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 Having now shown conclusively what the New Church is, the question as to where it is would seem to be conclusively settled. It—or a portion of it, at least—is wherever or in whatever external religious or other associations there are persons of the character designated in the above extracts. But to make still more conclusive the answer to our main question, and to remove all possible doubt as to what the Writings teach concerning the whereabout of the New Christian Church, we will add one or two more pertinent quotations.

Speaking, in his Apocalypse Explained, of "the causes why the New Church which is called the Holy Jerusalem" was to commence with a few people on earth, and afterwards increase to "greater numbers," Swedenborg concludes thus:—

"The third reason is, that the New Church on earth increases according to its increase in the world of spirits; for spirits from that world are with men, and they are from those who were in the faith of their church while they lived on earth; and no others of them receive the doctrine of love to the Lord and charity toward the neighbor [which is the essential doctrine of the New Church] but those who were in the spiritual affection of truth; such only are conjoined to heaven where this doctrine is, and conjoin heaven to man. The number of those in the spiritual world now [1759] increases daily; wherefore, according to their increase, the church which is