The evil which arises from the contrary opinion is this: men who have received a higher degree of insight believe that it is a special miraculous gift, and that all they may say is infallibly true, whereas they still retain their own individuality though raised to a purer state of being.

They have not been so raised in order to found new sects, or to cause revolutions, but to fulfil the old, continue and carry it on as far as they have been given light to do so.

In forming new sects they but reproduce their own individualities with all their errors.

So Swedenborg did, and Wesley, men of modern times who were awakened in a greater degree than the mass of their fellows.

Their mistake lay in their attempt to make universal ends out of their individual experiences.