Shall we not rather think of this adoration of God and the Lamb as the adoration of the one God of heaven and earth in His two phases of Being and Coming-forth? That only one being or person is referred to is shown by what immediately follows, where it is said, "And the four beasts," also representatives or symbols, "said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped Him (not them) that liveth forever and ever."
And it is right and proper that we should worship and adore God in His two phases of Being and Coming-forth, and that we should join in the ascription of praises to Him who, for our sakes, came into the world in the flesh to save us from our deadly enemies of hell. For us indeed the phase of Coming-forth is absolutely essential to our salvation. For it is this phase of Coming-forth that enables us to approach the Father, or Essential Being. "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no man cometh unto the Father but by me." It is useless in view of this and other similar statements to think that we can approach the Lord except through His Coming-forth, or in His Divine Humanity. For the Son and the Father are one as body and
