what he is, the Son of God, the Saviour of the world, Divine as no other human being ever was or can be Divine, one with the Father as to essence and being, unavoidably had to have a soul-form from the Divine directly. If he had been the son of Joseph, he would have had a soul-form from Joseph, fashioned from the inner spiritual substances of Joseph's being, and he would have grown in manhood to be only the son of Joseph.
Let this thought penetrate deeply into our souls: Every man is the son of his own father, from whose being he receives his soul-form or rudimentary receptacle of life, and he becomes only a reproduction of his father, of a similar essence, type, and character.
Upon the assumption that Jesus was the son of Joseph it could not have been written of him, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and The Word was God. . . And the Word (or God) became flesh." If Jesus had been the son of Joseph, he could never have said, "Before Abraham was, I am," or, "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father," nor the thousand and one other things where he claimed his absolute uniqueness and differ-
