Love is the Esse of man's life, no. 5002. Man, spirit, and angel, are altogether such as their love is, nos. 6872, 10177, 10284. What a man loves he has for an end, no. 3796. What a man loves and has for an end, reigns with him universally, that is, in each and all things, nos. 3796, 5130, 5949. Love is spiritual heat, and the very vital [element] of man, nos. 1589, 2146, 3338, 4906, 7081-7086, 9954, 10740. All the interior things with a man, which belong to his understanding and will, are arranged into a form according to his ruling love, nos. 2023, 3189, 6690. Love is spiritual conjunction, nos. 1594, 2057, 3939, 4018, 5807, 6195, 6196, 7081-7086, 7501, 10130. Hence all in the spiritual world are consociated according to their loves, Ibid. Affection is the continuity of love, no. 3938. All delight, pleasure, satisfaction, happiness, and all joy of heart, belong to love and their quality is according to the quality of the love, nos. 994, 995, 2204. There are as many genera and species of delights and pleasures as there are affections belonging to love, nos. 994, 995, 2204. The delight of the love is lower, the more external it is, no. 996. The life of a man after death is of the same quality as his love, no. 2363.