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New Jerusalem

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New Jerusalem
n.
1. Christianity The final resting place of souls redeemed by Jesus.
2. An ideal community on earth.

New Jerusalem
n Christianity
(Christian Religious Writings / Theology) heaven regarded as the prototype of the earthly Jerusalem; the heavenly city


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They still dream of experimental realisation of their social Utopias, of founding isolated "phalansteres," of establishing "Home Colonies," of setting up a "Little Icaria" -- duodecimo editions of the New Jerusalem -- and to realise all these castles in the air, they are compelled to appeal to the feelings and purses of the bourgeois.
And saintly men, who walk with God on earth, would fain be away, to walk with him on the golden pavements of the New Jerusalem.
In fact, all have equal rights with me--and /vive la guerre eternelle/--till the New Jerusalem, of course
 
 
 
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