Why Swedenborg Isn’t Like Other Mystics

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.