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  the Hereafter which we find in the writings of Swedenborg, it has important practical bearings. It teaches a great and valuable lesson, and one from the study of which we may all derive profit.

the foregoing chapter we attempted little more than an explanation of the meaning of Maximus Homo, as the term is used by Swedenborg. And we concluded with the remark, that it is not, what the reader might at first imagine, a purely speculative doctrine, but that, like all of the great seer's disclosures concerning the world beyond the grave, it has important practical bearings. It is desirable that the church on earth become as nearly as possible like the church in heaven. This is involved in the petition which all Christians offer devoutly, "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven."

The great truth revealed in the doctrine of the Grand Man, as already explained, is, that the order, connection, mutual dependence, unity, harmony, and diversity existing among the heavenly societies, are similar to what we find among the