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 of corresponding truth and loveliness. His mind is clothed with celestial intelligence; he has on "the wedding garment." And from this we may understand the meaning of the parable of the marriage of the king's son (Matt. xxii.), and why it is said that "when the king came in," and "saw there a man not having on a wedding garment," he gave commandment that he be taken away, and "cast into the outer darkness." All divine laws are self-executing. And the soul that has not become internally married to the Lord by a life of obedience to his precepts, is, by its own organic conditions, without the wedding garment, and therefore outside of the Kingdom—unclothed with celestial intelligence—in "the outer darkness."

And so we might extend our illustrations through many pages, showing again the intimate connection between Swedenborg's revealings of the spiritual sense of Scripture, and his disclosures concerning the spiritual world. And we find a similar agreement throughout his writings. Can a coincidence so striking and so often repeated, be the result of mere accident? If so, such a marvelous kind of accident never occurred before or since his time. And if it were an ingenious contrivance of the author, then he (the man of exceptional honesty, simplicity, and child-likeness of character) must be credited with such a degree of ingenuity and cunning as the world never before witnessed—yea, such as the human imagination was never capable of conceiving. Only things that are divinely true, parts of the grand and universal order of God, ever fit into each other in a manner so complete and perfect.