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VIII. THE GLORIFICATION

HAVE we not shown that the soul-form which manifested itself through human birth to men as Jesus of Nazareth was true man, for it had all the planes of life that man has, with God dwelling within? Jesus of Nazareth was perfect man, with a rational soul, for on the merely human plane he was tempted, grew tired, and manifested other limitations of the human taken on from Mary.

But do we not perceive that he was true God, not indeed at the first as to the outward form taken on from Mary, or in the limitations taken on from the angelic life, but nevertheless he was God, essentially, even from the first, God manifesting Himself, God dwelling in His own things within the flesh, within limitations voluntarily accepted, in order that He might later be present on the plane of the natural in all His fullness?

Now upon the assumption of the human planes