22. In the process of time, however, the representative forms of the church, which were correspondent forms, were turned into idolatrous ones, and also into magical ones, and of the Lord’s Divine providence a knowledge of correspondences was then gradually obliterated, and in the Israelite and Jewish nation totally lost and extinguished.
The worship of the latter church did indeed consist of nothing but correspondent forms, and so was representative of things having to do with heaven; but still the people did not know what anything symbolized. For they were an entirely natural people, and so were neither willing nor able to know anything of spiritual matters, nor anything therefore of correspondences.
