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 the New Church which makes one with this New Heaven, are not few whose minds are opened only to the second or first degree. And that all who belong to the New Church will not have their minds opened to the third or celestial degree is plainly taught in A. R. 363, where it is said that "in the Lord's New Heaven and New Church there will be only such as are celestial and spiritual"—those in the natural degree being either celestial-natural or spiritual-natural.

"They who are in the lowest heaven are either spiritual-natural or celestial-natural. The spiritual-natural who are in that heaven belong to the Lord's spiritual kingdom, and the celestial-natural belong to the celestial kingdom. Therefore the spiritual-natural communicate with the second heaven, where all are spiritual, but the celestial-natural communicate with the third heaven, where all are celestial." (A. E. 499.)

The reader will not fail to notice that the several extracts here made from the Writings are in perfect harmony with each other, and give one and the same testimony in regard to the nature, extent, and whereabout of the New Christian Church. While their teaching does not in the least conflict with the idea of the need and use of a new and separate church organization, it does we think, prove conclusively that the real New Jerusalem is much wider than any such organiza-