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 known to men through prophecy and the Word of God in its letter. This latter existed on the material plane.

It is true that in taking a soul-form in this way this soul-form was tainted on every plane by the imperfections of angels and men, for the Divine is never fully and perfectly received by any creature; but nevertheless it was a soul-form which could receive the Divine life directly and not indirectly; into which the Divine could flow as into its own, and gradually, but surely, drive out the imperfections, substituting therefor the absolute Divine, and thus enable the very God of heaven and earth to descend in this way into the natural plane of life, its ultimate. In this way Jesus could be God and Man, eventually the God-Man, wholly Divine on every plane of being, present on every plane in fullness.

As the Divine Being cannot be divided, any more than a human essence existing in an individual can be divided, this projection of God into nature, known on earth as the man Jesus of Nazareth, was always and essentially God. To appearance Jesus was one person and the Father another, but reason shows us