Looks like Jesus to Me!

So a couple of friends were talking about Platonic ideals and so on and so forth, and we came round to the question of the ideal man.

"Plato would say it's a spiritual reality entirely," commented Philosopher Friend.

"But it's Jesus!" responded Writer Friend.

And they were both right.

The Son of the Father is a spiritual being from all eternity.  With the Incarnation, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity is Jesus Christ, Son of God, Son of Mary, true God, true Man.  With the Incarnation, Jesus becomes the ultimate Everyman, the ultimate Man, opening the way for all of humanity to share in God's grace and glory.  He saved us by taking on humanity, and thereby making it the means for our salvation, opening the way for grace to well up as streams of living water from within our hearts.  By his sacred humanity, the fact that his human heart becomes capable of serving as the seat of his divine personhood, our hearts then become capable of providing a home for the Trinity, as well.

The heart is the core of the person, according to Scripture.  And the person is necessary for covenants to be sworn, as Dr. Hahn has repeatedly declared.  By the exchange of persons, sacred kinship bonds are formed.  Law takes force, ordered to love, and as the Holy Father has pointed out in his Letter to Seminarians written during the Year of the Priest, there is no love without law.  There can be no exchange of persons without constancy, without stability, and no deification without a true self-gift.  God comes and dwells in the hearts of men when men love God.  We are made capable of loving God by the power and the presence of the Holy Spirit, by prevenient grace, by God's loving us into life and love, so that his life and love can come and dwell with us, pouring forth from us into the world as Jesus came from Mary's womb, as Jesus came from his burial tomb.

Jesus became man so that men might become other Christs, sons of God, mediating the face, the person of the Father into the world and consecrating the world into the heart of the divine life and love at the heart of the Trinity till God be all in all.