YALE UNIVERSITY
. LIBRARY

1937

LAST JUDGMEIvlf,

AND THE

DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON.

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?^J^.fcA T, I .S E
?#CLN^S fe lC'1^ ^4 THE
itAST JlTDGMBfsITj <V N D THE
DESTRUCTION pF BABYLON;
SHEWIJJG -THAT
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All thf Prediftjons. contained in the Revelation, are at
this Day fulfilled,
BEING *
A TESTIMONY qf THINGS IJEARD and SEEl^J
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Translated from the Latin
OF THE
Hon. EMANUEL SWEDENBORG.

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to THE

READER.

IT may poflibly be expefted, that Some
thing fliould be faid on the Part of the
Tranfl^tor, by Way of Preface to the fol
lowing Pages,, in Order to prepare the
S,Sader for a Work, whofe Title announces
the moft. awful Event, and whofe Contents
are indeed fingular and extraordinary^ yei^
calculated td corred the millaken Notions
of the World at large,- and the irrational
Conceits of vain Conjefhire. But the
Author himfelf has already handled his
Subje6l in fo plain and i%telligible aManner,
and. at the fame Time fo ably introduced
a it

vi To vtfE ReadIr.
it with all the neceflary Remarks, for ref-'
^oving former Prejudftes, and the falfe
Conceptions which Mankind have hereto
fore entertained about the Laft Judgmeiit,
that the Tranflator finds Nothing left for
him, but the humble Office of recommend
ing the fame to the Reader's moft ferious
Attention ; and this he does, not as a Matter
of mere Curiofity, but as a Subjeft of the
greateft Importance, which demands un
prejudiced and mature Confideration.
One Thing, however, it may not be im
proper to obferve, as it ferves in a very
convincing Manner, to Corroborate the
Teftimony of our Author with RefpeQ; to
the Accomplifhment of the Laft Judgment
in the Spiritual World, in the Year 1757.
It is well known, the Shackles of Church
Power, particularly in Rom,an- Catholic
Countries, where the Iron Hand of fpiri^
tual Oppreflion was<*fo glaringly traced^
2 have

To THE Reade:^ viz
have ever fince the above Period been
gradi^ally loofening ; and a Freedom* of
thinking about religious Subje61s, whic^
former Ages never witnefled fince the
Council of Nice, is now beginning to blefs
every Land in Europe.
Thofe inveterate Contentions alfo be
tween Papifts and Proteftants, together
w-ith that illiberal Way of cenfuring and
condemning each other for mere non-
eflential Differences of Opinion, which
have too much chara61;erized them in for
mer Years, feem now to be giving Way
to a more enlarged Spirit of univerfal
Toleration on either Side.
Thefe are daubtleis EfFe6ls produced
from the Spiritual World, where every
Caufe originates ; and it is highly reafon-
able to fuppofe, that they are altogether in
Confequence of the Aqcomplilhment of the
a 2 Laft

viii To THE Reader,
Laft Judgmentj, whereby, as our A^hof
dedl^res in the following Treatife, fpiritual
l^'reedom is now reftored, and that Servi
tude and Captivity,- in which the Man of
the Church has been fo long involved, is
at length happily removed.
Thefe Confiderations, with a Variety of
others no lefs important, which cannot fail
to ftrike a reflefl;ing Mind, are fufficient
Evidences that fome great Change for the
better has taken Place in the Spiritu^
World, or what amounts to the fameTbing,
in the Minds of Men. To this Change
we may with Safety impute the prefent
national benevolent Defire of emancipating
from Slavery thofe wretched Viftims to
Avarice,, the African Negroes ; and to the
fame Caufe we may alfo afcribe that new
Inftitutioh of SuNiDAY-ScHOOLS in Eng»
land, which is an Honour to th6 prefent
Age, and which, by preparing the Ignorant for

To IRE. Reaiker. ec
for the Reception of genuine Truth, m&f
.hereafter, through the Divine Mercy of
the Lord, prove to be the Seminary of his
New Church in this Laridt
But after all that can be faid, the Credit
to be given to the following Narrative c^"
Fa6ls, muft in a great Meafure depend oa
the Veracity of the Author, who repeatedly
declares, in the moft folemn Manner, that
he was an Eye and Ear-Witnefs to all that;
he relates. Now if we may be permitted
to judge from the unaffeifted Piety, and
Sobernefs of Reafoning, which fo eminently
diftinguifh all his Writings, ag well as from
the Charafter of Uprightnefs and Sincerity
•which he fo univerfally obtained during his
Life-Time ; we have every Reafon in the
World to conclude, that his Teftimony iri
Regard to the Laft Judgment is fouhded
on Truth, Indeed all that he fays on this
liead^ as well as on many other Points re-»
lative

3f To THE Reader.
lative to the Spiritual World, however new
and fingular his Obfervations may at firft
Sight appear, if attentively examined, car
ries with it a Degree of Probability, which
one would hardly think the Subjeft capa
ble of admitting. And when we reflefl;,
that there is no other poffible Way for Men
on Earth to become acquainted with the
Tranfaftions iri the Spiritual World, but
through the Medium of fome Perfon or
other, whofe fpiritual Eyes have been
opefied, and who, like John and the reft of
the Prophets, has been favoured with a
Sight of the ftupendous Things of another
Life ; it is the lefs to be wondered at, that
the Lord ftiould again be pleafed to make
a Revelation to Mankind of what moft
eflentially concerns them, and in a Way too
the moft likely to produce Convidion,
compatible with the Freedom of the hu^
roan Will; Other

To THE Reader* %t
Other Means might indeed have been
iifed by an omnipotent Lord, had it fo
pleafed him, to arreft the Attention of the
World at large, and by a miraculous Inter-.
pofition compel them to Aflent : But this
would have been doing Violence to Man's
Free- Will, and thereby rendering him in
capable of the Benefits of Revelation ^ for
it is an eftabliflied Truth, that, whatfoever
is not received by Man in a State of the
moft perfe6l Freedom, is of no Advantage
to him at all, but pafles away as a Thing
of no Importance, and becomes of no Man
ner of Ufe.
If we look back to former Difpenfations,
we fhall find, that in Proportion as Mi
racles were wrought amongft Mankind, in
the fame Proportion the Spirituality of the
Word, and the interior Things of another
Life, were hid from their Eyes. Thus at
the Promulgation of the Law from Mount Sinai,

3»J| ITO TH-E RfiAtolftv
Sinai, the Jew* were Witsefffes td the
greateft of alt Miracles, and yet no People
on the Face of the Earth were more igno-
mnt rffpiTittaal and Divine Things. Na/i
ft» inMfl^fed in Senfaality were they in-.
general, tha* 'they expeaed^ as they dO'
even to the prefent Day^ an earthly Mefliafe,-
whofe Kingdom ftiall be of this World,'
and who fhall exalt them above the Princes-
of the Earth, and make them the Dread'
and Envy of all other Nations.
Again, at the Lord's firft' Coming int<^
the World, Miracles were indeed per*-
formed, but principally with a View tO
point out the Nature of Man's Regenera
tion ; for every Difeafe and- it's miraculous^
Cure were fignificative of fome Evil ol*
JJalfiiy, which the Omnipotence of the*
Lord' is alone able to remove. Still j how*
ever, the firft Chriftian Church, thoiigl^
abundantly more enlightened than the
Jewilh,

To THE Reader* xia
Jewiffi, was in a State of Obfcurity with
Refpetl to internal Things; therefore it;
was agreeable to Divine; Order, ' that it's
Rife and Progrefs Ihould be accompanied
with Miracles, according to the Degree of
Pbfcurity which prevailed at that Time ;
and it is well known, that when the Church
became fully feparated from the Jews, who
were "a Generation that rehired Signs"*
arid Miracles, they altogether ceafed.
But now, at the Commencement of the
New Church, fignified by the New. Jerufa-
lem in the Revelation, which is an internal
and fpiritual Church, wherein Divine Truth,
united with Divine Good, , fhines in it's ge
nuine and refplendent Glory, it has pleafed
the Lord to announce to the World his fc-
eond Advent by a fingle Meflenger, without
Signs and without Miracles ; which, fo far
b from
* Matt, xii. 38, 3f.

Or THE Last Judgment,

the TameTPiirport: But it is thus expreflcd in
the literal Senfe of the Word, becaufc this
Senfe of the Word is natural,- being in the Ulti
mate of Divine Order, in which all Things, both
generally and jSarticulafly, cohtairi within them a
fpiritual Senfe: For which TReafon, they who
underftand the Word only according to the Senfe
of the Letter, may be led into a Variety of Opi
nions relating thereto, as is alfo the Gafe iii the
Chriftian World, where fo many Herefies exift,
and every one of them, confirmed from the lite
ral Senfe of the Word. But inafmuch as no one
hath heretofore known, that in all and every Part
of the Word there is a fpfritiial Senfe, nor even
Jivhat. the fpiritual Senfe is, therefore it is ex-
cufeable with thofe who have embraced this
Opinion concerning the Laft Judgment. But
it may, now be known, that neither the vifible
Heavens nor the habitable Earth will perilh,
but that both will remain ; and that by a
New^eaven and a New Earth is underftood
a N^ Church, as well in the Heavens'as
on the Earths : I fay a New Church in the
Heavens, becaufe there is a Church there, as
well as on the Earths ; for there in like Manner
is the Word, and Preaching, and Divine Wor-
fhip fimilar to that on the Earths; yet with a
, DlHerence, 'that all Things there are in a moje
perfed State, becaufe they are not in the Natu-
3 5 ral

AND THE. Destruction OF BaSylon. 3
ral World, but in the JSpiritual ; hence all who
d'well there are fpiritual Men, and not natural as
tiiisy were before^ in the World. That fuch is
r-eally the Cafe, may be feen in the 'Work con-
C'Cming. Heaven, and particularly where it treats
of the Conjundion of Heaven with Man by
Means of the Word, n. 303 10310; and con
cerning Diviric Worfhip in Heaven, n. 221 to
227. '
2. The Paflkgcs in the Word, wherein Men
tion is made of the Deftrudlion of Heaven and
Earth, are as follow, " Lift up your Eyes to Hea~
" ven^ and look downward upon the Earth; the
'^ Heavens are about to perifh like Smoke y and the
** Earth fhall "wax old like a Garment" Ifaiah
Ii. 6. " Behold, I am about to create New Hea-
*lvens, and a New Earth j neither fhall former
"Things be remembered^" Ifai. Ixv. i'l '' I will
" make New Heavens and a New Eanh" Ifai.
Ixvi. 22. " The Stars of Heaven have fallen to the
" Earth, and Heaven has departed like a Scroll rol-
" led together,'^ Rev, vi. 13, 14. " I fawagreat
" Throne,\Lnd One fitting thereon, from whofe Face
" the Earth and the Heaven fled away, and their Place
" was not found," Rev. xx. 11. " I faw a New
" Heaven and a New Earth, for the fr^Heaven
" and the firft Earth had paffed away," Rev. xxi.
I. In the above PaflaHes. by a New Heaven is

^ Or THE Last. Judgment,;
not meam the Heaven vifiblg to our bodily Eyes,
but that Heaven where Mankind were co:U€ft«d
together; foir a Heaven was formed from the
whole of the Human Race, even from the Coin-
mencerhcnt of the Chriftian Church ; buttheyj
who, were in that. Heaven were not Angels, i bijfc
Spirits of various Religions; this Heaven is un-
dfirftood. by-the firft Heaven which was to pe
rifh : But irf'what Manner this was effeded, (hall
be fpoken to particularly in what follows ; what
is, here related is only premifed, that it.may-be
-known Y?hat: is meant by the firft Heaven wl^ichr
fhould periijh. Every one, who thinks from
Reafon in fome Degree enlightened, may alfo
perceive, that it is not the Starry Heaven, or the
immenfe Firmament of Creation, which, is here
mea<it, but that it is Heaven in a fpiritual Senfe,
where Angela and Spirits dwell.
3. Tnat by a New Earth is meant a New
Qhurch on the Earths, has heretofore been un
known, inafmuch as every one by Earth in the
Word has underftood the Earth, when yet by
Earth is meant the Church; in a natural Senfq,
Earth is the Earth, but in a fpiritual Senfe it is
the Church ; the Reafon whereof is, becaufe thejr
who are in the fpiritual Senfe, or who like the
Angels are fpiritual, when Earth is named in
the Word, do not underftand ^e Earth itfelf,but the

AND T»E Destruction OF Babyion. 5
the Nations who dwfcU thereon, and their Divine
Worfhip ; hence it is that by Earth is fignified
the Church ; that fueh is the Cafe, may be feea
in the Arcana CceleStia, as quoted below, (a)
Iftiall
Frem the Arcana C^blestia. faj That by Earth in
the Word is fignified the Kingdom of the Lord and the
Church, ri. 662, 1066, 1067, 1262, 1413, 1607, 2928,
S3S5. 4447. 4535. 5577. Son, 9325, 9643V Chiefly for
this Reafon, becaufe by Earth or Land is underftood the
Land of Canaan, where the Church was from the moft an
cient Times ; hence alfo it is, that Heaven is called the
Heavenly Canaan, n. 567, 3686, 4447. 4454. 45i6, 4517,
^136, 6516, 9325, 9327- And becaufe in a fpiritual
Senfe by Earth is underftood the Nation which dwells"
there, and it's Worfliip, n. 1262. That hence the Earth
fignifies various Things appertaining to the Church,, n. 620,
636, 1067, 2571, 3368, 3379, 3404, 8732. That the Peo-
pie of the Earth are they who belong to the fpiritual
Church, n. 2928. That an Earthquake is a Change of the
State of the Church, n. 3355. That a New Heaven and a
New Earth fignifies the Church, n. 1733, 1850, 2117,
a»i8, 3355, 4535, 10373.
That the Moft Ancient Church, which exifted before^?
¦ Flood, and theAtjcient Church which exifted after th?^
Flood, were in the Land of Canaan, n, ^67^ 3686, 4447,
4.454. 451'^, 4517. 5»36, 6516, 9327. That then all the .
.-Places m that Land were made reprefentati^e of fucl^
Things as are in tbe Lord's Kingdom and in the Church,
\n. 150^3686,4447,5136. That therefore Abraham was
commatided to go thither, inafmuch as among his Pofterity

6 Or THE Last Judgment,
I fhall here adduce a few Paffages from the
Word, whereby in fome Meafure it may be
comprehended, that by Earth is fignified the
Church. " The CataraMs from on high were
" opened, and ihe Foundations of the Earth were
"fbaken ; in breaking the Earth is broken ¦ in agi-
" tat ing the Earth is agitated; in reeling the Earth
" reels like a Drunkard ; it moves to and fro like a
" Cottage : and heavy* upon it is the Tranfgreffton
" thereof," Ifai. xxiv. i8, 19, 20. " I will caufe
" a Man to be more rare than pure Gold; therefore
" I will difturb the Heaven, and the Eairth fhall be
" removed out of her Place, in tht Day of the fierce
*' finger of Jehovah," Ifai. xiii. 12, 13. " The
" Earth was agita.ted before Hinrp, the Heavens have^
" trembled, the Sun and the Moon are become black,
'' and the Stars have withdrawn their Splendor,"
joilii. IQ. . "The Earth was fhaken and agi-i
" tated, and the Foundations of the Mountains trem-
" bled and were fljaken," Pfalm xviii, 7, 8 ; and
in many other Places. *
- 4. By creating is alfo fignified in the fpiritual
Senfe of the Word to form, to cftablifh, an4 to
regenerate;
inftituted, and a Word written, whofe ultimate Senfe
fhould. confift of the Reprefentatives and Significatjves
vhich were there,, n. 3686, 4447, 5136, 6516. Hence it
is that by Earth and by the Land of Canaan is fignified
the Church, n. 3038, 3481, ,3705, 4447, 4517, 57^7, ,065^.

AND THE DpSTp.UCT.ION OF B^l^VLON. 7
regenerate; confequently by creating a New
Heaven and a New .Earih is fignified to efta-
blilh a New Churcli in Heaven and Earth: as
may appear evident from the following Paffages:
" The. People, whojhall be created, fhall^raifef ah "
Pfalm cii. 18. , " Thou fendeft forth tke Spirit,
" they are. created .; and. ihou reneweji the Fapesofihe
. " Earth," Pfalm civ." 30. , ; Thus faith JehpvOh, thy
" Creator O Jac,Qhi thy Former O Ifrael,. for, I h^ve
" redeemed thee, and 1 have called ttpee by thy Name,
" ^hou art mine : every one. .called by my. Natfie, and
" for my Glory Iharve created, 1 have formed him,
" yea I have made him" Ifaiah xliii. i, 7; and in
other Places : Hence it is, that by a new Creation
of Man is meant his Reformation, inafmuch as
he is made anew, that, is, from natural he be-
cometh fpiritual ^ and. hence it is, that a new
Creature fignifies a reformed Man. {h)
5. Concerning the fpiritual Senfe of the
Word, fee the fmall Treatife on the White
Horse, mentioned in the Revelation. , That
.i%\ That to create is to create an6w,o* to reform *nd re-
fenerate, n. 16, 88, 10373, »o%4- l^at fo create a New
Heaven and a New Earth, is to eftablifh a New Church,
n. 10373. That by the Creation of Heaven an4 Earth in
(he firft Chapters of Genefis, in an internal , Sepfe, is de-
fcribed the Effiablifhment of the Celeftial Church, which
was th6 Moft Ancient Church, n. 8891, 9942, i0S45'

,8 ¦ Of THfe Last jfuDoMENT,
That the Procreations of the Human
Race on the Earths will never
ceafe,
6.nnHEY who have adopted that Befief con-
-¦- cerning the Laft Judgment, that all Things
which are in the Heavens and in the Earths will
then perifh, and in tlie Room thereof that a
New Heaven and a New Earth will take Place,
are led to imagine, becaufe it follows of Confe-
quence, that the Generations and Procreatio*
of the ' Human Race will afterwards ceafe ; for
they'fuppofe that all Things will then be acc'orri-
-plifhed, and that Mankind will be in a diffe^
rent State from what 'they were in before:
But fince the Deftrudlion of the World is not
mfant by the Day of the Laft Judgment, as was
fhewn in the preceding Article, it follows that
Mankind will continue, and that Procreation
will not ceafe.
7. That the Procreation of the Human R *c
will continue to Eternity, is plain -from many
Things that might be adduced, fome of which
may be feen iri the Treatife on Heaven and Heli,
particularly wnder the following Heads : L Thajc
Mankind is the Bafis on which Heaven is foun- (^cd.

AND THE DESTRUCTlONf OF BaJ^lON. ^
ded. . II. That Mankind is the Seminary of Hea
ven. III. That the Extenfion of Heaven, which is
for Angels, is fo immenfe, that it cannot be
filled to Eternity. IV. That they are but few
refpedlively, of whom Heaven at prefent is
formed. V. That the Perfedion of Heaven in-
creafes according to Plurality, or the Number
of it's Inhabitants^ VI. And that every Divine
Work has RefpejEt to Infinity and Eternity.
g. That Man^hd is the Bafis, on which Heavef...
is^^nded, appears from this Confideration^ that '
Man was laft created, and what is laft cre^te^*
ferves as a Bafis for all that precedes it. ui^^;;
ation commenced from what is fupreme or inJ^
L ipoft, becaufe it originated from the Divinity,
and proceeded to the Ultimates or Extremes, and
then firft fubfifted : The Ultimate of Creation is
the Natural_ World/ in w|^ich is the terraqueous
'0 Globe with all Things ufion it. When thefe
j^ere finifhed, then Man was created, and in him
were colledled all Things of Divine Order from
firft "to laft,; in 4iis inmoft Tarts were colledled
thofe Things wljich were primary in that Order,
and in his Ultimates thofe Things which were
laft ; fo that Man became a Form of Divine
Order : Hence it is that all Things in Man ahd
with,.Man, are derived from Heaven and from
the, World, the Things which belong to hi»
•¦«.. ^^ f%B Mind

10 Of the Last JuDxiMENT,
Mind b^ing froi^ Heaven, and the Things which,
belong to his Body being from tlie World ; fot
the Things of Heaven flow intp hi& Thoughts
and Affedfons, and thereby are manifefted ac
cording to the Reception of his Spirit, but tlvej
Tilings of the World flow into his Senfations an4
bodilyi Delights, and thereby become manifefted
according to the Recep.tipn of his Body^ fo far a»
they are in Agreement, with the Thoughts and
AfFedlions of his Spirit, That this is the Cafe,
igpay be feen in feveral Articles- of the Treatife^
on HBAVEN"and ITell, particularly in the folli|»v-,
ing: That the Univerfal Heayeai, coUedivflji i
taken, refembles one Man, n, 59 to 67. That
e,vqry Society in Hea.ven in like Manner refems
blesone Man, n, 68 to 72. That hence eve*^
A,Pgel is in a perfefl: Human- Formj n. 73.10 77^ '
tA,nd that this is from the Divine Humanity, of
the Lord, n. 78. ta S&, , And moreover under the
ArticlCi of the Correfpondence of all Things in
Heaven with all Things in Man, n. 87 to 11^,
Of the Correfpondence between, Heaven and al¥-
Things; on Earth,*n. 103 to 115. .And'df the*"
E.orm of Heaven^, m 200 to 212. Tprom the
a^ove OrderofQi^atioait may appear, that fuch
is the Chain of Connedtion from firft to laft, tSatj
all together form a Unity, wherein what is- prior
cannot be feparated from what is pofterio»| juft
aa the Gahfe cannot be feparated -from the Effeft^

AND THE Destruction OF Babylon, ii
hor confequently the Spiritual World from the
Natural World, nor the Natural from the Spiri
tual World; or as the Angelic Hea^^|n cannot be
feparated from Mankind, nor Mankind from the
Angelic Heaven : Wherefore it is fo provided by
'the Lord, that both the Angelic HcaVen and Man
kind -mutually affift ahd fupport each other.
Hence it is,- that although the Arrgelic Marifibns
are indeed in Heaven, and to Appearance fepa
rate |rom the Mffln'fions of Men, yet nfcverthfelefs
thev are with Man in his A% dlionljof Ooodnefs
aira Truth ; for it is only an Appearance that
,they are feparate and diflinft, as may be feen in
the Treatife on Heaven and Hell, -Where it treats
¦of -Space in Heaven, n; 191 to 199. That the
ilWanfions of Angels are with Man in his Affec
tions of Goodhefs and Truth, is underftood by
'thefe Words of the Lord, " lie who -loveth Me,
" keepeth my Words, and my Father will love him,
" and zve %i)ill come unto him, and make our Man/ion
'**'withhm," John xiv. 23 ; by the Father and the
LodLin the above Paffagcls alfo fignified Hea
ven, for where 'the Lord is there is^Heaven, it
being the Divine Proceeding from the Lifrd
w/hich conftitutes Heayen, as^ay be feenkin^the
Treatife on Heaven and HfLL, n. 7 to 12 ; and
n. 116 to 125^*- And likewife by thefe Words of
the "'Lord, " The Comforter the Spirit of Truth
" abideth with yo^i^nd is in you," John xiv. i 7 ;
^ B 2 ihe

12 Of the Last Judgment,
the Comforter is Divine Truth proceeding from
the Lord, for which Reafon he is alfo called the
Spirit of Jruth, and Divine Truth conftitutes
Heayen, and alfo Angels, they being the Reci
pients thereof ; that the Divine Proceeding from
the Lord is JDi vine Truth,* and th|it hence the
Angel it Heaven exifts, may be feen in the Work '
on Heaven and Hell, n, 126 to 140. The
^fanie is alfo implied in the following Words of the
¦ Lord, " The ^Kingdom of God is^ithin jo«,'^Lukp
xvii. 2L;. tilt KingdoiSof Gpd is Divine Good
and Truth, in which the Angels are. That An-
gels and Spirits are with Man, and in his Affec^
tions, has been given me to fee a thoufaild Times,
from their Prefence apd , Abode in me; but An-
gels and Spirits^ do not know what Men they^anfjl
with, any more than Mqn know what Angels and
Spirits they cohabit with ; for this the Lord alon^
kno\|^ and regulates,- In a Word, every Affec»
tion of Good and Truth is an Extenfion in
Heaven, and there is a Communicaj^on am
Conjuncaion with thofe therein, jvho arc in fimilar
Affedions ;^ every A^diion of^EviJ and F& is
al^ an Extenfion into Hell, and there is a Com
munication and Qinjunaion with thofe therein,
who are in like Af^dlionst The Extenfion of the i
Affedtions intp t|ic Spiritual World, is not unlike
• that of Sight into the Natufal World; Commu,
nications in both Worlds are ^^rly alike, yet with^
6 * this'

AND the Destruction of Babylon. 13
this Difference, that in the Natural World there
areObjefts, but in the Spiritual World Angelic
Societies. Hence it appears, that, fuch ^s the
Connedtion between the Angelic Heaven and
JVIankind, that the one fubfifts from the other,*
and that the Angelic Heaven without Mankind
would be like a Houfe without a Foundation,
for Heaven terminates in Mankind, and refts
upon them. The Cafe in this Refpe(^'i;s th||
fame as with an individual Man in particjilar ;
his fpiritual Things, wnich have Relation to his
fought and- Will, flow into Ijis natural Things,
which have Relation to his Senfations and Ac-
tions^'Und -theitin they |erminate and fubfift ; if
Man "^ id not poffefs tlfcfe natural Things, or
"thefe Terminations and Ultimates, his fpiritual
Things, which have Rdation to the Thoughts
and AfFedlions of higjSpirit, would be difperfed,
like Things unbounded or .without Founndation.
» This is the Cafe when Man paflTes fron» the Na- ,
» tural jjito the Spiritual World, that is, when he
dies ; then, in&fmuch as fee is a Spirit, he no
longer fubfifts. ©n his own proper Bafis, but upon
the common^Bafis of^ankind. . They whq, arc
unacquainted with the IVI^fteries of Heaven, may
fuppofe, that Angels fubfift -without Men, and
Men withouC^^ngels ; but I can pofitively affert
from all my Experfence relative »to Heaven, ancj
ffpm all mf*Difcourfe with the Angels, that no
Angel

1 4 Of the Last Judgment,
Angel or Spirit whatever fubfifts independeM of
Man, nor any Man independent of Spirits and
Ange* but. that they are mutually and recipro
cally conjoined. From what has been obferved,
jt may now plainly appear, that Mankind and
the Angelic Heaven form one, and fubfift mutu
ally and reciprocally from each other, and con
fequently iff either were removed, the othet
^ould ceafe to exift:.
, lO, Thafi^ankind is the Seminary of Heaven,
-will appear plain|.from the following Artie*
where it will be fhewn, that Heaven and Hell are
from' Mankind, confequently that Madlind is
the Seminary of Heav^i|| It has been otTfervf^
in what precedes, that as from the firft Creatio!(
till now. Heaven has b^n formed from the Hu
man Race, fo in Kke, Manner liereafter it will be
forme® and augmented. It is indeed poflible
.*hat the Human Race en one Earth may perifh^
which comes to pafs when they altogether fepa-»"
rate themfelves from -the Divine Priateiplejjfor
then Man no longer polTe fifes fpimualj^ife, but
only natural, fipiilar to tMIt of Beafts; and whea
Man becomes of fuch arNa|ure, no Society can
be formed, and governed by Lavi^s, inafmuch as
^Ma» without Influx from Heaven, or without
Divine Government, woul|^ Isqcome infane, and
ruih openly into the Comnii%n of every Evil- one

