REGENERATION (pt. 5)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
REGENERATION
(pt. 5)

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No man can be regenerated unless he knows such things as are of the new life, that is, of spiritual life. The things which are of the new life, or which are of the spiritual life, are truths which are to be believed and goods which are to be done; the former are of faith, the latter of charity. These things no one can know from himself, for man apprehends only those things which are obvious to the senses, from which he procures to himself a light which is called natural light, from which he sees nothing else than what relates to the world and to self, but not the things which relate to heaven and to God. These he must learn from revelation.

As that:

• the Lord, who is God from eternity, came into the world to save the human race;
• He has all power in heaven and in earth;
• the all of faith and the all of charity, thus all truth and good, is from Him; that there is a heaven, and a hell;
• man is to live to eternity, in heaven if he has done well, in hell if he has done evil.

(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 177)