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1. CONCERNING THE LORD

PREFACE

Revelation has been given by the Lord concerning Heaven and Hell, concerning the Last Judgment as having been accomplished, and concerning the spiritual sense of the Word, thus the way to salvation has been revealed, and concerning man's state after death. And this has been done fully and plainly so that everyone who understands the Latin language may know about these matters. It is now a year since this was done, and copies have been distributed. But still the Church pays no heed to it. It is very greatly wondered at in heaven that the Church is in such a state that those things which are its very essentials are not even considered, but are left as matters of no moment, a sign that heavenly things do not occupy their minds at all, neither are they seen when revealed.

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2. Let all the articles in four treatise* be set out in their order.
* Ager considers that the reference is to four of the treatises published in 1758 and mentioned in n. 72 below. TD 313 regards the reference as being to the Four Doctrines published in 1763.

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3. The Lord, as to the Human, had life from Himself; from the Word.

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4. The Lord was from eternity; from the Word.

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5. The Lord is omnipotent; from the Word.

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6. The Lord became invisible, yet He was in a Human body, but this could not have been from the mother; from the Word.

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7. What is this that the Divine was distinguished into three Persons; where is this in the Word?

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8. What is this that the Lord was born from eternity? But that the Divine is One or One Person, or One Man, this is intelligible; as well as that the Divine existed from eternity.

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9. But they are to be excused who do not know anything about the style of the Word, that there is a spiritual sense within every single word.

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10. Concerning the mother, He also said that she was not blessed for that reason, but they are blessed who hear the Word and keep it, Luke xi 27, 28. This He said lest they should attribute to her anything Divine because she was the mother.

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11. He came forth from the Father and came into the world, and He returns to the Father, John xvi 27, 28.

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12. He came forth from the Father, John xiv 12, xvi 5, 10, 16, 17, 30, xvii 8; John x 9; Isa. xxv 9.

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13. He came down from heaven; from the Word.

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14. IT IS BELIEVED

It is believed in the Christian world that angels have assumed human bodies, and have thus appeared. Yet they did not assume them, but the eyes of man s spirit were opened, and so they were seen. In this way did angels appear to Abraham and others; in this way did the horses and chariots of fire appear around Elisha, where it is said, 'Open his eyes'.* It is well known that the Lord appeared thus; but with the difference that the Lord appeared as to the body which He had in the world, angels, however, as to the bodies which spirits have, which are in human form, but not as the Lord was.
* 2 Kings v 17.

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15. Thus did John see the things that are in Revelation. He says also that he was in the spirit, i 10.

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16. It is well known that men become spiritual through temptations. This was much more so with the Lord because He was God from conception.

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17. It is through temptations that man becomes spiritual and is conjoined with heavens, for to become spiritual is to be conjoined with heaven. But the Lord, through temptations, conjoined His Human to the Divine Itself which was in Him, and so, as to the Human, became God.

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18. Anyone can see that His Soul, which was the Divine Itself, could not dwell in a body that is weak such as it is by its nature. It is different with the bodies of men who from their fathers are born into evil affections.

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19. To all are allotted places in the heavens in accordance with the concept their faith gives them of the Lord's Divine Human, and therefore in accordance with the reception of the Lord through truths and goods. Let the Gentiles be instanced concerning whom--

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20. FROM REASON

Through this* the Papists have claimed for themselves Divine power.
* i.e. their false ideas about the Lord's Human; cf AR 294:11.

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21. Affection itself, which belongs to love, is from the father, and this is also a man's very life or soul. The covering, however, is from the mother. Hence it is clear what was the quality of the Lord as to his Soul or Life, that He was the Divine Love. And this cannot exist together with the covering from the mother without His casting it off by stages; for the mother was born into sins, as is every human being. This was the infirm [nature] which He assumed so that He might allow Himself to be tempted, and set in order [everything] in the heavens and in the hells. When this was cast off, He united the Human to the Divine, or glorified the Human. It may be known that according to the quality of a man's affection which belongs to love, such is the man. Everyone bases his estimate of another on that.

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22. That the Lord effected a judgment when He was in the world is clearly established from many passages in the Word; also from all those in which 'the day of Jehovah as being terrible' is mentioned, and which is called 'the day of Zebaoth'.

