"The natural or physical man does not understand spiritual things. He deems them foolishness; earth and the lower sphere of reason and feeling satisfy him. But among the physical men are some who break through the circle of Nature and Time into a higher region. We call them men of genius. But with all their power of thought and imagination, they cannot lift themselves above "the world." The Spirit of God alone changes us into spiritual men. "Genius" is often, to the more thoughtful and noble-minded, the substitute for God's revelation. They know and love that which is "spiritual." And in many views and expressions there is necessarily a similarity between the man of genius and the spiritual man, because both are opposed to the lower sphere of the visible. But there is a radical opposition between the physical man, who has not the mind of Christ, and the spiritual. And as the age advances, the conflict between Christ's Church and the world will become more what it was in Apostolic times: between the foolishness of God and the wisdom of man. Paganism, the worship of the created (spirit)-the self-sufficency of man-man, being a god to himself-is the spirit of the world. Hebraism, or Jehovahism, and Hellenism are the two principles."(Adolph Saphir - from "Christ Crucified:Lectures on I Corinthians II" - footnote ch 7 - "The Spiritual Man" - 1873).My,don't many of those gone on before us still speak loudly! Blessings.
_________________David Winter