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 EVOLUTION AND NATURAL SELECTION IN 
 THE LIGHT OF THE NEW CHURCH. 
 
 BY EDMUND SWIFT, JR, 
 
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 During many years' microscopical examination of the 
 lower and minute forms of life the writer, while observing 
 the beauty and variety of their external form, their wonder- 
 fully intricate interior organization, and the perfect adapta- 
 tion of every part of each tiny organism to accomplish its 
 own special work, has frequently been led to inquire into 
 the truth of the widely accepted Darwinian theories of 
 Evolution and Natural Selection. Believing, as he does, 
 after very careful consideration, their entire failure to ac^ 
 count for the existence of the numerous distinct species 
 of plants and animals in the world around us, he ventures, 
 on the basis of New Church philosophy, to lay before the 
 reader a few thoughts on the subject. The information 
 contained in the Writings of Swedenborg of the Divine 
 method and plan of Creation is of a far loftier and more 
 interior character than anything contained in the theories 
 
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 and speculations of our modern scientists, even admitting 
 tlie undoubtedly great value of their essentially scientific 
 investigations, that is, their observations of and reasonings 
 liom proven facts, in which true science consists. 
 
 The theory of Evolution as. taught by Darwin and his t 
 
 disciples is, that some thing or some power created, from 
 material substances, a living germ, and from it, by some 
 law or force inherent in those substances, all other material 
 iorms were evolved or developed without any definite plan 
 or without any necessary sentient all-controlling power. 
 The theory, in a condensed form, has been expressed in 
 the following terms : " That the earliest organisms were 
 the natural product of the interactions of ordinary inor- 
 ganic matter and force. That all the forms of animal and 
 vegetable life were successively developed from the earliest 
 and simplest organit^ms. That man is only a higher animal 
 and the lineal descendant of apes." 
 
 The doctrine of Creation as taught by the system of 
 New Church philosophy may briefly be defined as follows : 
 All substances and forces in the material world are, in and 
 of themselves, inert or dead, but they are continually 
 vivified by the creative life or vital force within ; this life 
 being, primarily, in and from God the Creator, who is 
 Life Itself. All vital forces exist in the spiritual world, 
 which is as a living soul wlthui though distinct from the 
 material world ; even as the soul of man is within though 
 distinct from his material body ; or as the "cause" is within 
 though distinct from the " efi'ect." All substances and f1 
 forces in the material world are " effects" of substances ex- 
 isting, and of forces operating in the spiritual world — the 
 world of " causes ;" spiritual things being media whereby 
 the animating life from God is conveyed to inanimate ma- 
 
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 IN THE LIGHT OF THE NEW CHURCH. 3 
 
 terial things. During the process of Creation, as each suc- 
 ceeding form was created in the spiritual world, or, in other 
 words, evolved from the Divine 31ind, so they were clothed 
 with, or embodied in, corresponding material substances 
 and forms ; all created things, from lowest to highest, being 
 distinct but progressive links in the Divine method and 
 plan of Creation. Thus, though there undoubtedly was 
 in Creation a progressive development from the earliest and 
 simplest to the latest and highest forms, yet this progres- 
 sion was from within outwards, and not from without in- 
 wards; that is, from internal to external, and not from 
 external to internal. All things are created and continu- 
 ally controlled by the Love and Wisdom of God, according 
 to a Divinely perfect plan and fixed laws, and for a Divine 
 end, this end being the creation of man, and the forma- 
 tion of the human race into an angelic heaven. 
 
 In the former case it is as if a child with its play-box 
 of bricks, or an ignorant mason without any knowIed«'e of 
 architecture, were to lay brick upon brick, and, by ''some 
 chance or law inherent in the bricks, they succeeded in 
 constructing— evolving or developing— a magnificent cathe- 
 dral. In the latter case it is as if a clever architect re- 
 solves to build a cathedral, and, by a process of spiritual 
 and mental affliction and thought, lie first builds in his mind 
 the entire structure; then, according to a definite plan and 
 fixed laws, he directs the masons, and, brick by brick 
 stone by stone, evolves the finished structure, with its 
 sculptured arches, its traceried windows, and its graceful 
 spire. 
 
