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Psychological interpretation
Every man has two outlooks on the world, which the ancient story-tellers personified: the carnal or natural mind, three-dimensional, for which only the present moment is real and past and future are imaginary; and the mind of Christ, the spiritual or fourth-dimensional focus, for which past, present and future are one present whole and every desired state already exists. 'The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God' (1 Corinthians 2:14).
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Bible wordings
1 Corinthians 2:14 | The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned
Romans 1:20 | For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen
1 Corinthians 2:14 | The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him
Own wordings
There are two actual outlooks on the world possessed by every man
They called the one “the carnal mind,” and the other “the mind of Christ.”
To the natural mind, reality is confined to the instant called now
the past, the present, and the future of the natural mind are a present whole
These are the two outlooks on the world possessed by every man
There are two actual outlooks on the world possessed by everyone — a natural focus and a spiritual focus
ordinary waking consciousness, governed by our senses, and a controlled imagination, governed by desire
The spiritual view, on the other hand, sees the contents of time
What is mental and subjective to the natural man is concrete and objective to the spiritual man
The spiritual man speaks to the natural man through the language of desire