| Imagine a human spirit in a particular human hypostatic unity maximized in 1) centeredness in God ad intra and 2) openness to God ad extra...experiencing aesthetically satisfying love, joy, and peace in God.
A human spirit for whom to self-relate WAS to relate to an "other"...and to relate to an "other" was to relate to themselves...and to relate to "self" AND "other" was relating to God! (Love God; Love your neighbor as yourself)
You'd have a human spirit, created in the "image" of God, grown into the "likeness" of the Triune God...who IS Spirit.
You'd have the human demonstration of "self-as-spirit"
Jesus showed us what a truly SPIRITUAL human (meaning a TRUE human) looked like.
Whoever knows and recognizes how near God’s Kingdom is to him may say with Jacob, “God is in this place, and I knew it not.”
Meister Eckhart, "The Nearness of the Kingdom"
Once, having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, "The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, nor will people say, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is,' because the Kingdom of God is within you.
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