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that heaven is without one, but that it is within him. (H. H. 54.) — Every man in whom the Lord is present in the good of love and faith, is a church. The same may be said also of a man in whom the church is, as of an angel in whom heaven is; that he is a church in the least form as an angel is a heaven in the least form; and further, that a man in whom the church is, is a heaven equally with an angel; for man was created that he might go to heaven and become an angel. Therefore he who receives good from the Lord is a man-angel. — A man who is a church, is a heaven in the least form after the image of the greatest. — Every man is such [that is, of such a character] as is the ruling principle of his life. — The ruling or governing love with every one, is in each and every particular of his life, thus in all things of his thought and will. (H. H. 57, 58 and notes.) — The church of the Lord, like the kingdom of the Lord in the heavens, has its ground solely in love and charity. (A. C. 809.)

Spiritual good which Israel represents, is the good of truth, that is, truth in will and act. This truth or this good of truth appertaining to man, causes him to be a church. When truth is implanted in the will, which is perceived from the circumstance that a man is affected with truth for the sake of an end that he may live according to it, in this case there is internal good and truth. When a man is in this good and truth, the kingdom of the Lord is then in him; consequently he