It seems to me that the following works are related to the establishment of
a new church and a new Christian heaven:
• Apocalypse Revealed (1766)
I can see this work as being a kind of transition between
those works related to redemption and those related to the
establishment of a new church
• Conjugial Love (1768)
• Brief Exposition (1769)
Which as noted previously also marks the date of the Second
Coming
• Interaction Between the Soul and Body (1769)
• True Christian Religion (1771)
This divides the Heavenly Doctrines into three broad categories:
• Those related to the preparation for the Last Judgment
Arcana Coelestia
• Those related to redemption
The works published between 1758 and 1764
Heaven and Hell, Heavenly Doctrines, Last Judgment, White
Horse and Earths in the Universe
Doctrine of the Lord, Sacred Scripture, Life, Faith, Last
Judgment Continued, Divine Love and Wisdom and Divine
Providence
• And those related to the establishment of the new church
The works published in 1766 and afterwards
Apocalypse Revealed, Conjugial Love, Brief Exposition,
Intercourse Between Soul and Body and True Christian
Religion
Some general observations about this sequence: The Arcana is full of
marvelous truths. For example, it has the most detailed explanations of the
Lord’s glorification. For the most part, however, the teachings in the Arcana
are scattered. There is not, except for the inter-chapter material, sequential
treatment of doctrine like you find in the later works. This is appropriate for
their role in the preparation for the Last Judgment. Spirits had to be affected
by bits and pieces of the Divine truth before they could be led to see them
in a coherent manner. The same is true for us when we begin the process of
reformation and regeneration.
Once good and evil have been separated (the Last Judgment) these bits
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