 The Darwinian theory involves the assertion, that man 
 is but a sentient automaton — the mechanical combination 
 crystallization, or intei action and affinity of certain inor- 
 
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 ganic elements, such as oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, etc. 
 Thus it supposes that the power of progressive development 
 resides entirely in the inert material substances, and, there- 
 fore, that mind is but a development — a form and combina- 
 tion of matter and force. (A believer in the Darwinian 
 theory once said to the writer that a grape which he was 
 then eating might become the germ of a future thought.) 
 Tlierefore this theory does not, and indeed cannot, define 
 how or Wty " matter,'' and the " laws' which pervade and 
 control matter, first came into existence. It does not ex- 
 plain the origin or primary cause of that " life' which 
 animates each organized form. It does not account for the 
 varied modifications of external form and interior structure, 
 nor for the perfect adaptation of every part of each organ- 
 ism to accomplish its own special work in the economy of 
 Creation. And it in no way accounts for the existence of 
 those spiritual and mental faculties and aspirations which 
 di.stinguish man from all other created things. Neither 
 conscience, freedom, with its moral responsibility, the im- 
 mortality of the human soul, trust in the Divine Providence, 
 nor belief in God as our Heavenly Father find any place 
 in its cold and heartless philosophy. Successful struggle 
 for existence and " survival of the fittest" is therefore, ac- 
 cording to this theory, the only end of man's automatic and 
 irresponsible actions. 
 
 The New Church philosophy asserts that all things are 
 continually sustained by an all-loving, all-wise Creator — 
 preservation being perpetual creation : the external form 
 and interior structure of each created thing being so con- 
 stituted as to be fitting recipients of that life which unceas- 
 ingly proceeds from God. This inflowing life is modified 
 in its manifestation according to its recipient forms, and 
 
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 according to the specific use for which they are created ; 
 thus it is that every part of each organism is perfectly 
 adapted to accomplish its own special work. Man is not 
 a merely automatic recipient of life from God; but, different 
 from all other created forms, he is endowed by his Creator 
 with rationality, liberty, and immortality ; therefore he is 
 a responsible being, having within him all the faculties 
 necessary to his endless progression in spiritual as well as 
 in natural things, and having duties to perform towards 
 God and his neighbor as well as to himself. 
 
 To suppose that a germ was created, or, as the Darwinian 
 theory supposes, by some unknown process came into ex- 
 istence, containing the inherent power to develop into the 
 numberless forms of use and beauty in the world around 
 us, would be to suppose that such a germ was in itself a 
 microcosm — a little world ; and even that such germ had 
 within it the power and attributes of a Creator. The 
 various forms of creation, prior to man, were all prophetic 
 and typical of the coming human race ; but man alone, as 
 the New Church teaches, is the microcosm — the epitome 
 of the macrocosm, or the great world. 
 
 The New Church teaches that each created form in the 
 world of nature has its distinctive Spiritual essence, which 
 is its animating formative soul ; and that both the essence 
 and form are intimately connected by a spiritual law — the 
 law of Analogy or Correspondence, that is, the mutual re- 
 lation of form to essence, of essence to form. Grantin*^. 
 for the sake of argument, that the first material human 
 body was conceived in the womb of a female ape, from 
 whence did the human essence or soul — the seat of spiritual 
 and mental consciousness and intelligence — first come? 
 Surely it is too gross a thought to suppose that the first 
 
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 human soul, with all its possibilities and capabilities of un- 
 endinjj; progress and development, its rationality and liberty, 
 its conscience and aspirations after immortality, had an ape 
 essence, an ape father (for the New Church teaches that 
 the soul is from God mediately through the father). Even 
 supposing that God, without the agency of a male ape, used 
 the womb of a female ape (or of any other animal) merely 
 as a matrix for the first human germ, the " evolution" of 
 man through such a medium involved as great or even 
 a greater miracle than his " creation" without any such 
 ape medium, in God's own *' image." 
 
 Admitting, as all believers in New Church philosophy 
 are supposed to do, the existence of an all-loving, all- wise 
 Creator, surely it is not more difficult to believe that distinct 
 and successive species were created from distinct and suc- 
 cessive spiritual causes, than it is to believe that a germ 
 could be created capable of evolution or development into 
 all other forms, including man ; the latter would certainly 
 be the greater miracle. Man alone, of all created forms, 
 possesses the capability or possibility of containing within 
 his nature all those spiritual affections and thoughts of 
 which the varied forms of life are the representative types 
 and patterns ; all these created forms being types of some- 
 thing in man's soul, and, in the case of good and orderly 
 forms, primarily, of something Divine in God. 
 
