Mortal Fusion

Spiritual Superglue

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The mortal fusion
of spirit with flesh
— Superglue

The word that Origen was casting about for when he tried to describe how deeply merged with the flesh is the spirit hadn’t quite surfaced yet, and that word is Superglue.

I am not sure when, precisely, that glue was so generously applied, or by what or…