62. The stages and states of the regeneration of man - both of mankind and of the individual person - divide into six and are called the days of his creation. Gradually from being no man at all, he first becomes something, though only little, then something more, until the sixth day is reached, when he becomes 'an image'.

1045. The things that have been introduced up to now have regard to the regenerate spiritual man, or the spiritual Church, while those that follow next have regard to all people in general, and then specifically to the person who is able to be regenerated.