CL 101, 102 - soul, mind, body - body, mind, soul

CL 101, 102

Every person consists of three components

which follow in order in him:  soul, mind, and body. 

The inmost one is his soul. 

The intermediate one is his mind. 

And the outmost one is his body. 

Everything that flows into a person from the Lord

flows first into his inmost component, 

which is the soul,

and descends from there

into his intermediate component, 

which is the mind,

and through this

into his outmost component, 

which is the body.
A marriage of good and truth

flows in from the Lord in a person in the same way.

. . . married partners become an image

of the marriage between good and truth

only as the inner faculties of their minds are opened,

because the mind only gradually opens

from infancy to late old age. 

For people are born carnal,

and they become rational

as the mind just above the body opens

and as this rationality is purified . . .

from fallacious appearances that flow in

from the physical senses

and from urges that flow in from temptations of the flesh. 

Rationality thus opens,

and this is accomplished only through wisdom. 

Then, when the inner faculties of the rational mind

have been opened,

the person becomes an image of wisdom,

and this wisdom is the receptacle of true married love.

The wisdom which forms this image

and receives this love

is rational and at the same time moral wisdom. 

Rational wisdom views the truths and good virtues

that inwardly appear in a person

not as qualities belonging to him

but as qualities flowing in from the Lord. 

And moral wisdom shuns evils and falsities

as contagious diseases -

especially lascivious ones

which contaminate his married love.