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Rh upon our false and terrible dream," but drove back the assaulting spirits by the assertion of the Divine Truth against them and the operation of its power upon them; thus suffering their assaults without accepting their evils and fantasies, and reducing them to the limitations of order in hell; and thus, without denying their reality, destroying their power over man.

At the same time, and by the same combats with evil spirits and victories over them, he "put off every thing derived from the mother," and put on the Divine Human even to ultimates, making His very body Divine Good and Truth, the very form of the Invisible God and "the power of God unto salvation," to all who will approach Him immediately and assert the commandments of His Word against evil in His name. His redeeming work was not, and is not any imaginary and idealistic dispersion of "race-errors and race-illusions," but an actual conflict with evil spirits who were and are the embodiment of those errors and illusions, and the victorious assertion of His Divine truth against them, whereby they were reduced to order within the limitations which the Lord in mercy and wisdom allows them in hell.