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ment. He insisted that redemption is the activity which frees man’s mind from the power of the hells by means of the entire process of the Lord’s life on earth. The cross was simply the final step in this process. . . Swedenborg accepted only a portion of the Old Testament, and the four Gospels and the Apocalypse only in the New Testament. “ The rest,” he said, “ have no continuous internal sense.” “ Beloved, believe not ever spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world” (I John 4 :1 ). Leaving the Protestant Center, it is only a short distance to the beauti fully-landscaped M orm on Pavilion with its imposing facsimile spires of the Mormon Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah. How alluring, but how deceiv ing, this carefully-planned exhibit! The visitor is given a very cordial welcome immediately upon entering the pavilion, making the unwary, perhaps, feel “at home” amidst the soul-destroying propagation of the Mormon beliefs. One passes through a long room with inviting seating arrangement, if the visitor desires to sit and meditate upon the artis tic murals, on one side the history (continued on page 43)
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