Perhaps this comparison is not as clear as to say:  when the normal child has grown to manhood or womanhood, his consciousness has widened, beyond that of the infant; not excluding that of the infant but inclusive of all hitherto acquired knowledge.  Without in any degree lessening the importance and the verity of Swedenborg’s visions, it may be assumed that his record of these visions and their meaning has partaken more or less of the limitations of mortal mind.

Spiritual consciousness can not be set down in terms of sense.  The external world symbolizes spiritual truths; each interpreter must of necessity weave into his interpretation and attempt at finite expression of these truths, something of his own mortal consciousness; and this “mortal mind” consciousness is bound to partake of the time and age, and conditions of environment of the person who has experienced the revelation.

Making due allowance, therefore, for the impossibility of exact expression of any spiritual illumination, we find in the revelation of Swedenborg exactly what we find in all who have attained to cosmic consciousness, namely, the absolute, confidential assurance of immortal life:  the conviction that creation is under divine love and wisdom, administered by Cosmic Law and order, or Justice, and the final “redemption” (i.e., evolution), of all men.  In his “Conjugal Love,” Swedenborg touches upon the premise which we declare, as the foundation of all cosmic consciousness, namely the attainment of spiritual union with the “mate” which we believe to be inseparable from all creation; the reunited principle which we see expressed in the male and female, whether in plant, bird, animal, man, or angel; the “twain made one” which Jesus declared would be the sign manual of the coming of his kingdom; that is, the coming of cosmic consciousness—­the kingdom of pure and perfect love upon earth as it is in the heavens.

In Corinthians (11:  12) we read: 

“For as the woman is of the man so is the man also of the woman; for the woman is not without the man, nor the man without the woman in the Lord.”

Which is to say, that in the attainment of cosmic consciousness (in the Lord), the “twain are made one,” and immortality (i.e., immunity from reincarnation) is gained, because of this union.  God is a bi-sexual Being.  This fact is evidenced throughout all creation.  To attain to immortality is to become as God.  In this day and age of the world we have come into a realization of the Father-Mother idea of godhood, clearly and literally signifying the coming consciousness which is bi-sexual; male and female; perfect counterparts, or complements and through which alone, this earth can be made a “fit dwelling place for gods.”  This, too, is the message of the great seer Swedenborg, as it relates to love, as it is, when rightly understood and interpreted, of all who have felt the blessing of perfection, as exemplified in Illumination.