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16 practically dead, would, under the questioning of natural learning, become more and more rejected in the churches. That to provide against this, it was necessary that the law of divine creation and revelation, which is Correspondence, should be learned by observation and experience in the spiritual world, and rationally applied to the opening of the spiritual sense of the Holy Scriptures.

4. That the doctrines of the Christian religion, being falsified, needed to be re-taught, and in new forms apprehensible to spiritual reason, and that for this was needed a teacher trained in spiritual experience, introduced into the sphere of heavenly wisdom, and submissive to the illuminating guidance of the Lord.

5. That, thus, the old order of the Church having come to its crisis, and being about to pass away in unbelief, the Lord should accomplish his Second Coming in the revelation of the spiritual sense of the divine Word, and its heavenly doctrines to men.

The Lord always comes with new revelation when the Church He had previously established among men has become perverted by them, and is no longer a means of leading