 Another argument against the Darwinian theory of Evo- 
 lution is, that it is not founded upon proven scientific facts ; 
 that is, science has not yet discovered (and the writer be- 
 lieves mere natural science never can discover) the exact 
 process or law whereby inorganic elements become organized 
 into vegetable and animal forms. Neither does this theory 
 of Evolution explain why vegetable and animal forms 
 
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 always remain such, the vegetable never developing into 
 the animal, or the animal into the vegetable. Doubtless it 
 is difficult to discover the exact difference between vegetable 
 and animal protoplasm (or bioplasm).* It is also difficult 
 in the lowest forms of life to discern between vegetable and 
 animal organisms; and even the animal consciousness which 
 is called instinct is, in some cases, scarcely distinguishable 
 from the unconscious vitality of the vegetable. But, ad- 
 mitting this difficulty, it only shows our want of further 
 knowledge; and there is no reliable scientific evidence what- 
 ever that vegetable forms ever were or can be developed 
 into animal forms, or vice versa, merely by a varied arrange- 
 ment or combination of their component inorganic elements. 
 This, together with the entire absence of scientific evi- 
 dence that any vegetable or animal species ever developed 
 into a distinctly higher species, are powerful arguments in 
 favor of the doctrine that each distinct species, from lowest 
 to highest, had a distinct spiritual origin. It. is true that 
 chemical and microscopical analyses demonstrate that similar 
 
 * Protoplasm, otherwise cal'-ed bioplasm, — ^j"rjii^ matter, — is the 
 scientific term given to the P.rst extremely minute visible forms of 
 life, in the process whereby '.norganic elements become organized into 
 veo-ctable and animal tissues. Both vegetable and animal bioplasts 
 live, move, grow, multiply, and change dead matter into living matter ; 
 but in one case the re«;ult is a leaf, a flower, a fruit, a seed, or some 
 vitalized structure hfving relation to a complete vegetable form, and 
 in the other case the result is a nerve, a muscle, a tendon, a bone, or 
 some animated pieoc of mechanism having relation to a complete 
 animal form. 7'//c cause of all atnictnral oryauization is the sentient 
 spiritu'il ''life" within ; this it is which not only organizes the tiny 
 ve<'etahle and animal bioplasts, but, it unceasingly animates and guides 
 their marvellous operations, constructing and sustaining, through their 
 unconscious agency, al! the complex living machinery in the vegetable 
 and animal kingdcma, including the material body of man. 
 
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 inorganic elements enter into each of the three kingdoms 
 of nature ; but the life or vital force and the all-pervading 
 laws which operate to produce, from similar elements, the 
 distinct and varied mineral, vegetable, and animal forms 
 are beyond the reach of such analyses. The operation of 
 this living force and of these laws is so undeviating that it 
 is in appearance automatic, similar effects always resulting 
 from similar conditions ; hence it has been erroneously con- 
 cluded that the life is inherent in the inorganic elements 
 themselves, and that the varied forms of use and beauty 
 are merely the result of a varied combination, interaction, 
 and affinity of those elements. Therefore the Darwinian 
 theory of Evolution, with all deductions drawn therefrom, 
 being based upon these external appearances, rather than 
 upon a knowledge of the interior laws whereby the creative 
 life operates, must necessarily be untrustworthy and falla- 
 cious. 
 
 The real .truth is, that Itye is spiritual ; all organized 
 material forms being visible manifestations and ultimate 
 embodiments of that spiritual life. It is a something in 
 the life and in its varied method or laic of operation 
 which constitutes the actual difference between the inorganic 
 and organic, between the vegetable and animal, and, most 
 of all, between the merely animal and man. Creative Life 
 is always intelligently operating according to a definite plan 
 and fixed laws ; the working out of that plan, in all its 
 wonderful manifestations, attesting the existence of one 
 Personal Divine Being whom we call God, — the infinite 
 Source of all Life, Intelligence, Substance, and Law, and 
 who has revealed Himself to us as the Lord and Saviour 
 Jesus Christ, — the visible God in whom is the invisible. 
 The fact that God always acts according to a definite plan 
 
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 and fixed laws, in no degree involves any limitation of His 
 Power. Law implies Intelligence, and therefore the mani- 
 festation of law in all the works of Creation incontcstably 
 proves that God's Power acts intelligently and according to 
 the wisest method that His infinite Love and Wisdom can 
 devise. Without Intelligence there can he no Law^ with- 
 out Law there can he no Order, and without Order no 
 good or useful work can ever he accomplished. 
 
