THE

TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION:

CONTAINING

The Universal Theology

OF

THE NEW CHURCH

THE

TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION

CONTAINING

THE UNIVERSAL THEOLOGY

OF

THE NEW CHURCH

FORETOLD BY THE LORD IN DANIEL VII. 13, 14; AND IN
REVELATION XXI. 1, 2

BY

EMANUEL SWEDENBORG

SERVANT OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL LAȚIN EDITION, PRINTED AT AMSTER-
DAM, IN THE YEAR 1771

THIS BOOK IS PRESENTED

BY

L. C. IÜNGERICH,

PHILADELPHIA.

PHILADELPHIA:

J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.

FAITH OF THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW CHURCH IN ITS UNI-

VERSAL FORM AND IN ITS PARTICULAR FORM (n. 1-3).

CHAPTER I.

GOD THE CREATOR.

THE UNITY OF GOD.

(i.) The entire Holy Scripture, and all the doctrines therefrom of

the churches in the Christian world, teach that there is a

God and that He is one..

(n. 5-7).

(ii.) There is a universal influx from God into the souls of men of

the truth that there is a God and that He is one.... (n. 8).

(iii.) For this reason in all the world there is no nation possessing

religion and sound reason, that does not acknowledge a God

and that God is one.....

..(n. 9, 10).

(iv.) Respecting what the one God is nations and peoples have dif-

fered and still differ from many causes.
...(n. 11).

(v.) Human reason can, if it will, perceive and be convinced from

many things in the world, that there is a God, and that He

is one

.(n. 12).

(vi.) If God were not one, the universe could not have been created

and preserved..

.(n. 13).

(vii.) Whoever does not acknowledge a God is excommunicated from

the church and condemned.......

.....(n. 14).

(viii.) With men who acknowledge several gods instead of one, there
is no coherence in the things relating to the church... (n. 15).

THE DIVINE BEING, WHICH IS JEHOVAH.

(1.) The One God is called Jehovah from Esse, that is, because He

alone Is, [Was], and is To Be, and because He is the First

and the Last, the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and

the Omega..
...(n. 19).

(ii.) The One God is Substance itself and Form itself; and angels

and men are substances and forms from Him; and so far

as they are in Him and He is in them, are images and

likenesses of Him.....
. (n. 20).

(iii.) The Divine Esse is at once Esse [Being] in itself and Existere

[Outgo] in itself....
. (n. 21, 22).

(iv.) It is impossible for the Divine Esse and Existere in itself to

produce another Divine, which is Esse and Existere in it-