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.

10148. 'And there I will meet with the children of Israel' means the Lord's presence in the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'meeting with' as presence, as immediately above in 10147; and from the representation of 'the children of Israel' as the Church, dealt with in 9340.