 This subject would be incomplete without some notice 
 of development in its higher aspect, as effected in each 
 human being during the process of regeneration. In the 
 work of regeneration, that is, the new birth of the human 
 soul into a true and perfect man, there is a process of men- 
 tal and spiritual development, each succeeding and higher 
 affection in the perfecting soul being a progressive develop- 
 ment, not from, but still dependent upon, each preceding 
 affection ; even as each succeeding and higher material form 
 in the work of creation was a progressive development, not 
 from, but still dependent upon, previously existing forms. 
 But each material form in the process of creation, and each 
 spiritual affection in the process of regeneration, are only 
 distinct steps in the Divine plan of progress ; and the writer 
 can no more believe that the first and lowest material form 
 contained the power, inherent in itself, to develop into a 
 sheep or tiger, a dove or eagle, a monkey or a man, than 
 he can believe that the first and lowest affection in the human 
 mind has the inherent power to develop itself into a perfect 
 man, free from all impurity and sin. 
 
 The theory of Natural Selection, that is, the varia- 
 tions of structural form resulting from change in surround- 
 ing conditions, and the consequent increased use or disuse 
 of certain organs, which, to some extent, forms part of the 
 
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 Darwinian theory of evolution, may be, and no doubt is, 
 in a limited degree, true. The same is true, also, in a 
 limited deyree, spiritually as well as naturally, the various 
 aflfections and aspirations in each individual being capable 
 of adaptation to the ever-varying conditions by which he 
 is surrounded. But this process of adaptation or natural 
 selection is not essentially progressive, heing limited ivithin 
 the same species; and, simihirly, new and successively 
 hiixher affections must be formed before regeneration is 
 complete, even as new and successively higher species were 
 formed in the process of creation. 
 
 Both creation and regeneration require the unceasing 
 exercise, supervision, and creative power of the Love and 
 Wisdom of God, without which all created things would 
 cease to exist. But man, unlike all other created forms, 
 and by virtue of his endowments of liberty and rationality, 
 has the power either to resist the loving efforts of his 
 Creator, and so remain in his carnal or unregenerate state, 
 or to co-operate with his Creator, and develop or progress 
 into a perfect man — the " likeness" as well as the " image" 
 of God. All reason, experience, and revelation prove, to 
 the unbiassed rational mind, that man is not evolved from 
 any lower animal ; he differs from them all fundamentally, 
 — physically, mentally, spiritually, — and therefore the origin 
 and end of his existence differ from theirs also. Man, the 
 noblest work of the Divine Architect of the Universe, is 
 human because God is Divinely Human; that is, he is man 
 because God is Essential Man, or God-Man. 
 
 Such, in brief, and in the writer's opinion, is the only 
 doctrine of Creation consistent with the beautiful system 
 of New Church philosophy, and he earnestly recommends 
 all who are interested in this, at the present time, most im- 
 
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 portant subject, to study carefully and impartially Sweden- 
 borg's magnificent work entitled '' Angelic Wisdom Con- 
 cerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom ;" for in 
 its pag'^es, and not in the writings of Darwin or his disciples, 
 i will be found the true Key to the mysteries of Creation. 
 This information is chiefly contained in the section which 
 treats of the two suns,— one spiritual and living, and the 
 other natural and inert or dead,— and in the section which 
 explains the doctrine of Degrees.* The philosophy con- 
 tained in this work also teaches that all things in the ma- 
 terial world— mineral, vegetable, and animal, with their 
 wonderful and beautiful variations of form and structure- 
 are created by God for man's use, and that through the 
 orderly use of all things by man there is conjunction be- 
 tween God and man, and thence with even the least things 
 of creation. The monad, fish, bird, and other animals, the 
 i wondrous flower and majestic tree, the everlasting mountains 
 and hills, the mighty ocean and mysterious firmament, may 
 all exist spiritually in each human soul ; and if each aff"e<J- 
 tion and thought, to which these things correspond, be kept 
 in their proper place by a loving and active obedience to 
 the Lord's commandments, all things, under the Lord's 
 Divine Providence, will be adapted to each man's use in 
 the process of his regeneration, until he stand forth a fin- 
 ished structure— a perfect man. Only by this spiritual 
 system of progression or development can man attain unto 
 the " fulness of God," unto the " measure of the stature 
 i of the fulness of Christ." 
 