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23. From Athanasius; we read there that the Divine took to Himself the Human. But it is among the Lord's words that the Divine took to Itself the Human and that the Human took to Itself the Divine; for He says, 'Believe Me that the Father is in Me and I in the Father'.* That He said this concerning His Human is clear from the words immediately preceding, 'He that sees Me sees the Father', etc.**
* John xiv 11.
** John xiv 9.

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24. I can assert and say for certain that the nature of a man's conjunction in heaven depends upon what concept about the Divine his faith has given him.

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25. FROM EXPERIENCE

Because it has been granted me to have fellowship with angels, to speak with them and to see things that are in the heavens, and also to speak with those who have died, with nearly all who were known to me, I should like to relate something of what I have heard on this subject.

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26. Christians, for the most part, acknowledge three gods, and seek for one or other; indeed, only those who have an affection for spiritual truth acknowledge the Lord alone as the only God.

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27. Those who acknowledge the Father as a separate and only God, worship Nature, and--

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28. All angels acknowledge from perception the Divine Human.

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29. All who from the heart acknowledge the Lord's Divine in the Human are received into heaven; and the others cannot be received; the reasons why.

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30. The Gentiles so acknowledge when they are instructed, and this is why they are received, according to the Lord's words,
They shall come from the east and the west.*
* Matt. viii 11; Luke xiii 29.

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31. Mary acknowledged Him for her God and her Lord; this was heard from her own lips.*
* See SE 5834

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32. The Papists turned away and could not make any reply when it was said that no other is understood for the Father than the Lord's Divine.

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33. All little children in heaven know no other Divine.

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34. Nobody comes into the New Jerusalem unless he acknowledges the Lord's Divine Human.

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35. This is meant by the coming of the Lord in glory.

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36. Read Deut. xxxiii 8, 9;* also Zech. xiv 9; Isa. xl 3-12, xxv 9. Other suitable passages to be adduced from collected extracts.
* The relevance of this passage is not immediately obvious; perhaps an incorrect reference. Verse 7 may be intended in view of the meaning of Judah in the internal sense; cf AC 3862.

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37. FROM THE WORD

That God is one or 'beside Me there is no God',* from the Word.
* Isa. xliv 6.

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38. The Lord was conceived from the Divine Itself which is called Jehovah and Father; let Matt. i 18-25, and Luke i 31-35 be quoted.

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39. God Himself came into the world and put on the Human, and this He made Divine, John i 1, 3, 14; that is

The Word was God and the Word became flesh.

Thus God became flesh, that is, Man. He was also the Creator, for it is said 'the world was made by Him'.

Also Isa. ix 6,* vii 14; Jer. xxiii 5, 6, xxxiii 15, 16; Isa. xlii 8; Mal. iii 1; Isa. xxv 9; also He was from eternity; from the Gospels.
* The verse numbered 6 appears in the Latin as 5 in accordance with the Schmidius Bible used by Swedenborg.

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40. It was His Own Divine which assumed the Human, and this was the Divine which He called the Father, and not another Divine. Therefore He says 'he that sees Me sees the Father', and that He is in the Father and the Father in Him, and that they are one, John xiv 7-11, x 30, 38.

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41. He glorified His Human from the Divine in Himself; see 'to glorify'.*
* The reference is to Swedenborg's Index to SE (vol 3) where the entry is headed, 'Glory, Glorification'.

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42. He no longer acknowledged the mother, nor David; let passages be quoted; and thus He was no longer her son.

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43. Wherefore the Divine Human is to be approached and worshipped from faith and love; let passages be quoted from the DOCTRINE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM--.

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44. They saw the Lord in a Human form, and He was called Jehovah by Abraham; let -- also be quoted. It was confirmed by the Lord that He was before Abraham.*
* John viii 58.

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45. He was also seen by the disciples, and was a Man before their eyes, and He was also a Man when He became invisible--; whence this was.*
* John xx, xxi.

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46. He is omnipresent always; from Matthew,* and He is omnipresent in the Holy Supper as to the Human; and omnipresence is Divine.
* Matt. xxviii 20.

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47. He has all power in heaven and on earth, also as to the Human.

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48. He is to judge all; to Him has been given judgment, also in the last day.

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49. He was united to His Divine by successive stages, for reasons that will be given below; and He was united by means of temptations and victories; and a full uniting was effected by the passion of the cross; from passages in the Word.

