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 the changes that have come in the world since the glorification, and of all progress.

The Lord does not operate from primes through intermediates into ultimates, but from primes through ultimates and thus into intermediates. Hence He is called in the Word the "First and the Last." When man, the ultimate, became perverted, and ceased to act with his Creator, the Creator clothed Himself with a human, and glorified it to its ultimate that He might operate and govern the world from primes through ultimates from Himself in ultimates, and not from man as before the glorification. Thus a way was provided for the salvation of mankind and for the institution of that promised kingdom whose increase shall know no end, which is now with us. To provide that ultimate in Himself, He glorified even the flesh and the bones. When man dies, the gross natural body is thrown off together with its planes of life, except as their effects are preserved in the Limbus. But the Lord glorified the entire natural body, and rose with all its degrees made Divine, for which reason He said, "A spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see Me have." He is not only a Divine Spiritual Man, but also a Divine Natural Man, the only complete man, whereby He is beneath the heavens, and He sustains them from the Divine Natural,