had from the mother, and by unbroken victories. His passion on the
cross was the last temptation and complete victory.

--_Heavenly Doctrine, n._ 293


HOW HE CAME

Because, from His essence, God burned with the love of uniting Himself
to man, it was necessary that He should cover Himself around with a
body adapted to reception and conjunction. He therefore descended and
assumed a human nature in pursuance of the order established by Him
from the creation of the world. That is, He was to be conceived by a
power produced from Himself; He was to be carried in the womb; He was
to be born, and then to grow in wisdom and in love, and so was to
approach to union with His Divine origin. Thus God became Man, and Man
God.

--_True Christian Religion, n._ 838


THE LIFE ON EARTH

The Lord had at first a human nature from the mother, of which He
gradually divested Himself while He was in the world. Accordingly He
kept experiencing two states: a state of humiliation or privation, as
long and as far as He was conscious in the human nature from the
mother; and a state of glorification or union with the Divine, as long
and as far as He was conscious in the Humanity received from the
Father. In the state of humiliation He prayed to the Father as to One