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approach the Lord’s Divine Human has been opened. Therefore everyone
can be saved if he shuns evils as sins against God and does good from the
Lord. These things must be done by a person as if from himself, but it must be
believed that they are from the Lord with the person, and by means of Him.
I believe that the Word was with God in the beginning, the true Light
which gives light to every man, the fountain of wisdom and the guidepost to
eternal life.
I believe in the Second Coming of the Lord, not as the Lord coming in
Person on the clouds of the heaven with great glory, but as the revelation of the
spiritual sense of the Word.
My purpose is to lead the spirit of the people who consider morality and
ethics important to the mind of loving the Lord. I wish to share the blessing
of the New Church with as many people as possible. For this purpose I will
persevere in my efforts to attain to spiritual perfection.
O U R N E W C H U RC H V O C A B U L A R Y
Part of a continuing series developed by the Rev. W. Cairns Henderson, 1961-1966.
CELESTIAL
In its broadest usage, this term embraces all heavenly things as distinct from earthly
ones. In all other instances it has reference to love and good as distinct from truth and faith.
Thus it refers, according to context, to love to the Lord; to the third heaven, which receives
that love; to the highest degree of the human mind, which receives the activity of the third
heaven; to that kingdom of heaven which is in love; and to the men of the first church,
established before the fall, who were regenerated by the implantation of good in the will.
There are many compound forms. (See Arcana Coelestia 4286, 1096; Divine Providence 32;
Arcana Coelestia 8945, 3240, 5733)
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