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toward union resulted in the complete glorification, or perfect union on the plane of the natural of Father and Son, when the essential Divine infilled the form of the Son, when the Divine actually dwelt in its fullness in His own things on the plane of the natural, no longer as hitherto mediately in the assumed human from Mary.

In the twenty-fourth verse of this same chapter Jesus said:

"Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovest me before the foundation of the world." The Divine Good always loves the Divine Truth, or Logos. The exaltation of the Divine Truth (not the son of Mary) would be into its primitive union with the Divine Good. Good and Truth mutually love each other; but both are capable of existing in one being, and they did so exist in the case we are considering, for Good was the quality of the Divine of which the form was Truth.

Jesus spoke as he did here in order that men might understand His essential Divineness, his oneness with the Father in spite of appearances, and he spoke as if there were two in order that