The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh.

Mind is the Soul speaking and Conscience is the Spirit speaking.

As the mind shrinks at the will of the initiate, thought flows in to fill the spaces so created.

We are all Spirit experiencing a process set up to facilitate its (each Spirit's) understanding of its true identity and, through that understanding, to revert to its pristine state.

To have knowledge and to know are two different things, and one is possible without the other.

If we cut open the bud of a beautiful rose in order to see how it is 'packed' and what it is going to look like, what sort of a bloom will we get?

The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature".