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 Divine Love or Father, the essential Divine, as Swedenborg calls it, never judges. Therefore he is left out.

"The Father judgeth no man, but hath given all judgment to the Son."

"I will send the Comforter to you, and when He is come He will reprove the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment."

When we refer to the sublime and mysterious representations of God, which were made visible to the prophet Ezekiel and to the Apostle John, representations which were seen in the open heavens, enough has been said to prove the organic spiritual law, that God appears to every one according to his state, and that the capabilities of the state, intellectual and, moral, determine the form and manner in which the Divine Being shall be made objective to him.

The same law, with its special limitations, has always prevailed and will prevail for ever. It is just as credible that Swedenborg saw and conversed with God, as it is that Abraham or Moses or Paul did so. It is an occurrence which is possible to all men and which happens very frequently in the spiritual world. There is nothing miraculous about it. God is always speaking to us; in nature, in