The Principles of Doctrine

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The Principles of Doctrine are:

It is not the Word that makes the Church, but the understanding of it [Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture 76]. The Church is according to its Doctrine and the Doctrine is out of the Word. However the Doctrine does not instaurate the Church, but the integrity and purity of the Doctrine, consequently the understanding (intellectus) of the Word. 
[True Christian Religion 245; cf. True Christian Religion 243, True Christian Religion 244, New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine 243]

The Doctrine is spiritual out of coelestial origin not out of rational origin.
[cf. Arcana Coelestia 2496, 2497, 2510, 2516, 2533, 2859; Apocalypse Explained 19]

The Third Testament without Doctrine is as a candlestick without light, and those who read that Testament without Doctrine, or who do not acquire for themselves Doctrine out of the Third Testament, are in darkness as to all Truth.
[cf. Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture 50-61]

(Handbook Of The Lord's New Church Which Is Nova Hierosolyma, Page 44)

Teachings Out Of the Word of the Third Testament... 

It is not the Word that makes the Church, but the understanding of it.
(Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture 76).
From the Latin of Third Testament:  
...non Verbum faciat ecclesiam, sed intellectus ejus...  (Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture 76)

The Church is according to its Doctrine and the Doctrine is out of the Word. However the Doctrine does not instaurate the Church, but the integrity and purity of the Doctrine, consequently the understanding (intellectus) of the Word  (True Christian Religion 245).

From the Latin of Third Testament:  
Quod ecclesia sit secundum doctrinam ejus, et quod doctrina sit ex Verbo, [notum est]; sed usque doctrina non instaurat ecclesiam, sed integritas et puritas doctrinae, consequenter intellectus Verbi; (True Christian Religion 245)

The Beginning and Development of Doctrine in the New Church by Rev. Theodore Pitcairn and Notes on the Development of Doctrine in the Church by Rt. Rev. Philip N. Odhner are together in one document. Click on either to view.

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