69. The quality of the love of self appears from a comparison with heavenly love. Heavenly love consists in loving uses for the sake of uses, that is, in loving for their own sakes the goods which a man does to the Church, to his country, to society, and to a fellow-citizen; but he who loves them for his own sake, loves them in the same way in which he loves domestics, because he is served by them. From this it follows, that he who is in the love of self, desires that the Church, his country, society, and his fellow-citizens, shall serve him, and not that he himself should serve them; he puts himself above them, and places them beneath himself.