are also represented in Forms before the Sight of

Spirits: Hence it is, that the Spiritual World cannot be described as to it's magnificent and ftupendous Objects: These alfo increase according to the Multiplication of the Human Race in the Heavens, for all Things are there reprefented in Forms correfponding to every one's State with Respect to Love and Faith, and confequently. with Refpect to Intelligence and Wisdom; thus with a Variety continually increasing according to the Increase in Number: Hence it is faid by those who have been elevated into Heaven, that they have seen and heard therein fuch Things as the Eye never faw, nor the Ear ever heard. From what has been obferved, it may appear evident, that the Spiritual World is of fuch a Nature, that the Natural World can by no Means be compared therewith. Further Particulars respecting that World may be feen in the Treatife on HEAVEN AND HELL, where it treats of the two Kingdoms of Heaven, n. 20 to 28. Of the Societies of Heaven, n. 41 to 50. Of Reprefentatives and Appearances in Heaven, n. 170 to 176. And of the Wisdom of the heavenly Angels, n. 265 to 275. The Particulars there described, however, are very few,

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That the Laft Judgment is to take Place where all are gathered together, confequently in the Spiritual World, and not on the Earths.(*)

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28. HE common Opinion concerning the Laft Judgment is, that the Lord will then appear in the Clouds of Heaven with Angels in Glory, and that all who have ever lived from the Creation of the World will be raised up out of their Graves, and their Souls again clothed with their Bodies; and when thus affembled in one Place, that they who have lived well will be judged to eternal Life or Heaven, and they who have done Evil, to eternal Death or Hell. This Belief is derived to the Churches from the literal Senfe of the Word, nor could it be removed, fo long as they were ignorant that there is a spiritual Senfe in every Part of the Word, and that that Sense is the real and effential Word, to which the literal Senfe ferves as a Foundation

(*) By the Earths here mentioned are not meant the various Earths or Planets in the Universe, concerning which the Author has given an Account in a diftin&t Treatife, but different Countries on this Earth. The Term Earths is ufed in the plural Number, by Reason of the Differences which fubfift in the various Churches. TR.

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Foundation or Bafis, and that without fuch a Sense the Letter could not poffibly be the Divine Word, nor ferve as the Doctrine of Life and Faith to Heaven as well as the World, and for their Conjunction: Whoever therefore is acquainted with the spiritual Correspondences of the natural Things in the Word, may know, that by the Coming of the Lord in the Clouds of Heaven, is not understood his Appearance in the Clouds, but his Appearance in the Word; for the Lord is the Word, inafmuch as he is Divine Truth; the Clouds of Heaven, in which he is to come, are the literal Senfe of the Word, and Glory is it's fpiritual Senfe; the Angels are Heaven, from whence the Lord makes his Appearance, and they likewise are the Lord with Respect to Divine Truths: (1) Hence appears what is

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(1) That the Lord is the Word, because he is Divine Truth in Heaven, n. 2533, 2818, 2859, 2894, 3393, 3712. That the Lord is the Word also for this Reason, because it is from him, and treats of him, n. 2859; and because it treats of the Lord alone, and chiefly of the Glorification of his Humanity in it's inmoft Senfe, thus the Lord Himself is therein, n. 1873, 9357. That the Coming of the Lord is his Prefence in the Word, and Revelation, n. 3900, 4060. That Clouds in the Word fignify the Word in the Letter, or it's literal Sense, n. 4060, 4391, 5922, 6343, 6752, 8106, 8781, 9430, 10551, 10574. That Glory in the Word fignifies Divine Truth, fuch as it is in Heaven, and in the

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meant by thofe Words, viz. that the Lord, when the Church is at an End, will reveal the spiritual Senfe of the Word, and thus manifeft Divine Truth fuch as it is in itself; confequently that this is the Sign of the Laft Judgment taking Place. That there is a fpiritual Senfe in every Particular of the Word, yea in every single Expreffion, and what the Nature and Quality of that Senfe is, may be feen in the ARCANA CαLESTIA, wherein are explained, according to that Senfe, all and fingular the Things contained in the Books of Genefis and Exodus, from which Work fome Particulars are collected relative to the Word and it's fpiritual Senfe in a small Tract concerning the WHITE HORSE mentioned in the Revelation.

29. That the Laft Judgment is to take Place in the Spiritual World, and not in the Natural World or on the Earths, is evident from the two preceding Articles, and alfo from what follows:

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fpiritual Senfe of the Word, n. 4809, 5292, 8267, 8427, 9429, 10574. That by Angels in the Word are fignified Divine Truths proceeding from the Lord, inasmuch as Angels are Recipients thereof, and do not speak Truths from themfelves, but from the Lord, n. 1925, 2821, 3039, 4085, 4295, 4402, 6280, 8192, 8301. That Trumpets or Cornets, when spoken of the Angels, fignify Divine Truths in Heaven, and revealed from Heaven, n. 8815, 8823, 8915.

In the two preceding Articles it was fhewn, that Heaven and Hell are from Mankind, and that all who were ever born Men from the Beginning of Creation, and are deceased, are either in Heaven or Hell, confequently that all are there collected together; but in the Articles which follow, it fhall be fhewn, that the Laft Judgment is already accomplished.

30. Befides, no one is judged from the natural Man, confequently not whilft he is living in the Natural World, inafmuch as Man is then in a natural Body; but all are judged in the fpiritual Man, consequently when they come into the Spiritual World, for Man is then in a spiritual Body: It is the fpiritual Part of Man that is judged, but not the natural, for this latter is in no Refpect faulty or criminal, inafmuch as it does not live of itself, but is merely a Servant or Inftrument, whereby the fpiritual Man acts, as may be seen above, n. 24; Hence alfo it is, that Judgment paffes on Men, when they have put off their natural, and put on their spiritual Body : In this Body a Man alfo appears according to his true Quality with Refpect to Love and Faith, for every one in the Spiritual World is an Image or Likeness of his own Love, not only with Respect to his Face and Body, but with Respect to his Specch and Actions; fee the Treatife on HEA

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