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 APPENDIX. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 CREATION. 
 
 A BRIEF OUTLINE OP ITS PHILOSOPHY AS TAUGHT IN 
 SWEDENBORG's THEOLOGICAL WRITINGS. 
 
 God is not a mere formless all-pervading ethereal essence, 
 without body, parts, or passions ; but He is an infinitely 
 glorious Divine Man, — our Heavenly Father, — whose 
 essential attributes are Love, Wisdom, and Life or Power. 
 God is the one self-existent Personal Being, — the I AM, — 
 above and independent of all space and time — Omnipotent, 
 Omniscient, Omnipresent. God is Divinely Human, and the 
 Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is the manifestation 
 and embodiment of the substance of the invisible God, 
 who, prior to His Incarnation^ wiis called Jehovah. God 
 is the only self-subsist inc/ Life and Substance — the First 
 Creative Cause of all things. God creates all things from 
 His own Life and Substance ;* but He so creates them thnt 
 they form no part o/* His own Life and Substance. All 
 orderly things first exist suhjectively in the mind of God ; 
 then, by their actual creation, though they are still unceas- 
 
 * This statement must not be understood in a Pantheistic sense ; 
 no theory differs from the teaching of the New Church more widelj 
 than Psintheism. The deification of nature, that is, the worship of 
 the visible material universe as the only God, is not only an absolute 
 denial of God ns a conscious and intelligent Personal Creator, — a 
 loving and wise Heavenly father, — but it is destructive of all true re- 
 ligion and worship, and of belief in a future state of existence. It 
 is written, "God is a Spirit : and they that icorahip Ilim viutit icornhip 
 Him in spirit and in truth." 
 
 
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 ingly sustained by Him, they exist objectively out of Him. 
 In God all things are uncreate and infinite; by creation 
 they become limited and finite. Divine Life and Substance, 
 in their first descent from God, become life and substance 
 such as exist in the spiritual world ; and in their further 
 descent become life and substance such as exist in the 
 natural or material world. Thus there is the Divine, the 
 spiritual, and the natural or material,— God, spirit, and 
 matter,— which are to each other as end, cause, and effect 
 The end or purpose of Creation exists in the mind of God ; 
 the spiritual world is the mediate creative cause through 
 which God operates ; and the effect is the created material 
 univei-se. All things exist after this order of Degrees. 
 The material world exists from the spiritual world, as an 
 effect from its cause, and both the spiritual and material 
 worlds, with all their varied forms of life, exist from God 
 
 their Creator. 
 
 The spiritual world— the world in. which all spiritual 
 substances and vital forces exist, and in which a man's soul 
 or spirit lives forever after its separation from the dead ma- 
 terial body— is a real, substantial, habitable world; in it 
 there are atmospheres, waters, earths, and all things needful 
 for the sustenance and happiness of its inhabitants. These 
 things are not natural or material, as is the world of nature, 
 but they are spiritually-substantial. All things derive their 
 existence from the united operation of heat and light ; and 
 the spiritual world has its sun, the heat and light of which 
 are media whereby life and substance from God are con- 
 veyed to all things in that world, and thence, through the 
 medium of the natural sun, to all things in the natural 
 world. The sun of the spiritual world is not God, but is 
 the Divine Sphere which emanates immediately from God; 
 
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 APPENDIX. 
 
 its heat being the effluence of His Divine Love, and its 
 light being the effluence of His Divine Wisdom. From 
 its heat, man, as to his soul or spiritual being, mediately 
 derives from God his love or affection, and from its lin'ht 
 he mediately derives from God his wisdom or intelligence^ 
 The united love and wisdom thus received constitute the 
 spiritual life of his soul, even as the united heat and light 
 proceeding from the natural sun constitute the mediate 
 source of life from God to man's natural body. The spirit- 
 ual world does not form any part of the material universe ; 
 nor is it at some infinite distance from man ; his soul or 
 spirit even during his earthly life being intimately connected 
 with it, and, indeed, although unconsciously, in it. The 
 place called heaven is in the spiritual world, and is the 
 permanent abode of angels, who are i\\Q '' spirits of JMt 
 men made perfect;" whereas the material world is the 
 temporary abode of men who are created to become angels. 
 The place called hell b also in the spiritual world ; it is 
 the abode provided for all those who, by a life oUontinued 
 and wilfid sin^ have voluntarily become confirmed in the 
 love of evil, and thus have entirely destroyed Conscience 
 within themselves.* 
 
