06/19/2026
“The Scriptures say of human beings that there is an outward man and along with him an inner man.
To the outward man belong those things that depend on the soul, but are connected with the flesh and are blended with it, and the cooperative functions of the several members, such as the eye, the ear, the tongue, the hand and so on.
The scriptures speak of all this as the old man, the earthly man, the outward person, the enemy, the servant.
Within us all is the other person, the inner man, whom the Scriptures call the new man, the heavenly man, the young person, the friend, the aristocrat.
….The outward man is the swinging door, the inner man, the silent hinge.”
***Meister Eckhart (1260-1328 CE) German Dominican theologian, philosopher and mystic
