The Final Frontier? Theosophy and Miracles

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This article raises the interesting question of how matter relates to spirit and how both relate to the Trinity. Does one agree with Watchman Nee, and say that while the soul is actually alive (with preternatural powers and latent abilities), it is not life-giving, and that therefore the cultivation of it will lead to spiritual ruin? That Satan uses it as a means to tempt man to accomplish, in his own power, what we can only expect of God? Are latent spiritual powers an ersatz for the Holy Spirit? Is this a false dichotomy?
Or is Orthodoxy right, that perhaps body and soul and spirit (accepting a tripartite division) are all meant to be brought to God through suffering, and suffused with Divine energies?
I have the uncomfortable feeling that there may be other answers out there, and perhaps other ways of viewing the problem. I for one am uncomfortable with myrhh-weeping icons and stigmata and miracles.
This is an area of theology that has been ill-addressed in the classical Protestant Church, and, consequently, we are ill-prepared to give an answer with grace.
Supernature perfects Nature, and does not obliterate it, that is certain. But it is very difficult to discern the spirits, and even more difficult to discern the Sovereign Spirit.
Perhaps we need more spiritual gifts in order to judge spiritual gifts.
That's a Will Ferrell dilemma if there ever was one.