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 Humanity from the Divine in Himself, which is the

Divine Humanity and the Son of God.

--_Doctrine Concerning the Lord, nn._ 29, 35

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