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As G. notes, all these people would have a different conception of Christianity. For the body-centered human being, we might see something like paganism or a primitive tribe appropriating some of the rites and symbolism of Christianity as a crude addition to their own religion, since it’s the addition of another God to protect them, more power; or someone just including its rites and symbolism in their life out of a blind faith inculcated in them by societal and familial conditioning.

Christianity number two would be emotion-based, sometimes very pure and loving but without much force, and sometimes, conversely, of the bloodshed and desire to torture, punish, and wage war against the enemy that see in the Inquisition — punish and exterminate the heathens, the heretics. Christianity number three would be intellectual Christianity, the Christianity of the theologian, the doctor of theology, intellectual, theoretical religion of proofs and arguments, dialectic, and the like, some salient examples of which are afforded by some schools of Protestantism.

Then there is Christianity number four and above, of which the average person does not really have a conception. It is not a destruction of the lower faculties we have — the body, the normal emotions, and the normal intellect we have in our day-to-day life. G. didn’t get into much explicit detail about these but you can theorize that the body, emotions, and mind would all be included in their service to the religion but without hypertrophy in any one faculty — the mechanically repeated movements of the body, the sometimes-stupid/ignorant/naive and sometimes-wise heart, and the braininess of the arguing and proving theologian. It’s the presence of self-remembering or self-consciousness, and a balanced consecration and devotion of one’s body, emotions, and intellect to the endeavor.

In Indian yogic philosophy, obviously, these three would also be referred to as hatha yoga (of physical postures and practices, asanas, physical discipline, maybe of mantras with the breath), bhakti yoga (of devotion, love, emotion-based), and jnana yoga (of the mind, intellectually-based study and practice of yoga).