BODY, MIND & SPIRIT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 October 1941, Page 6

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT

MAN’S THREEFOLD NATURE. The nature of man is threefold, body, mind and spirit, and on a man’s ability to blend and harmonise these three aspects of himself depends his power to progress and evolve in a steady, even rhythm, writes Miss Kathleen Tytler in “The News-Letter.” Further, it seems increasingly evident that the laws that govern the individual are the same as those that govern the masses; men combine to form families; and families, nations; and nations, a world. Here, again, the vital aspects of life as we know it today, the aspects which have the most profound effect on individual and national life, are threefold—politics, science and religion, corresponding roughly to the three aspects of man. Politics, or the body, is that part which acts and performs—the propensity for administration and government; science, or the mind, expresses the deductive and reasoning powers—the faculty that urges a man to inquire, discriminate and explore; and lastly, religion, or the spirit—that part which rests on inspiration and intuition from sources higher and apart from ourselves, and, in its highest form, colours and directs the working of the other two.