Where does the Church fit into the cosmos?

[Daniel]

Supposing that the Church is not God and that the Church is a real person, where does the Church fit into the cosmos?

It is alleged that Mary is the highest creature. This would put Mary above the Church. But Mary is a type of the Church. And the type is always derivative of, and inferior to, the antitype. So shouldn't the Church be above Mary?

[nmoerbeek]

Supposing that the Church is not God and that the Church is a real person, where does the Church fit into the cosmos?

It is alleged that Mary is the highest creature. This would put Mary above the Church. But Mary is a type of the Church. And the type is always derivative of, and inferior to, the antitype. So shouldn't the Church be above Mary?

The Church is the mystical body of Christ.
Our Lady while on earth was a subject of the Church.  She is part of the Mystical body of Christ.
Mary is a type of the Church, but types are not equal signs they are in a since an incomplete, but illustrative of a higher truth.

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[Michael Wilson]

What nmoerbeek stated; you could say that the Church is both human and divine; part of the Mistical Body is still on Earth i.e. The Church Militant; part in Purgatory i.e. The Church Suffering; and part in Heaven i.e. The Church Triumphant. Slowly, year by year we will eventually arrive at the end of the Church as an Earthly institution when this world is dissolved and it will then be a wholly Heavenly and Divine institution. So the Church is both in this Cosmos and out of it.