13. Not everyone who undergoes regeneration reaches this stage. Some (the great majority, these days) arrive only at the first stage, some only at the second, some at the third, fourth, or fifth, very few at the sixth, and almost no one at the seventh. 1
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1. Swedenborg describes the seventh stage in the next chapter, which tells what happened on the seventh day of creation. See §§74, 84-88. [LHC]
