LAW AND SUFFERING into proper subordination to the soul — ^for a body not subordinate can ruin the whole being, and fail to achieve its proper freedom as a body. But mortification has another significance which can be no more than touched on here. As there was a suffering of Christ’s natural body, so there is a suiBFering of His mystical body. The human member can unite his suffering with Christ’s, and offer them for the whole body. ‘T fill up in my flesh,” says St. Paul, ‘‘what is wanting to the suffering of Christ for His body which is the church.” Human life, then, we may see as the preparing for the life of Heaven. It means, on the one hand, complete self-conquest. The soul must conquer the body and bring it into full obedience to God’s law: and the soul must itself come into full submission to God. It has, from God’s Church, the truths it needs to know about God and man and its own destiny: from the same source it has the law which will govern it in the right use of itself and in the right relation of love and duty to others. But, as has been seen, given that man is to live a life above his nature, he needs those gifts above his nature which we call the Supernatural Life. In the next two chapters I shall discuss the Life. 105