Logion 29

29. Jesus said, “If the flesh came into being because of spirit, it is a wonder. But if spirit came into being because of the body, it is a wonder of wonders. Indeed, I wonder how it is that this great wealth is come to dwell in this poverty.”

It is hard to add to such plain speech as this. Philosophers have forever conjectured about the sense in which the physical world exists. Plato had concepts existing as ideals (architypes, i.e., prototypes) in a conjectured heaven. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics has reality depend direcly on man’s observational powers. Many a biologist feels constrained by their modern theoretical stance to take consciousness (the spirit) as an epiphenomenological manifestation of the physical brain. Even Jesus wondered about the mystery in the physical indwelling of man’s eternal essence. This is in full harmony with His view of the natural man in logion 28.

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