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Symeon the New Theologian

A Combined Essence

This is what man is: a living essence both dead and immortal, visible and invisible, sensory and mental, capable of seeing visible creation, and grasping thought.

Doctrine and Teaching of the Orthodox Church

Chapters 2.23

p. 230

Alfeyev, H. (2012). Doctrine and Teaching of the Orthodox Church (A. Smith, Trans.). St Vladimir’s Seminary Press.