Now the spirit of man, the spirit subsistent, is deeper than both, not only deeper than the body and its life, but deeper than the soul; and the Spirit descendent and supersistent is higher than both.

In the regenerated man the height and the depth become one--the Spirit communeth with the spirit--and the soul is the 'inter-ens', or 'ens inter-medium' between the life and the spirit;--the 'participium', not as a compound, however, but as a 'medium indifferens'-- in the same sense in which heat may be designated as the indifference between light and gravity.

And what is the Reason ?--The spirit in its presence to the understanding abstractedly from its presence in the will,--nay, in many, during the negation of the latter.

The spirit present to man, but not appropriated by him, is the reason of man:--the reason in the process of its identification with the will is the spirit.
Ib.pp.

63-4.
Can we deny that it is unbelief of those things that causeth this neglect and forgetting of them?
The discourse, the tongue of men and angels cannot beget divine belief of the happiness to come; only He that gives it, gives faith likewise to apprehend it, and lay hold upon it, and upon our believing to be filled with joy in the hopes of it.
Most true, most true! Ib.p.