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 nal and real character of every one made manifest. The hidden things of the heart, the motives which are often obscure and uncertain even to the man himself in this world, are then revealed so that, as Swedenborg says, "no one [in the, other world] is condemned until he himself is interiorly convinced that he is in evil, and that he is utterly incapable of being in heaven." And this agrees with another passage, which says: "For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known."

The covered and hidden things here referred to are obviously the things of the heart, the motives, or, as Swedenborg calls them, "the interiors," which are usually covered over and concealed in this world from the eyes of men, but are opened and revealed in the world of spirits. This is clear from the words immediately preceding: "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy;" and also from those which which follow: "Therefore, whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear, in closets, shall be proclaimed upon the house-tops."

We see, therefore, that the Scripture abounds in testimony confirmatory of Swedenborg's teaching, that there are interiors and exteriors belonging to the human mind; and that the interiors