108. In further confirmation of what has been said I will relate the following circumstances, the truth of which I can testify as they came within my own observation. A new angelic heaven is at this day being formed by the Lord of those who believe on the Lord God the Savior, and who approach Him directly, while all others are rejected. Therefore if any one hereafter, coming from a Christian country into the spiritual world, where every man comes after death, does not believe on the Lord and approach Him alone, and cannot receive this doctrine because he has lived an evil life, or has confirmed his belief in falsities, he is driven back at his first approach towards heaven. He then turns away from heaven towards the Lower Earth, to which he makes his way, and there joins those who are meant in the Revelation by the dragon and the false prophet. Moreover, no man in a Christian country who does not believe on the Lord, is now hearkened to: his prayers rise to heaven as foul odors or as breath from diseased lungs. Although he may fancy his prayer is like the cleansing vapor of incense, yet it appears in the angelic heaven like the smoke from a fire which is blown down into his eyes by a driving storm blast, or like the smoke from a censer held under a monk's cloak. This is the case hereafter with all worship which is directed to a divided, not to a united Trinity. The principal object of this work is to show that the Divine Trinity is united in the Lord.

I will here make known this fact hitherto unknown, that some months ago the Lord called together the twelve Apostles, and sent them forth throughout the whole spiritual world, just as He had formerly sent them into all the natural world, with the command to preach this gospel. Each Apostle has his own province assigned to him, and they are now executing this command with all zeal and industry. More will be said concerning this subject in the last chapter of this book, which deals particularly with the Consummation of the Age, the Coming of the Lord, and the New Church.