contagion until arrested and removed by repentance and regeneration, involving man's final judgment and promotion to his own place and perfect environment in a spiritual world made and governed to that end. It will rightly assert the omnipotence of the Redeemer over all manner of sin and sickness; but it will not ignore the laws of divine Providence by which the Great Physician ever works through man's free will and co-operation, and this by organic processes and for eternal ends.[1]
The one legitimate end and effort for man is to come into divine order, by an observance of all revealed laws, spiritual and natural. The possibility and the obligations of such a life of order are greatly increased by the revelations of the laws of Divine Providence and of the spiritual world, and of man's nature and relation to that world. As these revelations are studied and understood we may expect the doctrine of regeneration to shed its light upon the intercourse between the soul and the body, and to inaugurate for men a science of health and healing. The science of Correspondence, which Swedenborg calls "the science of sciences," when
- ↑ The New Birth, p. 122.
