SS 99, 100 - the Word became flesh

SS 99, 100

The state of the church was completely changed

by the Lord's becoming the Word in ultimates.

All the churches that had existed before His advent

were representative churches

and could see Divine truth in the shade only;

but after the Lord's coming into the world

a church was instituted by Him

that saw Divine truth in the light.

The difference is like that between evening and morning,

and the state of the church before His advent

is also called "the evening,"

and that of the church after it "the morning."

Before His coming into the world

the Lord was indeed present with the people of the church,

but mediately through heaven,

whereas since His coming into the world

He is present with them immediately,

for in the world He put on the Divine Natural,

in which He is present with people.

The glorification of the Lord

is the glorification of His Human

that He assumed in the world,

and the Lord's glorified Human is the Divine Natural.

. . . all the good and truth that proceeds from the Lord

is in its form a person.

And as the Lord is Divine good and Divine truth itself,

He is the Man,

from whom every person is a person.