I shall be perfected

Perfection of character and substance, then, is the consummation predetermined by the Deity in His manifestation by spirit in Jesus and his brethren. In His wisdom, which is "first pure," He requires perfection of character first; and as a recompense for this, He confers perfection of substance, or consubstantiality with Himself. This was the order of the Divine Manifestation in the son of David's daughter; who is the great model after which the One Yahweh-Elohistic development is to be apocalypsed. Perfection of character was first manifested in Jesus, who was faultless before the Deity. The character of Jesus was the character of the Deity — a mirror in which was reflected the moral attributes peculiar to him, the Word, before manifestation in flesh. Nevertheless, though Jesus could truly say, "I always do those things which please the Father;" yet he said, "there is none good but the Deity," nor am I yet perfect. He testified his own imperfection in declaring that he could of his own self do nothing; that he must die; and that he would be perfected in the third day of his mission. "Behold," said he, "I cast out demons, and I do cures to-day, and to-morrow, and the third I shall be perfected" (Luke 13:32). In this third, "he was made perfect" from, or out of resurrection, when he ascended to the Father; and thus being exalted to consubstantialitv with him, Paul speaks of him as, "Having been perfected for the Aion" — or apocalyptically, "I was dead, and behold I am living for the Aions of the Aions" (Apoc. 1:18).