nd of the Divinity by itself, which
is like thinking of man apart from his soul or life, which, however,
is no conception of man, still less of the Lord.

--_Apocalypse Explained, n._ 26

WHY HE CAME

The Lord from eternity, Who is Jehovah, came into the world to subdue
the hells and to glorify His Humanity. Without Him no mortal could
have been saved; and they are saved who believe in Him.

--_True Christian Religion, n._ 2

The Lord came into the world to save the human race which would
otherwise have perished in eternal death. This salvation the Lord
effected by subjugating the hells, which infested every man coming
into the world and going out of the world, and by glorifying His
Humanity; for so He can hold the hells subdued to eternity. The
subjugation of the hells, and the glorification at the same time of
His Humanity, were effected by temptations let into the Humanity He
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
other than Himself; but in the state of glorification He spoke with
the Father as with Himself. In this state He said that the Father was
in Him, and He in the Father, and that the Father and He were one.

The Lord consecutively put off the human nature assumed from the
mother, and put on a H