TCR 126 - Glorification and temptations

TCR 126
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 . . . 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 . . .
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 conjoined with God,
and in this case the Lord was most inwardly united with God His Father.

[2] The Lord's being left to Himself,
when He suffered on the cross, is evident from His cry then:

O God, why have you abandoned me?
[Matt. 27:46]

as well as from these words of the Lord:

No one takes my life from me, but I lay it down of myself.
I have the power to lay it down, and I have the power to take it back;
this charge I received from my Father.
[John 10:18]

These passages then can prove
that the Lord did not suffer in His Divine, but in His Human,
and then a most inward and complete union took place.
An illustration of this might be the fact that
while a person is suffering physical pain,
his soul feels nothing but is merely distressed.
But when the victory is won,
God takes away that distress,
wiping it away as one does tears from the eyes.