of God on that plane by substituting therefor the Divine Wisdom or Truth, or God in His first emanation. Then God dwelt directly on the plane of the heavens in His infinity.
Then God as the Logos descended as the processes of glorification continued into the plane of the natural mind. It was at this time that we have the intercessory prayer recorded in John 17. It was the Son speaking on the plane of the Logos addressing the Essential Divine, the Father. By the "glorification" he was referring to the perfect union of the Divine Good and Divine Truth which was now about to take place on the lowest plane of the natural life, when the Logos would entirely supersede the plane of the maternal human and even the Father, or Essential Divine, would be united with the Son, and the Divine Good and the Divine Truth would be one on the plane of the natural.
There was still left something of the maternal human, for Gethsemane and the cross were yet to be endured. It would still be possible for consciousness, therefore, to be manifested on that plane. But at the time when Jesus prayed his intercessory prayer, it is evident, from cer-
