THE LOVES OF SELF AND OF THE WORLD (pt. 10)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
THE LOVES OF SELF AND OF THE WORLD
(pt. 10)

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The evils which belong to those who are in the love of self, are, in general:-

• contempt of others
• envy, enmity against those who do not favor them
• hostility on that account
• hatreds of various kinds
• revenge
• cunning
• deceit
• unmercifulness
• cruelty

Where such evils exist, there is also contempt of the Divine, and of Divine things, which are the truths and goods of the church. If they honor these, it is only with the mouth, and not with the heart. And because such evils are thence, so there are similar falsities, for falsities are from evils.

(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 75)

• In the manuscript, the author, Emanuel Swedenborg, annexed to each section of the doctrine extracts from the  Arcana Coelestia, because in the  Arcana Coelestia the same things are more fully explained.  Arcana Coelestia is available in print or online.