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 time of temptation like our own. God was not tempted, but the man-plane did receive temptations and it overcame, as every man must overcome. That made Jesus complete man—thoroughly a human being. What overcame in him is what overcomes in man, the Divine power; the difference was that God dwelt directly in him as His very soul, whereas God is only adjoined to us, dwelling in us as a separate entity in our Inmost.

We now hear the words: "Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee." This was the Logos speaking, that was in the beginning with God, who was God, and that for which he prayed was the reciprocal union of the Divine Good and the Divine Truth, God and the Logos, the Father and the Son. These elements in God had been to appearance separated by the Incarnation; they were now to be reunited. That it was this interior Divine Truth or Logos speaking is shown by what follows: "And, now, O Father, glorify thou me, with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." The outward man Jesus had not existed before, but the Logos had always existed. This effort