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The New Church comes, not only reaffirming old truth, but to affirm new truth, truth more interior and never before revealed. "Behold, I make all things new." So complete is this revelation that it gives access to all truth, which never before has been provided. It is therefore the most perfect and glorious revelation that has ever been made. It is the good wine saved until the last, when the marriage supper of the Lamb is come.

Heretofore the states of developing man have been such that only partial truths have been made known. Truth has been held back because the development needed to make it useful had not occurred. In Scripture language it has been true of interior truths, "Ye cannot bear them now."

However glorious was the mission and noble the work of the former Church, its faith was and is necessarily an undeveloped