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So long as man lives in a fleshly body he is the compound of animal, human, and angelic beings. Nature does not permit him to destroy any one of these three parts of his personality. What she does require of him is to make the animal subject to the human and the human again subject to the angelic.

-- Notebooks Category 2: Overview of Practices Involved > Chapter 5 : Balance the Psyche > # 194