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 flood of falsities from the mouth of the dragon. This is the very place "into which the woman [that is, the New Church] fled," and where, we are told, "she had a place prepared of God;" and there she was to remain until she arrived at maturity, or had "grown to her fullness."

Every one can see from what is here taught that the New Church signified by the New Jerusalem was not to be, and is not, a visible body; and he can also see how well this teaching agrees with the Lord's words to those who were anxious to separate the wheat from the tares in its immature stage: "But He said, Nay: lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest." The spiritual harvest—the harvest of human souls—takes place not in the natural but in the spiritual world. Then and there the interiors of all are opened and their real characters made manifest; and the separation of the non-dragons from the dragons—the righteous from the wicked—is safe and easy, and is seen to be for the good of all.

Then see what the New Jerusalem is called in the Revelation, and what is predicated of it. It is called "the Bride, the Lamb's wife"—a designation applicable to none but the righteous. And are all the righteous to be found in any single religious organization? Or is it certain—is it probable—that all who accept Swedenborg's