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 until He manifests Himself through us even on the natural plane of living, it is not God in His fullness in us, as He dwelt in the Divine Human when that was "gloriﬁed." God as He is in Himself is forever back in the recesses of our being—in our Holy of Holies. He is never identical with us in our external life, so that we never have life in ourselves—self-existent life—as Jesus had it. In other words, we are never commingled with the Divine. We are never Divine.

Another passage from John (12:16) emphasizes the same idea as the preceding quotation: "These things understood not his disciples at the first, but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him." "When Jesus was glorified" here evidently refers to his exaltation at his ascension, the "ascension" being the complete union with the Father, when he reigned openly as Divine.

Now there are two states of consciousness manifested in the Lord's life on earth—the one when he spoke as man only, with the consciousness on the plane received from the natural; that which theologians call his state of