To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means

Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.

Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.

We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are.

Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.

For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.

That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.