AND TH^ Destruction op BabyAon. 1|
one againft another. But although Mankind*
jay Separation from the Divine Principle, w€r«
to perifh onrone Earth, which however i^ pro
vided a-^inft by the Lord, yet ftill they would
continue to remain on other Earths; for~thei?^
are Earths: in t|ie Univerfe to the Amount of
fosne Hundreds of Thoufands,. as may be feen in i.
a Work Concerning the Earths in our Solar Syftem
called Plamti, and concerning the Earth$ -in th^
Starry Heaven. I was informed from HeavesP
that the Human Race on this Earth ;wouldf have
gpsifhed, fo that there would not have remained
at tljis Day a fingle Individual upon it, unlefs
the L$»rd had; come into the World, and in this
EartKiput on the Humanity, and made it Divine;
and alfo, unlefs the LoM had given to this Earth
fuch a Word'as^ might ferve for a Bafis to the
Angelic Heaveni. and for it's Conjundtion with
Mankind ; that the' Conjundtion of Heaven with
Man iseffeafled by Means of the Word, may l^e
feen in the Treatife on Heaven and Hell, n.
303 to 310. But that this is the Truth of the
Matter, can l^e comprehended only by thofe who
think fpiritually, tha| is, by thofe who through
the iW^avi^ledgment of the Lord's Divinity are
conjoined wish Heaven, Tori they only aj» cap^lii
ol thinking %iritually.
n. Tbatifhe- Extenfion of Heaven, zBtich is for
Angelsjf

i6 Of the Last Judgment,
Angelf, isfo immenfe, that it cannot be filled to Eter
nity, may appear from what has been faid in the
Treatife on Heaven and Hell, concerning the
Immenfity of Heaven, n. 41 5 to 420 : And that
^ey are but few refpeaively, of whom Heaven is at
prefent formed, may be feen in the Treatife on the
Earths in the Universe, n. 126.
12.' That tht Perfe&ion of Heaven mcreafes ac
cording to Plurality, or the Number of it's Inhabit
tantSi is evident from it's Formj according to
which the Confociations there are regulated, and
Communications take Place, in that it is the
moft perfedl of all Forms; and as the Nigmbers
increafe in the moft perfedt Form, in the fame
Proportion the Diredtioif and Confent of many
tends to Unity, and in the fame Proportion alfo
Conjundlion becomes more clofe and unanimous;
Confent and Conjundlion thence derived increafe
by Plurality, for in fuch Cafe every Thing is in-
ferted as an intermediate Relation between two
or more, and what is fo inferted confirms and
conjoins. The Form of Heaven is like the Form
of the Hurhan Mind, the Perfection whereof ad
vances according te the Increafe of Trutl^ and
Goodaefs, foi;' thus Intelligence and Wifdom are
proiaaote^ : The Reafon why the if orm of the
Human Mind, which is in heavenly Wifdora
" and Infel%ence, is fimilar to the Form of Hea-

AND f HE DEStfeUCTiON OF BaSYLON. fj
Ven, is becaufe the Mind istHe fmalleft Image of
that Form; benc^ it is, that in every poffible
'Way thete is a Communication of the Thoughts
and AfFedlions of Good and Truth in fuch Men,
and in Angelsi with the neighbouring -Societies
of Hpiven, and the Extenfion is according to thg
Increafe of Wifdom, confequently according to
the Plurality ofth-e Knowledges of 'Truth im
planted in the Underftand ing, and according td
the Abufidance of the Aflfedlions Of Good im
planted in the WSll, or in other Words, -accord
ing to the Truths and Goods implanted in the
Mindj for the Mind confifts of Uhderftanding
and Will. Tfe Htrrfian and.Angelic Mind is of
jfuch a Nature, that it ma^' be enlarged to Eter-
tiity, and as it becorri,es enlarged, fo it is perfedl-i
^d; this is efpecially the Cafe, when Man is led
by the Lord, for he is then introduced intp ge*
nuine Truths, which are implanted in his Under-
ftanding, and into genuine Goods, which are im
planted in his Will ; the Lfrd then difp^es all
Things belonging to fuch a Mind into the Form
of Heaven, until at length it becomes Heaven in
the leaftHForm. From the above, Comparifbn,
•wilich is a jufl on#it is evident, that the Plura
lity or increafing Number of the Angels tenSi#
•to Ithe Perfedliott of 'Heaven. Every iForm aUb
fonfifts Of Variety; ^a-Form which does not cpn-
•fifl'df "^Variety, h not a Form, ijaafmucfc as it
G hath

ig Of the Last Judgment,
hath no Quality, nor any Changes of State ; tbe
Qjiality of every Form arifes from the relative
Difpofitionof various Things within it, from their
mutual Refpedl to each other, and from their
Confent to Unity, by Virtue ff which every Form
: is confidered as one Thing ; fuch a Form, in
Proportion to the Number of Things fo arranged
and difppfed, becomes- more and more perfedl,
for then every Thing, as before obferved, con
firms, corroborates, conjoins, and fo pf rfedis the
Whole. But this may appear more plain from
what has been obferved in the Treatife on Hea
ven AND Hell, particularly .where it treats on
the following Sulyedl, That every Society of
Heaven is a Heaven, in a Icffer Form, and every
. Angel a Heaven in it's leaft Form, n. 51 to 58 j>
and likewife where it treats of the Form of Hea
ven, according to which Confociations and Com
munications are there regulated, n. 200 to 212 j
and concerning the Wifdom of the Angels of
Heaven, n. 265 10^275.
13. That every Divine Work has RefpeElto Iri"
finity and '^Eternity, may appear evident ' from ,
many Things which exift b^h in Heaven an^ in
the World ; no one Thing is to be found,^ either ,
in the Spiritual or the Natural World, exadlly ;
like, or the fame as another; there is npt one Faqe
exat^y like,^or the fame as another, nor ever will

AND THE Destruction OF Babylon. 19
be to Eternity; in like Manner the Mind of no
one Man or Angel is exadlly like that of another;
wherefore there are as many Faces and as many
Minds, as there are Men and Angels ; there is
never to be found ijl ai>y one Man, in whom
notwithftanding- there are innumerable Parts
which conftitute his Body, and innumerable Af-
fedlions which conftitute his Mind, a fingle Thing
exadlly like, or' the fame as in another Man ;
hence it is, that every Man lives a Life difl:in£l
from the Life: of another : The fame holds good
in 51II and every Thing belonging to Nature, The
Reafon why fuch an infinite Variety prevails in
all and every Thing of Creation,, is becaufe they
all derive their Origin from the Divine Principle,
.which" is I@finite; hence it is, that a Kind of
Irriage of Infinity is every-where jnanifefted, to
the End that all Things may be viewed by the
Divine Being as his o\^n Work, and at the fame
Time that all Things may have Refpedl to Him,
as the Supreme Caufe. How every Thing in
ISfature has Refped to Infinity and Eternity, may
eafily be illuftrated by a fingle Inftance^j every
Seed, whether it be the Fruit of a Tree, of of
Corn, or of a Flower, is fo created, that it is capa
ble of being multiplied tp In|^nity, and enduring
to Eternity; for froin orie Seed are produced
many, even to Sj iQ. 29, 100, and from each of^
thefe again as many piore ;. fuch Frydlification
C 2 from

5p Of the Last Judgment, -
'from each Seed continually reproduced, within tfeg
Space only of One Hundred Yea^-s, would cover
the Surface not only of one Earth, but even of
Myriads of Earths ; thp fame Seeds are alfo fo
created, that their Durations piay be to Eternity :
Hence it appears, hovy in this Inftance is con^
taihedan Idea of Infinity and Eternity ; the Cafe
is the fame in others. The Angelic Heaven in
the End for which all Things in the Univerfe
' tvere created, being the End for which Manrf
kind was created,' and Mankind is t.he End for
which the vifible Heaven and all the f arth^*
^herein >yeFe created : Wherefore th^ Piyin?
Work, namely, the Angelic Heaven, primarily
^rid chiefly has Refpedl to Infinity and Eternity,
tronfequently to'it's Multiplication without Eflii;
for ihe Effentijil Diyine Principle dwells in thf
Angelic Hgaveti^ Hence alfo it m^y appearj
that the Human Race will never have an Find,
for were it to ceafe, the -Divine Work, namely,
the Angiclic Heaven, would be limited by a cer..
tain Number, and thus it's Refpedl to Infinity
^puld perifh,

Tht

'/VND the Destruction of Babylon. Ii
That Heaven and Hell are from
, Mankifid,
JJ..TT is altogether unknown in. the Chriftian
¦9- World, that Heaven and Hell are from
Mankind, for it is fuppofed that Angels were
created fuch at the Beginning, and that Heaven
was formec^ of them ; it is alfo the common
Opinion, tfiat the Devil or Satan was an Angel
of l^ight, but in Confequence of his rebelling,
he was. caft down with his Crew, and that hence
<;ame Hell. "The Angels are greatly aftonifhed
that fuch a Faith obtains at this Day amongft
Chriftians, and ftill more, that they know No
thing at all concerning Heaven, ' when yet it is
a principal Dodlrine in the Church; s^nd^whereas
fuch Ignorance prevails, they are rejoiced^ in
Heart, that it has pleafed the Lord at this Time
to reveal to Men many Things concerning Hea
ven .and alfo concerning , Hell, and thereby as
much as poffible to diffipate the thick Darknefs,
which daily increafes, in Confequence of the
Church having come to it's End : Wherefore it^
is their Defire that I would declare from them,
that there i| not in the univerfal Heaven a fingle
Angel that "was created fuch at firft, nor a fingle
Pevil in all Hell that had been created an Angel
6 ' ' of

2^ Of the Last Judgment,
of Light, and was afterwards caft out of Heaven,
bpt that all both in Heaven and Hell are from the
Human Race ; in Heaven fuch as had, lived in the
World in heavenly Love and Faith, and in Hell
fuch as had lived inhellifli Love and Faith i and
that Hell in it's whole Complex, or coUedlively, is
called the Devil and Satan, that Hell which is be
hind,* jn which aire evil Genii, being called the
Devil, and that Hell which appears in Front, in
which' are evil Spirits, being called Satan..(c),
The Nature of each of thefe Hells may be feen in
the Treatife on Heaven and Hell towards the^
End. That the Chriftian World have embracecl
fuch a Faith relative to thofe. in Heaven and
Hell, the Angels further f^id, proceeds; from.
certain Paffages in the Word taken according to
their literal^enfe only, and not illuftrated and ex
plained 'by genuine Dodlrine from the Word ;
when neyerthelefs th? Letter of the Word, if not
enlightenett
* Here the Author is be underftood as fpeaking of- the
Situation of Things and Places , as they appear to the Speo
Utor in,th^- Spiritual World, and which always have the
feme Afpeft with Refpeft tjo his Body, as to right and left,
tiehind and before, above and beneath, &c, wherefQever
he is, or which Way foeverhe turns. Tr.
- ¦•' '
(c) That the Hells, or Infernal Spirits, tsken colleftively,
arc called the Devil and Satan, n. 694, That they who
have been Devils in the World, become Devifs after.
Death, n, 968.

, And the Destruction of Babyxon. t^
enlightened by the genuine Dodlrine of the
Church, mifleads the Mind into various Con
ceits, and gives Rife to Ignorance, Herefies, and
Errors, (d) '
15. Another Reafon why the Man of the
Church entertains fuch a Belief, is,~ becaufe he
imagines that no one goes to Heaven or Hell
before the Time of the Laft Judgment, concern
ing which he is of Opinion that all Things which
vifibly appear will then perifh, and be fucceeded
by a new Creation, and that the Soul will then
be reunited to it's Body, and in that State live
again as a Man : This Belief involves an'other
concerning the Angels, namely, that they were
created fuch from the Beginning; for it cannot
# -be
. ' »
{d) That theDoElrine of the Cfiurch mult be derived
from the Word, n. 3464, 5402, 6832, 10763, 10765. That
the Word is unintelligible without Doftrine, n. 9021, 94^)9,
9424,9430, 10324, 10431, 10582. That true Doftrine is
as ^ Candle to thofe who read the Wordji^n. 10401. That
genuine Doftrine muft be formed by thofe who are in
^lumination from the Lord, n. 2510, 2516, 2519, 9424,
10105. That they who abide in the literal Senfe of the
Word without Doftrine, can ,attain to no Underiftanding of
Divine Truths, n. 9409, 9410, 10582. And that they fall
into many Errors, n. 10431. Th^ Difference between
thofe -who teach and learn from the Doftrine of the Church
derived from the Word, and thofe who teach and learn only
from the literal SenfeiOf the Word, defcribed, n. 9025.

^ Of the Last JiiDOM^Nti
be believed that Heaven and Hell are from Matij.
kind,, when it is fuppofed that none go to either
till the End of the World. But in Order that
Man may be convinced of the contrary, it has
been granted me to have Fellowfhip with An
gels, a^d alfo to converfe wit|i thofe who are in
Hell, and that now for feveral Years together,
fometimes from Moraing till Evening witliout
Interruption, and fo to receive Information con
cerning Heaven and Hell; and alibis to the
End, that the Man of the Chureh may no loHgfer
remain in his erroneous Faith concerning the
RefurredHon at the Time of thfe La^ Judgment,
and concerning the State of "Souls in the mean
Time", and 4fo concerning Angels and concern-
j^ing the Devils which 'l^ith, inafmuch as it is-
a Faith in what is falfe, involves the Mind in
"Darknefs ; and with thofe who think concerning
fuch Things'from felf-derived Intelligence, leads
to Doubt,,and at length to a Denial ofthpm; for
they fay in their Hearts, how can fo great a Hea
ven, and fo«rpny Stars, together with thp Sun
and Moon, be deftroyed and diflipated ? and how.
can the Stars fall from Heaverf upon the Earth,
¦which yet are fo much bigger than the Earth ? or
how can Bodies, which have been devowed: Jay
Worms, deftroytd by Corruption, and difpei*fed
by all the Winds, be cdlledled together again for
the Ufe of their refpeclive Souls? what in the
meart

AND THE DESTRUCTION OF BaBYLON. 2^
mean Time bSebmes of the Soul, and what Soifc
of a Being is it without thenSenfation* which it
enjoyed in the, Body ? with many Suggeflions of
a like Kind, which being incomprehenfible, fall
not within the Province of Faith, but deftroy in
many the Belief of Man's eternal Life, and of
the Exiftence of Heaven and Hell, and therewith
all other Articles%f Faith belo^nging to the
Church. That this is adually the Confequence,
we have fufficient Proof in thofe who fay. Who
ever came from Heaven to tell us that there is
fuch a Place? What is Hell ? Surely it is only a
Creature of the Brain ? What is the Meaning of
Man's beinff tormented for ever with* Fire? And
what is the Day of Judgment ?.Have not Men been
looking for it many Ages in vain ? Not to men
tion a Variety of other Suggeftions,'*which imply
a Denial of the Whole. Left therefiM-^they who
think thus (as is the Cafe with ma^ who from
their Knqjvledge in worldly Matters are reputed
wife and learned) fhould any longet difturb ,and
feduce the Simple in Faithnand Heart, and bring
on infernal Darknefs in Relation to a Belief of
•^God, of Heaven, of eternal Life, and of other
Things dependent thereon, the Interiors of my
Spirit have been opened by the Lord, and thus I
have been permitted to converfe with all whom
I knew in the Life of the^ody, -after their De-
ceafe, with fome for Da]^ with fome for Months,
D and

26 Of the Last Judgment,
and with fome, for a Year together, and alfo with
fo many others, thjt I fhould come Ihort if I
reckoned them at an Hundred Thoufandi many
of whom were in the Heayens, and many in the
Hells. I have a.lfo fpoken with fome two Days
after their Deceafe, and told them that thek
Friends were at that Time preparing for their
Fun^bl; to ;which they repied, that they did
well to remove out of the Way that which had
ferved them for a Body and it's Fundlions tn the
World; and they defired me to tell them, that
they were n6t dead, but living Men equally as
before, that they had only paffed out of one World
into anoth^, and did not know that they had loft
any Thing by thcChange, having a Body and
Senfes as before, with Underftanding and Will
as befofe, and alfo Jike Thougfits and Affedlions, .
like Senfations, like Pleafures, and like Defires.
as when t^ lived in rtiis World. Moft of thofe
who" were newly departed, on finding themfelves •
living Men-as before, and in a fimilar State, (for j
.after Death the Statepf every one's Life is at firft
the fame as it l\ad been in the World, but is fucr
ceffively changed either for Heaven or Hell J
were affedled with a new Joy at their being ali\p,
and faid that they did not before believe it would
be fo; but, greatly wondered at their former Ig
norance and Blindnefs with Refpedl to the State'
and Condition of theic Life after Death; and
more

and the Destruction of BabylOn. a";
more particularly, that the Men of the Church
ihould be in fuch Darknefs as to thefe Points,
when neverthelefs above all Perfons in the whole
World they might be. acquainted with them, (e')
They then for tl^ firft Time faw the Caufe of
fuch Blindnefs and -Ignorance, which is, t'Kat ex-
terijal Things, fuch as relate to the World and
the Body, had fo engaged and filled their Minds,
that they could not elevate them into the Light
of Heaven, and penetrate into the Things of the
Church any farther than as to fome Points of
, Dodlrine;
- (e) That at this JDay few in Ghriftendbm believe, that
Man jifes again immediately after Death, fee the Preface to
Chap, xvi. of Gen. and n; 4622,10758; but at the Time of
^he Laft Judgment when the, vifible W^lld is to pefifli,
n. 10595,. Tf'^ Caufe of fuch Belief, n. 10594, 10758.
Tiiat 'neverthelefs Man rifes again immediately after Death,
aind tliftt 'then he is a Man as to all ahd evtety Particular,
n- 4527. 5006, ^8, 8939,: 8991, ios<94, 16758. , That the
Soul, which liveth after . Death, is Man's .Spirit, which is
the real Man within him, and which alfo in the other Life
is inaperfefl; Human Form, n. 322,1880,1881, 3633,4622,
4735) 5®^3> ^054! ^^°5! 6626,7021,10594. Proved from
'Experience, n.'4527, 5006, 8939;'awd from the Word,
n. 10597. An Explanation of what is fignified by the Dead
being feen in, the Holy City, Matt, xxvii. 53, n, 9269.
How Man is raifed fromjthe Dead, by Experience, n. 16S
to 1 89'. Of Man's State after Refufcitatioii, n. 3 1 7, 3 1 8, 3 1 jj^
2119,5070, 10596. Falfe Opinions refpefling the Soul and
the Refurreaion,,n. 444, 445, 45?7, 462 2^ 4658.
D2

^f * Of the Last Judgj4ent,
Dodlrine; for corporeal, and worldly Tbii^s^
when dwey are fo much loved as at this Day,
occafioo mere Darknefe in tbje Mind, wh^en Man
isdefirous of thirfting concdrtting the Things of
Heaven beyond the Limits jprefcribed in the.
Dodlrine of Faith belonging- td his Church*
1 6, Many of the Learned from the Chriftiasi
World, When they find themfelves after Deatii i^
a Body, in Garments, and in Houfes, as they had
been in the World, are ^11 Amazement; and
when they ^recall to Mind, what they J^d thought
concerning a Life after Death, the Soul, Spirits,
and cohcerailig Heaven and Hell, they are af
fedled with Sfcame, acknowledge their paft Infa
tuation, and that the Simple in Fairh were much
\vifer than tKy. On examining thofe learned
Men who had confirmed themfelves In fiich Er-
xais, and wjuo had attributed all Things to Mature,
it was- found, that the Interiors §f their Mind
were fliutj and the Exteriors open, a Prodf that
they had not looked towards Heaven, but to^
wards the World, and confequently alfo towards
Hell ; for in Proportion as the Interiors <xf the
Mind are open, in the fame Proportion Man
looks towards Heaven, but in Proportion as the
Interiors are Ihut and the-pxteriors open, in the
fame Proportion he looks towards Hell ; for the
Interiors of M^n are formed for the Receptiou of

ANO THE DESTRUCTION OF BABriON. £^
«f heavenly Things, and. his Exteriors for the
JRfipeption o£ worldly Things, and they who re
ceive, the World and not at the fame Time Hear
'ven, receive Hell. .(/)
- 17. That the Spirit of a Man, after it's Sepa-
xation foom ^e Body, is a Man, and in a Ijke
FiOtm, j ha* been made manifeft to me lay daily
.Experienqe for many Years, haying feen and heard
•them a-thoufand Times, and alfo .conver fed with
them^ particularly on this Subjedl, thai Men in
(the World do not believe it, and that they whpp
ado believe it, are reputed by the Learned as Sim^
plfi: The Spirits were grieved at Heart, that
fuch Ignorance fiaould ftill prevail in the Worl4,
iand eifpecially within the Church; this, they
.fa.id, proceeded,,, principally from the Learned,
awho judge of the Soul from the bodily Senfes, in
jConfequCTfce of which they form no other Idea,
lof it, than as of ^mple Thought, .which, when
•donlidered without any SiibjeQ: in .which and by
which il imay fubfift, is like Something 'floating
in mere Ether, which cannot but be diflipated 00
the Death of the 33ody : But inafmuch as the
Church
(y) That in,Man the Spiritual and the Natural World are
(;onjoined, n. 6057. That the Internal cf Man is fordied
'aftei^the 'Image of Heaven,' but his External after the Image
of the World, 41. ^6»%, ^523, 4524, 6057, ^6314, 9706,
-joj^S, 10472,

30 Or THE Last Judgment,
Church holds the Immortality of the Soul,becai0
it is taught in the Word, they cannot butaflGgn
to it Something vital, of the Quality of Thought,
though Nothing of Senfe fuch as appertains to
Man, before it is reunited to it's Body again : On
this Opinion is founded the Doftrine of tbe Re-
furrcdlioni, and a Belief in the Soul's future Con-
jundlibn with the Body at the Time of the Laft
Judgment; for from the aforefaid Hypothefis
'concerning the Soul, no other Conclufion can be
4drawn, confiftent with the Faith of the Church,.
^'refpe'dling Man's eternal Life : Htence it is, wheft
any one thinks of. the Soul according to the
Dodlrine of the Church, and at the fame Time
according to the above Hypothefis, that he has
•not the fmalleft Idea of it's being a Spirit, and
<that this Spirit is in a Human Fqrm: Add to,thi%
that fcarce any one at this Day knows what is
fpiritual, and ftill lefs that they who a^fe fpiritual,
as all Spirits and Angels are, "have any Thing d
the Human Form. This is the Reafon why aL-
moft all who come from tHte World are greatly
aftonifhed at their being ftill alive, and equatly
Men as before, without any Difference whatever;
but when they ceafe to be amazed at themfelves^
they then wonder that the Church fhould be ig
norant of this State of Men after Death, when
notwithftanding all that have ever lived in the
World, are in the other Life, and living Men :
- And

AND THE Destruction of BabylonT 31
And becaufe they were alfo furprifed, that this
was no^ difcoyered to Man by Vifions, it was
told them from Heaven, that this could be done,
for Nothing is eafier, when it is the Lord's good
Pleafure, but that ftill they who had confirmed
themfelves in Falfes againft it, would not be
lieve, even though they were to have ocular De-
monftration thereof; and moreover, that it would
be dangerous to manifeft any Thing from Hea
ven to thofe who are immerfed in worldly and
corporeal Pleafures, for in .this Cafe they Would
firft believe and afterwards deny, ,and thus
they would profane that effential Truth ; for to
believe and afterwards deny, is to profane ; and
they who prSfane, are thruft down into the
loweft and moft grievous of all the Hells. This
Danger is underftood by the Lord's Words, " He
" hath blinded their Eyes, and hardened their Hearts,
*' left they fhould fee with tht Eyes and underftand
" with the Hearf, and convert themfelves, and I fhould
"heal them," John xii. 40 ; and that they who
,are in worldly and corporeal Loves, ftill would
not believe, is underftood by thefe Words,
• "Abrahim faid to the rich Man in Hell, they have
"n Mofes and the Prophets, let ihem hear them ; but
" he faid, nay Father Abraham, but if one frorn tbe
" Dead come to them, they will be converted; hut
" Abrahani faid to him, if they hear not Mofes and
"ihe

31 Oy^THE Last Judgment,
" tbe Prophets, neither will they believe even if oitt
" rife from the Deadf Luke xvi. agf, 30^31.
1 8. That Heaven is from Mankind, may a^
pear from this Confideration, that the Minds of
Angels and Men are alike, both poffefling the
fame Faculty of underftanding, perceiving, and
willing ; and both are formed to receive Heaven;
for the Human Mind is capable of like Wifdom
with the Angelical, and the only Reafon why
Men are not as wife in this World as the Angels,
is becaufe they are here confined to earthly Bo
dies, and therein the fpiritual Mind thinks natu
rally, for Man's fpiritual Thought, which he is
,: endue! with as well as an Angel, during his Life
^.ih'tfce Body flows into natural Ideas correfpond-
'^if^: with fpiritual, and foare perceived therein;
_ but it is otherwife when the Mind of Man is
'loofed from the Fitters of the Body, then it no
longer thinks naturally but fpiritually ; and when
*¦ it thinks fpiritually, it conceives Things inconv-'
prehenfible and unutterable to the natural Maj%
confeqfuently in like Manner as an Angel : Hence
it may appear evident, that the Internal, of Man,
which is called his Spirit, is in it's Eflence an
Angel. (^) That an Angei is in a perfedl Human Form,
[£) That there are as many Degrees of Life in Man. as
there are Heavens, and that they are opened after Death *
a according

ANb THE DksTRtjfciio:^. OF Babylon: 33
Form, may be feen in the Treatife ori Heavin
sknd Hell, n. 73 to 77. But when the Internal
;bf Man is not opened above, but only beneathi
even then after it's Separation from the Body, it
appears in a Human Form, but monftrous and
diabolical, for iii cannot look upward to Heaven^
but only downward to Hell.
1.9; That Hfeaven and Hell are from Mankind,
.the Church might alfo have known from the
; Word, and received as a Part of it's Dodlriirf, iE!^
it had adrnitted of Illumination from ¦ M^a*^,
and attended to what the Lord faid to the J^h^t^^
" Tbat this D&y he fhould he wiih him in
¦ *' dife" Luke xxiii. 43 ; and to what he faiJ
cerning DiveS and Lazarus j ** That Dives
" to Hell, and thence converfed with Abraham, ana
«* tiat Lazarus went to Heaven," Luke xvi. 19 to
3 1 • Or to what the Lbrd faid to the Sadducees
concerning the Refurreftion, " That God is not
^ the God of the dead, but of the living" Matt. xxii. 32:
dccQtding to his Life, n. 3747, 9594. That Heaven is in
Man, i^. 8$84, That Men, whp live a Life of Love and
Charity, poffefs in themftlve? angelic Wifdom, but unper-
teived while in the Body, and that they ^ter into it after
Death, n. 2494. That Man,,^h0', receives*the Good of
Love and Faith from the Lord, js called an Angel in the
Word, n. 10528!. E

-A Of the Last Judgment,
32: And moreover it 'might have been knoWrt
from the common Belief of all who live a good
Life, particularly. froni their Belief at the Hour
6f Death, when they are no longer influenced by
worldly and corporeal Things, that they fhall go
to Heaven immediately on their Departure from
the Body. This Belief prevails with all, jvhen
they do not think, from the Dodlrine of the
Church, concerning the Refurredlion at the Time
of the Laft Judgment ; in tbe Truth of which
any Perfon may be confirmed, if he will make
Inquiry- 20. He who is inftrudled in the Nature of
.Divine Order, may alfo know, that Man was
created for this End, namely, that he may be
come an Angel, for in him is the Ultimate of
Order, (fee above, n. 9,) wherein all that apper
tains to heavenly and angelic Wifdom may be
formed, renewed, and multiplied. Divine Or
der never fubfifts in what is intermediate,, or
forms any Thing there without what is ultimate;
but in Order to it's being in it'is Fulnefs and Per-
¦ fedlion, it muft proceed to it's Ultimate or Limit:
Then, when it has attained thereto, it has the
Power of forming, and alfo, by Virtue of Things
mediate tl^rein repofited, of renewing and pio-»
ducing itielf afrefh, which is effedled by Means
of Proc^ation: Wheiefore in the Ultimates is
6 the

