Copies of the True Things

Hebrews 9:23 Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. 25 Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, 26 for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, 28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
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"Copies of the true things" calls to mind C.S. Lewis' Great Divorce, in which heaven is depicted as a world of truer nature. Everything there is denser, harder, more vivid and real. By comparison, we are the ghosts. This is an interesting paradigm to have in mind when reflecting on Jesus' resurrected miracles. He walked through walls, and yet also ate fish! What kind of body did he have? Perhaps he could do whatever he wanted because - He is God. But perhaps these are clues to how the copies of true things relate to the things themselves. While I don't really know what it wouold mean to say that Jesus was a copy of God, I think I do understand and affirm the idea that if Jesus was something like God's zerox, he was different from our sense of what that would mean. We are imperfect copies of a perfect idea - the ideal person you or I was created to be. Jesus, on the other hand, is the perfect representation of his father even though he is in the shape of imperfect man. We imitate him in this aspect so that we might enter into a great likness of God, and therefore of our truer selves.