The following show that he attributed everything he had done and said
to the Father: John 8 : 26 , 27 , 28 ; 12 : 49 , 50 ; 14 : 10.
In fact, he cried out on the cross, “My God, my God, why have you
abandoned me?” (Matthew 27 : 46 ; Mark 15 : 34 ). Furthermore, without
this state it would have been impossible to crucify him.
The state of being glorified is also a state of union. The Lord was in this
state when he was transfigured before three of his disciples. He was in it
when he performed miracles. He was in it as often as he said that the Father
and he were one, that the Father was in him and he was in the Father, and
that all things belonging to the Father were his. After complete union he
said he had power over all flesh (John 17 : 2 ) and all power in heaven and on
earth (Matthew 28 : 18 ). There are also other such passages.
The reason why the Lord experienced these two states, the state of 105
being emptied out and the state of being glorified, is that no other
method of achieving union could possibly exist. Only this method fol-
lows the divine design, and the divine design cannot be changed.
The divine design is that we arrange ourselves for receiving God and
prepare ourselves as a vessel and a dwelling place where God can enter
and live as if we were his own temple. We have to do this preparation by
ourselves, yet we have to acknowledge that the preparation comes from
God. This acknowledgment is needed because we do not feel the pres-
ence or the actions of God, even though God is in fact intimately present
and brings about every good love and every true belief we have. This is
the divine design we follow, and have to follow, to go from being earthly
to being spiritual.
The Lord had to go through the same process to make his earthly
human manifestation divine. This is why he prayed to the Father. This
is why he did the Father’s will. This is why he attributed everything he
did and said to the Father. This is why he said on the cross, “My God,
my God, why have you abandoned me?” [Matthew 27 : 46 ; Mark 15 : 34 ].
In this state God appears to be absent.
After this state comes a second one, the state of being in a partnership
with God. In this second state we do basically the same things, but now
we do them with God. We no longer need to attribute to God everything
good that we intend and do and everything true that we think and say in
the same way as we used to, because now this acknowledgment is written
on our heart. It is inside everything we do and everything we say.
In this same way, the Lord united himself to his Father and the
Father united himself to the Lord. In a nutshell, the Lord glorified his
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