The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil.

1763 (Divine Love and Wisdom) Latin: Sapientia Angelica de Divino Amore et de Divina Sapientia. The human body from Mary provided Jesus access to the evil heredity of the human race. 1758 (Earths in the Universe) Latin: De Telluribus in Mundo Nostro Solari quæ vocantur planetæ: et de telluribus in coelo astrifero: deque illarum incolis; tum de spiritibus & angelis ibi; ex auditis & visis.

A few years after his death – 15 by one estimate – for the most part in England small reading groups formed to study the truth they saw in his teachings. However he tells us that at this day it is very dangerous to talk with spirits unless a person is in true faith and is led by the Lord. experiences".