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 from all other men who have ever lived. As the son of Joseph, Jesus would simply not be Jesus. We cannot imagine even an ordinary man being the same man if born of any other than his own father. Much less could he who proved himself to his disciples and is accepted by so many myriads of men as the actual Son of God be different from all other beings if he were not born of a virgin the son of the living God.

Any man born of a human father has forever human limitations. He could not develop ever into "The Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the Almighty." The human essence cannot be mixed with or transmuted into the Divine. The Divine can dwell directly and immediately only in its own things.

The descent of the Lord through the heavens in order to dwell in the flesh was an orderly descent, but the soul-form by means of which it was accomplished was taken from the Divine things found in its descent, first those existing in the minds of angels in the angelic heavens, then in the natural minds of those in the lower spiritual world corresponding to the human mind, and then in the knowledge of the