AC 6866, 6872 - The State of the Lord's Humiliation While He Was in the World

AC 6866

So far as the Lord
was in the human not yet made Divine,
so far He was in humiliation;
but so far as He was in the Human made Divine,
so far He could not be in humiliation,
for so far He was God and Jehovah.
The reason why He was in humiliation
when in the human not yet made Divine,
was that the human
which He took from the mother
was by heredity, evil,
and this could not come near to the Divine
without humiliation;
for in genuine humiliation
a man divests himself
of all ability to think and do anything from himself,
and wholly leaves himself to the Divine,
and thus draws near to the Divine.
The Divine was indeed in the Lord,
because He was conceived of Jehovah,
but this appeared remote
insofar as His human
was in the heredity from the mother;
for in spiritual and heavenly things
it is unlikeness of state
that causes removal and absence,
and it is likeness of state
that causes approach and presence;
and it is love that makes likeness and unlikeness.
All this shows whence came
the state of humiliation with the Lord
when He was in the world;
but afterward, when He put off all the human
which He took from the mother,
insomuch that He was no longer her son,
and put on the Divine,
then the state of humiliation ceased,
for then He was one with Jehovah.

AC 6872 [2, 4]

He with whom there is Divine love,
which was with the Lord alone, is God;
thus His Human was made Divine
when He received in the Human
the love of His Father,
which was the being of His life.

For the Divine love does not agree with any
but a Divine form;
all other forms it absolutely casts out;
hence it is that the Lord when glorified
was no longer the son of Mary.