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 be faithful to the behests of the moral instincts—as they would desire hereafter to face with confidence the tribunal of truth—we would urge them to the investigation proposed. Enter upon it with a free and candid spirit—prosecute it with a single eye to the validity of the claims set forth—and I can venture to promise the most gratifying results. I can assure you of finding something richer than the mines of California or Australia. With no reserve do I say, that you will find yourselves introduced to the very treasures of heaven, and will feel that a shadow has fallen upon the glories of earth. But in all fidelity I must at the same time forewarn you, that the issue personally will be far from slight or trifling. You will find yourselves searched and sifted and scanned and explored as with a lighted candle. You may possibly shrink from the ordeal, and thus be speedily repulsed at the outset. But allow me to express the hope that you will not be, deterred by any moral repellency of this kind. Let the searching process go on. It will be merely the kind severity of the surgeon, who probes a wound with the single view of healing it. Why not submit then willingly to the healing hand, and let it, as the instrumentality of the great Physician of souls, restore you to life, health, and happiness unalloyed.

“It has pleased the Lord to manifest Himself to me, and to send me to teach those things which will be of his New Church, which is meant by the New Jerusalem in the Revelation; for which end He has opened the interiors of my mind or spirit, by which it has been given me to be in the spiritual world with angels, and at the same time in the natural world with men, and this now for twenty-seven years. Who in the Christian world would have known anything concerning, unless it had pleased the Lord to open in some one the sight of his spirit, and to show and teach? That such things as are described in the appear in the heavens, is manifestly evident from the like things which were seen by, and described in the Revelation, as also which were seen and described in the Word of the Old Testament by the .”—True Christian Relig. 851.

“Men are enlightened variously, every one according to the quality of his affection and consequent intelligence: those who are in the spiritual affection of truth, are elevated into the light of heaven, so as to perceive distinctly what comes from the Lord, and what from the angels; what comes from the Lord is written [or given in my writings], and what from the angels is not written. Moreover it has been given me to discourse with the angels as man with man, and likewise to see the things which are in the heavens, and which are in the hells: the reason was, because the end of the present church approaches, and the beginning of a new one is at hand, which will be the New Jerusalem, to which it is to be revealed, that the Lord rules the universe, both heaven and the world; that there is a heaven and a hell, and what is the quality of each; that men live also as men after death, in heaven those who had been led of the Lord, in hell those who have been