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 tation, for it is readily perceived that the Infinite does not admit of temptation. Temptation was possible with the Lord before the glorification, for then He had two distinct planes of consciousness, one in the human assumed, into which He was let in times of temptation, and one in the Father within from whom there was deliverance and glorification. Man is regenerated by learning the truth, shunning that which is contrary to the truth, and by doing good from the recognition of the Lord. In other terms, man is regenerated by living a life similar to the life that Jesus lived, and by which He was glorified.

Man's redemption was not accomplished in an arbitrary way. Its philosophy is deeply seated in internal causes. When the human family fell from the celestial plane whereon was the first civilization, they sank below the reach of immediate influx from the Creator. For, as we have previously shown, when life on the celestial plane ceased among men upon the earth, the Creator used the heaven of angels as a human through which His influx was accommodated to the receptivity of a fallen people. The fall having commenced, it was inevitable that it would con-