too, to do good and yet not
acknowledge God; one is impossible apart from the other. The Lord has
provided that there should be some religion almost everywhere and that
these two elements should be in it, and has also provided that everyone
who acknowledges God and refrains from doing evil because it is against
God shall have a place in heaven. For heaven as a whole is like one man
whose life or soul is the Lord. In that heavenly man are all things to be
found in a natural man with the difference which obtains between the
heavenly and the natural.

[10] It is a matter of common knowledge that in the human being there are
not only forms organized of blood vessels and nerve fibres, but also
skins, membranes, tendons, cartilages, bones, nails and teeth. These have
a smaller measure of life than those organized forms, which they serve as
ligaments, coverings or supports. For all these entities to be in the
heavenly humanity, which is heaven, it cannot be made up of human beings
all of one religion, but of men of many religions. Therefore all who make
these two universals of the church part of their lives have a place in
this heavenly man, that is, heaven, and enjoy happiness each in his
measure. More on the subject may be seen above (n. 254).

[11] That these two are primary in all religion is evident from the fact
that they are the two which the Decalog teaches. The Decalog was the
first of the Word, promulgated by Jehovah from Mount Sinai by a living
voice, and also inscribed on two tables of stone by the finger of God.
Then, placed in the ark, the Decalog was called Jehovah, and it made the
holy of holies in the tabernacle and the shrine in the temple of
Jerusalem; all things in each were holy only on account of it. Much more
about the Decalog in the ark is to be had from the Word, which is cited
in _Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem_ (nn. 53-61). To that I will
add this. From the Word we know that the ark with the two tables in it on
which the Decalog was written was captured by the Philistines and placed
in the temple of Dagon in Ashdod; that Dagon fell to the ground before
it, and afterward his head, together with the palms of the hands, torn
from his body, lay on the temple threshold; that the people of Ashdod and
Ekron to the number of many thousands were smitten with hemorrhoids and
their land was ravaged by mice; that on the advice of the chiefs of their
nation, the Philistines made five golden hemorrhoids, f