250. Because people do not know in the world what a spiritual person is and what a natural person is, and many call spiritual one who is merely natural, and vice versa, therefore we must say something about them under the following headings:
(1) What the natural person is, and what the spiritual person. (2) The nature of the natural person in whom the spiritual degree has been opened. (3) The nature of the natural person in whom the spiritual degree has not been opened and yet is not closed. (4) The nature of the natural person in whom the spiritual degree has been completely closed. (5) Lastly, the nature of the difference between the life of the merely natural person and the life of an animal.
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