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Ezekiel 21:19

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19 And you, son of man, have two ways marked out, so that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; let the two of them come out of one land: and let there be a pillar at the top of the road:

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Apocalypse Revealed #925

Studere hoc loco

  
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925. But only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. This symbolically means that the only people received into the New Church, or New Jerusalem, are those who believe in the Lord and live in accordance with His commandments in the Word.

That this is the symbolic meaning of being written in the Book of Life may be seen in no. 874 above, and there is no need to add more here.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.