It only decides what they are. It does not punish them. Their evils punish them.

Now, the Judgment is an operation of the Truth in the mind of those that are judged. They decide whether they will receive the Truth, and go with it; or reject it, and go against it. For, it is written, "The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son." (John v, 22.) And the Lord says, "I judge no man." (John viii, 15.) "He that rejecteth Me, and receiveth' not My Words, hath One that judgeth him: the Word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him, in the last day.” (John xii, 48.)

Thus the Word of the Lord, the Divine Truth, is now coming, the second time, with judgment. He came also the first time with judgment; therefore He said, "Now is the judgment of this world; now is the prince of this world cast out." Thus redemption, the establishment of the church, and all blessings, come with judgment: as it is written, "Zion shall be redeemed with judgment." "The Lord will establish His kingdom with judgment." He will purge Jerusalem with judgment. Here we see that the Truth of the commandments is the life and power of the judgment, in the mind. So, we are commanded to "keep the Lord's judgments." And this keeping of the judgments regenerates us, and unites us to the Lord; for He says, "I will betroth thee unto me in judgment." Thus the spiritual sense of the Word is coming to raise us from the dead, judge us, purify us, fill us with new Light and Life, that we may be good and happy. And it comes, saying, "Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light." And, in the Spiritual Sense of the Word, He comes "with power and great glory:" and if we yield to Him, His

Truth will enter and explore our entire memory, so that the sea will give up its dead. Every false principle within the shores of our knowledge, or understanding, will be judged and condemned by the Truth, and freely put away. Nor will the Light stop there, but will enter the will, and there, Death and Hell will give up the dead that are in them; or all the evils of the heart, which cause the fires of hell in us to burn with anger, revenge and malice, or with any unkindness, will be seen, repented of, and given up. And thus the Great Judgment which is promised at the Lord's Second Coming, will be perforined in each mind that receives Him; all the dead principles of that mind, small and great, will stand before the Truth; the sheep and the goats will be separated, the evils and falsities rejected, and the whole mind will be brought into harmony and peace. Thus we live in the Great Judgment Day, which will be continued as long as there is any one to be judged. Through this judgment, the world is to be brought into order, until the Lord, as the Divine Truth, reigns in all the people of the Earth; when "all shall know Him, from the least to the greatest." And as His coming is through the literal sense of the Word, into the human mind, therefore the "clouds of heaven,” in which He is to come, are the dark and mysterious appearances of the literal sense of the Word as seen in the mind -the mental heaven-until illuminated and explained by the Spiritual Sense.

CHAPTER XI.

THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE.

GOD is the Universal Being, ever, unchangeably the same; His Word is universal Light and Life, ever in, itself, the same; His Language, therefore, is universal and unchangeable in its Divine character and qualities. It is THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE. This is the Language of Correspondences. It is the relative law of life between the natural and the spiritual worlds. And being the universal language, it is the basis of all other languages. No language could be formed without it; and all people more or less use it in adulterated forms; and they see some light from it, though they may know nothing of it as a science. Now, for a simple illustration: bring together men of all nations of the earth, who know nothing of one another's languages, but are acquainted with the characters of animals; then bring before them a most selfish, greedy, loathsome man, and point to him and then point to the hog, and they will all understand the man's character better probably than it could be described in their several languages. And it will be the same if we point to the most licentious, secret, and subtle man, and then to the serpent; or to the most innocent and

harmless, and then to the lamb; or to the most bold, strong, and fearless, and then to the lion; or to the most watchful and cautious, even to cruelty against intruders, and then to the dog: and so we might go on describing various characters, not only by the animals, but also by other things; by the hawk and the dove, the wheat and the tares, the olive and the thorn, the vine and the bramble, by things wholesome and things poisonous. Thus the universal language everywhere speaks, either in stronger or in fainter accents; and neither the wisest nor the most ignorant could describe a thought or a feeling without it or ideas drawn from it.

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At the time when the Lord said, in Genesis, "Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; whole earth was of one language, and of one speech," then the people all spoke the universal language. The loss of that language, which occurred in building the tower of Babel, left men without any sure way of expressing ideas; and consequently the world has become filled with a variety of uncertain languages, no one of which any two persons understand alike. This is because the language has no roots. True, the language we use purports to take root in many others. But even these languages themselves, and even those of them which are called dead or fixed languages, have, to men, lost their roots. Nature is the ground in which all true language takes root. And the law of analogy is the only light in which that root can be truly seen. We know the dead languages are not fluctuating and changing, like those in common use. But the reason is they are not used. It is to the conservative nature of the Hebrew and Greek languages, that we are indebted for so correct a knowledge of the Holy Word as we now have. And it is therefore

of the Divine Providence that they became dead, that they could better preserve the Word. Those languages still take root in nature. But men, by the loss of the science of correspondences, see not where nor how that root exists. Hence the uncertainty which hangs over the precise meaning of many things in even those languages, and particularly in the Holy Word, where many things were written solely for the sake of the spiritual sense, and therefore where no shadow of a rational meaning can be seen without the law of analogy.

But the Lord says prophetically, pointing to this age of the world, "Then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve Him with one consent." Now what can this pure language be, in which all the people will call upon the name of the Lord, to serve Him with one consent, unless it be a language which will give them all the same ideas of God and of His Word? and also, unless it be that very language which the people had when the whole earth was of one speech, and all called upon the name of the Lord? And who, that sees the science of correspondences and reads the Word by it, can doubt that the time has now come in which that prophecy is being fulfilled, when he sees persons of every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people embracing this language, reading the Holy Word by it, and as they truly proceed, understanding it alike; and beholding therein the Lord Jesus Christ, as the one God, whom they can all serve with one consent? And what other language can the Lord turn to the people, than the one they have before had, and which He gave them? He says He will turn to the people a pure language. What is a pure language? It is certainly something above human. Like its Divine Author