4. Kneel before the Holy Bible, bow down to it and say the Lord's prayer without sound only within the mind. Open the Holy Bible, (Open the part of the Exodus chapter 20, which represents the entire Holy Bible). After opening the Holy Bible, bow down head toward the Holy Bible and rise. Fire the two candles in both sides of the Holy Bible, they are the correspondence of the essential of the New Church: first to the left side of the candle to fire; then fire the right side of the candle.
*"Please be seated." Readings (prayer readings). "'these two articles, the acknowledgment of the Lord [Jesus Christ as the One only God of heaven and earth], and a life according to the commandments of the Decalogue [covenant of the salvation of soul], which are the two essentials of the New Church, are to be taught until the end and the beginning (n. 491).'・・・'These are the two olive-trees, and the two lamp stands, which are standing before the God of the earth,' signifies love and intelligence, or charity and faith, from the Lord with them (n. 493)." (AR Summary chapter 11)
"And I will give unto My two witnesses, signifies those who confess and acknowledge from the heart that the Lord [Jesus Christ] is the [One only] God of heaven and earth, and that His Human is Divine, and who are conjoined to Him by a life according to the precepts of the Decalogue. The reason why these are here meant by 'the two witnesses,' is, because these two are the two essentials of the New Church. That the first essential, that the Lord [Jesus Christ] is the God of heaven and earth, and that His Human is Divine, is 'a testimony,' and consequently, that they are 'witnesses' who confess and acknowledge it in the heart" (AR490)
*You are a New Church? What authorizes or enables you to do the personal worship services, and authorizes and enables you to do a personal Holy Supper?
What is the New Church which enables the personal and family worship services, and Holy Supper?
*AC10760~10766 (HD241~245)
10760. That which makes heaven with man also makes the Church, for the Church is the Lord's heaven on earth. Consequently from what has been previously said about heaven, it is evident what the Church is.
10761. That is called the Church where the Lord is acknowledged, and where the Word [Bible] is; for the essentials of the Church are love to the Lord from the Lord, and faith in the Lord from the Lord; and the Word teaches how a man must live in order that he may receive love and faith from the Lord.
10762. The Lord's Church is internal and external; internal with those who do the Lord's commandments [Decalogue] from love, for these are they who love the Lord; and external with those who do the Lord's commandments [Decalogue] from faith, for these are they who believe in the Lord.
10763. In order that the Church may exist, there must be doctrine from the Word [Bible], because without doctrine the Word [Bible] is not understood; yet doctrine alone in a man does not make the Church in him; but a life according thereto. From this it follows that faith alone does not make the Church; but the life of faith which is charity.
10764. The genuine doctrine of the Church is the doctrine of charity and at the same time of faith, and not the doctrine of faith without that of charity; for the doctrine of charity and at the same time of faith is the doctrine of life; but not the doctrine of faith without the doctrine of charity.
10765. Those who are outside the Church, and yet acknowledge one God, and live according to their religion in a kind of charity toward the neighbor, are in communion with those who are of the Church, because no one is condemned who believes in God, and lives well. From this it is evident that the Lord's Church is everywhere in the whole world, although specifically it is where the Lord is acknowledged, and where the Word is [Especially the Hebrew Word!].
10766. Everone in whom the Church is, is saved. But everone in whom the Church is not, is condemned.
Form AE1070:2, the weekly worships of the Lord Jesus Christ and daily readings of the Hebrew Word (Decalogue, Bible, and the Heavenly Doctrine) these two things constitute the Church!
“[2] It has been said above that there are two things that constitute the church, namely, the acknowledgment and belief that the Lord has the power to save, and that the Word is Divine; and that where these two are not acknowledged and believed there is no church; and for the reason that the Lord reforms man and gives him faith and love, and the Word teaches the way in which man must go to the Lord that he may receive faith and love from Him. Unless these two truths are recognized in a church it is not a church.”
黙示録講解1056番から
『主〔イエス・キリスト〕が拝され、〔特にヘブル語〕聖言が読まれる所にのみ教会があるためである。』
From AE1045
“・・・there is a church only where the Lord [Jesus Christ] is worshiped and the [especially Hebrew] Word is read.”
AR586, That by " saints" are meant those who are in truths from the Lord through the Word, may appear from the passages adduced in (n. 173), and also from the following:-
Jesus said, Father, sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy Word is truth. I sanctify Myself, that they may be sanctified in the truth; I in them, and Thou in Me (John 17:17, 19, 23).
Jehovah came from Sinai, He came from the myriads of holiness, from His right hand went the fire of the law to them, all His saints are in Thy hand; he shall receive of thy words (Deut. 33:2, 3).
From this it is plain, that they are called "saints" who are in Divine truths from the Lord through the Word: also, that they who live according to the commandments [Decalogue], that is, according to the truths of the Word, were the "saints of Jehovah" (Lev. 19:2; Deut. 26:18, 19). And if they would keep the covenant, they would be a "holy nation" (Exod. 19:5, 6). The Decalogue is the covenant which they were to do (n. 529). Thence the place in the tabernacle, where the ark was, in which was the Decalogue, was called the holy of holies (Exod. 26:33, 34). They are called "saints" who live according to the truths of the Word; not that they are holy, but the truths in them are holy, and they are holy when they are in them from the Lord; and the Lord is in them when the truths of His Word are in them (John 15:7). 啓示による黙示録解説529番から
AR 529. Verse 19. And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in His temple the ark of His covenant, signifies the New Heaven, in which the Lord in His Divine Human is worshiped, and they live according to the commandments of His Decalogue, which are the two essentials of the New Church, by which is conjunction. By "the temple of God" is signified the Lord's Divine Human, likewise heaven, where angels are, and also the church on earth; that these three are signified by "the temple of God," and that they cannot be separated, may be seen (n. 191); but here, by "the temple of God," is signified the Lord in His Divine Human in heaven where the angels are, because it is called "the temple of God in heaven." By "the ark in the temple" is meant the Decalogue, for in the ark there were only the two tables on which the Decalogue was written. By the temple being "open" is signified that these two, the Divine Human and the Decalogue, which are the two essentials of the New Church, are now seen, and were seen after the evil were cast into hell (n. 528). The reason why it is said "the ark of His covenant was in His temple," is, because a covenant signifies conjunction....