In Miracles Lewis spoke further about Man’s being a “composite being,” having both a supernatural component and a Natural, physical component:

Man must therefore be a composite being - a natural organism tenanted by, or in a state of symbiosis with, a supernatural spirit. . . . whenever we think rationally we are, by direct spiritual power, forcing certain atoms in our brain and certain psychological tendencies in our natural soul to do what they would never have done if left to Nature. The Christian doctrine would be fantastic only if the present frontier-situation between spirit and Nature in each human being were so intelligible and self-explanatory that we just “saw” it to be the only one that could ever have existed.

My books address this very “frontier-situation between spirit and Nature”, proposing a bidirectional dualist interaction between the Mind of God through His Holy Spirit and the mind and soul of Man through neural synaptic networks.

C. S. Lewis discussed in depth God’s becoming man in Miracles. I am sharing a series of comments from his book that speak to this reality. I refer the reader to his chapter entitled, “The Grand Miracle”:

What can be meant by “God becoming man?” In what sense is it conceivable that eternal self-existent Spirit, basic Fact-hood, should be so combined with a natural human organism as to make one person? And this would be a fatal stumbling-block if we had not already discovered that in every human being a more than natural activity (the act of reasoning) and therefore presumably a more than natural agent is thus united with a part of Nature: so united that the composite creature calls itself “I” and “Me.” . . . In other men a supernatural creature thus becomes, in union with the natural creature, one human being. In Jesus, it is held, the Supernatural Creator Himself did so. . . . We cannot conceive how the Divine Spirit dwelled within the created and human spirit of Jesus: but neither can we conceive how His human spirit, or that of any man, dwells within his natural organism. What we can understand, if the Christian doctrine is true, is that our own composite existence is not the sheer anomaly it might seem to be, but a faint image of the Divine Incarnation itself - the same theme in a very minor key. . . . We catch sight of a new key principle - the power of the Higher, just in so far as it is truly Higher, to come down, the power of the greater to include the less.

I address extensively in my books, especially in The Boundless Love of God: A Holy Spirit Story, the “how” of this “composite existence,” drawing upon current findings of neuroscience and information theory to obtain at least a partial understanding. Most of all we now have the ability to understand that the “coming down” of the Holy Spirit to indwell the human spirit to give Counsel to the human soul is a reality in which we can have evidential faith in our time.

I continue with a quote taken from Miracles by C. S. Lewis:

Let us dare to say that God is a particular Thing. Once He was the only Thing: but He is creative, He made other things to be, He is not those other things. He is not “universal being”: if He were there would be no creatures, for a generality can make nothing. He is “absolute being” - or rather the Absolute Being - in the sense that He alone exists in HIs own right. But there are things which God is not. In that sense He has a determinate character. Thus He is righteous, not a-moral; creative, not inert. The Hebrew writings here observe an admirable balance. Once God says simply I AM, proclaiming the mystery of self-existence. But times without number He says, “I am the Lord - I, the ultimate Fact, have this determinate character, and not that. And men are exhorted to know the Lord,” to discover and experience this particular character.

By the restoration of direct communion between the Holy Spirit and the spirit and soul of repentant mankind through the sin sacrifice of Jesus Christ on behalf of fallen mankind we can come to a personal, intimate knowledge of God the Father.

But if God is the ultimate source of all concrete, individual things and events, then God Himself must be concrete, and individual in the highest degree. Unless the origin of all other things were itself concrete and individual, nothing else could be so; for there is no conceivable means whereby what is abstract or general could itself produce concrete reality. . . . If anything is to exist at all, then the Original Thing must be, not a principle nor a generality, much less an “ideal” or a “value,” but an utterly concrete fact. (C. S. Lewis, Miracles)

In this quote C. S. Lewis speaks to the reality of the supernatural:

For me the Christian doctrines which are “metaphorical” - or which have become metaphorical with the increase of abstract thought - mean something which is just as “supernatural” or shocking after we have removed the ancient imagery as it was before. They mean that in addition to the physical or psycho-physical universe known to the sciences, there exists an uncreated and unconditioned reality which causes the universe to be; that this reality has a positive structure or constitution which is usefully, though doubtless not completely, described in the doctrine of the Trinity; and that this reality, at a definite point in time, entered the universe we know by becoming one of its own creatures and there produced effects on the historical level which the normal workings of the natural universe do not produce; and that this has brought about a change in our relations to the unconditioned reality.

The resurrected Jesus Christ sent as He promised the Holy Spirit to indwell believers in repentance, bringing “a change in our relations to the unconditioned reality,” to the Holy Spirit, to God the Father, by His grace through Jesus Christ.

This quote from C. S. Lewis’ book, Miracles, speaks to the unity of Jesus Christ, the Son, the Word, to the Father God:

The title “Son” may sound “primitive” or “naif.” But already in the New Testament this “Son” is identified with the Discourse or Reasons or Word which was eternally “with God” and yet also was God. (John 1:1) He is the all-pervasive principle of concretion or cohesion whereby the universe holds together. (Col 1:17) All things, and specifically LIfe, arose within Him, (John 1:4) and within Him all things will reach their conclusion - the final statement of what they have been trying to express. (Eph 1:10)

Human minds, then, are not the only supernatural entities that exist. They do not come from nowhere. Each has come into Nature from Supernature; each has its tap-root in an eternal, self-existent, rational Being, whom we call God. Each is an offshoot, or spearhead, or incursion of that Supernatural reality into Nature. (C. S. Lewis, Miracles)

If Naturalism is true, every finite thing or event must be (in principle) explicable in terms of the Total System. . . . But if Naturalism is to be accepted we have a right to demand that every single thing should be such that we see, in general, how it could be explained in terms of the Total System. If any one thing exists which is of such a kind that we see in advance the impossibility of ever giving it that kind of explanation, then Naturalism would be in ruins. (C. S. Lewis, Miracles)

I will be sharing a number of selections taken from C. S. Lewis’ book, Miracles: How God Intervenes in Nature and human Affairs, on my blog site. Each that is included gives substantiation to interaction between the Holy Spirit and the human spirit, soul and body/brain. Though Lewis died before the most current findings of neuroscience that I cite in my two books, his comments are prescient for what we are now beginning to understand about this interaction.

. . . we do not know in advance that God might not bring two Natures into partial contact at some particular point: that is, He might allow selected events in the one to produce results in the other. There would thus be, at certain points, a partial interlocking; but this would not turn the two Natures into one, for the total reciprocity which makes a Nature would still be lacking, and the anomalous interlockings would arise not from what either system was in itself but from the Divine act which was bringing them together.

In The Final Battle Hal Lindsey shares from the Book of Revelation, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with Me,” Jesus tells us in Revelation 3:20. The door symbolizes your will. If you right now invite the Lord Jesus into your life and receive His gift of pardon, He will come into you to stay. He will begin to give you new desires that are according to His will. Through His presence in you, He will give you the power to do these new desires as you moment by moment depend upon Him. He also promises, “ . . . For I will never leave you nor forsake you.” (Hebrews 13:5) These words from Jesus and by Hal Lindsey give eternal hope in these End Times through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.