JEHOVAH GOD SUCCESSIVELY PUT OFF THE HUMAN FROM THE MOTHER AND PUT ON THE HUMAN FROM THE FATHER, AND IN THIS WAY HE MADE THAT HUMAN DIVINE 1. The soul of an offspring is from its father and it clothes itself in the womb with a body from the mother's substance; as, by analogy, a seed does in the earth, and from the earth's substance. 2. Hence there is present in the body an image of the father, at first obscurely, afterwards more and more plainly, as a son applies himself to his father's pursuits and duties. 3. Christ's body, in so far as it was from the mother's substance, was not life in itself, but a recipient of life from the Divine within Him, which was Life in itself. 4. Successively, as He exalted the Divine Wisdom and the Divine Love with Himself, Christ took upon Himself the Divine Life, which is Life in itself. 5. In the proportion that He took upon Himself Life in itself from the Divine in itself, Christ put off the human from the mother and put on the Human from the Father. 6. Christ thereby made His Human Divine, and from being Mary's son, He became the Son of God. 7. In this and in no other way was it possible for Christ Jesus to be in angels and men, and angels and men to be in Him. 8. But because His mother Mary afterwards represented the Church, she is in that respect to be given the name "His mother". 9. When He was in the maternal human Christ was in the state of exinanition and could be tempted, could be reviled, and could suffer. 10. In this state He prayed to the Father, because then He was as it were absent from Him.