83. The Hereditary Nature of Man (treated of above at nos. 70-79) that it is the Love of Self and the World. Men, however many there are, are all born into evils of every kind; so much so, indeed, that their Self (proprium) is nothing but evil, nos. 210, 215, 731, 874-876, 987, 1047, 2307, 2308, 3701, 3812, 8480, 8550, 10283, 10284, 10286, 10731. On this account man has to be born again, that is, regenerated, in order that he may receive new life from the Lord, no. 3701. Hereditary evils are derived, increased, and accumulated from parents and ancestors in a long series backwards, and they are not [handed down] from the first man on account of his having eaten of the tree of knowledge, nos. 313, 494, 2910, 3469, 3701, 4317, 8550. Wherefore the hereditary evils, at the present day, are more malignant than formerly, no. 2122. Children who die as children, and are brought up in heaven, are from their hereditary nature, nothing but evils, nos. 2307, 2308, 4563. For this reason they are of diverse dispositions and inclinations, no. 2300. Every man's interior evils are from the father, and the exterior from the mother, no. 4317. A man from himself superadds to his hereditary evils, new evils which are called actual evils, no. 8551. No one suffers punishment in the other life for hereditary evils, but for actual evils, which return [there], nos. 966, 2308. The more malignant hells are kept separate, lest they should operate on the hereditary evils with men and spirits, nos. 1667, 8806. Hereditary evils are those that belong to the love of self and the, world, which consist in a man's loving himself more than God, and the world more than heaven, and in making the neighbour of no account, nos. 694, 4317, 5660. And because these evils are opposed to the goods of heaven and to Divine order, therefore, a man must needs be born into mere ignorance, nos. 1050, 1902, 1992, 3175. Natural good is connate with some; nevertheless it is not good, because it easily inclines to all evils and falsities; and this good is not accepted in heaven unless it become spiritual good, nos. 2463, 2464, 2468, 3304, 3408, 3469, 3710, 3508, 3518, 7761.