flesh) will give way to the immortal body that was spoken of by Paul (I Corinthians 15:50-58).
The Man-idea like all ideas first began in spirit. The Man-idea is first Spirit-man but through the expression of the mind transforms in to the Natural-man. Man’s first expression in the physical world was more of light bodies and not the hardened bodies that exist today. This is why there is little physical evidence of early spiritual man. These are the legends of the cities of Lemur, Mu, Og, Oz, and Atlantis. Over time as Spirit-man’s distorted thought-forms began to crystalize in his mind, the body or expression in the physical naturally followed. The Like-mind is now caught between two worlds, that of reality and the world of non-reality – God and not God.
The Like-mind is now trapped in the inter-between. He is still spiritual but not spiritually perfect, so he exists mentally in two worlds. This is the realm of duality. In the world of duality man’s mind is in opposition or contrast and has two concepts or two aspects of reality – good and evil, and unfortunately for the Like-mind he believes both to be true. In the incarnate Christ (Jesus) in Christian theology, coexists two persons’ – human (son of Man) and divine (son of God). Man, now sees himself as two entities. This is the mind of dualism.