13: 1. Man is an animal, plus a living God, within his physical Shell.—S. D., II, 85.  S. D., II, 284.
a. Man is the Macrocosm for the animal, therefore he contains all that is meant by the term animal.—S. D., II, 179, 187.
b. Divine consciousness is received from the living God.—S. D., II, 103.
c. The animal forms the basis and the contrast for the divine.—S. D., II, 100.
d. The light of the Logos is awakened in animal man.—S. D., II, 45.
2. Man is the Tabernacle, the vehicle only, of his God.—S. D., I, 233, 281; II, 316; III, 66.
Compare S. D., II, 174.  Read Proverbs VIII.
Study Biblical description of Tabernacle:—
a. Outer court, the place of animal sacrifice and purification.
b. The Holy place, the place of consecration and service.
c. The Holy of Holies.
The first corresponds to the life of the personality.
The second to that of the Ego, or Higher Self.
The last to that of the Monad, or Divine Self.
3. Man contains in himself every element found in the universe.—S. D., I, 619; III, 584.
a. All in nature tends to become Man.—S. D., II, 179.
b. All the impulses of the dual, centripetal and centrifugal force are directed towards one point—Man.—S. D., II, 179.
c. Man is the storehouse...he unites in himself all forms.—S. D. II, 303.
d. The potentiality of every organ useful to animal life is locked up in Man.—S. D., II, 723.
4. Man tends to become a God and then God, like every other atom in the universe.—S. D., I, 183.
Compare the atom and the Microcosm, man.  Illustration:—S. D., I, 174.  Every atom has seven planes of being.—S. D., I, 205.  Read S. D., I, 201.
a. Every atom contains the germ from which he may raise the tree of knowledge.  (Of good and evil, therefore conscious discrimination).—S. D., II, 622.
b. It is the spiritual evolution of the inner immortal man that forms the fundamental tenet of the occult sciences.—S. D., I, 694.
c. Atoms and souls are synonymous terms in the language of the initiates.—S. D., I, 620-621.
5. Human beings...those Intelligences who have reached the appropriate equilibrium between Spirit and Matter.—S. D., I, 132.
Read also carefully:—S. D., I, 267, 449; S. D., II, 190.
a. On the descending arc Spirit becomes material.—S. D., I, 693.
b. On the middle turn of the base both meet in man.—S. D., I, 214, 271.
c. On the ascending arc Spirit asserts itself at the expense of the material.
d. This is true of Gods and of men.  See S. D., II, 88.
e. Man is therefore a compound of Spirit and matter.—S. D., II, 45.
f. In man the intelligence links the two.—S. D., II, 102, 103.
See note to S. D., II, 130.  Compare S. D., II, 394.