be taught in the churches; for they are taught to boys and girls in
order that man may begin his Christian life with them, and by no means
forget them as he grows up; although he does so. The same is meant by
these words in Isaiah:

"What is the multitude of sacrifices" to Me? Your meat offering, your
incense, "your new moons, and your appointed feasts, My soul hateth. . .
And when you multiply prayer I will not hear. . . Wash you, make you
clean; put away the evil of your doings from before Mine eyes; cease to
do evil . . . . Then though your sins were as scarlet they shall be
white as snow; though they were red as purple they shall be as wool"
(i. 11-19).

"Sacrifices," "meat offerings," "incense," "new moons," and "feasts,"
also "prayer," mean all things of worship. That these are wholly evil
and even abominable unless the interior is purified from evils is meant
by "Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings, and
cease to do evil." That afterward they are all goods is meant by words
that follow. (A.E., n. 939.)

When man's interior is purified from evils by his refraining from them
and shunning them because they are sins, the internal which is above it,
and which is called the spiritual internal, is opened. This
communicates with heaven; consequently man is then admitted into heaven
and is conjoined to the Lord.

There are two internals in man, one beneath and the other above. While
man lives in the world he is in the internal which is beneath and from
which he thinks, for it is natural. This may be called for the sake of
distinction the interior. But the internal that is above is that into