It was for the new man that human nature was created at the beginning,
and for him mind and desire were prepared. Our reason we have received
in order that we may know Christ, our desire in order that we might
hasten to Him. We have memory in order that we may carry Him in us,
since He Himself is the archetype for those who were created. It was
not the old Adam who was the model for the new, but the new Adam for
the old.

-  St Nicholas Cabasilas, The Life in Christ