It was foretold in the _Apocalypse_ (XXI, XXII) that at the end of the
former Church a New Church was to be instituted, in which this would
be the chief teaching: that God is One in Person as well as in
Essence, in Whom is the Trinity, and that that God is the Lord. This
Church is what is there meant by the New Jerusalem, into which only he
can enter who acknowledges the Lord alone as God of Heaven and earth.

--_Divine Providence, n._ 263

The descent of the New Jerusalem cannot take place in a moment, but
becomes a fact as the falsities of the former Church are removed. For
what is new cannot enter where falsities have previously been
engendered, unless these are eradicated; which will take place with
the clergy, and so with the laity.

--_True Christian Religion, n._ 784


THE ULTIMATE GOAL

Were it received as a principle, that love to the Lord and charity to
the neighbor are what the whole Law hangs on and are what all the
Prophets speak of, and thus are the essentials of all doctrine and
worship, then the mind would be enlightened in innumerable things in
the Word, which otherwise lie hidden in the obscurity of a false
principle. In fact, heresies would be scattered then, and out of many
one Church would come to be, however the doctrines flowing therefrom
or leading thereto, and the rituals, might differ. Were the case so,
all men would be governed as a single human being by the Lord; for all