1 Man is a being of three parts,
The body, soul, and spirit too,
Th' eternal purpose to fulfill
With God's inheritance in view.
2 The body is the outward part
That man a world-sense may possess;
Thus he may touch the outward things
And bodily himself express.
3 The soul within — the inward part —
Is but the very self of man;
The sense of self it gives to him
To touch the psychic world of man.
4 The spirit is the inmost part
With which the Lord he may receive;
The sense of God it gives to man
That he the spirit-world perceive.
5 Within the soul of man there are
The mind, emotion, and the will;
These are the functions for the man
His human nature to fulfill.
6 Within the spirit of the man
Are found the conscience, fellowship,
And intuition, which thereby
The man to worship God equip.
7 The man must exercise his soul
To choose that God he may possess,
And by his spirit God partake,
And thru his body God express.
8 Man's spirit had to be reborn
With life divine to him conveyed;
His soul must be transformed by God,
His body like Christ's body made.
9 'Tis by these steps of work divine
In each of man's three separate parts
That man is mingled with the Lord
And His expression full imparts.