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 them to regard the Lord Jesus as a Divine Being distinct from the Father, retaining His maternal human nature, which for consistency has been determined in the Roman Church to have been itself Divinely immaculate. On this Rock of the Divine Human of our Lord the Christian Church has split and been shattered to pieces. The true understanding of this Corner-stone on which the Church is to be rebuilt is that the maternal human, after serving its temporary purpose as a recipient, and in itself being rejected, no longer existed. But the Divine Life which had in this maternal human entered fully into the life of men, had thereby acquired a perpetual Divine Human presence with man, in which it became God-withus, our known Father in heaven.