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has already been clearly shown where and what the New Christian Church is, according to the plain teaching of the Writings which we acknowledge to be divinely authorized. It has been shown to be no organized or visible body of people, for it was said to be "increasing daily" nearly thirty years before any organization known as the New Church existed on earth. This ought to be sufficient to settle the question with every honest mind. But we have still further evidence to offer in proof of the non-visibility of this Church.

Man is a microcosm—a miniature world both natural and spiritual. His interiors are from creation an image of heaven potentially, and by regeneration he becomes such an image actually. And the divinely authorized Writings teach that, in the mind of every man there is a trinal distinction, or three distinct degrees of life in vital union from creation; and that there is a similar trinal distinction in the whole angelic heaven, in each separate heaven, and in every angel. And as the Church on earth is one with the Church in heaven, there must needs be the same trinal distinction in the Church and in each individual that there is in heaven.