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 larger bodies may be organized for church purposes. Methodists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, may be organized, and exist as visible bodies distinguished by certain outward tests cognizable by men. But the New Jerusalem is not and never will be found in any such visibly organized form here on earth;—never here or there—never in this or that particular communion. Its members are and must ever be scattered throughout all the different communions and some, doubtless, outside of them all—mediums of the Divine influx to them all—working like leaven among them all—imparting some measure of heavenly life to them all. And the everlasting and merciful decree is: "Let both [the righteous and the wicked] grow together until the harvest." Then and there only—in the world of spirits, where each one's character is fully developed, and the soul becomes ripe for its final home—will the separation of the tares from the wheat, or the goats from the sheep, be useful or even possible. Then and there only can the New Jerusalem become so organized as to exist under a distinct and visible form.

We will cite one other passage from Swedenborg which is very explicit in its teaching on this subject;—a passage which its author seems to have penned for the express purpose of guarding his readers against the error of supposing that