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 hardly to be expected that the people who are in these different states as to good and truth will ever be formed into any one religious organization. On the contrary, we should expect them to be distributed throughout the different organizations, and some, doubtless, outside of them all. And this reasonable expectation is in perfect agreement with the explicit teaching of the Writings. For the New Jerusalem, we are told, is "the Lord's kingdom in general" (A. C., n. 402), and "His kingdom consists of all who are influenced by good." (N. J. D., n. 95.) It is "the communion of saints"—all God's children of whatever name—"scattered throughout the whole world, and consisting of those who are in love to Him and in charity toward the neighbor,"—"not only within the Church, but outside of it also." (A. C., n. 7396; T. C. R., nos. 307, 416.) From all of which the endless diversity of the New Jerusalem may be clearly seen or readily inferred.

Turning again to Swedenborg's exposition of the seventh chapter of the Apocalypse, we find further and still stronger confirmation of the truth we are endeavoring to inculcate. The first part of this chapter gives the number who were "sealed" out of each of the twelve tribes. And these "tribes," we are told, "signify those who are in genuine goods and truths" (A. E., n. 552), and therefore constitute "the Lord's internal