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 Son of God as the Logos, or the Divine Truth, was never weary or was never tempted; for the Son of God is God Himself.

We would see in the "Son of God" or the Logos, the son from eternity; not, indeed, "born" from eternity; for the Infinite could never be born, but always existed in the bosom of the Father,—"who is in the beginning with God," and God Himself, the Divine Truth, one with the Divine Good. We would be able to differentiate between the son born of a virgin in time, perceiving this not to be a separate being, but merely the outside envelop, as it were, of the Son of God. We would perceive how this limited human was not God, and yet was a temporary medium through which God could manifest Himself on the natural plane of life. It was God as much as our outward bodies are ourselves; but as our outward material bodies are not essential to our complete life as men, except as they serve as the material basis of our lives in order to put us into contact with the material universe around us, so the outward form of Jesus was only temporarily useful.

There was this difference between men and Jesus in the resurrection. Men forever cast