“I leave the World, and go to the Father,” Chapter 16:28. And further through this: “We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding, that we might know the True One, and we are in the True One in His Son Jesus Christ: This is the true God and eternal Life,” 1 John Chapter 5:20, 21. From these passages it is clear that without the Lord’s coming into the World, no one could have been saved. It is the same today; therefore, unless the Lord comes again into the World in Divine TruthIn this context, Divine Truth refers to the internal spiritual meaning of the Bible, which Swedenborg believed he was revealing., which is the Word, no one can be saved.

The particulars of faith on the part of man are: 1. That God is One, in whom is the Divine Trinity, and that He is the Lord God the Savior Jesus Christ. 2. That saving Faith is to believe in Him. 3. That evils must not be done, because they are of the devil and from the devil. 4. That good deeds must be done, because they are of God and from God. 5. And that these must be done by man as if by himself; yet it must be believed that they are from the Lord, acting in him and through him. The first two belong to Faith, the next two to charity; and the fifth concerns the conjunction A "joining together" or spiritual union. of charity and faith, and thus of the Lord and man.

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CHAPTER ONE

CONCERNING

GOD THE CREATOR.

4. The Christian Church, from the time of the Lord, had passed through its ages from Infancy to extreme Old Age; its Infancy was during the time when the Apostles lived and preached Repentance and Faith in the Lord God the Savior throughout the whole World. That they preached those two is evident from these words in the Acts of the Apostles: “Paul testified both to Jews and Greeks Repentance toward God, and Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ,” Chapter 20:21. It is a memorable thing that a few months ago, the Lord called together his twelve Disciples, now Angels, and sent them out into the whole Spiritual World with the command to preach the Gospel there anew Swedenborg is referring to a spiritual event he claims occurred on June 19, 1770, where the deceased apostles were commissioned to teach the new doctrines of the New Church in the afterlife., since the Church established by the Lord through them has today reached such a point of consummationoriginal: "consummata est." This term refers to the final end of a spiritual era or "dispensation" when genuine faith and love have been lost. that scarcely any remnants of it remain. This happened because they divided the Divine Trinity into three Persons, each of whom is God and Lord; from this, something like a frenzy has flowed into the whole of Theology, and thus into the Church, which—