TCR 1
A statement of faith,
set out in both universal and particular terms,
is placed at the beginning
to serve as a preface to the book which follows,
to be like a doorway leading into a church,
and a summary presenting in a short compass
what follows at more length.
It is called the faith
of the new heaven and the new church,
because heaven, where the angels are,
and the church among people form a single unit,
just as the internal and external sides
of the personality make up a single individual.
This is why a member of the church
who possesses the good of love
which arises from the truths of faith,
and possesses the truths of faith
which arise from the good of love, is,
so far as the interiors of his mind are concerned,
an angel of heaven.
Therefore too after dying he comes into heaven,
and there enjoys happiness
depending upon how far
the good and truth are conjoined.
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TCR - True Christian Religion
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