Matthew 22:1-14 The Wedding Garment

                                               
                Without a Wedding Garment

 

1 And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, 2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son... 11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: 12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. 13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 14 For many are called, but few are chosen. -Matthew 22:1-2 & 11-14 Bible, King James Version

In order to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven I believe one needs to be worthy to receive or know how to clothe themselves in the Angelic Garments of Light or they will not be among the worthy few chosen to enjoy the company of the Ascended Masters Who are the Sons of God. 

Heaven and its Wonders and Hell From Things Heard and Seen by Emanuel Swedenborg. (First published, in Latin, 1758)



177. XX. THE GARMENTS WITH WHICH ANGELS APPEAR CLOTHED.

Since angels are men, and live among themselves as men do on the earth, they have garments and dwellings and other such things, with the difference, however, that as they are in a more perfect state all things with them are in greater perfection… 179. The garments of some blaze as if with flame, and those of others glisten as if with light. …Some have garments that are glistening white… and others garments of various colors… 181. When I asked where they got their garments, they said from the Lord, and that they receive them as gifts, and sometimes they are clothed with them unconsciously. They said also that their garments are changed in accordance with their changes of state, that in the first and second state their garments are shining and glistening white, and in the third and fourth state a little less bright… 182. Those in the hells… appear clothed in garments, but in ragged, squalid, and filthy garments… and they can be clothed in no others. It is granted them by the Lord to be clothed, lest they be seen naked.

 

Arcana Coelestia, by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1749-56], tr. by John F. Potts [1905-10], at sacred-texts.com

 

2132.

As to its being said in the Word that there entered also one who was not clothed in a wedding garment (Matt. 22:11-13), and that he was cast out, it was shown how the case is with this also. There are some persons who during their bodily life have been imbued with the deceit of being able to feign themselves angels of light; and in the other life, when in this hypocritical state, they are also able to insinuate themselves into the nearest heavenly societies. But they do not remain there long, for the moment they perceive the sphere of mutual love there, they are seized with fear and horror, and cast themselves down (and it then appears in the world of spirits as if they had been cast down), some toward the lake, some toward Gehenna [In Jewish, Christian and Islamic scripture, Gehenna is a destination of the wicked,] and some into some other hell.