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HIS LETTERS TO DR. G. A. BEYER. 169
"II. How soon the New Church is to be expected ?—
Answer. The Lord is preparing at this time a new heaven
of such as believe in Him, and acknowledge Him to be
the true God of heaven and earth, and also look to Him
in their lives, which is to shun evil and do good ; because
from that heaven shall the New Jerusalem, mentioned in
Rev. xxi. 2, descend. I daily see spirits and angels, from
ten to twenty thousand, descending and ascending, who
are set in order. By degrees as that heaven is formed,
the New Church likewise begins and increases. The
universities in Christendom are now first instructed, from
whence will come ministers ; because the new heaven has
no influence over the old clergy, who conceive them
selves to be too well skilled in the doctrine of justification
by faith alone.
"III. Respecting the promised treatise concerning
infinity, omnipotence, and omnipresence ? -Answer.
There are many things interspersed in the Angelic
Wisdom concerning Divine Providence, on these sub
jects, at No. 46–54, and 157 ; also in the treatise On
Angelic Wisdom concerning Divine Love and Divine
Wisdom, No. 4, 17, 19, 24, 44, 69, 72, 76, 106, 156,
318 ; and in the Apocalypse Revealed, No. 961 , and
these will be still further treated on in The Mysteries of
Angelic Wisdom concerning Conjugial Love ; but foras
much as to write a separate treatise on these divine
attributes, without the assistance of something to support
them, would occasion too high an elevation of the
thoughts, I have therefore treated on these subjects in
a series with other things which fall within the under
standing.
" I have with pleasure perused your new Essay on the
Gospels; concerning the first advent, there are fine
interpretations. Here I shall mention the signification
* This excellent work of Dr. Beyer, consists of homilies or
discourses for every Sunday throughout the year, written on the
principles of the New Church ; and in Sweden, by those who
receive the doctrine, is greatly esteemed ; although the author was
much persecuted on that account, and the book afterwards
prohibited.
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