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 considerations, that he was speaking as the Logos or Interior Divine Truth.

The question occurs, Why were these different planes of consciousness existent? There can be little discussion of the fact that they did exist. The purpose was that there might be the effort toward reciprocal union from the lower planes of life, action and reaction. God, in order to come before men, assumed an imperfect receptacle of His life. It was necessary to cast out the imperfections in order that He might finally descend in His very fullness on the lowest plane, and be forever God with man. The man Jesus of Nazareth represented at first the Divine dwelling in an imperfect receptacle, limited by the material conditions it had assumed. The only normal way by which these imperfections could be put off was by bringing down the Divine as it could be received. This was by temptations admitted into the maternal human. The Divine descended as it overcame the devils who did the tempting: it descended and replaced the imperfect. Jesus overcame, as all men must overcome, by the power of the Divine, but he could not have been tempted had he not had a plane of consciousness at the