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 needs have a soul-form similar to the souls of other human beings. It would need to have a receptacle of life from the spiritual plane, from the mental plane, and it would also need an actual material body from the material plane. This latter we know that Mary provided. Through this body was also provided a consciousness upon the plane of the natural which remained with Jesus until his cruciﬁxion, that is, from her was provided a plane upon which that consciousness manifested itself. Into this plane of consciousness temptations entered, for Jesus was "tempted in all points like as we are."

In our study of the constitution of the human soul-form we saw that the first plane of all is the Inmost or Unconscious Spiritual. It is there, as in a Holy of Holies, that the Divine life is received by the created soul-form. It is there that God dwells directly with man. Now we must believe that in the soul-form which the Divine provided for His own manifestation in time and space, which was to be an extension of Himself, and not a separation from Himself as in the case of man the creature, that inmost plane is represented, not by a separated receptacle as in the case of man, but by the very