From Experience

25. FROM EXPERIENCE Because it has been granted me to have consociation with angels, to speak with them, and to see the things that are in the heavens, and also to speak with those who have died - with nearly all whom I have known - I wish to tell something concerning it that I have heard on this subject:

26. Christians for the most part acknowledge three Gods, and they seek for one or another; only they who are in the affection of spiritual truth acknowledge the Lord alone as God.

27. They who acknowledge the Father as separate and as the one only God, worship nature, etc.

28. All the angels from perception acknowledge the Divine.

29. All who in heart acknowledge the Divine of the Lord in His Human, are received into heaven; and the rest cannot be received; the reasons.

30. The Gentiles acknowledge when instructed; and therefore they are received; according to the Lord's words, "They shall come from the east and the west."

31. Mary acknowledged Him for her God and her Lord; this was heard with the living voice.

32. The Papists turned themselves away, and were not able to answer anything, when it was said that no other is meant for the Father than the Lord's Divine.

33. All infants in heaven know no other Divine.

34. No one comes into the New Jerusalem, who does not acknowledge the Divine Human of the Lord.

35. This is meant by the Coming of the Lord in glory.

36. (Read Deut. 33:8, 9; also Zech. 14:9; Isa. 40:3-12; 25:9. Other passages which agree with these may be introduced from the collected passages.)