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 world, and assumed an ultimate or outmost; for if He had not, "no flesh could have been saved," and all would have perished in eternal death. But by taking on and glorifying the human, the Lord is now in ultimates as He is in firsts, and can save all who are in truths from the Word and obey them, for He is present and dwells in the ultimate truths of the Word because they are from Him. Hence He says of the one who "hath My commandments and doeth them" that He "will come unto him," and make His "abode with him."

The Lord lifting man from death in sin to spiritual life by influx from His glorified Human into man, plane to correlative plane, is tenderly typified by the prophet Elisha when "He went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm."

The human assumed, from Mary was the Son of man having man's heredity; and as it was glorified by temptation the term, "Son of man,"