Selection from Arcana Coelestia ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
The charity the external form of which appears as charity is not always charity in the internal form. Its quality and its source are known from its end.The charity that comes from a selfish or worldly end in its internal form is not charity, neither ought it to be called charity; but the charity that regards as its end the neighbor, the general good, heaven, and thus the Lord, is real charity, and has within it the affection of doing good from the heart, and the derivative delight of life which in the other life becomes bliss.
It is of the utmost importance to know this, in order that man may know what the Lord's kingdom is in itself.
(Arcana Coelestia 3776:2)