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 Himself with The Human Form, Diagram IV., p. 312. It was for this reason that the holy thing begotten of Mary was to be called the Son of God. Looking at the diagram, a definite conception can be obtained from this consideration, that the Inmost of man receives influx from God; the Inmost of the Christ was God. His name was therefore "Emanuel, which being interpreted is, God-with-us."

When mankind first fell out of Divine order, the heaven of angels was God's only approach to them. Heaven was the mediator; that is, God's infinite love and wisdom was mediated and accommodated to fallen man by the heavens. God desired to become Himself the mediator. So He caused a human to be born, which should touch all the degrees in creation and be the means of immediate influx from Him to man. In taking upon Himself the human, which coincides with the planes of creation, He took upon Him creation itself.

That human, like ours, was flesh and blood, which can not inherit the kingdom of heaven. He could not take the material body with Him into the spiritual world. He took the material body that He might glorify it, and then abide in it forever.