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.

7752. EXODUS CHAPTER 11.

TEACHINGS ABOUT CHARITY

All things in the universe have connection with goodness and truth. Things lacking connection with them are outside Divine order; and things lacking connection with the two together are unproductive of anything. Goodness is what produces things, and truth is the means by which it produces them.