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The purpose of the assumption and the glorification of the human was that through the glorified Human the Heavenly Father might come closer to His children, and lift them up into more interior truth and life. The glorification was infinite regeneration. Or in reverse form, regeneration is finite glorification. In other words, the glorification is an infinite pattern of man's regeneration, or of the second birth. That this pattern might be brought in vivid picture to the knowledge of man, the visible work was for the benefit of "them who stand by," and the Lord's temptation and victories are recorded in the Word.

The temptations of the Lord were real, for each plane of the mind assumed had to be glorified by acting as from itself according to truth, and so fulfilling the law. During the glorification, the seat of the will gradually descended from the highest plane of the mind to the lowest. As the seat of the will descended, the planes of the mind were successively put in order, and they were glorified by the substitution of uncreate substance from the Father within for the finite substances taken from creation without. The Father within was at all times above the possibility of temp-