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 By referring to the works from which these quotations are made, it will be found that the views contained in them are very fully confirmed and illustrated by quotations from the Divine Word, clearly and rationally explained, according to its true spiritual meaning. It will be remembered that that Word often teaches that all judgment has been committed unto the Son of Man, and that He will judge all men at the last day. By the Son of Man,—as was briefly shown on a former page, and as is very fully demonstrated in the writings of our author,—is meant the Lord himself, as Divine Truth. To be judged by the Son of Man in the last day, means therefore, that at the close of each spirit's probation for eternity, his internal and real character will be laid open in the light of Divine Truth. As each man really is, in his inmost intentions and desires, so he will appear. "There is nothing covered that shall not be revealed; neither hid that shall not be known." (Luke, xii, 2.) What Dr. Young says of a "Death Bed Scene," is much more strictly true of the judgment day:

A writer in the New Jerusalem Magazine (vol. 7, p. 123) has the following remarks, which will illustrate more fully the doctrine here presented.

"It is a law of the spiritual world, that is, of both the heavens and the hells, that the internals and externals should be in correspondence with each other. But as this is not the case in this world, and but few are prepared, on entering the spiritual world, to come immediately into such a state, a season is passed in the world of spirits, which is neither heaven nor hell, but intermediate between the two. Here those who are internally evil are gradually stripped of their external, assumed appearances, till they are prepared for open and visible association with the infernal spirits, with whom they were previously in secret consort. And on the other hand, those who are internally good are gradually prepared for open association with the angels, by being made willing to part with their external, assumed appearances.—The process with both is in one respect much the same. It consists in the putting off the old external, and in the forming a new one, in agreement with the internal.