Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 7372

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7372. The attitudes mentioned just above in 7370 serve as signs by which to recognize who exactly are immersed in self-love. What people seem like to outward appearance, no matter whether they are proud or submissive, is of no significance. For such attitudes reside in the interior man, and the interior man is hidden by the majority of people at the present day. The exterior man is taught to display behaviour that expresses love of the public and the neighbour, thus the opposites of those attitudes, and to do so for selfish and worldly reasons.


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