celestial internal Church only, which probably might be one reason why it fell; the last is to be a celestial Church internal and external; or a Church in which the celestial, spiritual and natural degrees will be united in perfect order-it's forms of worship as a Church, and the external natural life of it's members, must all proceed from and be correspondent to, that pure love to the Lord and his kingdom which is the ruling principle within. If the Celestial Church fell for want of an ultimate manifestation of it's internal principle, it is clearly perceivable that the three succeeding ones could not stand; for no church can possibly abide for ever, but that which is the real bride of the Lamb; and the marriage of the Lamb can take place only in the New Jerusalem, because in that Church only the external will be in agreement with the internal,-the life of piety will be united with the life of charity; and what the Jewish Church represented, will be a reality in the temple of the New Jerusalem, so soon as "the Bride shall have made herself ready."-It is not the life of charity alone, nor the life of piety alone, that can effect this preparation; but the " former united with the latter is all sufficient.' -Arc. 8252. If these observations are agreeable to the Writings of E. S. there can be no more doubt but an external Church, with forms of worship congenial to the New Dispensation, ought to be established and supported, as without this the marriage of the Lamb can never take place place in the ultimates; for "the life of piety, consists in thinking piously and speaking piously, in giving much time to prayer, in behaving with due humility on the occasion, in frequenting public worship, and in a deyout attendance to discourses from the pulpit at the time, and in frequently every year receiving the sacrament of the Holy Supper, and in observance of other parts of worship according to the ordinances of the church. But the life of charity consists in willing well and doing well to the neighbour, in acting in every employment from a principle of justice and equity, and from a prin-. ciple of good and truth, in like manner in every function; in a word, the life of charity consists in performing uses."-Arc. 8253. Now such a life of piety as is here described, requires external places of worship; and those places must and will be in exact correspondence with the state of the members as a church who worship there; for a New Church Christian must have his internal and external in union as to every particular. However as this happy state can never be effected without an external temple, so it can never be brought forth by continuing in and supporting the forms of the Old Church; because, although as individuals it's members may be compared to the dry bones which the Lord vivified; yet as a Church it is what the Lord commanded the prophet not to pray for; for " though, Noah, Job and Daniel, were in it" as individuals, " yet they would deliver but their own souls," for the church must must come to it's consummation.-It is an "old bottle" which the "new wine" would burst into a thousand pieces." They have made to themselves gods, and they are no gods;" therefore" when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea when ye make many prayers, I will not hear, saith the Lord." If these remarks should be the means of promoting a greater attention to the increase and support of external chapels and temples agreeable to the New Dispensation throughout the kingdom, the having proved an humble instrument in it's success will be a sufficient recompence to Your's, &c. AMICUS. P. S. The following being extracted from the works. not yet published in the English language, will doubtless be acceptable to those persons who attend public worship: "To sing a song denotes glorification, because songs in the ancient Church, and in the Jewish, were prophetic, and treated of the Lord: And inasmuch as the prophetics of songs contained such things in the internal sense, hence by them is signified the glorification of the Lord, that is, the celebration of him from gladness of heart; for gladness of heart is especially expressed by a song, inasmuch as gladness in a song, breaks forth as it were of itself into sound. They who knew nothing of the internal sense, believed that such worldly things were meant as the songs treated of in the external sense; but but they who knew that all prophetics involved things celestial and divine, knew that the subject treated of was concerning the damnation of the unbelieving, and the salvation of the believing by the Lord, when he should come into the world; and they who knew this to be the case, and were thence affected, had internal gladness, but the former only external; the angels also, who are attendant on man, were at the same time in glorifica-. tion of the Lord; hence they who sung, and they who heard songs, had heavenly gladness from the holy and blessed principles which flowed-in out of heaven, in which gladness they seemed to themselves to be as it were taken up into heaven: such an effect had the songs of the church amongst the ancients; such an effect also they might have at this day, for the spiritual angels are especially affected by songs which relate to the Lord, his kingdom, and the church: that the songs of the church had such an effect, was not only in consequence of gladness of heart being rendered active by them, and it's breaking forth from the interior even to the extreme fibres with a glad and at the same time a holy tremor, but also because the glorification of the Lord in the heavens is effected by choirs, and thus by the chanting of several together."-Arc. 8261. BLOSSOMS TO HEIGHTEN VIRTUE'S CHARMS, RELIGION'S POW'R, FOR THE AURORA. WALKING contemplative the other day, Methought I heard a gentle whisper say, Peace dwells within, no clouds disturb his rest, Not |