Beginning with the revelations given to Swedenborg, the Lord began a spiritual movement or "church" called The New Jerusalem or The New Church. The New Jerusalem is a spiritual concept, meaning that is exists everywhere that the Lord is worshiped as one God, which can and does include people from almost every religion. Within The New Jerusalem, it doesn’t matter where you were born. What makes you a part of the new church is the charitable life you live by. With this church the Lord began a new paradigm, one that wouldn’t decay into the false idea of exceptionalism derived from birth.

There is only one God, the Lord Jesus Christ, but he has the ability to take on many forms and personas. When, in the Bible, Jesus speaks about the Father, he is speaking about his inner self — his soul — and when he speaks about the Holy Ghost, he is speaking about the effect of his actions and energy which radiate out into the universe, all of which are him, but simply different aspects of the same person.

Swedenborg wrote that the center of heaven is, in fact, made up of married partners, and although this is generally taught in D&C as well, it is sullied by false things that are spun into and among it. What’s most important to accomplish on earth is being joined to the Lord’s Spirit through the charitable way a person lives his or her life, which is symbolized by marriage. So long as that regeneration in the Lord is accomplished, if a marriage to a partner is not found on earth, one can be found in heaven, regardless of Mormon membership or temple rituals.

Although it’s obvious they still love each other, Mary is no longer Jesus’ mother. She was his physical mother who birthed him while he was on earth, but his physical body was progressively transformed and glorified, made one with the Father of Heaven, so that it’s no longer the case that she is his mother.