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 possess the material body and the natural mind, and belong wholly on the plane of the natural. Since animals do not possess the capacity for becoming spiritual or opening up the spiritual plane, we assume and are sure that they do not possess the next plane of spirit. Because even naturally minded men (the "carnally minded" man of Paul) do possess the plane of the spiritual, even though it remains undeveloped, we believe that they continue forever in some state of life, whereas animals, because of the absence of the superior and distinctively spiritual, perish wholly at the death of the body.

The plane of spirit, as we have indicated, is the true and proper plane to be developed, for the development of which men are born, the development of which brings them into the kingdom of heaven, or of God, while still on earth, and into a visible heaven hereafter. "The kingdom of heaven" is the constant theme of the discourses of Jesus, and we learn that it is within us. (Luke 17:21.)

Thus we have a view, and one that is entirely verifiable from the experience of mankind and the statements of the Bible, of man as body, mind, and spirit; the mind and spirit