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IV.

VARIETY IN THE LORD'S KINGDOM.

IN the Lord's kingdom the varieties in respect to goods and truths are innumerable, notwithstanding they all constitute but one heaven. For the varieties are so numerous that one society is in no case altogether like another, that is, in the same good and truth.

Oneness in heaven is constituted of a number of different things so arranged by the Lord as to be in concord with each other; which concord or harmony of several things is impressed by the Lord in consequence of their all having relation to Him.

The case herein is like that of the organs, members and viscera of the body, no one of which is altogether like another, but all are various; and yet they make one in consequence of their all having relation to one soul, and thereby to heaven, and thus to the Lord; for everything that is unconnected with Him is nothing. Hence it may be seen that the differences of truth and good as to species are innumerable.

They who are of the spiritual church, inasmuch as they have no perception of what is good and true, like those who are of the celestial church, but acknowledge for truth what they have learned from others, are

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