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 whereas the rest in the same Church who live the life of faith, which is charity, are not dragons although among them; for they think that it is agreeable to doctrine that faith produces the fruit, which are good works, and that the faith which justifies and saves is to believe those things which are in the Word, and do them. But the dragons are altogether of another way of thinking; but what the sentiments of these latter are, the former do not comprehend; and since they do not comprehend, neither do they receive them.

"Hence it is manifest that the Church consisting of those who are not dragons, is what is meant by the earth which helped the woman. . . The subtle and pernicious reasonings [of the dragon] have place only with the learned rulers of the Church, and are not known to the people because not understood by them. Hence the New Church, which is called the Holy Jerusalem, is helped by these latter, and increases." (A. E 765.)

Here we are told very plainly where the New Church is or was to be. It was not to be a separate and visible organization—though such organization on a mere doctrinal basis, and for the purpose of promulgating the new truths, is nowhere forbidden—but it was to tarry among he solifidians, and would be "helped," not hindered, in its growth by remaining there, in "the Church of the wilderness;" its new and precious truths would be promulgated and shielded by the good people (the non-dragons) there, against the