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thus it was His own with them; but it was not the actual Divine Truth as it exists in its perfection as the body or form or interior expression of God. It was not the Logos of John 1:1, i. e., the Divine Wisdom or the Divine Truth.

The Logos was the first expression of the Divine in its emanation; it was the Divine Wisdom or Truth; it was the interior form of God-Coming-Forth-to-View. This is Truth in the Divine Form, and it is not, as we have indicated, the imperfect form of truth as it exists in the minds of angels and men.

Jesus was most interiorly the Divine Love, or the Divine Good; then He was the Logos, or the form or expression of God on the most interior plane; then he was for a time in the descent to earth truth as it is received by angels and men; then he was that which men saw, a man among men, a flesh-and-blood man, with consciousness on every plane of proceeding. He was all of these things when men saw him on earth. His human mind, from which he so often spoke, had at least two planes of consciousness—one of the lower plane of the human mind when it is shut out from the perception of its higher nature, the other the upper plane of the