AND THE Destruction of Babylon. 35
the Seminary of Heaven, This alfo is under-
flood by what is faid of Man and of his Creation
in the firft Chapter of Genefis, Verfe 26, 27, 28:
*' God faid, let us make Man in our Image, accord-
" ing to. our Likenefs : And God created Man in his
" Image, in the Image of God created be him ; Male
" and Female created he them. And God bleffed
" them, and (^od faid unto them, be fruitful, and
*' multiply yourfelves /' to create in the Image
and Likenefs of God, is to repofit in Man all
Things of Divine Order from firft to laft, and
thus as to the Interiors of his Mind to make him
an Angel.
21. The Reafon why the Lord rofe again, not
only as to his Spirit, but alfo as to his Body, is,
becaufe, when in the World, he gforified his
whole Humanity, that is, made it Divine : For
his Soul, being derived from the Father, was of
itfelf the effential Divinity, and his Body became
a Likenefs of the Soul, that is, of the Father, and
thus it was alfo made Divine : Hence it was,
that, differently from all other Men, he rofe
again both as to Soul and Body. (i») * This he
alfo manifefted to his Difciples, when they took
him to be a Spirit, by fajttng, "Behold my Hands
) E 2 » " and
(h) That Man rifes again only as to his ^irit, n. 10593,
10594. That the Lord alope rofe again as to his Body,
n. 1729, 1083, 5078, 1082^

eg : Of the Last JuapcoMENT,
?' and my Feet, that it is I my/elf: Handle m? ^lid
s' fee, for a Spirit hath mt Flejh and- Bones, as ye
f'/^ Me hofve," Luke xxiv. 36, 37, 38; by
which, he gave them to tinderftand, that he wis,
Man not only as to Spirit, but alfo as to Body.
22. Moreover, that Heaven and Hell are
from Mankind, has been fhewn in many Articled,
in the Treatife on HeaVen and Hell, as in the
followir^ : Concerning the Gentiles or People
without the Church in Heaven, n. 318 10328.
Of Infants or little Children in Heaven, n. 329
to 345. Of the Wife and Simple iq Heaverij
n. 346 to 356. Of the Rich and Poor in Hea
ven, n. 357 to 365. That every Mkfl is aSpiric
as to his Interiors, n. 4312 to 444. That Man
after DeatWis in a perfedl Human Form, n. 453 to,
460. • That Man after Death retains every Senfe,
tis alfo the fame Memory, Thought, and Affedtioni
which he had in the World, and that he leaves
Nothing behind him but his terreftrial Body,
n. 461 to 469. Of the firft State of Man after
Death, n. 491 to 498. Of his fecond State after
Death, n. 499 to 5 1 1 . Of his third State, n. 5 1 2
50517. See alfo what is related concerning th^
Hells, n. 53 6 to 5 8 8. From all which Particulars
it may plainly appear, that Heaven does not con^
fill of any %igels created foch at the BeginnifJg,
nor Hell of any Devil arid his Crew, but only of
^;hofe vi/hqia/ere born Mer^,, Tha^

AND THE DESTRUCTldN OF BABYlONt 3f
That all mho have been born Men
from the Beginning of Creation,
and are deceafed^ ate either in
fieaven or Hell.
?3, ^ I ^HIS follows, Firft, from what has been
-*¦ faid and fhewn in the preceding Chap.^
fer, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from
Mankind. Secondly, from this Confideration,
that every Man, after his Departure from tl^is
•^W^rld, continues to live to Eternity. Thirdly^
that thus all who were ever born Men fince the
Creation of the World, and are deceafed, are
either in Heaven on Hell. Fbwthly, tnft whereas
alt who fhall hereafter be bornj will alfo go into
the Spiritual World, that World is of fuch an
{Extent and Nature, that the Natural *World,
wherein Men dwell on the Earths, eannot be
compared therewith. But in Order that thefe
Pofitions may be more diftindlly perceived, ^tnd
made evident, I fhall here unfold and tlefGribe
them one by one.
24. That all who have been bori| Men fince
the Beginning of Creation, and are deceafed, are
fisher in Heaven ®r ifl^ell, follozvs^0m what has
been

3$ Of the Last Judgment,
teen faid and fhewn in the preceding Chapter,
mmely, that Heaven and Hell are from Mankin^^
appears without Explication. It has been the
prevailing Belief heretofore, that Men will not
go to Heaven or Hell before the Day of the
Laft Judgment, when the Soul will return to it's
Body» and fo enter into the Enjoyment of fuch
Things as are fuppofed to be proper to the Body :
Into this Belief the Simple have been led, by
thofe who profefTed Wifdom, and have made In-
)^iry concerning the interior State of Man;
;libeh Perfons having never thought about the
Spiritual World, but only about the Natural, and
jconfeqiuently having never thought about the
Cpirilual Man, have therefore been ignorant that
ihe fpiritual .Man, which is within every one'is
natural Wdyj is equally in a Human Form a«
riie natural Man ; hence it never entered into
their Mind, that the natural Man derives it^g
l^umart Form from the fpiritual Man within it;
although Nthey might fee that the fpiritual Man
adts at Pleafure in all ahd every Part of the na
tural Man, and that the natural Man is altoget-
ther incapable of adling of itfelf: It is the fpiri*
tual Man that thinks and wills, for this the na
tural Man cannot do of i^elf, and Thottght and
Will are the all in all of the natural Man, for the
•ktter is adled upon at the Pleafure of the formff,
and likewife fpeaks as the former thinks, info-
• * much

AND -fHE DESTRUfcTrON Of BaBYLON. 39
tnuch that Adion is Not'hing but Will, and SpeecK
is Nothing but Thought, for on the Reriaovai of
Will and Thought, Speech and Adlion iriftantly
ceafe. Hence it appears, that the fpiritual Mart
is the real Man, and refides in all and fingular
Parts of the natural Man, confequently that it
has the fame Likenefs and Appearance, for every
Part or Particle of the natural Man, which is not
adled upon by the fpiritual, is lifelefs. But the
fpiritual Man cannot appear to the Eyes of the
natural Man, for what is natural cannot fee what
is fpiritual, but what is fpkitual can fee what is
natural ; this being according to Order, whereas \
the former is contrary to Order, for all Infkx is
,from the Spiritual -into the Natural Worid ; fo '
alfo is Sight, for Sight is Influx ; but Mflux from/
the Natural into the Spiritual World is a Thing,.
iimpoflible. The fpiritual Man is what is called
the Spirit of Man, which appears in the Spiritual
World in "a perfedl Human Form, and which
lives after Death. As the Learned have known
Nothing concerning the Spiritual World, and
confequently Nothing refpedling the Spirit of
Man, as was ofeferved above, therefore they have
imagined, that Man cannot live as a Man, until
the Soul return to the Body, and again be endued
with it's Senfes ; henc« have arifen fuch vain and
filly Ideas concerning the Refurr^dSon of Man,
as that the Body, although devoured by Worms and

^§ Of THE Last Judgment^
and Fifh, and totally fallen to Duft, is to be cbU
ledled together ag^in by an A£t of Divine Omr
nipotence, and re-united to the Soyl ; and th£^
this will not take Place before the End of the
World, when the vifible Univerfe is to perifh ;
befides many more Things of a like Nature,
which exceed all Comprehenfion, and ftrike the
Mind at firft Sight as Impoffibilities, and con
trary to Divine Order ; hence alfo the Faith of
many becomes weak ; for they who think wifely,
cannot believe what they do not in fome Meafure
comprehend, and there is no fuch Thing as a
Faith in Impoffibilities, or in what a Man believes
to be impoffible. From this Ground it is, that
they, who do not believe in a Life after Deathj
draw Arjfenents againft it. But that Man rifps
again immediately after Death, and that he is
then in a perfe^ Human Form, may be feen iri
many Articles in the Treatife on Heaven and
Hell. Thefe Obfervations' are made, that it
may be ftill farther confirmed, that Heaven and
Hell are from Mankind ; whence itfolIowSj that
all who were ever born Men fince the Beginning
of Creation, and are deceafed, are either in Hea
ven or Hell.
25. That every Maty after his Departure fr^
this World continues to live to Eternity, is evidpnt
from this Confideration, that Man is then fpiri- tual.

AND The Destruction of Babylon. 41
tual, and no longer natural, and that the fpiritual
Man, when feparated from the natural Man, re-
. tains it's Quality to Eternity, for the State of Man
cannot be changed after Death. Moreover the
fpiritual Principle of every Man is in Conjunc
tion with the Divine Principle, for it has a Capa
city of thinking about it, and alfo of loving it,
and it can be affedled with whatever proceeds
from it, viz. with fuch Things as are taught by
,the Church ; confequently it is capable of being
conjoined with the Divine Principle by Thought
and Will, which two Faculties belong to the fpi
ritual Man, and conftitute it's Life : Now what
ever can be thus conjoined with the Divine PAn-
ciple, cannot die to Eternity, for the Divine Being
is with it, and conjoins it to himfelf. , Man isaMb
created after the Formjof Heaven+^g^o his Mind,
and the Form of Heaven is from the effential
Divinity, as may appear evident in the Treatife
concerning Heaven and Hell, where it is
fliewn, that the Divinity of the Lord conftitutes
and forms Heaven, n." 7 to 12, and n. 78 to 86.
That Man is created that he may become Hea
ven in it's leaft Form, n. 57. That Heaven in
it's univerfal Complex refembles one Man, n.
59 to 66. That hence every Angel is in a per
fedl Human Form, n. 73 to 77 : Man is an An
gel with Refpedl to his fpiritual Part. On this
Siibjedl I have frequently converfed with the An-
F' ' gels.

42 Or THE LasT" JuDGMElfT,
gels, who greatly wondered, that among thofe,
who in the Chriftian World are called intelligent,
. and who are alfo fuppofed to be fo by others,
there are very many, who totally reject the Doc
trine of their own Immortality, imagining that
the Soul of Man will be diffipated afteir Death
juft like the Soul of a Beaft ; not perceiving the
Difference between the Life of Man and that of a
Beaft, in that Man can elevate his Thoughts
above himfelf, and think about God, Heayen,
Love, Faith, fpiritual and moral Good, Truths,
&c. and thus that he can be elevated to the Di
vine Being himfelf, and be conjoined to him by
Means of all thofe Things ; but that Beafts can
not be elevated above their natural Principle ta
think abou^ fuch Things, confequently that their
fpiritual Pr^ciple cannot be feparated from their
natural Principle after Death, (ij and live by it
felf, like the fpiritual Principle of Man ; which
alfo i^ the Reafon why the Life of a Beaft is dif
fipated with it's natural Life. The Reafon why
many
fij That there is alfo an Influx from the Spiritual World
into the Life of Beafts, but general, not fpecial as with
Man, n. 1633, 3646. 'that the Difference between Men
and Beafts confifts in this, that Men are capable of being
elevated above themfelves to the Lord, of thinking con
cerning the Divine Principle, of loving it, and thus of be--
ing conjoined to the Lord, by Virtue of which they poffef&*
'eternal Life ; whereas Beafts#iave no fuch Capacity, and
ican.jievel- be elevated to luch' Things, n. 4525, O323, 9231.

AND THE Destruction of Babylon. 43
many of tbe Intelligent, or Learned, fo called,
in the Chriftian World, do not believe the Im
mortality of their own Life, is declared by the
Angels to be as follows, becaufe in Heart they
deny the Divine Being, acknowledging Nature
inftead of him ; and they who think from fuch
Principles, have, no- Conceptioi|( of any Eternity
by Means of Conjundlion with the Divine Being;
confequently theyhave no Idea that the State of
Man is different from that of Beafts, for when they
rejedl the Divine Being from their Thoughts, they
alfo rejedl the Ideaof Eternity. The Angels further
faid, that iri every Man there is an inmoft or fu^
preme Degree of Life, or a certain inm8ft or
fupreme Part, into which the Divine*Principle of
the Lord firft or proximately flows, and from
whence the Lord regulates and governs the other
Interiors belonging to the fpiritual and natural
Man, which fucceed each other according to their
Degrees of Order: This inmoft or fupreme Part
they called the Lord's Entrance into Man, and
his moft peculiar Dwell ing-Place within him ;
they faid alfo, that by Virtue of this inmoft or fu
preme Part Man is Man, and diftinguiflicd from
the Brute Animals, which have it not ; and that
hence it is, that Men, differently from Animals,
with Refpedl to the Interiors' which belong to
their Minds and Spirits, can be elevated by the
F 2 Lord

H^ Of the Last Judgment,
Lord to himfelf, can believe in him, be afiedted"
with Love to him, and can alfo receive Intelli
gence and Wifdom, and converfe ratiMially*
When I interrogated them concerning thofe who
deny the Divine Being, and Divine Truths, vvhcre*
by the Life of Man is conjoined with the Divine
Being himfelf, fajpng that even fuch Perfonslive
to Eternity, the Angels replied, that they pof-
feflTed the Faculty of thinking and willingt. and
confequently of believing and loving what pro-
cegded from the Divine Being, equally with thofe
who; acknowledge him, and that it is this Faculty
which capacitates them alike to live for ever ;
they "added, that this Faculty is derived to them
from that iri^inoft or fupreme Part, which is in
every Man, as obferved above. That even they
who are in Hell ppffefs this Faculty, by Virtue
of which they have the Power of reafoning and
fpeakiBg againft Divine Truths, has been fhewn
in many Places : Hence it is, that every Maa, of
whatever Defcription he be, lives to Eternity.
Inafmuch as every Man after Death lives to
JIternity, therefore no Angel or Spirit ever thinks
of Death, nay, they are altogether ignorant what
it is to die : Wherefore when Death is mention
ed in the Word, by the Angels is either under
ftood Damnation, which is Death in the fpiritual
Senfe, or a Continuation of Life and ^efurrec-
2 tion.

AND THE Destruction of B^byj,on. 4J
tion. (k) Thelib Obfervations are made, in Coi^
firmation that all Men whatever, who have been
born from the Firft of Creation, and are deceafed,
are living, fome in Heaven, and fome in Hell.
26. In Order that I might be certified, that
all who were ever born Men fince tbe Beginning (f
Creation, apd are deceafed, are either ^n .Heaven or
Hell, it was given me to converfe^ with fome whp
lived before the Flood, ,with others who lived
after the Flood, and alfo with certain of th?
Jewifh. Nation,, whole Names are mentioned in
the Wiord of the Old Teftament ; I have likev/ife
been permitted to :Converfe with fome who liv|^
in the- Time of eur Lord, with many who live^v.
j^ tbe fijUowing Ages even to the prefent Day,\
and moreover with all thofe now departed, whom
I knew during their Life in the Body, and like-
wife with Infants, and with many from the Hea
then Nations. From which Experience I am
fully
Z"^/ That when Death is mentioned in the Word, and
predicated of the Wicked, in Heaven is underftood Dam.
¦n'aliion, which is fpiritual Death, and alfo Hell, n. 5407,
6119, 900.8. That they who are in Gopdneffes and Truths
are faid to be alive, but they who are in Evils and Falfes,
dead, n. 81, 290,-7.494. That by Death, when it relates
to the ^ood who die, in Heaven is underftood Refurrec-
tion an'd Continuatidh of Life, inafmuch as Man then rifes
again, continues his Life, ahd proceeds therein to Eternityi
0.3498, 3505, 4618, 4621, 6036,6222.

4-6 Of the Last Judgment,
fiilly convinced, that there is not one, who was
ever born a Man from the firft Creation of this
Earth, 'but what is either in Heaven or Hell.
27. Whereas all who ft)ali hereafter be horn, will
alfo enter into the Spiritual World, that therefore that
World is of fuch' an Extent and Nature, that the
Natural World, wherein Men dwell on the- Earths^
cannot be compared therewith, 'is evident from the
immenfe Multitude of Men, who from the Firft
bf Creation have paffed into the Spiritual World,
iand are there affembled togelher; and likewife
from the continual Increafe hereafter froih the
Human Race, which will be added thereto, and
this without End, agreeable' to what was fhewn
above under it's proper Article, n. 6 to 13,
iiamely, that the Procreations; of Mankind on
the Earths will never ceafe. It hasheen given me
at Times to fee, when my Eyes Were open, ho*
immenfe a Multitude of Men is already collec
ted there, which was fo great, that they could
icarcely be numbered; they, amounted to fome
.Myriads, and this only in one Place towards on?
.Quarter; how immenfe then muft be the Num-
*ber in other Parts ! For in the Spiritual World
'they are all colleded into Societies, which are
innumerable, and each Society in it's Placeforms
.three Heavens, and under them are three Hells j
(Wherefore ¦ there are fome above, fome in the
Middle^:

AND THE Destruction of BaaYlon. 4,7
Middle, and fome beneath, and under them again
there are fome in the loweft Places, or in. the
Hells ; thofe who are fuperior, or above, dwett
among themfelves in like Manner as Men in Ci
ties, to the Amount of fome Hundreds of Thou
fands, Hence it appears, that the Natural World,
wherein Men dwell on the Earths, cannot be
compared to that World with Refpedl to the
.Multitude of the Human Race ; wherefore when
a Man paffes from the Natural World into the
Spiritual, it is comparatively like going from a
fmall Village into a great City. That the Na
tural World cannot be compared with the Spiri
tual World as to Nature or Quality, may alfo ap
pear evident from this Confideration, that not
only all Things exift therein, which are to be
found in the Natural World, but innumerable
other Things befides, which were never feen in
this World, neither can they be made manifeft
to the bodily Sight ; for in that World fpiritual
Things are reprefented under all their Forms, as
it were, in a natural Appearance, and each with
an infinite Variety ; for the fpiritual Principle fo
far exceeds the. natural in Excellence, that there
are but few Things which can be brought down
to the natural Senfe, this Senfe not. being capable
of apprehending one Thing out of a Thoufand
which the fpiritual Mind perceives; and all
'Things which appertain to the fpiritual Mind
¦ ik arc

\^% Of the Last J^dgmsnt,
are alfo reprefenteld in Forms before the Sight of
Spirits: Hence it is, that the Spiritual World
tfannot be defcribed as to it's magnifkent and
ftupendous Objeds : Thefe alfo increafe accor^^
4ng to the Multiplication of the Human Race in
the Heavens, for all Things are there reprefented
in Forms correfpondirtg to every one's State with
Refpedl to Love and Faith, and confequendf
with Refpe<fl to Intelligence and Wifdom ; thiM
with a Variety continually increafing according
to the Increafe in Number : Hence it is faid by
thofe who have been elevated into Heaven, that
they have feen and heard therein fuch Things as
¦the Eye never faw, nor the Ear ever heard.
From what has been obferved, it may appear evi
dent, that the Spiritual World is of fuch a Na
ture, that the Natural World can by no Means
be compared (herewith. Further Particulars re
fpedling that World may be feen in the Treatife
on Heaven and Hell, where it treats of the
two Kingdoms of Heaven, n. 20 to 28. Of the
Societies of Heaven, n. 41 to 50. Of Repre*
fentatives and Appearances in Heaven, n. 170 to
176. And of the Wifdom of tbe heavenly An-
igels,n, 265 to 275. The Particulars there de
fcribed, however, are very- few.

AJifD tjhe Destruction of feAJsytoN. 4^
That the Laft Judgment is td take
Place where all are gathered to*
gether^ c6nfequ6ntly in the Spiritual
Wofld, and not on the Earths. (*)
aSi'THHE common Opinion concerning the
A Laft Judgment is, that the Lard • will
then appear in the Clouds of Heaven with An^
gels in Glory, and that alfwho have ever lived
from the Creation of the World will be raifed
up out of tbdr Graves, and their Souls again
cfbthcd with their Bodies; and when thus af
fembled in one Place, that they who have lived
well will be judged to eternal Life er Heaverr,
arid they who liave done Evil, to eternal Dea;h
tJr Hell. This Belief is derived to the Churches
from the literal Senfe of the Word, nor could it
«
be removed, fo long as they were ignorant that
there is a fpiritual Senfe in every Part' of the
'Word, and that that Senfe is the real and effen
tial Word^ to which the literal Senfe ferves as a
Foundation
(*) By the Earths here menti&ned are not meant the va
rious Earths'or Planets- in the Univerfe, concerriing which
the Authoir has given an Account in a diftinft Treatife, but
different Countries on this Earth. The Term Earths is ufed
in-^e plural Number, by Reafon of the Differences which
fubfift in the various Churches. Tr. / ) .->, /./-^ ¦•'.

£0 Of the Last Judgment,
Foundation or Bafis, and that without fuch a
Senfe the Letter could not poffiWy be the Divine
Word, nor ferve as the Dodlrine of Life and
Faith to Heaven as well as the World, and for
their Conjundlion: Whoever therefore is ac
quainted with the fpiritual Correfpondertccs of the
natural Things in the Word, may know, that by
the Coming of the Lord in the Clouds of Hea
ven, is not underftood his Appearance in the
Clouds, but his Appearance in the Word; for
the Lord is the Word, inafmuch as he is Divine
Truth ; the Clouds of Heaven, in which he is to
come, are the literal Senfe of the Word, and
Glory is it's fpiritual Senfe ; the Angels are Hea
ven, from whence the Lord makes his Appear
ance, and they likewife are the Lord with Refpedl
to Divine Truths : (/) Hence appears what is
meant
(/) That the Lord is the Word, becaufe he is Divine
Truth in Heaven, n. 2533, 2818, 28^, 2894, 3393, 3712.'
That the Lord is the Word alfo for this Reafon, becaufe it is
from him, and treats of him, n. 2859 ; and becaufe it treats
of the Lord alone, and chiefly of the Glorificatioff of his
Humanity in it's inmoft Senfe, thus the Lord Himfelf is
therein, n. 1873, 9357. That the Coming of the Lord is
his Prefence in the Word, and Revelation, n. 3900, 4060.
That Clouds ii) the Word fignify the Word in the Letter,
or it's literal Senfe, n. 4060, 4391, 592a, 6343, 6752, 8106,
8781,9430, 10551, 10574. That Glory in the Word fig
nifies Divine Truth, fuch as it is in Heaven, and in the
fpti-itUsl

and' THE Destruction of Babylon. 51
meant by thofe Words, viz. that the Lord, when
the Church is at an End, will reveal the fpiritpal
Senfe of the Word, and thus manifeft Divine
Truth fuch as it is in itfelf; confequently that
this is the Sign of the Laft Judgment taking
Place. That there is a fpiritual Senfe in every
Particular of the Word, yea in every fingle Ex-
preflion, and what the Nature and Quality of
that Senfe is, may be feen in the Arcana Cce-
l^stia, wherein are explained, according to that
Senfe, all and fingular the Things contained in
the Books of Genefis and Exodus, from which
Work fome Particulars are colledled relative to
the Word and it's fpiritual Senfe in a fmall Trad:
concerning the White Horse mentioned in the
Revelation. '
29. That the Laft Judgment is to take Place
in the Spiritual World, and not in the Natural
World or on the Earths, is evident from the two
preceding Articles, and al^fo from what follows: In
fpirjtual Senfe of the Word, n. 4809, 5292, 8267, 8427,
9429, J 0574. That by Angels in the Word are fignified
Divine Truths proceeding from the Lord, inafmuch as An
gels are Recipients thereof, and do not fpeak Truths from
themfelves, but from the Lord, n. 1925, 2821, 3039, 4085,
4295, 4402, 6280, 8192, 8301. That Trumpets or Cornetsi,
when fpjrfien of the Angels, fignify Divine Truths in Hea-
veiij and revealed front Heaven, n. c8j5, 8823, 8915.
G 2'

52 Of the Last Judgment,
In the two preceding Articles it was fhewn, that
Heaven and Hell are from ManT<ind, and that
all who were ever born Men from the Beginning
of Creation, and are deceafed, are either in Hea^
ven or He'll, confequently that all are there col-
le£ied together ; bu't in the Articles which follow,
it fliall be fhewn, that the Laft Judgrnent', is
already accotriplilhed.
30. Befides, no one is judged from the na
tural Man, cohfequently not whilft he is living ia
the Natural World, inafmuch as Man is trhen iiif
a natural Body : but all are judged in the fpiri--
tual Man, confequently when they come intp the
Spiritual World, for Man is then in a "fpiritual
Body : It is the fpiritual Fart of Man that is
iudged, but not the natural, for this lat|gr is in
no Refpeft faulty or criminal, ipafmuchas it does
not live of itfelf, but is merely a Servant or In-
ftruinent, whereby the. 'fpiritual Man' aqls, aa
may be feen above, nr 24 : Hence alfo it is, that
Judgrhent pafles on Men, when they have'pilt
off their natural, and put on their fpiritual Body;,
In this Body a Man alfo appears according to hi-s
true Quality with Refpedl to Love and Faith, f(» '
every one in the Spiritual World is an Image or
Likenefs of his own Love, not only with Refpe^
to his Face and Body, but with Refpedl to his '
i^peech ^nd Adlions ; fee the Tre?Ltife on Hea-: VEN

AND THE DESiXRUCTION OF BaBYLON. 53
VEN and H.5,iL, n. 481. Hence it is, that all arc
.known and. diftinguiflied as to their real Quality,.
and immediately feparated, when it is the good
Pleafure of the Lord. Frorfe what has been faid
it alfo appears evident, that the Judgment takes
^JPlafe in the S.piritual World, and not in the
Natural World or on the Earths.
31, That the natural Life of Man is of no
Confideration, hut his fpiritual Life in the na
tural, the natural Principle of itfelf being void ol
Life; and that the apparent Life therein is from
|he Life of the fpiritual Man, confequently that
it is this latter which is judged ; and that it is
alfo the fpiritual Part of Man which is to he
judged according to it's Deeds, may be feen in
the Treatife On Heaven and Hell, under the
following Article, That the Condition of Man
after Death is according to his paft Life in the
.World, n, 470 to 484.
32. I fliall here add a certain heavenly Arca-
-fium, which indeed is' mentioned 'in the Treatife
on Heaven and Hell, but not yet defcribed :
Eyery one after Death is bound to, or in Fellow-'
ihip with, a certain Society, and this immediately
on his entering into the Spiritual World, as may
.he feen in that Work, n. 427 and 497; but a
Spirit in it's fiyft State knows Nothing thereof, being

£4 Of the Last Judgment,
being then in it's Externals, and not as yet in
Internals. During it's external State, it wanders
hidier and thither, wherefoe<'er it pleafes ; but
ftill it is adlually where it's Love is, that is, in
Society with thofe who are in a fimilar Love.
While a Spirit is in this State, it appears in many
other Places, and alfo every where' as if prefent in
Body, but this is only an Appearance; where
fore as foon as ever it is brought by the Lord into
it's governing Love, it immediately difappears
from tbe Sight of others, and is among it's like
in the Society to which it is bound, or connedled
with: This is peculiar to the Spiritual World,
and a Matter of Aftonifhment to thofe who are
ignorant of the Caufe. Hence now it is, that
as foon as ever Spirits are gathered together, and
feparated. they are alfo judged, and every one js
-¦"inftantly fixed in his own Place, the Good in
'Heaven, and in Society there with theif like, and
the Evil in Hell, and in Society there with their
like. From what has been obferved it may alfo
-appear manifeft, that the Laft Judgment can only
take Place in the Spiritu JrWorld, as well becaufe
every one there is an Image of his own Life, as
- becaufe all are aflbciated together who are in a
fimilar Life, confeqaently every one is in Fel
lowfhip with his like. It is otherwife in the Na
tural World, where the Good and the Bad are
intermixed ; there no one knows the real Quality of

AND THE Destruction of. Babylon. 55
of another, nor are they feparated from each
other according to the Affe£lion of their Life :
Befides, it is impoffible for any Man with his
natural Body to be either in Heaven or in Hell ;
wherefore, in Order that Man may enter into one
OF the other, it is neceffary that he put off his
natural Body, and afterwards be judged in his
fpiritual Body. Hence it is,' as obferved above,
-that the fpiritual Man is judged, and not the
natural.

