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.