 *'God is Lovcy'' and because it is of the very essence 
 
 • Heaven is not a place of eternal reward for good actions done 
 during this life, nor is hell a place of eternal punishment for sins 
 committed during this life; but, primarily and fundamentally, they 
 arc «(ate9 and conditions of the hnman mind and character, voluntarily 
 acquired and conQrmod— in the former case by the orderly use, and 
 in ihe latter case by the continued wilful perversion and abuse, of the 
 faculties with which man is endowed by God. The happiness of 
 heaven is inherent in the love of doing good from the unselfish desire 
 to serve others; and the misery of hell is inherent in the confirmed 
 love of doing evil from the unrestrained Ipve of self. 
 
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 of pure love to desire that what is its own may become an- 
 other's, therefore God creates man, and endows him with 
 rationality, freedom, and immortality to the end that He 
 may forever have beings to love, who can freely and intelli- 
 gently reciprocate His love. Man is endowed by God with 
 two faculties— the Will and the Understanding; these, 
 tliough distinct from each other, are so created as to form 
 a on^, called the Mind. Into his Wiil the I^ve of God 
 60 flows that it becomes human love— the source of the 
 affections. Into his Understanding the Wisdom of God so 
 flows that it becomes human wisdom— the source of the 
 thoughts and intelligence ; and thereby man is enabled in- 
 telligently to love and serve God, and to love, think, live, 
 and°perform uses as a human being. Freedom and love 
 are inseparable, that is, freedom is inherent in love ; and 
 man being created to find his supreme happiness in the 
 voluntary exercise of his love or affections, he is, of neces- 
 sity, endowed by his Creator with freedom of Will, or 
 freedom of choice between good and evil ; in other words, 
 between the love of serving God and his neighbor, and the 
 inordinate love of himself. Hence it is that man, through 
 the abuse of that freedom with which he is endowed by 
 God, to the end that he may be truly happy, has the power 
 HO to pervert his nature that, if he choose, it may become 
 the very opposite of God's nature; that is, instead of being 
 loving, wise, and useful he may become entirely evil. And 
 it is lolely from mans wilfid perversion and abuse of his 
 freedom that " sm," with all its attendant miseries, origi- 
 nated and still exists. 
 
 Man is so created, that, during his life in the world of 
 nature, he is in reality an inhabitant of both the material 
 and spiritual worlds— consciously of the former, uncon- 
 
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 sciously of tlie latter. He has a soul or spirit, which is 
 an organized spiritually-sulstantial human form, composed 
 of such substances as exist in the spiritual world ; and he 
 has a body organized and composed of such substances as 
 exist in the material world. The material body in and of 
 itself is dead and without sensation, it being merely a re- 
 ceptacle animated or vitalized by the soul. Thus the body 
 exists from the soul, and both soul and body exist from 
 God their Creator. After what is called death, that is, 
 after the final separation of the immortal soul from the 
 dead material body, man comes into the full consciousness 
 and activity of his internal or spiritual life, and he then 
 •possesses senses and faculties perfectly adapted to the spirit- 
 ual world, even as during his earthly life he possesses senses 
 and faculties perfectly adapted to the material world. Man 
 is born into the material world that, during a life of active 
 and unselfish usefulness, he may prepare for an eternity 
 of usefulness and happiness in the spiritual world. By 
 this means, after the termination of his earthly life, he be- 
 comes an angel, and lives with God in heaven forever, thm 
 realizing the " end'' for which he is created. 
 
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 1. Brief Statement of the Doctrines of tlie New Churcli. By Kev. 
 