Thai

ig Qf The Last juDdMlNfi
TJiat the Laft Judgment takes Place
when the Church is 'at an End j
. and that the Church is at an End^
when there is no Faith in Confer
quence of there being no Charity*
33.'T~^HERE are many Reafons why the Lafl
Judgment takes Place, when the Church
is at at End ; the principal whereof is, becaufe
then the Equilibrium betwixt Heaven and Hell
begins to be deftroyed, and with the Equilibrium
the very Liberty or Freewill of Man ; and when
this is the Cafe, it is no longer poffible for hiin
to be faved ; but he is then from Freedom in-
clined to Hell, and cannot be led in Freedom
to Heaven ; for without Freewill no one can
be reformed, and all Man's Freewill proceeds'
from the Equilibrium which fubfifls between
Heaven and Hcil. That this is the Cafe, ma/
appear evident from the tWo Articles in the
Treatife on Heaven and Hell, which treat of
the Equilibrium between Heaven and Helj,
n. 589 to 596: And that Man's Freev/ill is from
the Equilibrium that fubfifts between Heavefl
and Flell, n, 597 to 603 ; and further, that no
one is capable of being reformed unlefs in a State
of Liberty or Freedom. 34. ThaE

A,KD THE DesTRUCTIOiJ Of BaJBYLON. 57
34. That the Equilibrium betwixt Heaven
snd Hell begins to perifh at the End of the
Church, may ¦ appear from this Confideration,
•that Heaven and Hell are from Mankind, as may
be feen above in it's proper Article ; and that
when few go to Heaven, but many to Hell, Evil
on the one Side increafes beyond Good on the
other ; for in Proportion as Hell increafes, fo alfo
does Evil; and Man receives all his Evil from
Hell, and all his Good from Heaven: As then
Evil increafes above Good at the End of the
Church, therefore all are then judged by the
Lord, the Wicked feparated from the Good, all
Things reduced to Order, and a New Heaven
eftablifhed, together with a' New Church on the
Earths, and thus the Equilibrium is reftored.
This now is what is called the Laft Judgment^
which will be further defcribed in the following
Pages. 35. That the Church is at an End, when thei-e
is no 'longer any Faith within the Church, i*
> known from the Word; but it is riot as yet known,
¦^that there is no Faith where there is no Charity j
wherefore Something Ihall now be faid relative to
.this Subjedl. That there would be no Faith at
the End of the Church, is foretold' by the Lord
in thefe Words, " WbenibeSonofManJhall come,
«' will he find Faith on the Earth f" Luke xviii. 8 :
H And

^8- ' Of THE Last Jodcment,
And alfo that then there would be no Charitfy
" In the Confummation of the Age Inquity fhaU be
"multiplied, the Charity ef many fhall grow cold;
" and this Gof pel fhall be preached to all the World -^
"and then fhall the End come," Matt. xxiv. 12,,
14. The Confummation of the Age is the Laft
Time of the Church : The fucceffive States of the
Declenfion of the Church with Refpeft to Love
and Faith, are defcribed by the Lord in that
Chapter, but they are defcribed by mere Cofre-
fpondences ; and therefore the Things which are
there predidled by the Lord cannot be under
ftood, unlefs the fpiritual Senfe correfpondir^
with every Particular be known ; for which Rea
fon it has been given me from the Lord to ex
plain tht whole Contents of that Cffrapter, and
Part of the next, which treat of the Confumma-
tion of the Age, the Coming of the Lord, and the
fucceffive Vaftation of the Church, and of the
Laft Judgment, as may be feen in the Arca
na CcpxESTiA, n. 3353 to 3356, 3486 to 3489,
3650 to 3655, 3751 to 3759, 3897 to 3901,
4056 to 4060, 4229 to 4231, 4332 to 4335,'
4422 to 4424, 4635 to 4638, 4661 to 4664,
4807 to 4810, 4954^0 4959, 5063 to 5071. ,
36. Something fliall now be faid in Relation
to this Point, that there is no Faith where there is
no Charity: It is imagined that there is Faith fo
long

AND The Destruction of Babylon. 59
long as the Dodlrinals of the Church are bdievcd
in, confequently that they have Faith who fo be
lieve ; but Faith does not confift in merely be
lieving, but in willing and doing what is believed.
When the Dodlrinals of the Church are only be
lieved, they are not in the Life of Man, but mere
ly in his Memory, and thence in the Thought of
his external Man ; neither do they enter into his
Life, until they enter into his Will, and thence
into his Adlions ; theii for the firft Time is Faith
in Man's Spirit, for the Spirit of Man, the Life
of which is his real and true Life, is formed from
his Will, and fo far from the Thought, as this
proceeds from the Will : The Memory of Man,
and Thought thence derived, is only the outer
Court that leads to the real Man. Whether we
fay Will or Love, it amounts to the fame Thing,
for whatever any one wills, that he loves, and
what, he loves, that he wills; and the Willis
the Receptacle of Love, and the Underftanding;
whofe Province it is to think, is the Receptacle
of Faith. A Man may know, think, and under
ftand many Things, but fuch Things as do not
accord with his Will or Love, he rejedls, when
left tohimfelf to meditate from his own Will and
from his own Love ; and therefore he alfo rejedls
them after the Life of the Body, when he becomes
a Spirit ; for that only remains in a Man's Spirit,
which has. entered into his Will or Love, as ob-
H 2 ferved

'^Q Of the Last Judgment, ¦
lerved above j other Things after Death are re
garded as foreign, and having no Place in his
Affedlions, are entirely rejedled, and even abj
horred. But the Cafe is otherwife, when a Man
not only believes the Dodlrinals of the Church
derived from the Word, but alfo wills them, and
lives according to them ; then Faith takes Place ;
for Faith is the Affedlion of ^ruth derived from
the Love of Truth for it's own Sake, and to love
or will Truth for it's own Sake, is the real fpiri
tual Principle in Man, being diftindl from his
natural Principle, which confifts in willing Truth,
not for the Sake of Truth, but for the Sake of
Self-Glory, Reputation, and Wealth ; but Truth,
confidered abftradledly from fuch Things, is fpi
ritual, being in it's Effence Divine ; wherefore to
will or defire Truth for the Sake of Truth, i^
likewife to acknowledge and love what is Divine "•
Thefe two are perfedlly conjoined, arid are alfo '
(Confidered as one in Heaven, for the Divine Pro
ceeding from the Lord in Heaven is Divine
Truth, as may be feen in the Treatife on Heaven
and Hell, n. 128 to 132 ; and they are Angels in
the Heavens, who are recipient thereof, and bring
it forth in their Lives. Thefe Obfervations are
made, in Order to fhew, that Faith does not con
fift in barely believing, but in willing and doing,^
and confequently that there is no Faith where
2 there

AND THE DeSTRITCTION OF BaBYLON. 61
.there is no Charity ; Charity or Love confifts in
willing and doing.
37. That at the prefent Day Faith is fo very
rare, that it can fcarcely be faid there is any, ap*
peared evident from many, as well among the
Ltarned as the Simple, who after Death were ex
amined as to what Faith they pofleffed in the
World, and it was found that every one fuppofed
Faith to confift merely in believing, and perfua-
ding themfelves that fuch or fuch a Thing was
true ; and the more learned among them thought
it was only a Belief from Truft and Confidence,
that they are faved by the Pafllon of the Lord,
and his Interceflion : It was alfo found, that fcarce
any Perfon knew, that there is no Faith where
there is no Charity or Love ; nor did they even
know what Charity towards their Neighbour was,
or the Difference between thinking and willing ;
the greater Part of them entirely rejedled Charity,
declaring that it availed Nothing, but Faith alone.
Whien they were told that Charity and Faith
are one, like Will and Underftanding, that Cha
rity refides in the Will, and Faith in the Under
ftanding, and that to feparate the one from the
other, is Uke feparating the Will and the Under-
jftanding, they had no Comprehenfion of the
Matter : Hence it was evident, that there is fcarce
any Faith at the prefent Day. This was alfo
proved

63 Or THE Last Judgment,
proved to them by lively Experience ; they whon
were in the Perfuafion^that they had Faith, were
led to an Angelic Society, which was principled
in genuine Faith, arid then, on a Cbmrnunicatioh
taking Place, they clearly perceived, that they
poffefled no Faith ; as they likewife confefTed in
the Prefence of many. The fame was alfo made
manifeft by other Means to thofe who profefTed
Faith, and fuppofed they believed, and yet had
not lived the Life of l-aith, which is Charity ;
every one of whom confeffed they had no Faith,
becaufe there was Nothing thereof in the Life of
their Spirit, but only in their external Thought
while they lived in the Natural World,
38: Such is the State of the Church at this
Day, namely, that there is no Faith therein be
caufe there is no Charity, and where there is no
Charity, there is Nothing of fpiritual Good, for
that Good is folely derived from Charity : It was
faid from Heaven, that there is ftill Good in fome
Individuals, but that it cannot be called fpiritual
Good, but natural Good, by Reafon that eflfcntial
Divine Truths are in Oblburity, and Divine
Truths introduce to Charity, for they teach it,
and regard it as their End ; hence the Quality of
Charity is always determined by the Truths which
give it Form and Exiftence. The Divine Truths,
from which the Dodlrines of tjie prefent Churches are

and ,the Destruction of Babylon. 6^3
are derived, refpedl Fa|ith alone, wherefofe they
are called the Dodlrines of Fait h,(i and have no
Regard to Life ; yet Truths that only regard Faith
and not Life, cannot make Man fpiritual; for fo
long as they are without Life, they are rnerely
natural, being known and thought of only as
other common Matters : Hence it is, that at this
Day there is no fpiritual Good, but only natural
Good in certain Individuals. Moreover,- every
Church at it's Commencement is fpiritual, for it
.takes it's Rife from Charity ; but in Procefs of
Time it declines from Charity to Faith, and then
from an Internal Church becomes External ; and
when this is the Cafe, it is at an End, or no lon
ger a Church, inafmuch as the Whole of Religion
is then made to confift in Science or Knowledge,
and little if any Thing in Life; and in Proportion
as Man from Internal becomes External, fo is
fpiritual Light darkened within him, to fuch a
Degree, that he does not fee Divine Truth from
real genuine Truth, or from the Light of Hea
ven, which is the fame Thing, but only from na
tural Light, which is of fuch a Nature, that when
alone, and not enlightened by fpiritual Light, it
fees Divine Truth as in the Dark, bel.eving it to
be Truth for no other Reafon than merely be
caufe it is fo called by the Leaders of the Church,
and received as fuch by the Conimonaity : Hence
^it is, that the intelkaual Faculty of fuch Perfons cannot

^4 Of th* Last Judgment,
cannot be illuminated by the Lord, for in Pro
portion as natural Light fhines in the intelledlusd
Part, in the fame Prbportion fpiritual Light i«
obfcured : Natural Light fliines in the intellec-
tual Part, ;when woridly, corporeal, and earthly
Things are loved in Preference to Things fpiri
tual, celeftial, and Divine; in the fame Degree j
alfo is Man external.
39. But whereas it is not known in the Chrif
tian World, that there is no Faith where there is
no Charity,* nor in what Charity towards our
Neighbour confifts, nor even that the Will con-
ilitutes the real Man, with only fo much of'
.Thought as is derived from the Will; therefore,
in Order to bring thefe Matters into the Li^
of the Underftanding, I {hall here add fome Ex-
tradls from the Arcana Ccelestia, which may
ferve for Illuftration.

JExTJRACTiS

A^B i'iijE DESTRiJbfi&^ bF Babylon. ' 6|
feXTRACtS tROsl^THE IrCANA'
C&I#ESTIA; •
jrSONGERNiNG FAITH. Tkt they whb
^'^ do not krioW that all Things in the Uni-
Verfe haVe Relatioii to Truth and Good, and
to the Cbnjurtdlion of bbth, in Order to the PrO-
dudlion bf any Thingj arc alfo ignOrant that all
Things appiertaining to the Church haveRfelatiort
io Faith and LovEi and to the C^undliori of
both, n. 77i 2 to 7762, 9i86i 9224. That all
^Things ill the Univerfe havfe Relation to Truth
and Good, ahd to thfeit Cohjundlioh, n, 245 13
3166, 439OJ 4409, 5232; 7256, 1G122, 1D555.
That Truths havfe Rfefpfedl to Faith, and GOods
to Love, n. 4353, 49^7, 7178; 10367;
That thfcy who do nbt know that fevfei-y Thing
in Man, both in general and in particular; ha»
Relation to the Undjerstanding and the Will^
and to the Conjundlion Of both, in Order that
Man may be Man; are ignorant that all Things
appertaining to the Church have Rtlation td
Faith and Love, and to their Ct^hjuntjion, iri
Order that the Church may eXift in Man, n. 25(31,
7752, 7753. 7754, 9224, 9995, 10122. That
]^an has two FacultieSj one of which is called
.the Underftanding, and the other the^illj
I n. 641,

66 Of the Last Judgment,
n. 641, 803, 3623, ^939- That the Under
ftanding is till Recipif/it of Truths, cohfequently
of thofe Things which ap^ertg^n to Faith ; and
the Will 'the Recipient of Goods, confequently
of what appeiitains to Love, n. 9300, 9930,10064.
That hence it follows, that Love or Charity coni*
ftitutes the Church, and not Faith alone, or Faith,
feparate from Charity, n. 8og, 916, 1798, 1799*
1834, 1844, 4766, 5826.
That Faith feparate from Charity Is no Faith,'
n- 654, 724, 1162, 1176, 2049,-2116, 2340,
2349, 2419; 3849, §868, 6348, 7039, 7842,1
9782, That fuch a Faith perifhes in another:
Life, n. 2228, 5820. That the dodlrinal No
tions concerning Faith alone deftroy Charity,
n. 6353, 8094. That they who feparate Faith
from Charity are reprefented in the Word by
Cain, by Ham, by Reuben, by the Firft-born of
the Egyptians, and by the Philiflines, n. 3325:,'
7097. 7317, 8093. That in Proportion as Cha
rity departs, in the^fame Proportion prevails the
Religion refpedling Faith alone, n. 2231. That
the Churgh in Procefs of Time declines from '
Charity to . Faith, and at laft to Faith alone,
n. 4683, 8094. That in the laft Time of the .
Church there is no Faith, becaufe there is no
Charity, n. i 843, 3489, 4649. That they whq
makdWFaith alone to be of a faving Efficacy, ex-
cufe

AND THE DeSTRU»CTION OF BaBYLON. 67
•
cufe an evil Life; and that they who are in a
Life of Evil, have no Faith, becaufe they have
no Charity, n. 3865, 7766, 7778, 7790. 7950,
8694. That they are inwardly in the Falfes of
their Evil, although ignorant of it, n. 7790,
7950. That therefore Good cannot ,be con-
.•joined to them,«n. 89 8 1 , 89 83. That ia another
Life they are in Oppofition to Good, and to
thofe who are principled iri Good, n. 7097, 71 27,
7^17, 7502,^7945, 8096, 8313. That the
OTmple in Heart know what the Good bf Life
is, and alfo what Charity is, better ^han thofe
who are reputed wife; but not what Faith feparate'
»irom Charity is, n. 4741, 4754. '
That Good is the Efre,and Truth the Exiftere
thenfce derived, and thus that the Truth of Faith
has it's Efte of Life froni the Good of Charity,
n. 3049^, 3180^4574, 5002, 9144. Hence that
'the Truth of Faith lives from the Good of Cha
rity, confequently that the Life of Faith is Cha
rity, n. 1 5 89, 1 947, 1997, 2 f 7 9, 4070^ 409 6,
4097, 4736, 4757, 4884, 5^47, 5928, 9? 54,
9667, 9841, 10729. That Faiith has no Life in
Man, when he only knows^ and thinks of the
Things, belonging to Faith, but when he*wills
t'hem, and in Confequence thereof does them,
n. 9224- That the' Conjundlion of the jLord
with Man is not wrought by Faith, but by^fhe
I 2 Life

68 Of the Last Judgment,
Life of Faidi. which is Charity, n. 9380, 10143,
J0153,- 10578," 10645, J0648. "That Worftiip
from the Good of Charity is true Worfliip, but
when proceeding' from,.the Tnjfh of F^ith with
out the'Good of Charity, it is merely an external
Aft, n. 7724. it
That Faith alone, or Faith feparate from Char
rity, is comparatively as ^he Light of. Winter, iii
which, all tlie Subjedls of the Vegetable "Greatipii
are torpi^ and lifelefs, and Nothing ^s prcJ^qced?
but that Faith united with Charity is Comparat
tively as the Light of Spring and Summer, in
which all Things bloffem and produce thel|
Kinds, ri. '223 1 , '3 1 ^6.^ 24;^ 2, 3413. That the
y^intery Light, which; is' that of Faith alpne, is
changed in .^nother Life into thick Darknefs, oq
the Approac:!^ of Light from H?avcn; and tha|
they who;&re,in that faithj, become at; fucl\
Time^ ^lind and jftupid, n. 34152, 3413. That
they \vh9 feparate Fa^th frotn Charity, are ii^
Darknefs, coaj^qipntly ir^ Ignorance, of Trutb^, I
and thereby in Falfes, for Falfes a.re Darknefs,'
n. 918,6. - That they caft themfelves int^ Falfes,
and thenc? into Evils, ri. 3325, 8,0914. The
Errofs ani Falffes into T;vhi,ch they caft themfelves,
n. 47,21, 4739, 4776, 4783, 4925. 7779, 8311,
8765, 9224. That th(f Word is clofed . tp fuclbi
I?.- 1773' 47 83>' 87 8.0. That they do no^ fee 0^.
attend

AND THE DeSTRITCTJON OF BaBYI.ON. 0tOf.
;»tt€nd unto all the Things .which the Lord fo
often fpake concerning Love and Charity, con^.
cerning which fee n. 1Q17, 3416. that thcjr
do not know the Nature either of Good, or of
heavenly Love^ Of of Charity, n.''25P7, 3603,
4136*9995'? ..ThfaV Charity conftitutes the Church, and not
yafh'lepar*ate from Charity,, n. 809, 916, 1798,
17^9,1834,1844. What Degree of Goodnefs
would exift. in the Church, if Charity was re
garded as the principal Conftituent thereof
n. 6269, 6272. TThat the Church would be but
one, .and not dividtd into many, if Charity was
pgarded as the Effential of the -Church ; and
that in fuch Cafe^he Differences which might
pxift as to dodlrinal Opinions^i^ and Matters ret-
lating to extern^ Worfhip, would be of no Ac
count, n. i?S5, 1316, 23155, 2853, 2982, 3267,
3445. 3451, 3452.. That all in Heaven are re
garded from Charity, and none from Faith alone,
P-,.?258, i354»2364. iU^-
That the twelve Difciples of tTie Lord repre
fented the Church at large, as to all Things be
longing to Faith and Charity, in like Manner a$
the twelve Tribes of Jfrael, n. 2129, 3354, 3488,
3858, 6397. That Peter, James, and John, re*
prefented Faith, Charity, and the Goods, of Cha^jf
•^ity, in their Order, n. 3759. That Peter reprq-fente4

no Or the Last- Judgment,
fented Faith, n. 4738, 6000, 6073, 6344, 10087,
105 80. And John the good Things of Cfiarity,
Preface to the i Sth and 2 2d Chapters of Genefis.
That in the laft Times, orlaft State of the Church,
there would be no Faith in the Lord, becaufc no
Charity, is reprefented by Peter's tliree Times
denying the Lord before the C-gck crew ihrice ;
for Peter there in a reprcfcntative Seiife is.I^tli^
n. 6poo, 6073. That Cock-Crowitig, aswmas
Twilight, fignifies in the Word the laft Time of
jhe Church, n. 10134. And that three, or thrice;
fiWnify a Thing complete to it's End, n. 2788,
4495, 5^59> S^9^> 10127. The like is fignified
by what the Lord faid to Peter, when Peter faw
John follow the Lord ; " What is it io thee~,
" Peter f follow thou me, Johntf" for Peter faid of
John, "Whatishir John xxi. 21, 22, n. 10087.
That John refted on the Breaft bf the Lord, be
caufe he reprefented the Goods of Charity,
n. 3934; 1008 1 . That all tha Names of Perfons
and Places contained in the Word fignify Things
abftradled from them, H 4768, 1888,4310,4442,
10329. Concerning CiHarity. That Heaven is dif-
linguifhed into two Kingdoms, one of which is
called the celeftial Kingdom, and the other the
fpiritual ; the prevailing Love in the celeftial
•^Kingdom is Love to the Lord, and is called ce
leftial Love; and the prevailing Love in the
' fpiritual

AND THE Destruction of Babylon. 71
fpiritual^ Kingdom is Charity towards their
Neighbour, and is called fpiritual Love, n. 3325,
3653, 7257, 90°2, 98331 9961. That Heaven
is thus diftinguiflied, fee the Treatife on Heaven
AND Hell, n. 20 to 28. And that the Divine
Principle of the Lord in the Heavens is Love to
Ijim, and Chtirity towards their Neighbour,
ni,ii3 to 19, in the fame Work.
That none can know what Good and Truth
are, unlefs it be known what Love to the Lord
and Charity to our Neighbour are, becaufe all
Good is the Offspring^of Love and Charity, and
all Truth is the Offspring of Good, n. 7255,'
7366. That Charity confifts in knowing Truths,
in willing them, and in being aflTeded with them
for their own Sake, that is, becaufe they are
Truths, n. 3876, 3877. That Charity is an in
ternal Affedlion of adling according to Truth,
and not an external Affedlion deftitute of that
which is internal, n. 2430^^442, 3776, 4899^
4956,8033. Confequently tnat Charity confifts
in performing Ufes for the Sake of Ufes, and that
it's Quality is according to the Ufe, n. 7038,
8253. That Charity conftitutes fne fpiritual
, Life of 'Man, n. 7081. That the whole Word is
the Dodlrine of Love and Charity, n. 6632, 7262. .
That Men at this Day do not know what Charity
ig, n. 2417, 3398, 4776, ,6,63 2, That neverthe
lefs it may be difcovered from the Light of Rea fon,

"7f (^^ THE Last juDdiiENTj
fon, that Love and Charity conftitut^ Mi&i
n. 3957, 6273. Likewife that Good and Truth
accord together, and mutually refpedl each othefi
confequently that Charity and Faith do in' lik^
Manner, n. 7627^
That the Lord is our Neighbourlh the fuprefti^
Senfe, becaufe he is to be loved above all Tilings;
and hence that every Thing derived from hitn, in
which he is prefent, is our Neighbour, confe
quently that Good and Truth are our Neighbour,'
n. !?425, 3419, 6706, 6819, 6823, 8124, That
the Diftindtion of Neighbour is according to thd
Quality of Good, and thus according to the-
Prefence of the Lord,n. 6707, 6708, 6709, 67 lO;
That every ' Man, and every Society, alfo our
Country, and the Church, and in an univerfal
Senfe the Kingdom of the^Lord, are our Neigh
bour; and that to do kind and ferviceable Of
fices to them, according to their feveral States^
from a Love of Goodnefs, is to love our Neigh-'
hour; confequently that the Term Neighbour'
figrafies their Good which we ought to have ae
Heart, n. 6818 to 6824, S123. Thatcivil Good
which confifts in Juftice, and moral Cood which
regards a good Life in Society, ate aHb oat
Neighbour, h. 2915, 4730, 8120, 81 21, 8122'.
That to love our Neighbour does not confiH it*
the Love of his Perfon, but in loving that in bin*
which makes him our Neighbour, confeqnentl/^ Goodt

AND TllE DeSTRIJCTION OF BaBYLON. 73
Good and Truth, n. 5025, 10336. That they
who love the Perfon, and not the Quality within
him which conftitutes a Neighbour, love what is
Eviljas well as what is Good, n. 3 820. And that
they confer Benefits on lihe Wicked as well as on
the Good, when neverthelefs to confer Benefits on
the Wicked, i^ really to injure the Good, and
Confequently cannot be faid to be loving one's
Neighbour, n. 3820, 6703, 8120. The Judge
who punifhes the Wicked in Order to their
Amendment, and that the Good may not be cor
rupted by them, loves his Neighbour, n. 3820,
Si2b, 8121.
That to I0V6 our Neighbour is to do what is
good, juft, and upright in all our Dealings and
Concerns, n. 8120, 81 21, 8122. Hence that
Charity towards our Neighbour extends itfelf,
both in general and in particular, to whatfoever a
Man thinks, wills, and does, n. 8124. That to
do what is good and true for the Sake of Good
nefs and Truth, is to love our Neighbour, n.
1 03 1 o, 1 033 6. That they who do this, love the
Lord, who is our Neighbour in a fupreme Senfe,
n. 9212. That a Life of Charity is a Life in
Conformity to the Commandments of the Lord ;
confequently to live according to Divine Truths,
is to love the Lord, n. 10143, 10153, 103,10,
10578, io%8. K- that

y4 Qf the Last Judgment,
That genuine Charity does ndt claim Merify,
n. 2340, 2373. 2400, 3887, 6388 to,6^:i. Be
eaufe it proceeds from an internal Aifec^on, con.^.
fequently from the Delight of doing Good, n.
2373, 2400, 3 887, 63 8^ 6393. That th^ wbo^ '
feparate Faith from Charity, in another Life hold
Faithy^ and the good Works which they did
merely in an CJiternal Form, as meritorious, n.
2373- That the Dodlrine of the Ancient Church was
the Dodlrine of Life, which is the DoiBrine of
Charity, n.- 2385, 2417, 3419, 3420, 484^
6628. That the Ancients, who belonged to the
Church, rediiced the Goods of Charify into Or
der, and diftinguifhed them into Claffes, giving
to each it's proper Name, arid that herein eoij-
fifted their Wifdorti,' n. 2417, 6629^ 7^5$^ tff
7262, That^thcy, who in the World haVe lived
a Life of Chajrity, are gifted With an immenfe
Increafe of Wifdom and Intelligence in another
Life, n. 1941, 5859. That the Lord flows with
Divine Truth into Charity, becaufe imo the very
eflentia'l Life of Man, n. 2363. That Maw'
is comparatively as a Garden, when Charity and
Faith are conjoined in him, but as a Dcfcrt whefi
not conjoined, n. 7626^ That Man recedes
from Wifdom, in Proportion as he recedes from
Charity, n. 6630. That they who are not in
Charity^

and IjHE Destruction op IBabylon. 1^5
Charity, are in Ignorance refpe^ing Divine
Truths, «h(^foever wife they may think them-
Telves,i^n.'24i6, 2435. That the Angelic Life
copfifts in performing Works of Charity, which
are Ufes, n. 454. That the fpiritual Angels are
ibrrns of Gharity, n. ^53, 3804', 4735.
Concerning the Wii-t arid the Understand
ing! That there are two Facurties belonging to
Man, one of which is called the Underftanding,
and the other the Will, n. 35, 641, 393^, 10122.
That thofe two Faculties conftitute the real Man,
n. 10076, 10109, loiio, 10364, 10284. That
the Quality of Man is deterinined by the Quality
of thofe two Faculties in him, n. ^7342, 8885,
9282, 10264, 1018I4. That by therri alfo Man
'is diftinguiflied from the Beafts, by Reafoi^ that
the Underftanding of Man may be elevated by
the Lordj fo as to fee Divine Truths, and in like
Manner his Will may be elevated fo as to per
ceive Divine'Goods ; and thus Man may be con
joined to the Lord by thofe two Fatuities, which
are his conftituent Principles ; but that the Cafe
is otherwife with Beafts, n. 4525, 5392, 5114,
($323, 9232. And fince Man, by Virtue of that
.Capacity, is fuperior to Beafts, that l^e cannot die
as. to his Interiors, which belong to his Spirit,
|3ut that he liveth for eyer, n, 5302.
K 2 That

^.

