TCR 126 - the Lord had two purposes

TCR 126, 127

The Lord had two purposes in coming into the world,
redemption and the glorification of His Human;
and by these He saved both men and angels.
These two purposes are quite distinct,
but still they are combined in effecting salvation.
The nature of redemption was . . .
to be a battle against the hells, their subjugation
and afterwards the ordering of the heavens.
Glorification, however,
is the uniting of the Lord's Human
with His Father's Divine.
This took place by stages
and was completed by His passion on the cross.
For every person ought for his own part
to approach God,
and the more nearly he does so,
the more closely does God on His side enter into him.
It is similar to the building of a church:
its construction by human hands must come first,
and then afterwards it must be consecrated,
and finally prayers must be said
for God to be present and unite Himself
with its congregation.
The reason why the actual union was fully achieved
by the passion on the cross
is that it was the last temptation
which the Lord underwent in the world;
and temptations create conjunction.
In temptation it looks as if a person is left to himself,
but he is not,
since God is then most closely present in his inmost,
and secretly gives him support.
When therefore anyone is victorious over temptation,
he is most inwardly linked with God,
and in this case the Lord
was most inwardly united with God His Father.

. . . although redemption and the passion on the cross
are two distinct events,
still they are combined in effecting salvation,
since the Lord by His union with the Father,
the result of His suffering on the cross,
became the Redeemer for ever.