EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
whole society should be represented, and through whom the members of the society might come to His will. Without such a king of souls, the society might be gathered and exist in vain. This also follows necessarily from the conceded form of rule, from the difference of state of each member, and from the approach to God through love. For that form must be determined by the purer of every degree, consequently by the purest, who has been without sin, that is, by our Saviour and Preserver, Jesus Christ, in whom alone we can by faith and love draw near to the Divine throne."
We have followed Swedenborg in his search for the life and soul of the universe through the geometry and physics of the inanimate world, then through the living organism of the human body, the soul's home and body-servant, and lastly in the soul's reception of life from the Creator, in its duty to this Source of its life, and in its dependence on God-man, the Son of God, as the means of conjunction with the Divine Itself. The marked feature in all this study, that which gives its charm and inspiration, is its never-failing recognition of life, life from the Divine Life, as the cause, the essence, the form, and the activity of
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