new church life: march / april 2014
with a man-made organization.
It is essential that we look on the beliefs of others with charity, but there
is natural charity and spiritual charity, the latter being a state of our own
regeneration. We should not become garlanded with religions which are in
falsities.
The statement that the New Church is the crown of churches is a
description of the conjunction of man with the Lord God Jesus Christ in His
Glorified Divine Human. The genuine New Church is the individual who
has regenerated into the new heaven. It is about seeing and loving the Lord
in His glorified Divine Human. The New Church – the crown of churches
– must not be translated into “garland of churches,” for such a description is
about organizations and people on earth. Spiritually, it would be falsifying the
meaning and representation of the Lord and the crown of churches.
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