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 material envelop has perished, it is evident that his soul is in the man form even here and now. Thus, there would seem to be an inner or spiritual body composed of spiritual substances in order to exist in and function in the spiritual world. This is the real, substantial and persisting form in which men live to eternity. The natural body is merely a replica of it, its temporary outer clothing, to put man into touch with the material universe in which he for a time dwells. The soul's interior and permanent expression is the spiritual body—its outward and temporary expression is the natural body.

That there is such a "spiritual body" Paul asserts in the fifteenth chapter of I Corinthians, verse 44: "There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body." It is impossible to conceive of organized spiritual life existing without an appropriate form. Everything must exist in some form, and the obvious form of the soul is the human form, for it produces in its extension into nature the human form. It will be remembered that Paul is explicit about the difference in kind between the natural body and the spiritual body, using many comparisons. In speaking of