Invitation to the New Church 2 & 5
2 - During a person's regeneration, the light of heaven is instilled into natural light, and at the same time the heat of heaven; these two constitute, as it were, the new soul, through which a person is formed by the Lord. This light and heat are instilled through the higher mind, which is called the spiritual mind. By virtue of this instilling, or insertion, a person becomes a new creature, and becomes more enlightened and more intelligent in matters of the church, and consequently in the reading of the Word. This also is the new understanding and the new will. Afterwards the person is led by the Lord through the above light and through the above heat, and from natural becomes spiritual.
5 - ... without the Lord's Advent, no person could have been regenerated, and hence saved; and this is what is meant by "the Lamb taking away the sins of the world."
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