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 claims and teachings belong to this class? Are none of God's people to be found in other church organizations?

The same thing, also, is implied by the measure of the New Jerusalem, which is said to be "the measure of a man, that is, of an angel"—showing that only the manly or angelic graces of character belong to it. And these, surely, are not all to be found in any one organization. Again, the city is said to be "pure gold"—which means that its distinguishing characteristic is pure, unselfish love. Should we expect to find any one sect or organization enjoying a monopoly of this?

It is further said that "there shall not enter into it anything that defileth or worketh abomination or maketh a lie; but they who are written in the Lamb's book of life; " which words, as Swedenborg explains them, "mean that no one will be received into the Lord's New Church who adulterates the goods and falsifies the truths of the Word, and who does evil from confirmation. . . . No others will be received into the New Church which is the New Jerusalem, but they who believe in the Lord and live according to His commandments in the Word." (A. R. 924,'5.) The obvious inference from which is, that all who do believe in the Lord and live according to his commandments in the Word, will be received into the New Jerusalem. In other words, that the church