Selection from Arcana Coelestia ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
There are three universal kinds of idolatry. The first comes of the love of self; the second, of the love of the world; the third, of the love of pleasures.
All idolatrous worship has one or other of these for its end. The worship of idolaters can have no other ends; for they know not and care not for eternal life; they even deny it.
(from Arcana Coelestia 1357)