112. Why the Lord came into the world and became Man, scarcely anyone knew, wherefore it will be told but it is understood only by a few among the learned. There are successive things from the Lord through the heavens to man, thus to ultimates. Successive order is not continuous, but discrete. That is, one thing is from another, just as in everything in the world, exterior things contain in themselves in successive order successive things, in their own order. This order is called simultaneous. Now, in this simultaneous order, all things are at the same time in successive order, just as you wish to carry into action things formed in the will. First things are created interiorly, and extend to the furthest circumference. Since the successive is at the same time in the simultaneous, so in the latter is all strength and all power. Because this ultimate no longer operated among men in the world not even in their truths and goods in which the Lord may dwell, therefore He came into the world that He might become the ultimate and thus, as the First, act through ultimates, reducing to order all things in the heavens and in the hells, indeed from first things through ultimates. For when He acts from first things through ultimates, He works through all things, in successive order in ultimates as in first things. This was the cause why the Lord came into the world so also He was in the fulness of His creation. What the Lord operates, He does in fulness, hence it is that, in the Word, the Lord is called the First and the Last. It also follows that the Word in the letter is most holy because it is the Divine Truth in the ultimate of order wherein lies its very strength. The truth of this has been especially made known to me. Hence it is, too, that the Lord said to the disciples that He had flesh and bones, thus differing from a spirit. So, also, is the Lord able to be present with man in ultimates and to save those who are also in ultimates.