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 Divine Sensual, and Divine Corporeal in Himself. "The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms."

No one can understand anything of the philosophy of the incarnation if he does not know that all power resides in ultimates or outmosts, and that the Lord came into the world and glorified the human assumed, thus making Himself Man, that He might be in ultimates or outmosts and in inmosts or firsts at the same time, so that through ultimates from firsts He might reduce all things to order in hell, heaven, and eventually in the world. Herein is the philosophy of the incarnation. When the Lord came upon the earth evil had so gained the ascendancy with man that no one could withstand it, and the hells were about to destroy the human race through the influx of evil. The Lord took upon Himself a human like ours that He might admit into it evils from the hells, and by meeting them on their own planes in that human. He subjugated the hells, reduced all things to order, and so redeemed mankind. At the same time He restored the assumed human to order, infilled it with the Divine, and glorified it. When the Lord came, there was not Divine truth in ultimates, for all truth there had become falsified, and there was no foundation for heaven or for the Lord's operation. So the Lord came into the