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Spiritual Experiences #5544

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5544. This was not a visitation, for these things had often preceded, but it was a matter of orderly arrangement. For in the middle are the best; in the peripheral regions those who are good, by degrees toward the east those who have a clear perception of what is good, to the west those who have a dim perception of what is good; those to the south are those who have clear perception of what is true, those to the north who have a dim at perception of what is true.

  
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Thanks to the Academy of the New Church, and Bryn Athyn College, for the permission to use this translation.

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Last Judgment (Posthumous) #165

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165. [165.] 31. I later saw a great number of people sent from the heavens and also rising up below and left to themselves who were allotted dwellings and habitations - in the east those who were possessed of a clear goodness of love and charity, to the west those who were possessed of a hazy goodness of love and charity, to the south those who were possessed of truths arising from good in a state of clarity, to the north those who were possessed of truths arising from good in a state of haziness - all acknowledging the Lord as God of heaven and earth.

  
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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.