Key to the Things Hidden from the Foundation of the World

written in the Acts of the Apostles), together with his Elias Elijah, as will soon appear: it is necessary again, according to the intellect, to return to conceiving those things which were granted to the first Man through Grace. Hence it is necessary, since that Faith which came to man after sin (for it is an eternal prescription that it is necessary for the one approaching to believe that He Is, and that He is a Rewarder to those who act according to the testimony of conscience) has its origin from evil, for it to return into the Intellect, and to be subjected to the laws of eternal Reason, so that All, from the least to the greatest, without the labor of a Teacher, may know the Lord, when Divine matters have been handled in this way once.

2. With this Remedy, therefore, God has provided for the World, so that, when the whole World, either by Deeds only, as faithless and titular Christians: or by Deeds and Doctrine, as other Nations, differing from the true prescription of Conscience or divine Law, had no further concern for sacred things, at last the ultima lux final light might return to the whole World, and the first who were to be last would become first, and the last first. These were indeed the things which Christ had to say to his own, but they could not bear them then. This is