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50. So far as He was united, to that extent He spoke with Himself; but so far as He was not united, He spoke as with another. The latter was His state of humiliation, but the former the state of glorification.

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51. That He meant Himself when He named the Father is evident from the passages quoted above.

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52. That on account of the internal sense He named Divine Good the Father, and Divine Truth the Christ, is evident from Matthew xxiii 9, 10, which may be quoted, and from very many other passages.

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53. To know and acknowledge her God is the first and foremost thing of the Church, because without that there is no salvation, as can be established from the Jews, that when they did not worship Jehovah, although steadfast in other rites, they were accursed; the passages from the Word. Also the Lord so often said, 'Because you believe' therefore it was done to them. For this then was the first thing, to believe in the Lord, and to believe that He had all power; and because of their former faith He said in their presence 'the Father' but meant Himself as is established from the passages; the passages are to be quoted. --This knowledge and acknowledgment conjoin; and without that there is no conjunction and thus no salvation.

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54. All the passages may perhaps be quoted in which it is said 'My Father', 'your Father', 'the Father Who is in the heavens', and briefly what they mean.

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55. FROM REASON

There is one God, this is acknowledged in the whole world.

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56. The soul induces a likeness in the body, and the body is nothing else than the external form of its own soul.

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57. His soul was the Divine itself, and Divine Love. It was inevitable that the body should be similar.

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58. All the affections of the father remain in the children; from experience.

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59. In the Christian world they hold with difficulty an idea of the Divine in the Human, but still everywhere (the heathen to be enumerated), and everywhere.*
* The sense here is incomplete, presumably this idea is to be found everywhere among the heathen; cf AC 5256.

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60. When three persons of the Divinity are acknowledged, one God can by no means be acknowledged--.

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61. An acknowledgment of three persons has led Mohammedans, Jews, and others away from the reception of Christianity.

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62. Everyone ought to know his God so as to be conjoined with Him and be saved. The Lord can be seen by faith and known by love, but not the Father. Nobody has seen the Father. Let passages be quoted from the DOCTRINE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM n. 283.

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63. CONCERNING THE HOLY SPIRIT

LASTLY

From those things that are in APOCALYPSE EXPLAINED n. 183.

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64. What is meant by this, that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Lord, that is, what is meant by the Holy that proceeds, which is termed the Holy Spirit.

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65. Sin against the Holy Spirit is denying the Lord's Divine, Matt. xii 28, 32; Mark iii 28, 29; Luke xi 20 f. This is obvious from what precedes. They said that he acted through the prince of demons, but He said that He did so through the Spirit of God, thus through His Divine. Such denial in the heart remains unforgiven, for they are unable to enter heaven, as is the case with all Socinians. Some details concerning them from experience.

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66. Nor can those people within the Church be saved who deny the Lord's Divine and acknowledge only the Father. Very many of them acknowledge nature, and therefore they have no other idea but that of nature in least things. They are unable to be turned towards the Lord - the reasons why. Instead they are turned towards worldly loves. These things lastly.

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67. That the Divine is understood by the Spirit of God is obvious also in Luke where it says, By the finger of God, the finger of God meaning Divine power, Luke xi 20.

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68. The Father is understood by the Lord's Divine. The Lord says in Matt. xii 27 that their sons cast out demons through Him, and again in Luke xi 19. It also says that Jesus gave the disciples power over all demons, Luke ix 1, x 11, 20; Mark xvi 17, 18, and that in the name of the Lord they cast out demons, Luke ix 49, 50; Mark ix 38.

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69. The Human was set apart from the Divine and considered to be purely human chiefly on account of the Pope who did not dare to call himself the vicar of God.

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70. Every human being is born into ignorance of the truth and lusting after evil, for his soul, which is derived from his father, is evil affection. The Lord alone was born hungering for good and desirous of truth, for His Soul, which was derived from the Father, was the Divine Itself, thus the affection belonging to Divine Love, or Divine Love from which He overpowered the external that was from the mother.

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71. By the Son of Man is understood Truth from the Divine. What this is is not understood.

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72. LASTLY

Lastly quote passages concerning the Lord from the DOCTRINE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM, -- and from ARCANA COELESTIA.

Then from the work HEAVEN AND HELL, from the small work on THE LAST JUDGMENT, --and from EARTHS IN THE UNIVERSE, but only quotations where it deals with the Lord.