—­Doctrine Concerning the Lord, n. 60

There is one God, and the Lord is He, His Divinity and Humanity being one Person.

—­Divine Providence, n. 122

They who think of the Lord’s Humanity, and not at the same time of His Divinity, by no means allow the expression “Divine Humanity”; for they think of the Humanity by itself and of the Divinity by itself, which is like thinking of man apart from his soul or life, which, however, is no conception of man, still less of the Lord.

—­Apocalypse Explained, n. 26

WHY HE CAME

The Lord from eternity, Who is Jehovah, came into the world to subdue the hells and to glorify His Humanity.  Without Him no mortal could have been saved; and they are saved who believe in Him.

—­True Christian Religion, n. 2

The Lord came into the world to save the human race which would otherwise have perished in eternal death.  This salvation the Lord effected by subjugating the hells, which infested every man coming into the world and going out of the world, and by glorifying His Humanity; for so He can hold the hells subdued to eternity.  The subjugation of the hells, and the glorification at the same time of His Humanity, were effected by temptations let into the Humanity He had from the mother, and by unbroken victories.  His passion on the cross was the last temptation and complete victory.

—­Heavenly Doctrine, n. 293

HOW HE CAME

Because, from His essence, God burned with the love of uniting Himself to man, it was necessary that He should cover Himself around with a body adapted to reception and conjunction.  He therefore descended and assumed a human nature in pursuance of the order established by Him from the creation of the world.  That is, He was to be conceived by a power produced from Himself; He was to be carried in the womb; He was to be born, and then to grow in wisdom and in love, and so was to approach to union with His Divine origin.  Thus God became Man, and Man God.

—­True Christian Religion, n. 838

THE LIFE ON EARTH

The Lord had at first a human nature from the mother, of which He gradually divested Himself while He was in the world.  Accordingly He kept experiencing two states:  a state of humiliation or privation, as long and as far as He was conscious in the human nature from the mother; and a state of glorification or union with the Divine, as long and as far as He was conscious in the Humanity received from the Father.  In the state of humiliation He prayed to the Father as to One other than Himself; but in the state of glorification He spoke with the Father as with Himself.  In this state He said that the Father was in Him, and He in the Father, and that the Father and He were one.