 B. F. Barrett 28 
 
 2. The Church of the New Jerusalem. By Rev. C. Giles 32 
 
 3. The Resurrection and the Spiritual World. By Rev. \Vm. B. 
 
 Hayden 24 
 
 4. The Doctrine of "Substitution" Impartially Examined. By 
 
 Rev. John Hyde 16 
 
 5. The Ministry of Sorrow. By Rev. C. Giles 16 
 
 6. Is it Unreasonable? An Appeal in Behalf of the Doctrines of the 
 
 New Church 16 
 
 7. The Apparent Contradictions of the Sacred Scriptures Reconciled. 
 
 By Rev. C. Giles 11 
 
 8. Death the Gate of Life. By Rev. John Hyde 20 
 
 9. The Apocalyptic New Jerusalem 12 
 
 10. The Life after Death. From Swedenborg 12 
 
 11. What is Heaven? From Swedenborg 8 
 
 12. "The Anger of the lx>rd." How is .such Scripture Phraseology 
 
 to be Explained? •••♦• 20 
 
 18. The Way to Heaven. From Swedenborg 12 
 
 14. The Sacred Scripture. Its own answer to the question: Has it a 
 
 Sense within or above that of the Letter? 20 
 
 15. Infants in Heaven. From Swedenborg 15 
 
 16. The Corner-stone •• ^ 
 
 17. Concerning the Sacred Scriptures; or. The Word of the Lord. By 
 
 Emanuel Swedenborg 28 
 
 18. Popular View of the Atonement 16 
 
 19. The Great Reconciliation 12 
 
 20. Washing our Spiritual Robes. By Rev. Oliver Dyer 11 
 
 21. Who is our Neighbor/ From Swedenborg 8 
 
 22. What is it to Die* From Swedenborg » 
 
 28. No Heaven Without Work. By Rev. C. Giles 16 
 
 24 Children After Death ••• • ..«•«♦ 16 
 
 25! Evolution and Natural Selection in the Light of the New Chinpch. 
 
 Bv Edmund Swift, Jr 16 
 
 26. The Resurrection *f* 
 
 27. The New Church and .Spiritism. By Rev. C. Giles 16 
 
 28. Judgment and the World of Spirits. By Rev. E. A. Beaman 16 
 
 29. The Lord's Name in our Foreheads. By Rev. Oliver Dyer 16 
 
 30. Predestination. By Rev. C. Giles 16 
 
 31. Regeneration 16 
 
 32. What Must We Do to be Saved? By Rev. C. Giles 16 
 
 83. Reasons for Embracing the Doctrines of the New Church^ By 
 
 Rev. Thos. A. King 28 
 
 34. Prayer: The Philo.sophv of it, the Religion of it, and the Use of 
 
 It. By Rev. Oliver Dyer 30 
 
 35. Can Murderei-s be Saved? By Rev. E: A. Beaman 24 
 
 86. Froward to the Froward. By Rev. E. A. Beaman 28 
 
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 DOCTRINAL LECTURES. 
 
 By Rev. C'haiiiicey Oilen. 
 
 Who Was Jesus Christ? 24 
 
 How Does the Lord Save Men ? 24 
 
 The Suflerings and Death of Jesus Christ 22 
 
 The Saving Efficacy of the Lords Blood 16 
 
 The Punishment of Sin 22 
 
 The Forgiveness of Sin "."" 24 
 
 Purification from Sin Illustrated by the Refining of Gold and 
 
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 The New and the Old Atonement 24 
 
 Union with the Lord: Its Nature, Means, and Blessedness. 24 
 
 The Spiritual Wants of the Age 24 
 
 The True Idea of God 24 
 
 The True Idea of Man ., *.***." 24 
 
 The S|piritual World .....Z. 24 
 
 The World of Spirits, or Intermediate State 23 
 
 The World of Spirits the Place of Man's Final Judgment 24 
 
 The World of Spirits as a Place (or Stato) of Instruction and 
 
 Preparation for Heaven 04 
 
 Hell: Its Origin and Nature ^e 
 
 The Sufferings of the Wicked 04 
 
 The Sufferings of the Wicked. Are they Endless? 23 
 
 Heaven: What it is. Where and How Formed 22 
 
 The Conditions of Heavenly Happiness 24 
 
 Heavenly Happiness : Endless and Ever Increasing. 28 
 
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 The Light of the World 16 
 
 The Elements of a Heavenly Character 16 
 
 Ivove: The Light and .Toy of Life 16 
 
 Onyx .Stones; or. The Book of Life 16 
 
 The Widow's Plot of Oil 16 
 
 The Coming of the New Age - 24 
 
 Rest for the Wean- and Heavy Laden 14 
 
 The Mini.str>' of Fear 16 
 
 What is Evangelical Religion? 14 
 
 The Conquest over Evil by Little and Little 16 
 
 Mo<lern Un)>olief: Its Cause, Nature, and Remedy 16 
 
 The Resurrection of tlie Ix)rd !•'» 
 
