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Let us notice what the glorification was. In the material body there are discrete degrees of substance. Each discrete plane of it is a form having its own discrete degree of life. That is, the bones have a low order of life in them from which they grow and are repaired. The body has physical life, which gives it life on the flesh-plane. The sensory plane of the body has a higher order of life, and the scientific plane a higher, and the rational plane a still higher kind of life; the spiritual part of man has also distinct planes of life. In assuming the human the Lord clothed Himself not only with a body like man's body, but also with a soul like man's soul. He took on the soul by descent through the planes of the spiritual world coincident with the human soul. He clothed that soul with a body from the Virgin Mary. Thereby He clothed Himself with all planes of human life. Now the Lord glorified the human assumed by perfecting first the soul, or spiritual part of that human; then, as it became perfected. He dispersed the created spiritual substances, and put in this place uncreate substance from