The first plane of the soul-form provided by Jehovah for His extension into nature would be the plane of "Spirit," or that of the heavens where angels dwell, and we can understand that He assumed this plane from the spiritual atmospheres of the heavens, for it was, even in Christ at the very first, limited as angels are limited. It was imperfect as angels are imperfect, and yet more perfect than angels because it had God more directly resident in it than even the angels have. It was necessary that Christ should have this plane of created life in order to be perfect man with man's planes of life, in order to be a complete man.
The next plane which Jehovah provided in His assumption of an outward form would be that of the mental, or the natural above the body, the plane of the natural human mind; and we can assume that He provided this from the substances of its atmospheres.
We must bear in mind that it was proper and orderly and in harmony with all methods for the extension of life from the highest into lower forms for the Lord so to provide a form for His own extension into nature, providing it from
