The Loves of Self and of the World. As love to the Lord and love towards the neighbour, that is, charity, constitute heaven, so where the love of self and the love of the world reign, they constitute hell; for which reason they are opposites, nos. 2041, 3610, 4225, 4776, 6210, 7366, 7369, 7489, 7490, 8232, 8678, 10455, 10741-10743, 10745. All evils proceed from the loves of self and of the world, nos. 1307, 1308, 1321, 1594, 1691, 3413, 7255, 7376, 7488, 7489, 8318, 9335, 9348, 10038, 10742. From the love of self and of the world proceed contempt of others, enmity, hatred, revenge cruelty, deceit, and thus all evil and all wickedness, nos. 6667, 7372-7374, 9348, 10038, 10742. These loves rush on in proportion as the reins are given them, and the love of self aspires even to the throne of God, nos. 7375, 8678. The love of self and the love of the world are destructive of human society and of heavenly order, nos. 2045, 2057. On account of those loves, mankind have formed governments, and subjected themselves to the powers thereof, in order to be safe, nos. 7364, 10160, 10814. Where these loves reign, the good of love and the good of faith are either rejected, suffocated, or perverted, nos. 2041, 7491, 7492, 7643, 8487, 10455, 10743. In these loves there is no life, but spiritual death, nos. 7494, 10731, 10741. The quality of these loves described, nos. 1505, 2219, 2363, 2364, 2444, 4221, 4227, 4948, 4949, 5721, 7366-7377, 8678. Every lust and concupiscence belongs to the love of self and of the world, nos. 1668, 8910. The loves of self and the world may serve for means, but not at all for an end, nos. 7377, 7819, 7820. When a man is being reformed, these loves are inverted, so as to serve as a means, and not as an end; and so that they are as the soles of the feet, and not as the head, nos. 8995, 9210. With those who are in the loves of self and the world, there is no Internal, but only an External without any Internal; because the Internal is closed in the direction of heaven, but the External is opened in the direction of the world, nos. 10396, 10400, 10409, 10411, 10422, 10429. Those who are in the loves of self and the world do not know what charity, what conscience, and what the life of heaven are, no. 7490. So far as a man is in the love of self and of the world, so far he does not receive the good and the truth of faith which continually flow in with man from the Lord, no. 7491. Those who are in the loves of self and the world have external, but no internal bonds; wherefore, on their removal they rush into every kind of wickedness, nos. 10744-10746. In the spiritual world all turn in accordance with their loves; those who are in love to the Lord, and in love towards the neighbour, turn to the Lord; but those who are in the love of self and the love of the world turn away from the Lord, nos. 10130, 10189, 10420, 10742. The quality of the worship in which there is the love of self, nos. 1304, 1306-1308, 1321, 1322. The Lord governs the world through the wicked, by leading them by their own loves, which have relation to the love of self and to the love of the world, nos. 6481, 6495. The evil as well as the good are able to discharge the duties of offices, and to accomplish uses and goods, because they look upon posts of honour and gain as rewards, for the sake of which they act in like manner in outward form, nos. 6481, 6495. All who are in the hells are in evils and the falsities therefrom, which originate in the loves of self and the world (see the work on Heaven and Hell, nos. 551-565).