Arcana Coelestia #13
13. Not all people who are being regenerated reach this state. Some, indeed the majority nowadays, reach only the first. Some reach merely the second, others the third, fourth, or fifth. Seldom do any reach the sixth, and hardly anybody at all reaches the seventh.
Isaiah 7:14-16
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Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
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He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
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For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
