Page:The Swedenborg Library Vol 1.djvu/217

 Mahomet himself is, and what he is, and whence come those two who fill his place, shall be told in the book in which the Apocalypse is explained.

The judgment was executed upon the Gentiles in nearly the same manner as upon the Mahometans; but they were not led like them in a circuit, but only a short way in the west, where the evil were separated from the good, the evil being there cast into two great gulfs, which stretched obliquely into the deep. But the good were conducted above the middle, where the Christians were, toward the land of the Mahometans in the eastern quarter, and dwellings were given them behind and beyond the Mahometans, to a great extent in the southern quarter.

But those of the Gentiles who in the world had worshiped God under a human form, and had led lives of charity according to their religious principles, were conjoined with Christians in heaven, for they acknowledge and adore the Lord more than others. The most intelligent of them are from Africa. The multitude of the Gentiles and Mahometans who appeared was so great, that it could be numbered only by myriads. The judgment on this vast multitude was effected in a few days.

From all these particulars appears the truth of the Lord's prediction concerning the last judgment, that "They shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God," Luke xiii. 29. (L. J. n. 45-52.)