7^ Of the Last Judgment,
, *•* ' ^
That all Things in the Univeife ha,ve Rel^ion'
^to Good and Truth, confequently thajt,?^ Things
in Man have Rela'tion to the Will and the Under-!
ftanding, n." 80^3, 10122. For the Underftanding
is the Recipient of TruEh, a.nd the Will the Reci
pient of Good, n. 3332, 3623, 5332, 6o65»
6125, 7503, 9300, 9930. It amounts to the
fame whether you fay Truth or Faith, for Faith
,\s of Truth, and Trutii is of Faith ; and it is alfo
the fame Thing whether you fay Good or Love,
for Love i? of Good, and Good is of Love ; for
what a Man believe?, that he calls true; and
what he loves, that he calls good, n. 4353, 4997,
7178, 10122, ro367. Hence it follows, that the
Underftanding is the Recipient of Faith, and the
Will the Recipient of Love, n. 7178, 10122,
10367. And fince the Underftanding of Man
is capable of receiving Faith towards God, and
his Will of receiving Love towards God, that by
Faith and Love he may be conjoined to God, an,d
whoever is capable of Conjundlion with God by
Faith and Love, cannot die to Eternity, n. 4525,
6323, 9231'
That the Will of Man is the very EflTe of his
Life, inafmuch as it is the Receptacle of Love or
Good, and that the Underftanding is the Exif
tence of his Life proceeding therefrom, inafmuciti
as it is the Receptacle of Faith or Truth, n. 3619, 5002,,

AND Tip Di:STR15CTI0N OF BaBYLON. 77
59027 9282. Confequen'tly «hat the Life of the
Will is ^ .mnci ijaj Li fe of Man, and that the
Life of tjie Underflaq^ding proceeds therefrom,
"• 585. 59O3 36^9^ 7342. 8885>9282, 10076.
10109, loito.* r^lomparatively as Light pro
ceeds from Fire or Flame, n. 6032, 6314. That
whatever Things enter into the Underftanding,
and at the fame Time into the Will, afe applopri-
ated to Man, but not thofejpvhich are received in
the Underftanding alone, n. 9009, 9069, 9071,
9129, 9182, 9386, 9393, 10076, 1 0109, lOIIO.
fhat thofe Things become appropriated to the
Life of Man, which are received by the Will, n.
•3161, 9386, 9393. Hence it follows, that Man
is Man by Virtue of the Will, and the Under
ftanding proceeding therefrom, n. 8911, 9069,
9071, 10076, 1OJO9, loiio. Every Man alfo
is loved by others, and eftimated according tp the
Good of hi? Will and his Underftanding thence
derived ; for he who intend^ well, and underftands
well, is loved and efteemed, but lie who under..
ftands well, and does not intend well, is rejedled
and defpifed, n. 891 1, 10076. That Man after
Death abideth as his Will is, and it's derivative
Underftanding, n. 9069, 9071, 9386, 10153.
And that whatever Things engage the Under
ftanding, and have not at the fame Time Root in
the Will, then vanifli away, becaufe they are not
jn Man, n. 9282. Or, what amounts to the
fame.

I'g 6r THE LASlf'fVDGSJENjfe
fame, that IVfan after Deajh remains as his Love
is, and it's deriyjttive Haihj or as his^ood and
it's derivative Trjjth ; and,, that the Things per
taining to Faith, and not a^he fame Time to
Love, or the Things pertaining to Truth, and not
^t' the fame Time to Good, then vanifh away, in-
afmuch as they are not in Man, confequently not
belonging to him, n. 553, 2364, 10153. That
"Man is capable of ccimprehending with the Un-
derftaniUlg' what he does not praftife from this
Will, or that he inay underftand what hp cannot
will, becaufe it is againft his Love, p. 3539.
That Man hardly knows the Diftindlion between:
thinking and willing, with the Reafon thereof,
n. 9991.
How perverted a State they are in, whofe Uiw
4etftanding and Will do not aft in Unity, n.
9075. That fuch is the State of Hypocrites, of
the Deceitful, of Flatterers, and of Diffembler§,.
0.4316,3573,4799,8250. That alkWill of Good, and Underftanding of
Truth thence derived, is from the Lord, but not
fo the Underftanding of Truth feparate fron:|, |he
Will of what is Good, n. 1831, 3514, 5483,
5649^ 6027, 8685, 8701, 1 01 53* That it is the
Underftanding which is enlightened by the Lord,
n, 6222, 6608, 10659. That the Underftanding is

A*SD ij^fi ElESrHtfcTibN Of BabyLon. ^if
h e'^htened'irf**Propor|op*as Man receives
Truth wij^l^ Wi^,,t^^%,i^roporEion as J^if
wills to a(3: according, thereto, n. 3619. Thk
i^he UiideflftandiBgy-eceives Irfght from Heaven^
juft as the Eye receives Light from the Worlds
n. 1524,5114, 6608,9128. That the Undc|F
iftnding takes it's Quality fi-omthofe,Ji;uth^ de
rived from Good, of which it is formed; ni
10064. That the Undejftanding is what ig
formed by Truths derived from Good/but no^
what is formed by Falfes derived from Evil, ni
10675. That the Underftanding Qonfifteth in
, feeing, fromi Matters of Experience and Science^
Truths, the Caafes of Things, their Connedlion^
and Confequenccs, in regular Order, n. 6125.
That the Underftanding confifteth in feeing and
perceiving whether, a Thing be true or not, befosc
it is cpnfirmedy but not in being able to confirm
every Tiding, n. 4741, 7012,7680,7950, 8521^
.8780. That to fee and perceive whether a Thing
be true or not before Confirmation, is only given
to thofe who are affefted with Truth for it's own
Sake, confequently to thofe who atti in fpiritual
jLight, n. 852 r . That the Light of Confirmation
is natural Light, and may be poflTefiTed even by
the Wicked, n. 8780. That every Tenet, hojw-
ever falfe, may be Confirmed, even fo as to appear
•Srue, n. 2482, 2490, 5033,- 6865, 795©. '
That

«o Of the LAST^JBpGVEN|5
That all Things**pTdi^ed In^he Re-
velatiori arej.at this,^,ay fmfilleU.'
a" »» 0ntained in the Revelation fignify and
invoTvCi unlefs he is acquainted with the internal
or fpiritual Senfe of the Word; for whatfoever
is there mentioned, is written in a Style fimilar to
the Prophetic Parts of the Old Teftament, where
in every Word fignifies Something fpiritual,
which does not appear in the Senfe of the Letter.
Befides, the Contents of the Revelation cannot be
explained as to their fpiritiial Senfe, except by
one who is acquainted with what has pa^ed rela
tive to the Church, even to it's final Period,^
which Knowledge can only be obtained in Hea
ven ; and this is the Subjedl treated of in the Re
velation : For the Word in the fpiritual Senfe
every where treats of the Spiritual World, that
is, of the State of the Church both in the Hea-^
vens and on the Earths ; hence the Word is fpi
ritual and Divine ; it is this State which is the^
defcribed in it's Order : Whence it may plainly
appear, that the Things contained in the Apo-
calypfe, could never be explained by any Perfon,
except by one, to whom a Revelation has beeii
made concerning the fucceflive States of the
6 . Church

¦ ,i  a „.', :  .... :*. -, ,«
AND the Des*Ructidn bp BA^YLoJir; si
Church in the HeaVens ; for thfete is a Church iri
the Heav'efes as well as on»the Earths, Concerninjg
Which fome Partitula^s fhall be related in whdt
follows. 114^- The Natui-e and Quality of the Lord^s
Church oh the Earths cannot be f^n bV any
Man, fo long as he lives in the Worid, and ftill
iefs, how in Procefs of Tihie it hath declined
from Good to Evil ; the Reafon whereof isj be-
fcaule Man during his Ltfe in the Worid is in
Externals, and only fees what is before his natiiral
Ey'eS; but the Quality of the Church as to fpi
ritual Thitigsj which conftitute it's Internals, is
hot A^patttit in this World, although in Heaven
it appears as in Clear Day-Light ; for the Angels
are in fpirituaf Thought, and alfo in fpiritual
Sight, confequently i;hey fee only fpiritual Things:
Moreover, in the Spiritiial World all Men afe
fathered together who have exifted fince the
Begiiining bf Creatioh, as was fheWn above, and
they are alfo all diftingirifhed thfereihto Societies
{according to rhe Goods of Love and Faith, fee
thie Treatife on Heaven and Hell, n. 41 to 50 ;
he|ite it isj that the State of the Church, and alfo
it's ProjgrefTions, appear manifeft in Heaven before
the Angels. Now inafmuch as the State of the
Church with Refpeit :o Love and Faith is da
fcribed in the fpiritual Senfe of the Book of Reve*
L lationi

j2 Of tHe LAs;r JuD^MEifT,
lation, therefore fto one can kfiSw what is fignified
and implied by the Gpntents therec^ in regular
Series, excep|,him who has received a Revelation
from Heaven, and to whom it has been'given at the
fame Time to know the internal or fpiritual Senfe
of the Word. This I can pofitively aflTert, that
every Particular therein, even to a fingle Word,
contains'^ithin it a fpiritual Senfe ; and that in
this Senfe, all Things appertaining to the Church,
in Regard to it's fpiritual State from Beginning!
to End, are fully defcribed : And whereas every
Expreffion. therein fignifies Something fpiritual,
therefore not a fingle Word can be omitted, with
out the Series of Things in the internal Senfe
fuffering a Change thereby ; for this Reafon the
following Words are added at the- Conclufion of
that Book, " If any one fhall take away from the
" Words of the Book of this Prophecy, God will take
" away h.is Part from the Book of Life, and from
" the Holy City, - and from the Things which are
'* written in ihis Book," Chap. xxii. 19, The
Cafe is fimilar in Regard to the Books of the
Old Teftament, wherein every. Circumftance re
corded, and every Word, contain an internal or
fpiritual Senfe ; wherefore neither can. any W)rd
be taken away from them, without injuring the
internal Senfe : Hence it is, that by the Divine
Providence of the Lord thofe Books have been
preferved entire even to a Tittle, ever fince the
Time

AND THE Destruction of ,Babylo% 8j
Time they were firft written, which was effedled
by the Careof feveral of the Learned, who have
numbered every minute Particular. therein; this
was provided by the Lord on Account of the
Siandlity in every Poipt, Letter;j Word, and Thing
therein contained. ,
42. As, there is in like Manner an imernal or
fpiritual Senfe in every Word of the Book of Re-
v^iadbn, and as that Senfe contains Arcana rela-
tive to the State of the Church in the Heavens
ahd on the Earths, and fince they cannot be re
vealed to any one, except to him who is acquainted
with that Senfe, and who at the fame Time is
permitted to be in Confort with Angels, and to
hold fpiritual Conyeffation with theip, therefore,
.l§ft the Things which are written in that Book
ihould , be hijdden from Mankind,, and be re-r
jedled by Pofterity by Reafon of their not being
i^nderftood^ It's Contents have been revealed to
me ; but on Account of their Multiplicity, they.
cannot be defcribed in this fmall 'freatife : For
j^hich Reafon I intend 10 explain the Whole of
that Book from Beginning to End, and make,
known the Myfteries therein contained : . Which
Expfication will be publiflied within the Courfd
of two Years, together with fome Paffages in
Daniel, which, through Ignorance as to the fpi-.
4tual Sehfej haVe hitherto lain conceale^.
" ¦ '¦ L 2 43. With-

$^ O^ THE Last ^\ipG^ti<^¦tl
43. Without a Knowledge of the internal or
fpirituaf Senfe, it is ilhpdffible to guefs what i^
mejint in the "Book of Revelation by the Dragon,
a^nd by Michael and his Angels fighting with
him; or what by the Tail whereby the Dragor|
drew down frorn Heaven a third Part of the
Stars ; or by the Woman who brought forth the
Man Child, which was caught up to God, and
who was perfecuted by the Dragon, o'r by the
Beaft afcending from the Sea, and the Beaft'
afcSndin^ from the Earth, which had fo rhariy
Horns ; "or what by the Whore,^ with whom the
Kings of the E^rth committed Whoredom ; or
by the firft and fetqnd Refurredlion, and by the
thoufarld Years ; or what hy the Lake of Fire
and Brimftone, into which the Dragon, the Beaft,
and the falfe Prophet y?ere caft ; or by the^
White Horfe : Nor is it poffible, without the fpi
ritual Serife, to tell what is meant by the formeic'
Heaven and the former Earth, which paffecj'
away ; or what by the New Heaven and the
New Earth in the Room of the former ; and by
the Sea which was no more; or what by the City
the New Jerufalcm defcending out of Heaven,
it's Meafures, Walls, Gates, and Foundation of
precious Stones ; or what b) the various Numtnjr^
jftentioned in the fame Book, with other ThingsJ
moft myfterious. to fuch as are igiiorant of the
6 fpiritual

ANP T^E Destruction of Babylon. 8 j
fpiritual Senfe of the Word. But all thefe Par
ticulars will be elucidated in ^he Explication of
the Apqcalypfe prorpffed above^
44, It has been before remarked, that all
Things therein contained in the heavenly Senfe,
are now fulfilled : In the prefent Treatife I fliall
make fome general Obfervations concerning the
Laft Judgment, the DeftrfK^ion of Babylbn, the
firft Heaven and the firft Earth which paffed
^way, the New Heaven and the New Earth, and
concerning the New *Jerufalem, in Order that '\%
jnsy be known that all Things are now accom-
pjifhed : But it is impoflTible to enter into a
minute Derail, until I cpme to explaih eacli
Particular, according to the Deferiptibns given
i^ the Book of Revelation.

Thai

8^ . Of THE .Last Judgment, •
That the Laft Judgment : is accom"
* plifhed,
4^. TT waig jfhewn in a preceding Chapter, that
-^ the Laft Judgment does not take Place in.
8|ife Earths; but in. the Spiritual- World, where ;
alj are colleded together from the Beginning, of i
Creation ; and fuch being^he Cafe, it is impoCr
fible for Man; to know \vhen the Laft Judgments
if accomplifhed, for every one expefls it tO;;
take Place on this Earth, and at the fame Time, ,
that all Things which appegr in the vifible Hea- .
Tens.and ,in the Earths will undergo a Change,
tqgqthef with Mankind who dwell thereon. Left :
t^feforg the , Man, of the Churph fhould from I
Ignorance continue in fuchpAJph, and left they;.
who think concerning the Laft Judgment fhould
cxpedl it for ever, and thereby the Belief of what
is faid about it in the literal Senfe of the Word
fhould perifh, and in Confequence- thereof many
depart from their Belief in the Word, it was
granted me to fee with my Eyes, that the Laft
Judgment is now accompliflied, and that the
Evil are caft into the Hells, and the Good ele
vated into Heaven, and thus that all Things are
reduced to Order, and thereby the fpiritual Equi-
libriijm reftored, which fubfifts between Good
»nd Evil, or between Heaven and Hell. -In what
Manner

AND 7HE Destruction o* BAfivfoN. '87
-Manner the Laft Judgment was accompiifhed, it
was given me to be an Eye- Witnefs from Be
ginning to End, and likewife how Babylon was
deftroyed, and they who are meant by the Dra
gon caft into the Abyfs ; I was further permittai
to fee in what Manner the New Heaven wJis
formed, and a New Church eftablifhed m the
Heavens, which is underftood by the New Jerii-
-falem. All thefe Things it was given me to fdc
with my Eyes, in Order that I might be able to
-teftify of the fame. This Laft Judgment com
menced in the Beginning of the Year 1757, anfl
was fully accompiifhed at the End of the fairie
Year, 46. But it is to be obferved, that the Laft
Judgment was performed on thofe who ha'wc
lived from the Time of the Lord to the prefers:
Day, but not on thofe Who lived before that Pe
riod : For in this Earth a Laft Judgment had
taken Place twice before; one, which is defcribed
in the Word by the Flood ; the other was accom
piifhed by the Lord himfelf when he was in the
World, which is alfo underftood by thefe Words
of the Lord , " Now is the Judgment of this World,
f now is the Prince of ihis World caft out," John
xii. 31 ; and in another Place, " Thefe Things I
" have fpoken unto you, that in Me ye might ha%^
" Peace ; be of good Cheer,' I have overcome we
''' " WorU,"

^t ^P Tri'fi Last JubiSMfeNfi
*' World," John xvi. 33 ; alfo by thefe Wbirds iii
Ifaiah, " Who is this that cometh from Edom, walh
" mg in the Multitude of his ^irength, great to
^'fave ; I have trodden the Wine-Prefs i^lone, tberei.
^^ fore I have trodden them in my Anger, whemt
** their FiSory is fprinkled upon' my Garments-, for
" the Day of Vengeance is in my Heart, and the Tear
** of my Redeemed is come ;fo he became tbe Saviour,"'
Chap. Ijciii. i to 8 ; and in many other Places;
The Reafon why there has been a Laft Judgment
in this Earth twice before, is becaufe every Judg-i
men! takes Place at the End of tbe Church, as
was fhewn above in it's proper Article ;' and oil
this Earth there have been two Churches, the firft
before the Flood, arid thfe fecond after the Flood ;
the Church before the Flood is defcribed in the
firft Chapters of Genefis by the new Creation of
Heaven and Earth, and by Paradife ; and it's
End by eating of the Tree bf Knowledge, with
the Particulars which follow ; but it's Laft Judgi
ment is defcribed by the Flood, and all accord
ing to the Style of the Word by mere Corref-
pondences; in the internal or fpiritual Senfe
whereof, by the Creation of Heaven and Earth
is meant the Eftablifhment of a jMew Church, aS
inay be feen above in the firft Article ; by Par»i
dife in Eden, the celeftial Wi|fiom of that
iphurch ; by the Tree of Knowledge, Scientifics
V(Hiipi> deftroyed that Church, the fame being
fignified

And the Destruction op Babylo^? §9
•
fignified by the Serpent; and by the Flood is
meant the Laft Judgment on thofe who were of
that Church.. The; fecond Church, which was
after the Flood, is alfo defcribed in feveral Places
in the Word, as Deut. xxxii. 7 to 14 ; and elfe*
where. This Church extended itfelf throiigh a
great: Pa|t of Afia, an^ was continued among the
Pofterity of Jacob ; it's End was when the Lord
camej:nto the World; then the Laft Judgment
was accomplifhet^by him on all who had lived
from the firft Eftablifhment of that Church, and
at the fame Time on thofe who remained of the
firft Church. The Lord came into the World
for this End, that he might reduce to Order all
Things in the Heavens, and by the Heavens all
Things on the Earths, and at the fame Time to
tnake his Humanity Divine, which unlefs he had
done, no one could have been faved. That there
were two Churches on cBis Earth befofe the Com
ing of the Lord, is fhewn in many Places in the
Arcana Ccelestia, as may be feen in the Ex-
tradls underneath ; (/} and that the Lord came
^ into
(IJ That the firft and Moft Ancieiit Church on this Earth
was that which is defcribed in the firft Chapters of Genefis,
and that it was a celeilial Church, and the chief of all the
reft, n. 607, 895, 9^0, 1121, 1122, 1123, 1124^ 2896,4493,
8891, 9942, 10^5. Of the States of thofe in Heaven, who
were of that Chu/ch, n, 1114 to 1125. That they are in
the higheft Degree of Light there, n. 1117. Thatthtfe
M were

^o ¦ Of the Last Judgment,
into the World that he might reduce to Order all
Things in the Heavens,*^ and thereby in the
Earths, and make his Humanity Divine, (m)
The
were various Churches after the Flood, which are termed,;
in one Word, the Ancient Church, n. iisj, 1126, 1127,
1327, 10355. Through what Kingdoms of Afia the An-
cient Church was extended, n. 1238, 2385. The. Nature
of the Members of the Ancient Church, n. 609, 895. That
the Ancient Church was a Reprefentative Church,' n. 519,
521, 2896. The Nature of the Angient Church, when it
began to. decline, n. 1128, The Difference between the
Moft Ancient and Ancient Churches, n. 597, 607, 640,
641, 765, 784, 895, 4493. Of the Churdh that took it's
Rife from Eber, which was called the Hebrew Church, n.
1238, 1241, 1343, 4516,4517. The Difference betwedh ;
th€ Ancient and the Hebrew Churches, n. 1343, 4874. Of
the Church inftituted among the Pofterity of Jacob, or the
Children of Ifrael, n. 4281, 4288, 4310, 4500, 4899, 4912,
6304, 7048, 9320, 10396, 10526, 10531, 10698. That ther '
Statutes, Judgments, and L^ws, which were commanded ]
among the Children of Ifrael, .were in Part like thofe that
.exifted in the Ancient Church, n. 4449. In what Refpeft, ¦
the reprefentative Rites of the Jewiih Church, which was
eftabliflied among the Children of Ifrael, differed from
thofe of the Ancient Church, n. 4288, 10149. That in the
Moft Ancient Church there was immediate Revelation
from Heaven : in the Ancient Church Revelation by Cor-
refpondences ; in the Church among the Children of Ifrael
by an audible Voice ; and in the Chriftian Church by the
Word, n. 10355. That the Lord vvs the God of the Moft
Ancient CJiurch,. and alfo of the Ancient, and was called ,
Jehovahi,. n. 1343, 6848. ,
{mj Tliat th^Lord, ,during his Abode in the World, re;
duced

AND THE Destruction OF Babylon. 91
The third Church on this Earth is the Chriftian ;
mpon this Church, and upon all who fince the
Timd
duced ajl Things to Order both in the Heavens and in the
Hells, n. 4075, 4286, 9937. That the f^ord at that Time
delivered the Spiritual World from the evil Influences of
the Antediluvians, n. 1 266. The Quality and Charafter
of thofe People defcribed, n. 310, 311, 560, 562, 563, 570,
581, 586, 607, 660, 805,808, 1034, 1120, 126510^272.
That the Lord by Temptations and Viftories fubdued the
]p[ells, and reduced all Things to Order, and at the fame
Time glorified his Humanity, n. 4287, 9397. That the
Lord effefted this by himfelf or by his own Power, n. 1 692,
9937. That the Lord alone fought, n. 8273. That hence
the Lord became alone Righteoufnefs and Merit, n. 1813,
2025, 2026, 2027, 9715, 9809, 10019. That thus'the Lord
united his Humanity with the Divinity, ,n. 1725, 1729,
i733j 17375 3318, 3381, 3382, 4286, That the Paffion of
the Crofs was the laft Temptation, snd complete Viftory,
whereby he glorified himfelf, that is, made his Humanity
Divine, and fubdued the Hells, n. 2776, 10655, 16659,^
10829. That the Lord could not be tempted as to his ef
fential Divinity, n, 2795, 2803, 2813, 2814. On which
Account he affumed 3 Human Nature from the Mother,
into which he admitted Temptations, n. 1414, 1444, 1573,
5041,5157,7193) 9315. That he expelled whatever was
hereditary in him from the Mother, and put off the Huma-
nity which he received from her, even fo far as to be no
^nger her Son, and that he put on the Divine Humanity,
n. 2159, 2574, 2649, 3036, 10829. That the Lord faved
Mankind by the Subjygation of the Hells, and the Glorifi-
eation of his Humanity, n. 4180, 10019, 10J52, 10655,
10659) 10828.
Mi

02- Of the Last Jodpn^ent,
'J'jme of the Lord were in the firft Heaven, the
Laft Judgment, of which we 'are now treating;
was accompliflied.
47. In what Manner this Laft Judgment was
executed, canniit be defcribpd in this fmall Worlj
as to all Particulars, becaufe they are niany, biaj
they fliall bp defcribed in the Explication of the
Bbok of Revelation ; for the Judgment wa^ not
only accompiifhed on all who were from the
Chriftian Church, but alfo on all who are called
Mahometans, -and likewife on all the Gei^^riles ot\
this Globe : The Order in which it took Place,
was as follows ; firft on thofe who were of the
Romifli Religion, then on the Mahometans, after
that on the Gentiles, and laftly on the Reformed
pr Proteftants. An Account of the Judgment ot>
thofe who were of the Romifti Religion, will be
giyen in the following Chapter on the Deftrudlioii
pf Babylon : Concerning the Judgment on the
Reformed, fee the Chapter on the former Hea
ven which pafled away : But concerning thp
Judgment on the Mahometans and Gentiles,
Something ftiall be faid in this Chapter.
48. The Arrangernent of all the Gentiles and
People in the Spiritual World, on whom Judg
ment was executed, was feen in the following
Order. .In the Middle appeared collecaed togp-
K ^hef

AND THp DESTRUpTION OF BApy|.0N, 9*
fher they who are called Reformed or Protef,
tants, ?nd there they were alfo diftinguiijied
according to their refpedive Countries; the Ger,
mans towards the North, the Swedes towards the
Weft, the Danes in the Weft, the^Hollanders to
wards tbeEaftand South, a|i the Englifla in the
Middle. Surrounding this middle Part, Adhere
all the Reformed were, ther6 appeared colledled
together they who were of the Popifli Religion,
the greater Part in tfee weftern, and fome ih Se
fouthern Quarter, beyond them were the Mai
hometans, diftinguiflied alfo according to their
Countries, all of whom at fhat Time appeared in
the Weft near the South, Beyond the Mahome
tans were affembled the Gentiles in immenfe
Numbers, who thus formed the outermoft Cir
cuit ; and beyond them again appeared as it were
a Sea, jvhich bounded the whole. The Reafon
why this Arrangement of the Nations was made
according to the Quarters, was, becaufe of it's
Agreement with fhe common Faculty in each of
repeiving Divine Truths ; wherefore in the Spirit
^al World every one is known ftom the Quarter
and Place where he dwells, and alfo, when in So
ciety with feveral others, from his tarrying in
fuch or fnch a Quarter; concerning which Cir,
Cymftance fee the Trea^tife on Heaven and Hell,
n. 148, 149. The Cafe is the fame when they
go from Place to Jlace, for al} J^e Progreffion of
Spirits

^4 Of the Last Judgment,
•*
Spirits is diredled towards the Quarters according
tb the fucceffive States of their Thoughts derived
from the AfFedlions which conftitute their proper
Life : In this. Manner they, of whom we are go
ing to treat, ivere led to their own Places. In a
Word; the Ways iti t^e Spiritual World, wherein
every one walks, are adlual Determinations of the
Thoughts of the Mind ; hence it is, that Ways,
Walkings, and the Uke, in the fpiritual Senfe of
tlK Word, tignky Determiiaitions and Progref-*;
Hons of fpiritual Life.
49. The four Quarters in the Word are called
the four Winds, and the Gathering together of
the Eledl is called a Gathering together from the
four Winds, as in Matthew, whcrg the Laft Judg
ment is treated of, " He Jhall fend his Angels,
" and they fhall gather together the Ele5l from the
"four Winds, from one End of the Heavens, to the
^' other," xxiv. 31. And again, "All Nations
^^ Jhall he gathered together before the Son of Man,
" and he ftiall feparate them one from another, as a
" Shepherd feparate s the Sheep from the Goats, ani-.,
" he fhall fet tbe Sheep on the Right, but the Goats
", m the Left," xxv. 3,1, 32 ; by which is fignified,
that the Lord will feparate thofe who are in
Truths and at the fame Time in Good, from thofe
who are in Truths and not in Good, for in the
fpiritual Senfe of the Word, by the Right is figni, fied

ANi> THE DESTRtJcflOiJ OF BAB:iri,ON. ' ai
*- '•
fied Good, and by the Left Truth ; the fame alfo
is fignified by Sheep and Goats : Nor was the
Judgment executed upon any others, the Wick
ed, who were deftitute of Truths, being in the
Hells long before ; for all fuch as in Heart deny
the Divine Being, and rejecx the Truths of the
Church, are caft down thither aftfr Death, confe- ¦
quently before the Judgment. The former Hea
ven, that paffed away, confifted of thofe whdfe'
were in Truths and not in Good ; and the New*
Heaven was formed of thofe who ire in Truths
and at the fame Time in Good.
50. With Refpedl to the Judgim:nt on the
Mahometans and Gentiles, alluded to albve, it
was executed in the following Manner. The
Mahometans were led from the Places where they
were affembled, which were near the South in the
Weft, by a Way round the Chriftians, from the
Weft by the North to the Eaft, till they came to
the Confines of the South; and in the Way the
Eviljvere feparated from the Good, many of the
foriror'being caft intq, Fens and ftagnated Lakes,
and many difperfed into a certain Defert hpyond
the Lakes ; but the Good were led by the Eaft
to a Land of great Extent near the South, Mjhere
Habitations x^cre allotted them : They who were
led thither were fiach as in the World had ac-
J^nowledged the Lord to l?e the greateft Prophet, and

^ " Of the La^ JUDGMENT;
and the Son of God, and believed that he w^A'
fent by the Father t6 inftrudl Mankind^ and who
at the fame Time had lived a fpiritual moral Life
a<|pording to their Religion. The greater Paft
of them^ when inftrudled, receive Faith in the
Lordi and acknowledge him to be One with the
Father: Communication is alf^ granted them
with the Chriftian Heaven by Means of Influx
from the LOrd,*but they are not commixed, by
Reafon of the different Quality of their Religion*
All of that Heligion, immediately on their com
ing into another Life among thofe of their own
Perfuafion. firft make Inquiry for Mahomet; ne
verthelefs he does not appear, but in his Stead
two Hfiers, who call themfelves Mahomets ;
thefe two have Seats allot|ed them "in the middle
Part under the Chriftian Heaven, to the Left :
-The Reafon why thefe two appear inftead o( Ma
homet, is becaufe all, of whatever Religion they
be, after Death are firft condudled to thofe whom
they worfhipped in the World, for every one's re-*
ligious Principles adhere to him ; but when they
find that t|iey have no Pow^ to help, th^y retire
frqin^hcm ; for no Perfbnxan be withdrawn from
his religious Perfuafioos by any other Means^
than by being firft fuffered to enjoy them. Where
the real Mahomet is, and what his State and Con
dition, and alfo whence the two are who repre- fcnt

AND THE Destruction of Babylon. 97
Tent him, will be fhewn in the Work whfch is
10 Ckpiairi the Revelation.
5 1. -The Judgment on the Gentiles was exe-
ciited nearly in the fame Manner asi-on the Ma
hometans, but they were-^not like them led round
in a Circuit, only a little Way in the Weft, where
the Evil vvere feparated from the Good, and caft
intotwogreat Gulphs, which tended ob-liqucly into
the Deep j but the Good were led above the mid
dle Part where the Chriftians refided, towards a
Land in rhe eaftcrn Quarter, where the Maho
metans were, and Habitations were^^lotted them
behind the Mahometans, and beyond them to a
great Extent in the fouthern Quarter. But fuch
among the Gentiles as.in the World have wor-
fliipped God under a Huan^jn Form, and have
lived a Life of Charity according to their Reli
gion, are conjoined to Chriftians in Heaven, for
they acknowledge and worfhip the Lord more
rhan.the reft; the moft' intelligent of them are
from Africa. The Multitude of Gentiles and
Mahdme,tans that appeared was fo great, that
they could only be numhered^by Myriads, The
Judgment on fo great a Multitude was executed
in the Courfe of a few Days; for every one, on
being let into his own Love and Faith, imme^-
diately receives his Deftination, and is conveyed
-^ thofe like himfelf. ^
N 52. Froii)

gi Of THE Last Judgment,
52. From what has been related, \>he Truth of
the Lord's Predidlion concerning the Laft Jud^
ment manifeftly appears, that " then they fhall
" come from the Eaft and from the Weft, and from
" the Nor-lh and from the South, and fhall fit doVM
* in the Kingdom of God," Luke xiii. 3^

X.X ¦f

AND THJE DES^iltJCTlON OF BaBYLON. 99
Of Babylon j and it's DeftruSlion. .
SJ. "T^HAT all Things, which are predified
-*¦ in the Revelation, are at this Day ful-
¦fillcSfl^ may be feen above, n. 40" to 44'; and that
the Laft' Judgment is already accompiifhed, fee
the Chapter preceding, whCre it is alfo fliewn in
vvhat Mariner the Judgrhent was executed on the
Mahometans and Gentiles : I^ follows now to
declare, how it was acconVplifhed On the Papifts^
who are underftood by Babylon, which is much
treated of in the Revelation, particAarly it's De-
ftiruQion in Chap, xviii. which is th*s defcribed, ,
^ An Angel cried vehemently with a great Voice,
'^''Babylon hath fallen, hath fallen, and is hccome the
^''Habitation of If evils, and the Hold of every foul
" Spirit, and the Cage of every unclean and hateful
" Bird," Verfe 2. But before we relate in what
Manner that Deftrudlion was accompiifhed, we
ihall ' premfe, I. What is underftood by Baby
lon, and tbe Nature and Quality thereof. IL The
Quality of thofe in another Life who are from
Bafeylon. ' III. Where their Dvyellings hfive hi
therto been. IV. The Reafon why they were
there tolerated till the Day of the Laft Judg
ment. V. In what Manner they were deftroyed,
and their Habitations made a Dcff rt. VI. That
fiiCh among them as were in the Affedlion of,
N 3 Truth

i66 Of THE tiASX. -Judgment,
Truth from Good, were preferved. VII. Con
cerning the State of thofe hereafteri vrhcy come
thence from' the Earths [into the Spiritual
Worid].

