Heavenly Doctrine (Tafel) n. 70

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70. Besides, so far as any one is in heavenly love, which consists in loving uses and goods, and in being affected with the delight of the heart in doing them, in so far he is led by the Lord; for this is the love in which the Lord Himself is, and which is from Him. But, so far as any one is in the love of self, so far he is led by himself; and so far as any one is led by himself, so far he is led by his own self (proprium), and a man's self is nothing but evil; it is man's hereditary evil which consists in his loving himself more than God, and the world more than heaven.


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