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 signified by the New Jerusalem will consist of just this class of persons, and none others. And are all the people of this character (and none others) to be found in that new ecclesiastical organization known as "the New Church"? Are there none save the readers of Swedenborg, or the receivers of the doctrines of the New Jerusalem as taught by him, who "believe in the Lord, and live according to His commandments in the Word"? The idea is preposterous.

The real New Jerusalem, then, includes all righteous people of whatever name or creed;—all whose hearts have become conjoined to the Lord through a life of obedience to His precepts. It is the true but invisible church—invisible, because its limits cannot be accurately defined by men; cause its members are really known only to Him whose eye penetrates the deep places of the heart "The church," says Swedenborg [i. e., the true church—the church symbolized by the New Jerusalem], "consists only of those who from the heart acknowledge the Divine of the Lord, learn truths from Him by the Word, and do them. No others form any part of the church whatever." (A. E., n. 388.) They may believe ever so many or ever so pure truths; yet if they do not live according to them, and at the same time acknowledge the Divine of the Lord from the heart (a thing which only the Lord Himself can know), they do not