Weigel everywhere maintains Christ's double identity--an identity with God, so that in Christ we see God; and an equal identity with man, so that Christ is man revealed in his fulfilled possibilities. In Him God and man are _one_. In this deep-lying and fundamental idea of his entire Christianity he was undoubtedly influenced, profoundly influenced, by Schwenckfeld. He presents in chapter i. of his _Life of Christ_ the Schwenckfeldian view that Christ is God and Man in _one_. But He is Man not in the crass, crude and earthly form: He is not composed of mortal and earthly substance as our "Adamical bodies" are. He is wholly and absolutely composed of heavenly, spiritual, divine substance. His flesh and blood are as divine and spiritual in origin as is His spirit, so that His resurrection and ascension are the normal outcome of His nature. It was as natural for Him to rise into life and to ascend into glory as it is for heavy things to fall. But that divine, spiritual, heavenly nature, which appeared in Him, is the true, original, consummate nature of Man. Man, as we know him, is cloudy, or even muddy, with a vesture of decay, but that is not a feature of his _real_ nature--either in its original or its potential form--and all who "put on Christ," all who have "Christ in them," become one flesh with Him and gain an indestructible and permanent inward substance like His. Consistently with this view, Weigel declares that here lies the significance of Christ's saying, "I am Bread"; "I am Meat and Drink." The only adequate Supper of the Lord, he says, is real feeding upon His spiritual, life-giving flesh and blood, so that Salvation is not tied to external sacraments, but stands only in the faith that Christ feeds us with Himself.[10] There are, he proceeds to show, two radically diverse natures, the traits and {143} characteristics of which he arranges in opposing pairs, in two parallel columns as follows: A. The Nature of Christ and B. The nature of Adam and of those who live in Him those who live by him, and by Him. _i.e._ those who live the natural, earthly life. 1. This Nature turns from 1. This nature turns from God creatures to God. to creatures. 2. This Nature hates itself and 2. This nature loves itself loves others. more than it loves God or others. 3. This Nature abhors all it 3. This nature delights only itself does or omits. in itself and in things of self. 4. This Nature seeks to lose 4. This nature seeks itself in self. everything. 5. This Nature denies self. 5. This nature cleaves to self.