Murals (2008) by PHANTAST - Graffiti - Cultural Music & Art Association inc. - 98 Milne St. Benleigh
The Divine Incarnation. God became Man.
In what sense is it conceivable that eternal self-existing Spirit, basic Fact-hood, should be so combined with a natural human organism as to make a person?
We have already discovered that in every human being, a 'more than natural activity' (the reasoning), a more than natural agent is united with a part of Nature : so united that the composite creature calls itself 'I' and 'Me'. A rational animal can become the medium of rational thought and moral will.
Our own composite existance is a faint image of the Devine Incarnation itself.
We can understand that God descends into a human spirit,
the human spirit descends into Nature,
and our thoughts into our senses and passions,
and adult minds can descent into sympathy with children,
and men into sympathy with beasts - everything hangs together, as a total reality, both Natural and Supernatural.
We catch sight of a new key principle - the power of the Higher to come down, the power of the greater to include the less.
In the Christian story God descends to reascend.
He goes down to come up again and bring the whole ruined world up with Him.
(C.S.Lewis, Miracles).