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 Church." (A. R., 363.) In other words, they are "all of the New Christian heaven and the New Church, who will be in truths of doctrine derived from the good of love through the Word from the Lord." (A. R., n. 348.) These constitute the internal of the New Church. But this Church, as well as every other, must have an external as well as an internal. It cannot exist without it. And the external is as truly a part of the Church, and just as essential to its completeness, as the skin is a part of the body, and necessary to its completeness. "Where the internal Church is the external must be also, for the internal of the Church cannot be separated from its external." (A. C., n. 6587.) And those who constitute the external Church are by far the most numerous. (Ibid.)

Who, then, constitute the external, and who the internal of the New Christian Church? Swedenborg answers:—

"The men of the internal Church are those who have qualified their good by interior truths, such as those of the internal sense of the Word but the men of the external Church are those who have qualified their good by exterior truths, such as those of the literal sense of the Word." (A. C., n. 7840.)

Again, and equally explicit, in his explanation of the meaning of that "great multitude" (Rev. vii, 9) which the seer of Patmos beheld in vision