54. What is underftood .by Babylon, andtbe-^a.^
iur'e and ^lality thereof. .By- Babylon are under
ftood all they, who by Means of Religion 4cfire
to bear Rule ; to rule by,Reljgion, is to rule.oyer
the Souls of . lyien, confequently over their, very
fpiritual Life, ^nt} to. ufe the, Diyine Things
which appertain \o Religion. as Means to promote
that End, All they who.hwke Dorainioa. their
End, and Religion as .a Means conducive, thereto*
fconftitute Babylon in general. The Rca.fon ^((hy
they are tailed Babyjoij. is, .becaufe in ancient
Times fuch Dominion began.to take Place, but
was deftroyed at it's Commeocemqit : It's firft
Rife is defcribed by a City and a Tower, whofe
Head might rea.ch ,tQ-I|jpaveA;^ and it's Deftruc;-
tioii is defcribed by the C^^ufion -qf • Topgije-^)
whence it obtained the.Name.BABEi,, Gen. xi. i tcj
9 ; what is underftood by every Particular- thet^,«
ih the internal or fpiritual 5«ife of theWoirdi
may be feert explained in-the Arcana CcE,LEST4At
h.,1283 to" i3'28. That fuch Dominion W3§
alfo begun and eftablifhed in Babylon, is eyiden|
in Daniel, where it is faid pf Nebuchadnezgar,
"that he fet. up an Im?.ge, which all AiomI^ vyor- fhip,

And tHe Destruction of Babylon.

i©r

-ibip, Chap. iii. i to tbe End : It is alfo undera
flood by Belftiazzar and his Lords drinking out
of the Veflels of Gold and Silver, which Nehiri
cbadnezzar carried from the Temple of Jerufa-
leni, and at the fame Time worfhipping Gods
of Gold, Silver, Copper, and Iron ; wherefore it
was written on the Wall, " He hath numbered, he
f' hail weighed, he hath divided -f and the King
Jiimfelf was flain the fame Night, Chap. v. i to
t^he End : By the Veffels of Gold and Silver from
th'e Temple of^Jerufalem, are figt^fied the Goods
and' Truths' of the Church J by-driaking out of
them,, and at the fame Time worfhipping Gods
of 'Gold. Silver,' Copper, and Iron, , is fignified
Profanation; and by the Writing on*the Wall
alnd by the Death of the King,' is fignified Vifi*
tation and Deftrudlion, denounced againft thofe
who ufed Divine Goods and Truths as Means
whereby to obtain Dominion oyer the Souls of
Men. The Nature and .Quahty of , thofe who
are called Babylon^ is alfo defcribed in the Pro.-
Phets jhroiigiiput ; :4s in Ifaiah, " Thou mayeft
"iMe up ihis Parable concerning the. King of Baby-
"'''' Ipnf Jehovah hath broken the Staff of the Wicked
" the Sceptre of the Rulers : Thou haft~ fallen from
** Heaven, 0 Lucifer; Ibou art cut^ down eventojbe
*' -^^^'^ ' ^^°^ haft fa/din thy Mind, IwUlafcend
" into the Heavens, I will exalt my Thronf above the
" Stars of GodJ'and f will fit on lh9Iylpuntai^, qf
" the

162 Of the Last JuocMENTi
«' the Congregation, in the Sides of the North, Tilftll
" become like the Moft High. Tel thou Jhalt be caft
" down into Hell, tv the Sides of the Pit ; / will
" cut off from Babylon the Narne and the Refidue^
" and I will appoint her that fhe may be anhsredi^
" tary Pofejie^' for the Bittern," xiv. 4, 12, 13,
14, 15, 22. Again, in the fame Prophet, " The
" Lion faid, 'Babylon hath fallen, hath fallen, and
" all the graven Images of her' Gods are caft down^'*
xxi. 9. Again, in Chap. Xlvii. 1 to the End.
Chap-, xlviii. 14 to 20. And in Jeremiah,.Chap.
1. I-, 2, 3. Hence nbw it appears, what is the
Nature and^ Quality of Babylon. 'It is to be ob
ferved, thjO; the Church becomes Babylon, when
Charity and Faith ceafe,' and the Love of Self
begins to reign in their Place ; for in Proportion
as this' Love is left unreftrained, it burfts forth,
fo as 'to afpTre at Dominion not only over all on
Earthj'vvhom it can fubjedl to itfelf, biit alfo over
Heaven;'"ne'ither does it reft there, but climbs
tip ev-ien to the Thrphe of God, and transfers to
itfelf his Divine Power. ,That this was alfo ,tl^t
Cafe before the' Coming of the Lord, appears
from the Paffages above cited. But that Bc^byc
•Ion was deftroyed by the Lord, when hie was in
the World, as well by his fuffering them to.ba*
come mci^ Idolaters, as by the Lafl Judgment
at that Time executed upon them in the Spirit
tual World *¦ This "is underftood by the above
Prophecy,

and the Destruction of Babylon. 103
Prophecy, that Lucifer, who there fignifies Ba
bylon, was Caft into Hell, and that Babylon hath
fallen ; and alfo by the Writing on the Wall, and
by the Death of Belfhazzar; moreover by the
Stone cut out of the Rock, which deftroyed
the Statue, concerning which Nebuchadnezzar
dreamed. 55. But the Babylon, which is treated of in
the Revelation, is the Babylon at this Day, which
took it's Rife after the Lord's Cbming, and which
is well known to be among the Papifts ; This
Babylon is of a more pernicious and criminal
Nature, than that which was before th'4 Coming
of the Lord, inafmuch as it profanes the interior -
Goods and Truths of the Church, which thc-
Lord in Perfon revealed to the World. How
pernicious and inwardly abominable it is, may
appear from the following brief Defcription.
*They acknowledge and worfhip the Lord, with
out attributing to him any Po}ver of faving ; they
^altogether feparate his Divinity from his FIu-
manity, and transfer unto themfelves his Divine
IPower, which belonged to his Humanity ;(k) for
they
(n) That the Church's attributing two Natures to the
Lord, ?ind thi^s feparating his Divinity from his Humanity,
was brought to pafs in a Council, on the Pope's Account,
tbat he might be acknowledged as his Vicar, difcovered
from Heaven, in the Arcana Ccelestia, n, 4738;

r04 ^^ ¦''"'^ Last Judgment,
they remit Sins, they fend to Heaven, theylcjfft
into Hell, they fave whomfbever they pleafe,
they fell Salvation, and thus arrogate to therar
felves what belongs to Divine Power alone; and
whereas they pradlife fuch Things, it follows, that
they make themfelves Gods, every one according
to his Rank, by Trandation from their Head or
Supreme, whom they call the Vicar of Chrift,
even "unto the loweft of their Order; thus' they
¦regard themfelves as the Lord, and worfhip him,
not for his own Sake, but for the Sake ofjthem-
felves. They not only adulterate and falfify the
Word, but they alfo take it away from the Peot.
pie, to prevent their receiving iany Light '-of
Trath ; neither are they fatisfied with this, they
even annihilate it, acknowledging the Edi6ts
4vom Rome to be more Divine, and of fuperior
Authority to the Word ; tlius they fhut up from
every one the Way that leads to Heaven; -.for
.the Way to Heaven, is by the Acknowledgment|,
of the Lord, and by Faith and Love to him, and,|
jhe Word is what teaches the Way ; whence it
follows, that without the Lord, by the Medijim'
•of the Word, there is no Salvation.' The^
^hole Study is direfted to extinguilh the Light
of Heaven, which is from Divine Truth, and to
keep the People in Ignorance ; for the more dd'nft
and grofs their Ignorance is, fo much the more
accepDable is it to them. They extinguifh th?
2 Liglit

AKD THfe Destruction of BABYloNi 1S|
X-ight of Heaven by forbidding the Reading of
the Word, and fuch ,Books as contain Dodlrines
from the Word ; inftituting a Worfhip by Maffes
in a Language no? underftood by the Simple,
and wherein there is no Divine Truth; and be-
fide? they fill the World with their Falfes^ which,
being no better than mere Darknefs, remove and
diffipate the Light : They alfo perfuade the Vul
gar to believe, that they may have Life in their
faith, confequently, that it is fufficient for Salva
tion to depend on the Faith of others, and not on <
their own. Tney moreover place all Worfhip in
a^ holy. External, without any Regard to the Inter-
jial,^l^husj making the Internal as a Something void
p/. Contents, beiiig without the Knowledges of
.Good and Truth ; when neverthelefs Divine
Worfhip is only fo far external, as it is internal,
for tljie former is derived from the latter. Befides
the Things above-mentioned, they alfo introduce
.Idolat:ries of various Kinds ; they make and inul-
tiply Saints, whom they fuffer to be worfhipped
and prayed unto, almoft as if they were fo many
.Gods ;.. they every where expofe . their Idols to
.YieWj.boal^ of the Miracles performed by them,
fet them; up as tutelar Deifies over their Cities,
.Chiirqhes,. and Monafterieis, and account their
very. J^ones taken fycm the Graves, as holy,
which' yet are moft vile and filthy ; thus they
turn the Minds of all from the Worfhip of God,
O to

jo6 Of The Last Judgment,
to the Worfhip bf Men. Further, left any one
Ihould emerge from this Darknefs into Light,
and from idolatrous to Divine Worfhip, they
provide againft it by many Arts ; for they multi
ply Monafteries, from which they fend out Spies
into all Quarters, and place Sentinels ; they alfo
txtort Confeffions from the Heart, which betray
the very Thoughts and Intentions, and if they do
not confefs, they terrify their Minds with Thfeats
of infernal Fire, and the Torments of Purgatory ;
and fuch as dare to fpeak againft the Papal
Throne and their Dominion, , they fhut up in a
dreadful Prifon, called the Inquifition. All this
is done for no other End, but that they may pof
fefs the World and it's Treafures, and indulge
themfelves in their natural Lufts, and become the
greateft,, while the reft of the World are their
Servants : But fuch is not the Dominion of Hea
ven over Hell, but of Hell over Heaven ; for in
Proportion as the Love of Dominion increafes
mth. Man, particularly with the Man of the
Church, in the fame Proportion Hell prevailsll"
That this Love prevails in Hell, and conftitutes'
Hell, may be feen in the Treatife on Heaven and
Hell, n. 551 to 565. Hence it may appear
evident, that there is no Church amongft the Pa
pifts, but Babylon ; for vfherefoever the Lord
himfelf is worfhipped, and the Word read, there,
and there only is the Church. 56. Tbe

and the Destruction of Babylon. 107
56. Tbe Nature and ^ality of them in tbe other
Life^ who are from Babylon, cannot appear to any
one, unlefs it is given him of the Lord to be in
Confort with them, who are in the Spiritual
World ; and as this has been granted to me, I am
enabled to fpeak from Experience, having feen,
he^rd, and alfo converfed with them. Every
Man after Death is in a fimilar Life to thatvvhich
he enjoyed in the Body ; this cannot be changed,
only as to the Delights which proceed from his
Love, which are converted into Correfpondences,
as may be feen in two Chapters in the Treatife on
Heaven and Hell, n. 470, to 484, and n. 485
to 490, The Life of the Perfons now treated qf,
is, in like Manner, altogether of a Nature fimilar
to what it was in the World, attended only with
this Difference, that then the hidden Things of
their Heart are openly manifefted, for they are in
the Spirit, wherein the interior Thihgs appertain
ing to Thoughts and Intentions refide, which in
the World. they had concealed, and covered over
with an holy External ; On the Difcovery and
Jvlanifeftatipn of thefe Things, it is plainly per
ceived, that more than the half of them, who
liave ufurped the Power of opening and Ihutting
Heaven, are downright Atheifts ; but inafmuch
as the Luft of Dominion poflTeflTes their Mind, as
in^e World, founded on this Principle, that all
'Power was given unto the Lord by the Father,
O a which

1(58 Of the Last Judgment,
which; was transferred to Peter, an4 by. a Suc-
ceffion of Order defceiided to the Heads of- the
Church, therefore an Oral/Cohfeflion df the Lord
remains adioined to tlieir A tHeilm ; biit even this
Confelfibnis made by thpm rio longer than while
they can o'btain fome Dqminion. thereby : But as
for the reft' who are riot Atheifts, they are fo de
void of Knowledge,' that they are altogethef igno
rant of the fpiritual Life of Man, of tlie' Means of
Salvation, of Divine Triithsthat lead>l:o'. flea ven,
iand of every Thing relating to celeftial Fafth'and
Love, imagining 'that' Heaven may be'beftbwed
on any one, of vvhatever Quality he, be, mei-ely by
the Pope's Favour. Sjnce every one is. in a fimi
lar Life in the Spiritual World, to what he^was in
the Natural World, with ao Difference at aUTo
long as they are neither in Heaven nor in^Hell,
as may be' feen in the' Treatife on Heaven and
Hell, ri. 453 to 480 ; and as the Spiritual World
•with Refpedl.to it's outward Appearance is' alto
gether likfe the Natural 3y Of Id, n. 17Q 10,176 ;
therefore they live the; fame moral and civil Life
as before, and particularly exercife a fimilar
-- 'i ¦;;,. ., .. '..""¦^': „ i'. ¦ *j. ¦. T ? ; j ... -i«j['- -
Worfhip, inafmuch as, this .takes Root and ad-
heres to a iVtan's inmofl Parts,; nor is it pofljbie
for any one to be withcjrawn therefrom, unlefs Ji?
be in Gpod derived from Truths, and" iri Truths
derived frpm Good ; But this NatimT iwherepf
we a;-e now treating,, is with greatefjSifficulty drawn

AND THE Destruction of Babylon. loa *
cP
drawn from their particular Worfliip that) other
Nations; becaufe they are hot in Cj^qd derived
fi-Oh-.'Truths, arid ftilflefs iri Truths derived 'from
Good; for their 'Truths are 'not taken from'ttie
Word, except a few, Which the/ have falfified by
ai>plying therri to'^Domihion • -^'n Confequence
v^hereof-they are in-Poffeflion ofrib' Good, but
what is fpurious'V fi^r the Quality of'Cfpod is
always according to the Quality of the Tryths of
which it is'-Tdrrii'^d; ' Thefe *6bfer'vatipns arc
made, in Order that it may be 'known, that the
W^if) of this- Na'trbn-is altogether fimilar 'in the
Spiritual World, to what -it Vas iti'the-'NktVral
Worid. Thus much being premifed, I fhalj rip\^
Vclatb fome Pkriicularrs refpifaing tti9i- ^^orSiip
'arid 'Life in thfe Spiritual W<)rid':' They have a
tertain Council or 'Synedriu'm,. inftead ' bf"^ the
Confiftory dt Rome, where the ' 'ifeads of ;;(heir
Church afreirtbife,"'and cdnfuit'' a"B()uf 'vanoiis
Things relating TO their R^^on?^lJ)^ip{$-
iifie Vulgar We tb b'e kept in blffldbb^e'clpc^ tJih
tbteir Donrrinioh eiterid^d • thfe;'Piye w|efe^.'|ii's
Cotmcfl meets is in'iHefOuthe'rrt Qudte5earthe
¦^ft:"But'nb on'e,' who in tlife World "hacl' been
•either a Po'p'e or a Cardinal, ' dares fo enter, hy
Reafon that ^tH^ir Minds' are filled' with an I'dea
«r'Divine Authority",' by having "arrogated to
themfelves,- ^ while' in the '^WbrTc/i %e Lord's
'Frt^er;- Wherefoi-e-as foon 'as 'evef they-pi^efent themfelves

no Of THE Last Judgment,
themfelves there, they are conveyed away, and
caft out into a Defert among their like: But
thofe among them, who had been of a fincere
Mind, and had not ufurped fuch Power from a
confirmed Faith, are in a certain obfcure Cham
ber behind that Council. There is another Con
vention in the weftern Quarter near the South,
.whofe Employment there is to admit the credu
lous Vulgar into Heaven; they there difpofc
round about themfelves feveral Societies, that arc
in various external Delights, in fome of which
they play, in fome they dance, in fome they mo
dify their Features in various Ways expreflive of
Gladnefs and Joy, and in fome they converfe in
a friendly Manner, in this Place on civil Con
cerns, in that on religious Matters, and in other
Places lafcivioufly, and fo on ; into one or other
of thefe Societies, according to the Defire of each
refpedlively, they admit their Clients, and give it
the Name of Heaven : But all of them, after being
there a few Hours, grow weary and depart, for
thofe Pleafures are external, and not internal;
thus many are'withdrawn from the Faith of their
Dodrinc, concerning Admiffion into Heaven.
With Refpedl to their Worfliip in particular, it
is nearly fimilar to their Worfhip in the World;
confifting in Mafles as before, which they utter in
» Language not common to Spirits, but compu||^d
of high-fpuriding'Words, whijh affedl with an
external

AND THE Destruction of Babylon. 1 1 1
external Sandlity and Fear, but which are totally
unintelligible. In like Manner they worihip
Saints, and expofe Idols to View ; yet their Saint?
are no where to be feen ; for all of them, who
fought to be worfliipped as Deities, are in Hell ;
as to the reft, who had not fought to be v^or-
fhipped, they are among common Spirits : This
is known to their Leaders, for they inquire for
them, and on finding them rejedl and defpifc
them; but this they conceal from the People,
that their Saints may be ftill worfhipped as tu
telar Gods, but the Primates themfelves, whp
govern the People, as Lords of Heaven. They
alfo multiply Temples and Monafteries in like
Manner as they had done in the World^ hoarding
up Wealth, and accumulating precious Things^
which they hide in Vaults ; for in the Spiritual
World, as well as in the Natural World, there are
precious Things, and in much greater Abun
dance. They there in like Manner fend out
Monks to entice the Gentiles to their Religion,
and thereby fubjedl them to their Dominion. It i$
cuftomary with them to eredt Watch-Towers in
the Midft of their Affemblies, whereby they may
extend their Sight to all who dwell in the neigh
bouring Parts ; they alfo form to themfelves;
Communications by various Ways and Arts, bo^
with thofe who are near and afar off, binding them
by Covenants, and drawing them over to their own

iii ¦ Of *tiie Last JuDdMEii¥,
f
bwn Party. Such is their State -ihi^eriefal : Bii't
is tb Pari:ictiklfs, there afe mahj of the Prelates
t)f that Religion, who take away all Power from
the Ldrd, arid attribute irtd therhfelves ; ih'Coh-
req'u^ricei:(f which they ackntjwledge no Divine
^temg Whatever ; ftill however in their Externals
they put on the Appearance of San6lity, whic^
neveVthelefs ih itfelf is profane, becaufe in theii:
Internals there is no AcknowTed'gmerit of a Divine
•Pein'^. Hence it is, that by Means of ari holy
"Extefrnal they have Communication with fome
'of the Sbcieries of the loweft fcavieri, aad by
Me^ns of a profane Internal with the Hells, lo
that they rriay be faid to he in feoth; fOr which
Reafon alfo they entice limpregood Spirits, "al-
lottirig them Habitations near "them felves, arid
they colledl tdgether evil Spirits, placing thern
rOurtd about thfelr'Afleriiblies • thris alfo by Means
tff the finiple good Spirits they corijoin them
felves with Heaven, Jtnd by Means of the ev?l
Spirits with Hell; hence it is, tbkt: they can
Attempt the moft, wicked Dbfignsj ^hich they
'effedl flrbhi Hell; for the fimple goPd Spirits,
who Ait in the Ultiiriates of Heaven, look no far
ther than to their holy External, and to thei't
moft holy Adoratibn of the Lord in Externali^,
hot difcerning their abominable Pradlices ; whei-e*
fore they favour them; hence they derive their
gt^eateft SecaMy : But neverthelefs they* all in
Proceft

AND THft Destruction 01' Babylon. ii_j
Procefs of Time recede from their holy External;
and then on being feparated frorri Heaven, they
are caft into Hell. From what has been- re
lated, it may in fome Meafure appear, what is
the Nature and Quality of thofe, in another Life,
who are from Babylon. Btit I ani well aware^ it
-Will be a Matter of Wonder to Men on Earth,
that fuch Things- exift in the Spiritual World,
particularly to thofe who have no other Idea of
Heaven and Hell, and of the State of Man after ¦
Death, than what is vain and empty ; but that
Man is equally a Man after Death as before, that
he lives in Society, dwells in Houfes, attends to
Difcourfes from the Pulpit, performs Offices, and
fees the like Things in that World, as he did in
the Natural World which he left behind him,
may evidently appear from what has been faid
and fhewn in the Treatife concerning Heaven
and Hell.
57. I have converfed with fome of that Nation
concerning the Keys given to Peter, and afked
them, whether they belieVed, that the Lord's
Power over Heaven and Earth was thereby tranf-
ferred to hitn ; which being a fundamental Doc
trine of their Religion, they vehemently infiftcd
upon, faying, that they had no Doubt of it, becaufe
it is plainly and pofitively afferted : But on be
ing queftioned further, if they did not know, that
P in

114 ^^ ^"'^ Last Judgment,
in every Expreffion of the Word there is a fpi
ritual Senfe, which is the §enfe of the Word in
Heaven, at firft they faid, they did not know, but
afterwards they faid they would inquire ; and on
Inquiry they were inftrudled, that there is a fpi
ritual Senfe in every Part of the Word, which is
as diftinSl from the literal Senfe, as fpiritual
Things are from natural Things ; and moreover
they were told, that none of the Perfons men
tioned in the Word, are named in Heaven, but
inftead of them Something fpiritual is there un
derftood ; laftly, they were informed, that by
Peter in the Word is meant the Truth of Faith
appertaining to the Church derived from the
Good of Charity, and that the fame is underftood
by a Rock, mentioned in the fame Paflage with
Peter, for it is faid, " Thou art Peter, and upon
'.' this Rock I will build my Church," Matt. xvi.
1 8, and in the following Verfes ; by which is not
underftood, that any Power was given to Peter,
but that Power is in Trulh derived from Good,
for all Power in the Heavens belongs to Truth
from Good, or to Good by Means of Truth ; and
as all Good and Truth are from the Lord, and
not the leaft Portion thereof from Man, by the
?Words above alluded to is fignified, that all Power
.belongs to the Lord. On hearing this they be
came atigry, and faid, they wiflied to be certified
-whether that fpiritual Senfe is contained in thofe
Words ;

ANa THE Destruction of Babylon. 115
Words ; wherefore the Word which is ufed in
Heaven was given unto them, in which Word
there is not the natural but the fpiritual Senfe,
being adapted to the Ufe bf Angels, who are fpi
ritual ; (that fuch is the Nature of the Word in
Heaven, may be feen in the Treatife on> Heaven
and Hell, n. 259, 261 ;,) when they read ir, they
plainly faw that Peter was not mentioned therein,
but inftead of him Truth derived from Qood,
which proceeds from the Lord.(o) On feeing this,
^ (0) That the twelve Difciples of the Lord reprefented
the Chufch as to all Things belonging to Truth and Good,
or Faith and Love, as in like Manner did the twelve Tribes
of Ifrael, n. 2179, 3354, 3488, 3858, 6397. That Peter,
James, and John, repi'efented Faith, Charity, and the Goods
cf Charity, n. 3750. That Peter reprefented Faith, n. 4738,
' 6000, 6073, 6344, 10087, 10580. That by the Keys of the
Kingdom of Heaven being given to Peter, is fignified that
all Power belongs to Truth from Good, or to Faith from
Charity, which proceed from the Lord, and thus that all
Power belongs to the Lord, n. 6344. That a Key fignifies
the Power of opening and fhutting, n. 9410. That all
Power belongs to Good by Means of Trjaths, or to Truths
derived from Good, which proceed from the Lord, n. 3091,
3563) 6344, 6413, 6948, 8200, 8,304, 9327, 9410, 9639,
9643, 10019, 10182. That a Rock in the^Word fignifiesthe
Lord as to Divine Truth, n. 8581, 10580. iThat all Names
of Perfons and Places in the Word fignify Things and States,
n, 768, 1888, 4310, 4442, 10239. That thofe Names da
not enter Heaven, but are changed into the Things fignified
jthereby, and that they cannot be pronounced in Heaven,
P 2 n. 1S78,

ii6 Of the Last Judoment,
this, they rejefted it with Rage, and were ready
to tear it to Pieces with their T.eeth, if it had
not been inftantly taken "away from them. Thus
they were convinced, akhoiigh againft their Will,^
that the I^ord alone is poflTefled of that Power,
which being Divine, cannot ppffibly be afcribed
to any Man,
58. Where their Dwellings have hitherto been in
the Spiritual World. It was faid above, at n. 48,
that the Arrangement of all the Nations and
People in the Spiritual World was ken as fol
lows : In the middle Part, or Center, appeared
colledled together they who are called Reformed;
•furrounding them were thofe of the Pppifh Re
ligion '; beyond thefe were the Mahometans, and
in the outer Circumference the various Gentile
Nations : Hence it may appear, that the Papifts
¦|vere in the Circuit next round the Reformed,
who conftituted the Center : The Reafon why the
Papifts were next the Reformed, is becaufe they
who are in the Light of Truth from the Word,
occupy the Center ; and fuch as are in the Light
pf Truth from the Word, are alfo in the Light of
|ieavcn, for the Light of Heaven is derived from
Divine*
ts. 1878, 52?5, 6516, 10216, 1028a, How elegant the in-
tetnal Senfe of the Word is, where it confifts of mera
M.inies in the Letter, illuftrated by Exaftiples, n. 158^,

