a god crucified within an animal

"Man may be regarded as a god crucified within an animal." -- Franz Hartmann

A startling statement. I first read it a couple of days ago. Have been contemplating it off and on ever since.

We certainly are crucified on the cross of space and time; space is the vertical bar and time the horizontal. We are planted firmly in the here and now (vertical) and live in the continuous change of time (horizontal). X is the spot and we are firmly affixed. We are on the spot and we suffer its agonies. 

We are not formless beings however. We are "crucified within an animal." We are humanimals. This animal itches and scratches, lusts after and longs for, moves in tribes, eats and poops, does its best to ignore the crucified god within. 

The animal will finally cave in, recycle to the realm from which it came. What will become of the crucified god? I suppose it will no longer be crucified, released from the space-time realm. No more plotting of insurrections, but a resurrection. Something new is on the wing.