 The I/aw8 of Ascent from a Natural to a Heavenly Life 16 
 
 Unitv Among Brethren: Its Origin, Means, and Effects 16 
 
 The doctrines of the New Church, the Mea.sure of a Man 16 
 
 The Death of the Body a Ministry of Life to Man 15 
 
 The Divine Providence in National Affairs 16 
 
 Efficacious Praver: The Conditions on which It Is Answered 16 
 
 The Nature and Use of Praver 16 
 
 lyove of the Ix)rd. What it is, and how manifested 16 
 
 Tlie Church of the Future 16 
 
 The Law of Heavenly Rewards « 12 
 
 Man's Immeasurable Capacity to Love, to Know, and to Ei\}oy.~ 16 
 
 The Incarnation: Its Necessity, Nature, and Effects 1.6 
 
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 2. Preserve the Foundations 14 
 
 8. The Lesson of the Harvest 12 
 
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 6. The Lord Jesus Christ Glorified , »...,........* 18 
 
 7. The Lord's Care for the Little Ones 11 
 
 8. The Value of True Doctrine 12 
 
 9. The Doctrine of the Lord in its Relation to Life 12 
 
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 11. The Doctrine of the Sacred Scriptures In its Relation to Life.. 12 
 
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 DOCTRINES OF THE NEW CHURCH: 
 
 WHAT THEY TEACH, AND WHAT THEY DO NOT TEACH. 
 
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 The Church of the Ne^y Jerusalem : What It is, and what it is not**^ 
 
 Man as a Spirit: What he Is, and what he is not I6 
 
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 The Death of the Material Body Essential to Human Happiness.. 16 
 
 Spiritual Death : Its Nature, Origin, Delights, and Torments 21 
 
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 Heaven a Society of Regenerated Men and Women 16 
 
 Misconceptions of the Principles and Doctrines of the New 
 
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 Truth Itself the Only Infallible Authority for Religious Doctrine. 28 
 
 The New Age ^ _^ 20 
 
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 2. The Principles and Functions of Ecclesiastical Government By 
 
 Rev. Chauncey Giles 20 
 
 3. Changes in Faith: Probation and Judgment. By Rev. Oliver 
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 What is SwedenborKianlsm ? By Rev. J. C. Ager......^....... 82 
 
 Manna. By Kev. Abiel Silver 16 
 
 1 Loved Jacob and I Hated Esau. By Rev. Ablel Silver 18 
 
 Jesus Walking on the Sea. By Rev. Chauncey Giles 16 
 
 All the Patlis of the Lord Mercy and Truth. By Rev. Chauncey 
 
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 The Lord a Refuge in Times of Trouble. By Rev. Chauncey 
 
 Giles "" 16 
 
 The Testimony of the Lilies to the Lord's Provident Care. By 
 
 Rev. Chauncey Giles 16 
 
 11. The Book of Life. By Rev. Chauncey Giles 16 
 
 12. "Spiritualism." The Phenomenon Explained and its Dangers 
 
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 13. Man's Ability the Measure of his Obligation. By Rev. Chauncey 
 
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 15. Creation. By Rev. John Worcester 12 
 
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 16G. Why is a Real Spiritual World not Material? By Rev. John 
 
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 17G. The Second Coming of the Lord in the Clouds of Heaven. By 
 
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 The Lord our Mediator. By Rev. J. S. David - « 16 
 
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 ElTectual braver. By Hon. T. A. Plantz ~ 20 
 
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 SPIRITUAL NURTURE. 
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 2 I^rental Responsibilities: How to Meet Them 16 
 
 8. The Means and Methods of Cultivating an Affection for Re- 
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 4. Obedience to Parents and the Lord 15 
 
 5. How to Teach our Children Fear, Reverence, and Trust 16 
 
 6. How to Teach our Children to Love the Lord 15 
 
 7. Writing the Lord's Word upon the Posts of our House and Gate*. 15 
 
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 9. The Burdens of Life: How to Cast Them on the Lord 16 
 
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 Tree of Life the Symbol of Divine Love 16 
 
 Rivers of Eden a Symbol of Divine Truth 16 
 
 Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil ~ 16 
 
 Origin of Life: Adam Naming the Animals 16 
 
 's Deep Sleep: His Rib made into Woman 16 
 
 Serpent and the Woman: The Tempter and the Tempted 16 
 
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 Curse upon Man 16 
 
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 Mechanical Employments as Means of Human Culture 20 
 
 The Curse and the Blessing of Riches 22 
 
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