AND THE Destruction of Bapyi,0n. ^ii<n
Pivine Truth, and Divine Truth is contained in
the Word; that the Light of Heaven is from
Divine Truth, fee the Treatife on Heaven and
Hell, n, 126 to 14Q ; and that the Word i^
Pivine Truth, ri. 393 t^ 3 10. From the Center
filfo Light proceeds to the Circumference, and
illuminates it ; 'hence it is, that they who are of
the Popiih Religion, fill the Space immediately
furrounding the middle Part, fpr they have the
Word, which is alfo read by thole who govern in
.ecclefiaftical Matters, though not by the People;
this is the Reafon why Papifts in the Spiritual
World have obtained Habitations for themfelves
round about thofe who are in the Light of Truth
from the Word. -Something fliall now be faid
with Refpe£t to their Situation, before their Dwel
lings were entirely deftroyed," and converted into
a Defert. The greater Part dwelt in the South
and in the Weft, fome few excepted, who dwelt
in the North and Eaft. In the South dwelt:
thofe, who in the World had excelled others in
mental Abilities, and had confirmed themfelves
in the Tenets of their Religion; in the fame
Place alfo dwelt many w'ho had been rich and of
noble Extradlion ; they did not there dwell above
the Earth, but under it, for Fear of Robbers, at
the , Entrances thereto placing Guards. There
\vas alfo a great City in that Quarter, reaching
^Impfl from the Eaft to the Weft, and verging a
little

1 1 8' Of the Last Juogment,
littfe towards the Weft, lituate near the central
Part where, the Reformed were; in this City
abode Myriads of Men or Spirits ; it was full of
Churches and Monafteries ; all the preciousThings
which the Ecclefiaftics had Jseen able to fc rape
together by various Arts, were brought into it,
ahd concealed in their Cells and fubterraneOus
Vaults ; which Vaults were fo artfully contrived,
that none befides themfelves could enter them,
being conftrudted in winding labyrinthal Forms ;
Their Hearts were placed on the Treafures there
accumulated, and they poffefled a Confidence
that they would never be deftroyed to Eternity :
I faw their Vaults, and wondered at the Art they
difplayed in conftrudling and increafing th/sm
without End. Many of thofe who call'themfelves
of the Society of Jefus, (Jefuits) dwelt there, and
cultivated a friendly Intercourfe with the Rich,
who were in the furrounding Parts, Towards
the Eaft in that Quarter, there was a Confiftory,
or Place of AflTembly, where they confulted about
the Enlargement of their Dominion, and -of the
Means of keeping the ' People in blind Obe
dience, of v;hich Mention is made above at n. 56.
Thus much concerning their Dwellings in the
fouthern Quarter. In the North dwelt thofe
who had been lefs famous for their Wit and
Learning, and who had not fo much confirmed
themfelves in their religious Tenets, by Reafon of

AND THE Destruction of Babylon. Ti^
of their poffefling an obfeure Faculty of Difcern-
ment, and confequently being in a blind 'Faith :
Thefe was not fo great a Multitude in this
Quarter, as in the South ; the greater Part of
them refided in a large City, extending in Length
from a Corner of the Eaft to the Weft, and alfo
a little towards the South. This City was like-
wife full of Churches and Moiiafteries ; on the
furtheft Side, near the Eaft, there were many of
various Religions, and alfo fome of the Reformed :
A few Places alfo in that Quarter beyond the
City, were occupied by fome from the Pope's
Dominions. In the East dwelt thofe of them,
who, while in the World, had been in the greateft"
Delight of ruling, and who had alfo been in fome
natural Light ; they appeared there upon Moun
tains, but only in that Quarter fronting the
North, for there were none on that Side fronting
the South. In a Corner towards the North there
was a Mountain, on the SUmmit whereof they
had placed a certain infane Perfon, whom they
could infpire,by Communications of theThbughts,
(a Circumftance well known in the Spiritual
World, but not in the Natural World) to order
whatfoever they pleafed ; him they openly pro
claimed to be the very God of Heaven, appear
ing under a Human Form, and thus they paid
him Divine Worfhip ; this they did, becaufe the
People began to be deftrous of receding from their

ti2d Or the Last jvndMiufi
their idolatrous^ Worfhip, wherefore they dfivifed
this Conceit as a Means of keeping them in Obe-?
dience : That Mountain is what is underftood in
Ifaiah, Chap, xiv.^ 13, by " the Mountain of the
" Congregation in the^ Sides ^ of the North/' and
they who dwelt there on Mountaans, are under
ftood by Lucifer, Verfe,, 1 2 ; for they who were of
the Babylonic Crew in the Eaft enjoyed greater
Light than others, but then it was a Light whic^
they had artfully procured^ to themfelves, There
alfo appeared fome, who were building a Tower
to reach even to the Heaven of Angels; but this
w'as only a Reprefentative of their Machinations j
for in the Spiritual World all Plots and cunning
Devices are vifibly manifefted before thofe who
ftand at a Diftance, by various Things, which
yet havs no real Exiftence with thofe who oc-^
cafion fuch an Appearance ; this Circumftance is
common in that World ; It was, however, thereby
giverrme to know what is fignified by " the Tower
" zthofe Head might be in Heaven, ivhence ibe Place
"was called Babel," Gen, xi. i to 10. Thus
much may fuffice for their Dwellings in the Eaft.
In the West, to the Front, dwelt thofe of the
Romifh Religion, who had lived in the dark Ages^
many of whom refided ilnder .the Earths' of the
Spiritual World, ohe Race or Offspring below
another : The whole anterior Tradl, which fronts
the North, was as it were excavated, and full of
6 • Monaftericsy

And flit Destr^ctiSn of Babylon, fzr
^Monafteries, the.Entra-nps wherifo were through
Caves civer^ at Top, by which they went in and
out ; but they feldom held any Intercourfe with
thofe who lived in the following Ages, being of a
iiflferent Genius, and*-not fo w'icke^ly difpofed;
for intfheir Tiije tl^e was rto Contention with
the Reformed, and eor^^uently tfcey were not fo
much given to Cra^C and Subtlety originating in-
a.^Spiritof Hatred and Revenge. In the w^ern
' i[||arter beyond that Region were rcpiy Moun
tains, upon \vhich the Vl^orft aiid*moft fubtle of
that Natioa dwelt; sgho jn Heart denied |he Di
vine .Being, and yet with their Lips m.ade a
more holy Profeflion, and in Geftures appeared
to warfhip him with nibre Devotion than others ;
tSey,* v/bo refided'f^re, devifed wicked Arts, iii'
t)rder to keep the Vulgar under the Yoke of their
^Gdifernment, and alfo to cofppel others to fub-
mit thereto ; I am not at Liferty to defcribe
thofe Arts, becaufe they are fo abominably
wicked ; in general, they were of a Natiire fim|-
I'ar to thofe mentioned in the Treatife on Hea
ven and Hell, n. 580:- The Mountains on
which they dwelt, are fignified by the feven
Mbuntains in the Revelation, and they themfelves
are defcribed by the Wcmian fitting on the fcar-
„let- coloured Beaft, in till folio wng Words, " J
"faw a Woman filing on a fcarlet-coloured Beafts
"J!ull of Names of Blafphemy, having feven Hsadi '
O "md-

122 Op the Last Jf^DGMENT^
" and ten Horni; fhe haj^on tbe.J^re'head d Naff0
" written, Myftery, Babylon the Great j^lh^Mothir
" of Whoredoms and Abominations of the Earth ;.
" the feven H^s are feven Mount aim ^ on which the-
" Woman ftteth," Chap, scvii. 3,* 5, 9 : By a-
Womari in the internal S^fe is -fignifie^ tlfe
Church,ii(i^ut here in the-Jj^pofitg^Senfe a prOfane
Religion ; by the fcarlet-coloured Beaft is figni
fied the J'rofanation of celeftiai Love ; ^nd |j_
feven MouMains, the profane Lpve of Dominioi
Thus much concerning their Habitations iin the
Weft. The Reafon why they dwe|^ diftindlly
according to the Quarters, is btctule all in the
Spiritual World are conveyed to the Quarter^
and to the Spot in that Charter, correfponc^ng
with their Affe£lions and Loves, and tono omer ;
concerning which Circumftance fee theJTreatife'
on Heaven and Hell, where it treats of, the
Four Quarters in Heaven, n. 141 to 153. In
gentral, all the Confukations of the Babylonians
above-mentioned tend to thi& Point, that they
may bear Rule, not only over Heaven, but alfo
over the whole Earth, that fo they may poffefsi^
both Heaven and Earth, making either liibfer-
vient to the other, as fuits their Purpofe : To
this End they continuall;^devife and publifh new>
Laws and new Articles of Dodlrine; for the fame;
Schemes are purfued in another Life, as had been
fet on Fo.ot in thjs, inafmuch as every one after
' Death

ipm Vt> fHE lilsTtuc^N QF Babylon. | 123
*'tDcafni retaiias the fame^.^.Natui'e and Quality he
poffelfed in the Wflrld, particularly as to Matters
bf Religion. It wal! granted me to hear certain
of their Heads confulting together about a Doc-
*trine, which wife propofed ao be iffued as a Law
to the People ; it confifted of feveral -Articles,
everyone of which h|d for it's End ifejie Domi
nion mer Heaven and Earth, and arrogantly at-
ijtributed all Power to them, and none to the
¦ Lord : Thofe Articles of Dodlrine were after
wards read befdie fome that Avere prefent, and
immediately a Voice was he^rd from Heaven,
faying,, that they were didlated from the loweft
Hell, although it was unknown to them ; which
was moreover confirmed by the following Cir
cumftance ; a Croud of Devils from that Hell,
of a moft black/ and direful Appearance, afcen-
ded, and tore away thofe Articles of Dodlrine
from them, not with their Hands, but with their
Teeth, and carried them down into their own
Hell : The People, who beheld it, were ftruck
with Aftoniftiment,
59. Tbe Reafon why they were toWated there
until the Day of the Laft Judgment, was, becaufe it
is agreeable to Divine Order, that all fh-ould be
faved who can b'e faved," and x\^ they fhould be
preferved even until they can no longer remain
limong the Good ; where,fore all are preferved,
0^2 who

124 ^^ "^^-^ Last .JtjDe|i{ENT^
who can^put oil the Appearance of/piritiiwli^
in Externals, manifefting it in a moral Life, as if
it were adlually therem, vvhatever their Nature
and Quality may be ai^tp Faith and Lp^ inter
nally ; thu§ alfo they are prefervfd, who are in a
holy external Principle, althpughkin none that ia
internal : Such were many qf that Nat|pji, for
- they cpuld difcourfe pioufly with the qpmmon
People, they could pay holy Adoration to the
Lord, they could implant a Principle of Religion
in the Soul, lead the People to think concerning
Heaven and Hell, and keep them in the Pradlice
pf doing Good", by preaching the Neceflity of
Works ; hence they were enabled to lead many
to a good Life, and cotifequently in the Way tp
Heayen ; wherefore alfo many of that Religioq
were faved, though but few of their Leaders ; for
• thefe are fuch as the Lord means by "falfe Pro-
" phets who come in Sheep' si Clothing, but inwardly.
'.' are ravenous Wolves," .Matt, vii- 15 ; by Pfo-
phet^, in the internal Senfe of the Word, areun-
{lerftood they who teach Truth, and thereby lead
^o Good ; but by falfe Prophets, they who teach
Falfes, arid thereby fe^iuce : They are alfo like
^he'Scribes and Pharifees, defcribed by the Lord
in the fpllowirig Word§, " They fit in Mofes'
'.'Seat; all Things that - they bid you obferve, cb-
'i'fcrue and do, but do not according to their Works;,
"for ihey fay, and do not ; all their Works they do,
'Ukat

mV THE DEslRtfCTION OF BaByI-ON. Il^f
'* * ' ' ' ' '' *' " '"
'Uhft they may he/een of Men ; tl?ey fhut up the
^* Kingdom 6f Heavenmgainft Men, but they go tiQt
"in themfelves ; they <^our Widows' Ploufes, for a
" ^rete^ce uttering long Pfayers. Wo mto you
?• Hypocrite^ J* ^^^e clean the Outfide of the Cup
*f and Platter, but within^ they are full of Rapine
" and Iniquity'; Kleanfe firft tbe Infide of the Cup
f ' aM Platter, that tbe Outfide may be clean alfo :
'' Te are like unto zvhited Sepulchres, which dut~
f* w^rdly fppear beautiful, but within are full of
" the Bones of tbe Dead : Thus ye outwardly 'appear
Vjuft to Men, hut within ye are full of Hypocrify
".and Iniquity/' Matt, xxiii. i 1034. Another
Reafon why they were tolerated, is, becaitfe every
pne-after Death retains the fame Religious Prin
ciples which he had imbibed in the World;
wherefore on his firft Entrance into another Life,
]ie is alfo pertpifted the Exercife thereof: Now
the Religious Principles with the Nation here
treated of, were implanted by fuch as had made
J great Pretences to Holinefs both with their Lip^
and Geftures^ and had alfo impreffed in the Peo
ple a Belief, that they were able to fave them ;
for this Reafon, likewife, they were not feparated,
but preferved among thofe of their own Perfua-
fioi^. The chief Caufe of their being kept toge-j
ther is, becaufe from one Judgment to another
"all are preferved who outwardly live like fpiri-
,- tual Men, and who put on the Appearance of
6 Piety

126 Of the Last Judgment,
Piety and Sandlity, as if it proceeded from aaf
internal Principle of Holinefs ; for fuch as thefe
may inftriidl and guide th^imple in Faith and
Heart, who look no ftrther than to what is <ex-,
ternal and apparent to the Eye : Heirce it is, thaP
allof the above Defcription were tolerated from
the Time of the firft Commencement of the
Chriftian Church, until the Day of Judgment ;
(that a Laft Judgment had taken Place twice be
fore, and now again for the third Time, was ftiewn
above ;) the former HeaVen confifted of all .fucli,
and they are the Perfons meant in the Revelation,
Chap, XX. 5, 6, by thofe who were not of the
firft R'^urredlion ; but as they were of the Na
ture above defcribed, thei-efore that Heaven was
deftroyed, and' they of the fecond Refurredlion
were caft out. It is however to be noted, that
they only were preferved, who fuffered themfelvesi
to be governed by civil as well as fpiritual Laws,
fuch being capable of living together in Society ;
but they, who could not be kept within Bounds
by thofe Laws, were not preferved, but caft into
Hell long before the Day of the Laft Judgment,
for Societies are continually purified and cleared
pf fuch. Hence it is, that they who have led an
tmgodly Life, encouraging the common People
to do Evil, and purftiing fuch wicked Arts as
are pradlifed in the Hells, (concerning which fee
fhe Treatife on Heaven and Hell, n. 580) are
caft;

Min The Destruction of Bab-ylon. if.J
fcptft put of Sdcieties, and this by Turns : In like
Manner they who are interiorly good, are re-*
moved from Societies||left they Ihould be conta
minated by thofe who are interiorly evil ; for the
%Good haveQ Perception of the Interiors, and pay
no Regard to Exteriors, only fo far as they are in
¦^Agreement with the Interiors j thefe are fent by
Turns, before the Judgment, to Places of Inftfuc-
tion, (concerning which fee the Treatife on Hea
ven ^nd Hell, n. 512 to 520) and are conveyed
thence to Heaven ; of fuch the New Heaven is
formed, and they are underftood by- thofe who
have Part in the firft Refurredlion. Thefe Ob
fervations are made, in Order to explain Ahy fo
many of the Popifh Religion were toleratsi and
preferved till the Day of the Laft Judgment:
But more will be faid relative to this Circumftance
in the next Chapter, when we come to treat of
the former Heaven which paffed away.
^ 60. In zvhat Manner they were deftroyed, and
their Habitations made a Defert, I ihall here de
fcribe in a few Words, but more at large in the
Explication of the Revelatfen. That the Baby
lon here treated of is deftroyed, no other Mare
can know than he who faw it, and to me it was
given to fee in what Manner the Laft Judgment
was executed and accompiifhed on all, particu-
hs\y on thofe who were from Babylon; where fore

i2t Cir the Last Juij'qMiN-^
fore I fhall give a Defcription thWeof ; this w^
granted me, principally for thi^ Reafon, that ii
might be m^de.knowp to^ the Worid, that all
Things predidled in the Revelation are Divinely
infpired, and that it is a Prophetic ^ook of thi||
Word; for unlefs this were revealed to the World,
and at the fame Time the internal Seoft, difco
vered, which is contained in every ExprefSoii
therein, in like. Manner as in every Expreflion. of
the Prophetic Books of the Old Teftament, that
Book might be rejedled, by Reafon of it's not
being underftood ; the Confequence of which
would be, a Dilbelief and Denial, that the Con.s
tents Apreofdeferve any Credit, or even that any
fuch Thing as a Laft Judgment will ever take
Place ; in \yhich Difbelief they who are of Babylon
would confirm themfelves more than others : Td
prevent, therefore, this from being the Cafe, it
hath pleafed the Lord to make nie an Eye- Wit
nefs. But all the* Particulars that were feen re
lative to the Laft Judgment upon thofe who are
frpm Babylon, or relative to the Deftrudlion of
Babylon, cannot be here adduced, being fo nu-'
merous, that they would fill a Volume ; where*
fore I fhall here only relate fome general Trant
aftions, referving the Particulars foir a Work ex
planatory of the Revelation. Whereas the Ba*
bylonic Nation was eftablifhed and extended over
many Tradls in the Spiritual World, and had
formed

AND THE DeS^TRUCTION OF BaBYLON. 1 2^9
rmed itfelf into Societies in every Quarter
in that World, as was fhewn above, at n. 58, I
fliall regularly defcrifee the Manner in which'
they vi'ere deftroyed in each Quarter.
61. After Vifitation, Deftruftion took Place;
for Vifitation always precedes Deftrudlion; Vifi-
tation is an Examination as to thfeir Quality, and
alfo a Separation of the Good from the Bad, when
the former are taken away, and the latter left be
hind. This was followed by great Earthquakes ;
from which perceiving the Laft Judgment to be
at Hand, a fudden Trembling fcized them all ;
then they who dwelt in the Southern Quarter,
particularly in that great City, of which Mention
is made above at n. 58, were feen to run up and
down, fome endeavouring to efcape by Flight,
fome hiding themfelves in Caves, fome in the
Cells and Vaults where their Treafures were de-
pofited, and fome carrying away thence whatever
they could lay their Hands upon : But after the
Earthquakes there burft forth an Ebullition from
below, which overturned.every Thing in the
City, and in, the Parts adjacent ; after the Ebul
lition ihhre came a ftrong Wind from the Eaft^
wh^:h laid bare, fhook, and overthrew every
Thing from the very Foundations ; then all who
were in that Quarter were brought forth from
every Fart and hiding Place, and caft into a Sea
R of

ijo Of the Last Judgment,
of black Water, to the Amount of feveral My-
riacjs. Afterwards there arofe a Smoke from
that whole Region, as from a great Fire, and at
laft a thick Duft, which was conveyed by the
eaftern Wind to the Sea, and covered it all over ;
for their Treafures were turned into Duft, toge
ther with all thofe Things which they had called
holy, becaufe in their PoflTeffion: The Reafon
•why that Duft covered the Sea, was, becauik
fuch Duft fignifies Damnation. At length there
was feen as it were Something black flying over
the whole Tradl, which had the Appearance of a
Dragon ; a Sign that the Whole of that great
City, and the Whole of that Tradl, was made a,
Defert : The Reafon of fuch Appearance was,
becaufe by Dragons are fignified the Falfes of that
Religion, and by the Place of their Abode is fig
nified a Defert, after it's Overthrow, as in Jerem.
ix. II. Chap. x. 22. Chap. xlix. 33. Mai. i. 3,.
Some were alfo feen to have as it were a Mill-
Stone round their left Arm, w.hich was reprefen
tative of their having confirmed their abominable
Tenets from the Wt)r.d, for fuch is the Signifi
cation of a Mill-Stone ; Hence it appeared what
i^ fignified in the Revelation by thefe Words^
*• An Angel took up a Stone like a great Mill-Stone,
" and caft it into tbe Sea, faying. Thus with Vio.^
" lence fhall Babylon that great City be thrown
" dovxn^ and fhall no more be found," xviii. 21-
But

AND THE Destruction OF Babylon. 131
But they who were of the Aflembly held in the
fame Qtiarter, but nearer the Eaft, wherein they
confulted about the Means of enlarging their
Dominion, and' of keeping the People in Igno
rance, and ibence in blind Obedience, (concern
ing which fee above, n. 58) were not caft
into that black Sea, but into a Gulph, which
opened itfelf to a wide Extent around them, and
a great Depth under them. In this Manner was
the Laft Judgment accompiifhed on the Baby
lonians in the fouthern Quarter, But on thofe
who were in Front in the Western Quarter,
and upon thofe who were ih the Northern
Quarter, where was alfo a great City, the Laft
Judgnient was accompiifhed as follows. After
great Earthquakes, which rent afunder every
Thing in thofe Quarters, even to their Founda
tions, (thefe are the Earthquakes underftood in
the Word, in Matt. xxiv. 7, Luke xxi. 1 1 ; like-
wife in Rev. vi, 12. Chap. viii. 5. Chap: xi. 13.
Chap, xvi. 1 8 ; and alfo in the Prophetic Books
of the Old Teftament, and not aqy Earthquakes
in this Earth) tliere came an EaftJVind from
the South, through the Weft, into the North, and
laid wafte all that Region, firft of all that Part
which was in Front in the weftern Quarter, where :
they -who had lived in the dark Ages dwelt under
the Earths, and afterwards the large City -which
extended from that Quarter all along the North
R 2 to

132 Of the Last Judgment,
to the Eaft, whereby every-Thing was expofed to
View : But whereas there were not fuch Riches
there, no EbulHtion'or fulphurous Fire confum-
ing their Treafures were feen, but only an Over
throw and Deftrudlion, and laftly an Exhalation
of the' Whole into Smoke; for the Eaft Wind
continued blowing to and fro, overturning, de-
ftroying, and fcattering all Things. The Monks
and the common P£ople were led out, to the
Number of many Myriads, when fome were caft
into the black Sea on the Side which fronts the
Weft, fome into the great fouthern Gulph men
tioned above, fome into a Gulph in the- Weft,
and fome into the Hells of the Gentiles; for
they who lived in the dark Ages were partly Ido
laters like the Gentiles : A Smoke was alfo feen
to arife thence, in a Diredlion towards the Sea,
over which it fpread, and covered it with a black
Cruft ; for that Part of .the Sea, into which they
were caft, was incrufted over with the Duft and
Smoke, 'to which their Dwellings and Riches
were reduced ; wherefore that Sea is no longer
feen to exift, but inftead thereof as it were a
black Soil, under which is their Hell. The Laft
Judgment upon thofe who dwelt on Mountains
in the Eastern Quarter, of whom Mention is
alfo made at n. 58, was accomphflied in the
following Manner : Thofe Mountains were feen
to fink down into the Deep, and all who were
upon

and the Destruction of Babylon. 133
upon them were fwallowed up: At the fame
Time he, whom they had placed on one of the
Mountains, and given out to be God, was feen
firft to turn black, then of a fiery Complexion,
and afterwards was caft headlong with them into
Hell : For the Monks of various Orders, who
dwelt on thofe Mountains, aflTerted that he was
God, and themfelves Chrift, and wherever they
¦went they carried this abominable Perfuafion^
that they themfelves were Chrift, Laft of all,
the Judgment was accompliflied on thpfe who
dwelt more remote, and upon Mountains in the
Western Quarter ; thefe are underftood by
the Woman fitting upon a fcarlet-coloured Beaft,
who had feven Heads, which were feven Moun
tains, of whom Mention is, alfo made above at
n. 58 : Their Mountains were likewife feen, fome
of which opened in the Middle with a great Cleft
winding about in a fpiral Form, into which they
who were upon them were caft ; other Moun
tains were plucked up by their Roots, and turned
upfide down, fo, that their Summits and Foun
dations were inverted ; Thofe belonging to this
Quarter who were in Plains, were overwhelmed
and covered as with a Deluge ; but thofe who
were among them from other Quarters, were caft
into Gulphs. The Particulars here related, how
ever, are but few refpedlively to what I faw, a
more circumftantial Account of which fhall bp
5 given

134 ^^ '^^^ Last Judgment,
given in the Explicatibn of the Revelation.
Thefe Things were done and accompHfhed in the
Beginning of the Year 1757. With Refpeft to
the GuLfHS, into which all were caft, except
thofe who were thrown into the Black Sea, therp
are many in Number ; I faw four, one large One
in the fouthern Quarter reaching to the Eaft ;
another in the weftern Quarter reaching to the
South ; a third in the weftern Quarter reaching
to the North ; and a fourth beyond, in a Corner
between the Weft and the North. Their Hells
confift of fuch Gulphs and the Sea. Thefe were
feen, but there are many others, which were not
difcovered to me ; for the Hells of the Babylonic
Nation are diftindl according to the various Pro
fanations of fpiritual Things, which have Refpedl
to the Goods and Truths of the Church.
62. Thus is the Spiritual World now freed
from fuch Spirits, and the Angels are rejoiced
thereat, becaufe they who were from Babylon,
infefted and feduced whomfoever they could, and
in that World more than in this ; for their Crafti-
nefs and Cunning there is more malignant, inaf
much as they are then Spirits, and in every one's
Spirit all his Subtlety and evil Difpofitions lie
concealed ; for it is the Spirit of Man which
thinks, wills, intends, and devifes. On Exami
nation it was found, that many of them believed
Nothing

and the Destruction of Babylon, i j^
Nothing at all, and that their Minds were filled
with the abominable Luft of feducing, the Rich
for the Sake of their Riches, and the Poor for
the Sake of Dominion ; and that, in Order to
obtain tliis End, they kept all in the grofleft Ig
norance, and thus fhut up the Way to Light, and
confequently to Heaven ; for the Way to Light
and to Heaven is Ihut up, when the Knowledges
of fpiritual Things are difperfed by Idolatries,
and' when the Woi-d is adulterated, lightly efteem
ed, and taken away.
6 2. That fuch among ihem as were in tbe Affet-
tion of Truth from Good, were faved. Thofe of
the Popifh Nation who have lived pioufly, and
been principled in Good, though not in Truths,
and yet from Affeftion have defired to know
Triiths, were taken from the reft, and conveyed
to a certain Tradl of the weftern Quarter in
Front, near the North, where Habitations were\
allotted them, and Societies formed ; and more
over Priefts were fent to them from the Reformed,
to inftrudl them from the Word, and as they are
inftrudled they are received into Heaven.
64. Concerning ibe State of thofe hereafter, who
come thence from tbe Earths [into the Spiritual
World']. Forafmuch as the Laft Judgment is
now accompiifhed, "and thereby 'all Things re
duced

