Claim. The original human being is a united being of Sungsang and Hyungsang in four senses — encapsulation of the universe, spirit self / physical self, mind / body, and spirit mind / physical mind — with the spirit mind designed as subject and the physical mind as object.
Elaboration. Lee identifies four kinds of Sungsang/Hyungsang within a human being (A. A United Being of Sungsang and Hyungsang): (1) each person integrates all universal elements (animals, plants, minerals) in both Sungsang and Hyungsang; (2) spirit self and physical self; (3) mind and body; (4) spirit mind and physical mind. The fourth pair is most diagnostically important for fallen humanity.
The spirit mind’s function is to pursue “a life of truth, goodness, beauty, and love” — a life of value oriented toward others, ultimately toward God. The physical mind’s function is to pursue “a life of food, clothing, shelter, and sex” — a material life centered on the individual. Lee insists both are legitimate; the original ordering is that the value-life is the goal and the material-life is the means.
Why treat both as “mind” yet relate them as Sungsang-Hyungsang? Because the spirit mind is the mind of the spirit self (Sungsang) and the physical mind is the mind of the physical self (Hyungsang); the relation between the two minds replicates the relation between the two selves. When physical mind obeys spirit mind, spirit self and physical self “resonate” — this is character perfection.
The original mind (spirit mind as subject + physical mind as object in give-and-take action) resembles the inner four-position foundation within God’s Sungsang. The fall reversed this ordering, making physical mind the de facto subject — which Lee identifies as the structural source of all human pain and suffering. This is why religious traditions universally prescribe spiritual discipline: not arbitrary asceticism but the work of restoring the original subject-object order between the two minds. Confucius’s “return to rites through overcoming the self” and Jesus’s “deny himself and take up his cross” (Matt. 16:24-25) are cited as parallel expressions.
See also. fall-reverses-spirit-physical-mind-order, perfection-as-spirit-mind-dominating-physical-mind, ut-spirit-self-and-physical-self