y opened, and divine truths still
more interior have been revealed, which are to serve a New Church,
which will be called the New Jerusalem.

--_Apocalypse Explained, n._ 948

A NEW CHURCH

It was foretold in the _Apocalypse_ (XXI, XXII) that at the end of the
former Church a New Church was to be instituted, in which this would
be the chief teaching: that God is One in Person as well as in
Essence, in Whom is the Trinity, and that that God is the Lord. This
Church is what is there meant by the New Jerusalem, into which only he
can enter who acknowledges the Lord alone as God of Heaven and earth.

--_Divine Providence, n._ 263

The descent of the New Jerusalem cannot take place in a moment, but
becomes a fact as the falsities of the former Church are removed. For
what is new cannot enter where falsities have previously been
engendered, unless these are eradicated; which will take place with
the clergy, and so with the laity.

--_True Christian Religion, n._ 784

THE ULTIMATE GOAL

Were it received as a principle, that love to the Lord and charity to
the neighbor are what the whole Law hangs on and are what all the
Prophets speak of, and thus are the essentials of all doctrine and
worship, then the mind would be enlightened in innumerable things in
the Word, which otherwise lie hidden in the obscurity of a false
principle. In fact, heresies would be scattered then, and out of many
one Church would come to be, however the doctrines flowing therefrom
or leading thereto, and the rituals, might differ. Were the case so,
all men would be governed as a single human being by the Lord; for all
would be as members and organs of one body, which, dissimilar in form
and function though they are, still have relation to one heart only,
whereon they each and all depend. Then, in whatever doctrine or
outward worship one might be, he would say of another, "This man is my
brother. I see that he worships the Lord, and that he is a good man."

--_Arcana Coelestia, n._ 2385

MEMORABLE SAYINGS

MEMORABLE SAYINGS

All religion has relation to life; and the life of religion is to do
good.

Love in act is work and deed.

Heaven is a kingdom of uses.

No one who believes in God and lives well is condemned.

Shunning evils as sins is the mark of faith.

To resist one evil is to resist many; for every evil is united with
countless evils.

If you wish to be led by the Divine Providence, employ prudence as a
serva