The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
THE LOVES OF SELF AND OF THE WORLD
(pt. 12)
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
THE LOVES OF SELF AND OF THE WORLD
(pt. 12)
The love of the world is not opposite to heavenly love in the same degree that the love of self is, inasmuch as such great evils are not concealed in it.
This love is manifold: -
• there is the love of riches as the means of obtaining honorsThe end for the sake of which riches are desired, is called their use, and it is the end or use from which the love derives its quality; for the quality of the love is the same as that at the end which it has in view, to which other things serve as means.
• there is the love of honors and dignities as the means of obtaining riches
• there is the love of riches for the sake of various uses with which they are delighted in the world
• there is the love of riches for the sake of riches alone, which is avarice, and so on.
(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 77)
• 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.