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 man still lives in his material body on earth is wholly of the soul.

These three planes of reception of Inmost, Spirit, Mind, are the real man, and are a picture of the Tabernacle in the wilderness and the Temple at Jerusalem, with the Holy of Holies, the Holy Place, and the Outer Court. With man God dwells in his Inmost or Holy of Holies, in what is to him the silence and obscurity of his soul.

Into the Holy of Holies once a year came the High Priest, the type of Christ penetrating as the mediator between God and man into the realm of the Divine. At Christ's death the veil that shut it out from man's view was torn in twain, representing the opening up of the Divine Nature as revealed in Jesus—God made manifest. The Inmost plane is thus the Holy of Holies.

The Holy Place in man's temple is the sacred region of the heavenly life, the plane we call Spirit. The Outer Court is the region of the Natural Mind, into which all may come. Jesus referred to his body as the real Temple of God, superseding the temple at Jerusalem. Paul says that our bodies are also temples of God,