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Ezekiel 16:35

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35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:

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Isaiah 14:1

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1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

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Spiritual Experiences #5082

  
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5082. However there are others of the same religion, i.e. Catholics, who worship the Father and do not make much of the Son. They are forward a little to the north on a high mountain and see a certain man with hoary beard on a very high mountain, whom they call God the Father. From him they get commands, even commands to injure people who are not of the Catholic religion. One of them at the command of his colleagues came to me at night in a dream with the intention of injuring me in a dreadful way, at which they are accomplished. But at that instant something like fire from the Lord went out through my eyes, which hit him and knocked him down flat on his back. And when I awoke I spoke with those from whom he had been sent. They said they were on a high mountain and that they had gotten this command from the God the Father, who was on the highest mountain, who had again given the command to destroy me entirely. And when I told them that the one whom they call God the Father was a devil who appeared there, they denied this. They were also shown that the mountain had gaped under him, and he was cast down into hell. However, others appeared as replacements, who were cast down. They said that they knew that those who are there are people, but that God the Father is in them and speaks through them. He appears to sit there on a silver throne. And then when this was looked into, it was found that this is the mountain said to be the mountain of congregation at the sides of the north, where Lucifer is, according to the things said in Isaiah, chapter 19; and so he was Lucifer. And this mountain is at the sides of the north.

They were devils driven by an itching lust to rule who rise up and make themselves God the Father. I read the words of Isaiah before them. The simple-minded among them acknowledged this as true, but not the learned among them such as Jesuits and others, who at heart are atheists. These discussed this, what [the others] were saying, and said that that they would do the same thing, and both persuade the simple that God the Father was there and let such enter on this mountain, which is the mount of the congregation.

[5082] 1/2. A long time after this, a similar one was set up and proclaimed as God the Father; and following [his] exhortation they did not want to stop acknowledging [him]. Therefore an infernal and diabolical [fire] erupted and almost consumed those villainous spirits who had placed such a monster there.

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