I-»6 Of the Last Judgment,.
duced to Order by the Lord, and fuch as were
inwardly good are taken up into Heaven,, and
fuch as were inwardly evil caft into Hell, it is
now no longer allowed them, as heretofore, to
form Confociations below Heaven and above
Hell, nor to hold Intercourfe with other Spirits,
but immediately on their Entrance into the Spi
ritual World, which is the Cafe with every one
after Death, they are entirely feparatedi and after
flaying a certain Time in the Wprld of Spirits,
are conveyed tp their own Places; wherefore
they who profane holy Things, by attributing to
themfelves the Power of opening and fhutting
Heaven, and of forgiving Sins, which yet belongs
folely to the Lord, and who make the Papal
Bulls of equal Authority with the Word, feel?-
ing Dominion as their End, are hereafter in
stantly conveyed into the Black Sea, or into the
Gulphs, where the Hells of Profaners are. But
I was informed from Heaven, that they of the
Romifli Religion, who are of fuch a Nature, pay
no Regard to a Life after Death, becaufe in
their Hearts they deny it, confining their
whole' Attention to the prefent Life ; and that
hence they make no Account of fuch their Lot
after Death, notwithftanding it will endure to
Eternity, but ridicule it as a Matter of no Im
portance. OJ

anB the Destruction of Babylon, "i^f.
Of the former Heaven, and it's ^
¦ Abolition*
65. TT is faid in the Rlevelatibfi', " Ifawagredt
» Jl M Throne, and One fitting thereon, front
*' zvhofe Face the Earth and Heaven fled away, and
" their Place was not found," xx. 11. And after
wards, '* I faw a Nev) Heaven and a Netv Earth ;
," the firft Heaven and the firft Earth had paffed
*' away," xx. i . That by a New Heaven and a
New Earth, and by the paflihg away of the for
mer Heaven and the former Earth, is not uii-
derfteod the vifible Heaven and the Earth which
we- inhabit, but the Angelic Heaven and the
Church, was fhewn in the firft Article of this
Treatife, and alfo in what follows : *For the
Word in itfelf is fpiritual, and thcrej|)re trea^ of
fpiritual Things, which hav^Rtlation*to Heaven
and the , Church ; thefe in the literal SenfCafi
expreffed by natural Things, far natur^ "Fhing*
ferve as a Bafis to thofe which ar€ fpiritual, and
the Word without fuch a Bafis would not be a
Divine Wq^, becaufe it would not be complete;
the naturalTrinciple, which is the laft in Divine
Order, completes interior Things, which arfe
Thihgs fpiritual and celeftial, and caufes them
to fubfift thereoh, asa'Hbufe uponit'sFounc^-
S tion^

138 Of the Last Judgment, •
tion. Now whereas Men have thought from 2
natural, and not from a fpiritual Ground, con
cerning thofe Things which are contained in the
Word, therefore by Heaven and Earth, men
tioned above, and alfo in, other Places in the
Word,, they have underftood no other Heaven
and Earth than thofe which exift in the Natural
World : Hence it js, that every one expedls them
to pafs away and be deftroyed, and afterwards a
New Heaven and a New Earth created. But left
Mankind fhould expedl this for ever, and every
Age look for it in vain, the fpiritual Senfe of the
Word is opened, that all may know what is fig
nified by the Heaven and Earth which were to
pafs away, and what by many other Things con
tained in the Word, which cannot be underftood
fo long as the Mind is confined to natural
Ideas. *
66. Bu«>T)efoi£ we explain what is meant by
the firft Heayen and the firft Earth, it muft be
nbtedi that by the firft Heaven is not underftood
the^Heaven cOTififting of thofe who have become
Asngels from the firft Creation Of thjs World to
the prffent Day, for that Heaven is permanent,
and endures to Eternity ; for all wlto come into
Heaven are under the Lord's Protedlion, and
whofoever is once received by the Lord, can ne
ver be plucked out of his Hands : But by the
firfl

AND the Destruction of Babylon. 139
firft Heaven is meant that which was compofed
of fuch as were not Angeis, and for the greater
Part of fuch as could not become Angels, the
Nature and Quality of whom fhall be defcribecf
in what follows : This is the Heavep, which is
faid to pafs away. It is called Heaven, becaufe
they who were in it, dwelt in F^lowfhip together
on high Places, fuch as Rocks and Mountains,
where they indulged themfelves in Delights fimi
lar to natural Delights,' without any Thing of Spi
rituality within them ; for the greateft Part of
thofe jvho come fi'om the Natural into the Spi
ritual World, imagine that Heaven confifts in
being elevated on high, and' that they tafle of
heavenly Joy, when they are in fuch Pleafures,
qs they enjoyed in the Body : This is the Reafon
why it was called Heaven, but the firft Heaven
which fhould pafs away. ''
67. It is further to b^ obferved, that this Hea^
ven, which is called the firft Heaven, was not
compofed of any that lived before the Lord's
Coming into the World, but only of tnofe wha
have lived fince that Time ; (for, as was fhewp
above, n. 33 to 39, at the End of every T^hurch
^ Laft Judgment takes Place, and then the for-
iner Heaven is abolifhed, and a new one created
or formed ;) for from the Beginning to the End
of the CJiurch all were tolerated who had lived an
S 2 external

140 Of the Last Juogmentt^
*¦ external moral Life, and who had put on the out,
ward Appearance of Piety and Holinefs, thougji
not influenced ~ by any internal Principle, pro
vided their Internals, which are of^he Thoughts
and Intentions, could be kept within Bounds by
the civil and nioral Laws of Society ; but at the
End of the Church their Internals are made ma
nifeft, and then Judgment is executed upon
them. Hence it is, that a Laft Judgment has,
taken Place upon the Inhabitants of this Earth
twice before, and is now accompiifhed for' the
third Tinie, (f) fee above, n. 46 ; fo alfo a for
mer
*
(*) Our Author, in the Arcana Ccelestia, n. 2n8,,
4333> and i" various other Parts of his "Writings, declares,
that a Laft Judgment had. taken Place three Times before,
and confequently that the Judgment accompliflied in the
Year 1 757; was the fourth Laft Judgment on the Inhabitant^
of this Earth, anfwerable to the four Churches, which have
pifted fince the Creation to the prefent Time, namely, the
Moft Ancient, the Ancient, the Jewifh, and the Chriftiati
Church. See alfo the True Christian Religion, ox
UnIversa^l Theology of the New Church, n. 760,
762, 786. Thefe Paffages, however they may appear tQ
clafh with what the Author afferts in the prefent Treatife,'
yet in Reality do not, when rightly underftood; for the
Jewifli or Ifraelititb Church never was a real Church, but
merely the Reprefentative of a Church, and indeed a Kind
of ReftoraMon or Continuation of the Ancient Church
Tvhichhad periled; fo that it could not with flrift Pro,
priety be called^a New Church. See th<j Arcana CaLES-

TI

AND TtiE Destruction of Babylon, 14J
mer Heaven and a former Earth have twice be-»
fore pafled away, and a New Heaven and a Ne\v
jparth been created ; for Heaven and Earth fig^r
pify the Church both in Heaven and on Eartft,
jis was ihewn above, n- 1105. Hence it ap
pears, that the New Heaven sind New Earth
mentioned in the Prophets of the Old Teftament,
are npt the New Heaven and New Earth de
scribed in the Revelation^ but that the former
were eftabliflied by the Lord during his Abode
in the World, and that the latter are now form
ing by Ijim. Concerning the New Heaven an4
New Earth mentioned in the Prophets of the Old
Teftament, it is thus written, " Behold I amabouf
f to create a New Heaven and a New Earth, net-.
V ther Jhall the former be remembered," Ifai. Ixv.
17; and again, "A New Heaven and a Nez^
«' Earth I am about to make" Ifai, Ixvi. 22 ; alfo
jn Daniel,
^lA, n. 4§35, 4899. It is in this Point of View, that the
Author afferts there have been only two Laft Judgment^
prior to that in the Year 1757, which took Place at tho
full Confummation, 6r final Period of the three general
Churches refpeftively, that have exifted on this Globe finca
the Creation, namely the Moft Ancient, the Ancient, (in,.
f lading the Jewifli or Ifraelitifli) and the CKriftian Church,
f fe'?jb,9ve, n. .^Q^ l>fOTE OJ THE TRANSIATOJI,

142 Of the Last Judgment,
68. As we are now treating of the firft Hea,
ven which pafled away, and no other Perfon hasi
any ^Knowledge about it, I fliall give a Defcrip
tion therieof in the following Order : I. Of whom
the firft Heaven confifted. IL The Nature and
Quality of that Heayen, III, In what Manner
it palfed away.
69. Of whom the firft Heaven confifted. The
firft Heavdn v/as compofed of all thofe on whom
the Laft Judgment was accompliflied, for it was
not executed on thofe who were in Hell, nor on
thofe who were in Heaven, nor on thofe who
were in the World of Spirits, (*) (concerniifg ¦ which
{*) It may be neceffary to ej^plain the Meaning of pur At^-
thqr in this Paffage, where he fays, that the Laft Tudgmen,t
was not performed on thofe who were in Heaven, nor on
thofe who were in Hell, nor on thofe who were in the
World of Spirits, nor on any in the Natural World, but
qrJly on thofe, who had formed to themfelves imaginary
Heavens. Thefe imaginary Heavens were on the Summits
pf Mountains an^ RpcHs, ¦yvhofe Found^itions wpre jn thp
World of Spirits ; fp that, ftriftly fpeaking, they were nei
ther in the World of Spirits, npr in Heaven, but between
both ; and therefore, agreeable to thii Idea, it is faid in th?
Revelation, Chap. xii. 9, 12, 13, that the Dragon was caft:
down intOj^he Earth, which fignifies into the World pf
Spirits. Our Author hkewife diftinguilh^s between thp
World of Spirits and the interior Spher^ of ^hat; Wprl,4 ;
(fi^p Ae|.can4 CaLESTiA, n._ 2121 ;) the fprmer being fo
called

AND tMe Destruction of BAfiyioN. 143
Avhich World fee the Treatife on Heaven and
Hell, n. 421 to 520,) nor on any Man while
living in the Body, but only upon thofe who had
¦formed to themfelves a Refemblance of Heaven,
the greater Part of whom dwelt on Mountains and
called becaufe it is the firft Refort of all who pafs from the
Natural into the Spiritual World ; whereas the lattet is the
'Receptacle of fuch Spirits, as have been ihWardlJr wicked
as to their Intentions and Ends of Life, and confequently
were in a fimilar State with thofe who are here faid to con
ftitute the firft Heaven, which paffed away. But in a ge-
heral afid rhore extenfive Senfe, the World of Spirits means
the Univerfal Region between Heaven and Hell, as well the
lower, Part, where all Spirits recently deceafed ard firft col-
lefled together,' as the more elevated Parts, where many had
beeri petmifted to dwell for Ages, and by the Abufe of Cor
refpondences to form to themfelves imaginary Heavens. In
this Senfe it is, that our enlightened Author, in various
Parts of his other Writings, defcribes the Laft Judgtaent as
having taken Place in the World of Spirits, particlilarly in
the Work entitled Apocalypsis Revelata, n. 342,791,
865, 866 ; to which the Reader is referred. Thefe Obfer
vations are made, in Order to obviate any DifHculties which
may prefent thettifelves on a hafty and partial R.eading of
our Autltor's Works; -for however certain Paffages may at
firft Sight appear to militate againft each other, by Reafon
of the different Points of View, wherein the Subjeft Matter
is at different Times centered, it will always be found,
after due and attentive Examination, that the ^e^ft Har
mony and Confiftency run throughout the Whole, and fur-
ilifti an Evidence in Favour of their Divine Authority,
which cannot eafily be withftood. N0T£ OF THB TRANSLATOR,

144 ^^ "^'^ ^^^"^ j'^J'G^^N*,
and Rocks ; thefe alfo are the Perfons wham rfttf
Lord meant by the Goats, which he placed at his
left Hand, in Matt. xxv. 32, 23* and the follow
ing Verfes : Hence it may appear, that the firft
Heaven confifted not only of Chriftians, but alfo
of Mahometans and Gentiles, all of whom had
formed to themfelves imaginary Heavens, in their
refpedlive Places. What was their Nature and
Quality, Ihall now be declared in a few Words :
During their Life in the World, they had lived
in exterrfal Holinefs, deftitute of that which is in
ternal ; and had been juft and fincere in Obedi-*
ence tocivil and, moral Laws, but notin Obedience
to thofe which are Divine ; c^fequently,thcy liad
been external or natural Men, and not internal
or fpiritual Men : They had alfo been acquainted
with the Dotftrinals of the Church, and were ca-
pable^of teaching them, although their Lives
were not in Conformity thereto : Moreover they
had been employed in various Fundiions, and
performed Ufes, but not for the Sake of Ufes.,
Of thefe and fuch like Spirits, out of every Nation
and Peoplethroughout the Earth, who have liv^d
fince the Coming of the Lord, was the firft Hea
ven formed : This Hea veA •'therefore was fimilar
to the World and Church among thofe who do
Good, not for the Sake of Good, but through
Fear of the Law, the Lofs of Charadler, Honouii
©r Gain ; they who do Good from fuch Motive^
6 do

And the DestrItction of Babylon^ 145
do not fear God; b^kit Men, neither do they pof
fefs any Confcience. In the firft Heaven which
confifted of the Reformed, the greater Part be
lieved that Man is faved by Faith alone, without
living the Life of Faith, which is Charity; they >
alfo loved much to be feen of Men. All thefe,
while they were alTociated together, had their In
teriors Ihut, fo that they could not be feen ; but '
when the Laft Judgment took Place, they were
laid open, and then it plainly appeared, that in
wardly they were filled with all Kinds of Evils
and Falfes, t^at they were in Oppofition tq the
Divme Princ^Ie, and that: they were acflually in
Hell: For every ong., after Death is inimed^tely
bound to, or united with fuch as are like himfelf,
the Good to their like in Heaven, and the E' il
to their like in Hell ; but they do rot come
among them, until their Interiors are laid dpen,
for in the mean Time they may be aflbciated with
thofe, who in Externals are like themfelves. Bi t
it is to be obferved, that all who were interiorly
good, or fpiritual Men, were feparated from them,
and elevated into Heaven ; and th'at all who were
not only inwardly but alfo outwardly evil, v gre,
li'kewife feparated from.them, and caft into Hell ;
and this from the firft Period after the Lord's
Advent, to the laft Time, when the Judgment
took Place ; fuch only, as were of the Quality
,above defcribed, being left to form themfelves
T *¦ in^

146 Of the Last JuocirfENty
into Societies, of which tht fi^ft Heaven wilS*
compofed. 70. There are many Reafons why fuch Soeiev
ties or Heavens were tolerated, the principal
whereof is, becaufe by Means of external Holi-
ne(i, and an outward Shew of Sincerity and Juf
tice, they were conjoined with the fimple good
Spirits in the Loweft Heaven, and with thofe who
were ftill in fhe World of Spirits, and not yet
introduced into Heaven ; for in the Spiritual
World all have Communication with each other,
in Cofifequence whereof Conjunftion takes Place
¦ivith|,thofe who are in fimilar Affetflions ; and
the fimple good Spirits, who are in the Ultimate
of Heaven, and in the World of Spirits, princi
pally regard Externals, but ftill they are not in
wardly evil ; wherefore if they had been violently
feparated from the others before the Time ap
pointed. Heaven would have fuffered in it's Ulti
mates, and yet the ultimate Heaven is that whereon
the higher Heavens reft as on their proper Bafis,
That this was the Reafon why they were tolerated
until the laft Time, the Lord teaches in the fol
lowing Words, " The Servants of the Houfeholder
" came and faid unto him, Didfi ibou not fow good
" Seed in thy Field, tvhence then are the Tares?
" and they faid, Wilt thou then that we go and gather
" them Hj|.^ But he faid. Nay, left, ¦while ye gather " up .

AND THE Destruction of Babylon. 147
** up tbe Tares, ye root up alfo the Wheat with themi
" kt both therefore gfow together until the Harvefi,
" and at the , Time of Harveft I will fay to the
*• Reapers, Gather ye together firft the Tares, and
" hind them in Bundles to burn ; but gather ihe
* ' Wheat into the Barn. He that hath f owed tbe good
" Seed, is the Son of Man; ibe Field is the World;
*' the good Seed are the Sons of the Kingdom, the
*' Tares are the Sons of the Evil One ; the Harvift
*' is the Confummation of the Age : As therefore tbe
", Tares are gathered together, and burnt with Fire,
"fo Jhall it be in tbe Confummation of this Age,"
Matt. xiii. 27 to 30, 37 to 42 : The Confum
mation of this Age is the laft Time of the
Church ; the Tares are thofe that are inwardly
. evil ; the Wheat, thofe that are itiwardly good ;
the gathering them together, and the binding
them in Bundles to burn, is the Laft Judgment, [p]
The
(A) That Bundles in the Word fignify the ordejily Ar-
irangement of Truths and Falfes in Man, confequently alfo
the Arrangement of Men in whom Truths and Falfes are,
n. 4686, 4687, 5339, 5530, 7408, 10303. That the Son of
Man is the Lord as to Divine Truth, n. 1729, >733, 2i59»
is628, 2803, 2813, 3255, 3704, 7499> 8S97, 9087. That
/Sons are the Affeftions of 'Truth derived from Good,
11.489, 49<, 533> 2623. 3373> 4»57. 8649. 9807 '> cof^C'
quently the Sons of the Kingdom are thofe who are in the
Affeftions of Truth derived from Good ; and the Sons of
the .Evil One, thofe who are in the Affeftiolispf F«ty
, T 8 derived

148 Os the Last Judgment,
The fame is underftood in that Chapter by the
Lord's Parable concerning the Fifhes of every
Kind which were gathered together, and the good
put into Veffels, but the bad thrown away, con
cerning which it is alfo faid, " So Jhall it be in
*' the Confummation of the Age ; the Angels fijall
" go forth, and feparate the Evil from the Midft of
'' ihe Juft," Vejfe 47, 48, 49 : They are com
pared to Fifhes, becaufe by Fifhes, in the fpiri
tual Senfe of the Word, are fignified natural and
external Men, both good and evil ; what is fig
nified by the Juft, may be feen in the -Reference
below, [q)
fl. What
. derived from Evil ; whence the latter are called Tares, and
the former the good Seed ; for by Tares is fignified the
Falfe derived from Evil, and by good Seed, Truth derived
from Good : That the Seed of the Field is Truth derived
from Good in Man from the Lord, n. 1940, 3038. 3310,
3373) 10248, 10249. That Seed in the oppofite Senfe is
the Falfe derived from Evil, n. 10248. That the-Seed of
the Field is alfo the Nourifhlng of the Mind by Divine
Truth from the Word, and that to fow fignifies to inftruft *i
n. 6158, 92 72. That the Confummation of the Age is the
laft Time of the Church, n. 4535, 10622.
{q) That by Fifties in the fpiritual Senfe of the. Word
are fignifj^d Scientifics, which appertain to the natural or
external Man, and hence alfo natural or external Men,
whether evil or good, n. 40, 991. That Animals of all
KlriSs correfpond with fuch 1 hings as are in Man, n. 45,
#, 24^', TMs 716, 719, 2i;2, 2180, 3519, 928o,.io6oo. That

and the Destruction of BABYtON, 14^
71. What the Nature and ^ality of ihe fif^
Heaven was, wjay be concluded from what nas
been obferved above ; and may alfo further ap
pear froin this Confideration, that they who are
not truly fpiritual by an Acknowledgment of the
Divine Principle, a good Life, andnhe Affedlion
of Truth, and yet appear as if they were fpiri
tual, by an holy External, by Difcoiirfes on divine
. Subjeds, and by Uprightnefs of Bebaviqur for
the Sake of themfelves and the World, when left
to their Internals, rufh into every Enormity a^
cording to their Lufts ; for then Nothing reftrains
them, neither the Fear of God, nor Faith, nor
Confcience ; Hence it was, that they who were
in the firft Heaven, immediately on being let info
, their Interiors, appeared to be conjoined with
the Hells,
7 2 . /b zvhat Manner the firfi Heaven paffed away,
has been already defcribed in the Chapters treat-.
ing of the Laft Judgment on the Mahometans
^nd Gentiles, n. 50, 51, and on the Papifts,
n. 61, 62, ^3, inafmuch as they alfo in their ref-
pedive Places conftituted the firft Heaven : It
remains now to fay Something concerning the
Laft Judgment on the Reforfned, who are alfo
called
That they are called Juft in the Word, to whom the Lord's
i Juftice and Merit m attributed ; but Unjuft, to whom
gelf-Juftkc and Merit is-attribut'ed, n..3648, 5069, 9263,

I^p * Of the Last Judgment,
^lled Proteftants and Gofpellers, or in what
Isfanner the fijft Heaven, which confifted of
them, paffed away ; for, as obferved above, the
Judgment was accompiifhed only on thofe who
compofed the firft Heaven. , Thefe, namely the
Proteftants, after being vifited, and let into theii:
Interiors, were feparated and divided into Claffes
According to their Evils and the Falfes thence
derived, and according to their Falfes and the
Evils thence derived, and then caft into Hells
ftrrefponding with their Lovps ; their Hells were
on every Side furrounding the middle Part, fa^
the Reformed were in th^ Center, roundabout
them were the Papifts, beyond them again were
the Mahometans, and in the outermoft Circuit
were the Gentiles, fee above, n. 48 ; they who
were not thruft into Hells, were caft out into De-
ferts: But certain of them were fent into Plains
in the fouthern and northern Quarters, in Order
that they might form themfelves into Societies,
and by Inftrudion be prepared for Heaven ; thefe
were faved, But in what Manner all thefe
Things were accompiifhed, cannot be particularly
defcribed in this Treatife ; for the Judgment con^-
tinued longer on the Reforrped, than on others,
and was effeded fucceffively from Time to Time ;
and whereas many Things were then feen and
heard, which defcrve to be recorded, I fhall give
an orderly Defcription theicofrin the Explication
pf the Revelation, * Qf

AND trtE Destruction-jOf '^AsylHH. "i ^^
of the State of the World and Churc/fm
hereafter*
73. 'TP'HE State of the World hereafter will h&
-*• altc^ether fimilar to what it has been
heretofore; for that great Change, which took
Place in the Spiritual World, v^ill not produce»
any Change in the Natural World as to it's esd^^
.ternal Form ; and therefore there will be the fame
Order in civil Concerns as before, there will be
Treaties of Peace, and alfo Wars as before, and
other Things which relate to the general and
particular Government of Societies. By the
Lord's faying, that in the laft Times there would
be WarSi and then Nation would rife up agafnft
Nation, and Kingdom againft Kingdom, and that
there would bfe Famines, Peftilences, and Earth
quakes in divers Places, Matt. xxiv. 6, 7, is not
fignified that fuch Thiiigs would take Place in the
Natural Worldi,'but Events correfponding thereto
in the Spiritual World ; for the prophetical Parts
of the Word do not treat of Kiiigdoms and Na
tions on Earth, nor confequently of their Wars, ¦>
_^neither do they treat of Famine, Peftilence, -and
Earthquakes in this Wgrld, but of fuch Things
as correfpond .thereto in the Spiritual World, the
*Nature of which may be feen explained in the
Arcana

ip Of the I-AST JUDGMENt,
Arcana Ccelestia, as quoted below, (r). But
with Regard to the State of the Church, that
ffill not be fimilar hereafter; it will be fimilar
indeed as to external Appearance, but diffimijar
as to internal; in Regard to* the external Ap
pearance, there will be diftind Churches as be-
ffbre-, their Dodrines will be taught as before, and
there will be the- like religious Worfhip among
,|;he Gentiles ; but the*Man of the Church will
^l^ereafter be in a freer State pf thinking about
Matters of Faith, confequently about fpiritual
Things which appertain to Heaven, inafmuch as
fpiritual Freedoiji is reftored; for all Things are
jiow reduced to Order, both in the Heavens and
in the Hells, and all Thought whether concern ing
(r) That Wars in the Word" fignify fpiritual Combats,
n. i'^59, 1664, 8295, 10455. That hence all Arms ufed in
War fignify Something relative to fpiritual Combat, as a
Bow, a Swor,d, a Shield, n. 1788, 2686. That Kingdoms
fignify Churches both with Refpeft to Truths, and Falfes,
n. 1672, 2547. That Nations fignify thofe in the Church,
who are either in Goods or Evils, n.'"'ios9, '159» 1205,
1^258, 1260, 1416, 1849, 4574. 6005, 630^ 7830^ 8054,
831-7S 9320, 9327. That Famine fignifies a Want of the
Knowledges of Good and Truth, n. 1460, 3364, 5277, 5270
*S28i, 5300, 5360, 5376, 5893.' That it alfo fignifies the
Deffelation of the Church, n. 5279, 54>5.5576, 6iio,6i44,i.
7102. That Peftilence fignifies the VaftaUon and Con
fummation of Good and Truth, n. 7102,7505, 7507, 7511.
That Earthquakes fignify Changes in the State of th«
Church, n. 3355.

AND THE DfiStRUCTION OF BABYLOlf. ^ t%
ihg or againft Divine Things cometh by Ihflujt
IthcrefrOm; that which is in Favoiir of Divine
IMngs flowing from the Heavens, wiiile that
which is againft Divine Things flcfweth from the
Hells : But this Change of State Man doth not
notice inhimfelf, for Want of refleding thefeon,-
being totally ignorant of fpiritual Freedom, and
alfo of the Nature of Influx : Neverthelefs it is
IterGeivtdi in Heaven* and ^o by Man himfelf
sker Death. As fpititOal Freedom is reftored to
Man, therefore the fpiritual Senfe of the Word
is now difcovered, and ^thereby interior Di
vine T«^4is revealed; |pr Mart irifthis^ formef
' State before tne Lalt Ju%ment would not have
underftood them, or had they 'been underftood,
he would have profaned them. That Man's Li
berty is derived from the Equilibrium which fub
fifts between Heaven and Hell, and that none can
be reformed except in a State of Freedom, may
be feen in the Treatife on Heaven and Hell,
n. 597 to the End.
74. I have l^d Variety of Gonverfation with
Angels concerning the State of th& Church here-
j^fter, who declared, they knew not future Events,
for diefe were known only to the Lord ; but this
»they knew, that the Servitude and Captivity in
which the Man of the ClTurch has heretofore
been,; is removed, and that now, by Virtue of the
U Freedom

ifn. Pf th;^ Last JiiDGMENt, Sic.
Freedom which is reftored, he is better enabled
to perceive interior Truths, *if defirous thereof,
and thus to become more internal if he is fb dif-
pofed : Bi|t the Angels faid, that nev^helefs
they had but flender Hopes of the Men of the
Chriftian Church, but great Hopes of a certain
Nation far diftant from the Chriftian World, and
thus removed from Infeftators, which Nation is
fuch, that they ca^receive fpiritual Light, and
become celeftial fpiritual Men : They further
added, that at this Day interior Divine Tjpths
are revealed to that •Nation, who alio receive
them in fpiHtual Faithf that is^i" Heart and
Life, and that they worfhip the I.x)rd.

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9. Of the Earths in the Univerfe — & a 6
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JO, The Pfalras of Davidj with a Summary gx-
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'liiarks on the Souls of BealW.and«the Li*j *
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#3# A Summary View of the principal Doftrihes ^
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Swedeabofg — ^  Q i '^
|M. A T?^eatife concerning tlie Laft Judgment^ -
'' ^ iftd' lii^Deftruaion of Baby|gn, which
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Jerufalem in the Rfcvelation ; together*
-with the Form for the Adminftlrat^n* o#
Baptifm and the tloh' Suffer *_  d. f %
J 6. Nine Queries fconcfeillin^ th6 Trinity, &c.
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1 7. A Short Account of the Hon. E. S wedenborg, ' is*
and his Theological WriM^s —  /^ g Q^
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