What the Writings Testify
What the Writings Testify
CHAPTER 11
By reason of its revealed Doctrine, the New Church is to become the Crown
of all the Churches
"The [first Christian] Church knows nothing whatever of this its consummation and
end, nor can it know anything of it, before the Divine Truths which are from the Lord in
the work called 'The True Christian Religion' are seen in light and acknowledged."
- Coronis, Sum. xlix
"That the New Church is the Crown of all the Churches that have hitherto been upon
the earth, is because it will worship the one visible God, in whom is the invisible God
like the soul in the body ...That this Church is to succeed the churches which have
existed since the beginning of the world; that it is to endure for ages of ages, and is
thus to be the crown of all the churches that have gone before it, was prophesied by
Daniel ..."
- True Christian Religion 787, 788
"Because we now have One God in the Church, who is God Man and Man God, therefore
this [Church] is called the Crown of all the Churches."
- Invitation to the New Church 53
"That the four churches of this earth ... have undergone these changes of state,
will be shown in what follows; and finally that the Church truly Christian which today
succeeds these four, will never undergo consummation."
- Coronis 24
"That this New Church, truly Christian, which is at this day being established by
the Lord, is to endure to eternity, confirmed from the Word of both testaments; and that
it was foreseen from the creation of the world. That it is to become the crown of the four
antecedent churches, because [there will be] true faith and true charity.
"That in this New Church there will be spiritual peace, which is glory, and internal
blessedness of life, also confirmed from the Word of both testaments.
"That these things will be in this New Church, for the sake of conjunction with the
Lord and through Him with God the Father."
- Coronis, Sum. lii-liv
"The manifestation of the Lord and intromission into the spiritual world, surpass
all miracles. This has not been granted to any one since the creation as it has been to
me. The men of the Golden Age indeed spoke with angels, but it was not granted them to be
in any other than natural light; but to me it is granted to be in both spiritual and
natural light at the same time. By this means it has been granted me to see the wonderful
things of heaven, to be together with the angels as one of them, and at the same time to
draw forth (haurire) truths in light and thus to perceive and teach them; consequently to
be led by the Lord."
- Invitation to the New Church 52
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