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.

The creation of heaven and earth in the first chapter of Genesis represents the new creation of the celestial church called 'Man'.

(Mga Sanggunian: Arcana Coelestia 9336, Genesis 1)