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 aside their natural bodies at death. Jesus, indeed, put aside his outward physical material body, but there was provided in its place a form of Divine substances which enabled him forever to dwell with men on the plane of the natural. Unlike men, he is forevermore on even the lowest plane of being, as the disciples saw after the resurrection. Jesus did not actually go away. He, indeed, disappeared from the sight of men as a material man in limitations; but we learn from him that he is always with us, "even unto the end of the world." His ascension, as we have seen before, was the perfect union of the Divine Truth and the Divine Good, the Son and the Father, on every plane of being.

What was accomplished by the glorification?

As the darkness and cold of the night are dissipated by the sun at dawn, so the descent of the Divine into the heavens enlightened and purified them, and in the world of spirits, or Hades, it drove out the false and evil, effected a judgment. We read in Luke 10:17—19:

"And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.