Heaven and Hell # 484
484. It is to be known that all works and deeds pertain to moral and civil life, and therefore have regard to what is honest and right, and what is just and equitable; what is honest and right pertaining to moral life, and what is just and equitable to civil life. The love from which deeds are done is either heavenly or infernal. Works and deeds of moral and civil life, when they are done from heavenly love, are heavenly; for what is done from heavenly love is done from the Lord, and everything done from the Lord is good. But the deeds and works of moral and civil life when done from infernal love are infernal; for the things that are done from this love, which is the love of self and of the world, are done from man himself, and everything that is done from man himself is in itself evil; for man regarded in himself, that is, in regard to what is his proprium, is nothing but evil. 1
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1. [Swedenborg's footnote] Man's proprium consists in loving himself more than God, and the world more than heaven, and in making nothing of his neighbour in comparison with himself, thus it consists in the love of self and of the world (Arcana Coelestia 694, 731, 4317).
Man is born into this proprium, and it is dense evil (Arcana Coelestia 210, 215, 731, 874-876, 987, 1047, 2307-2308, 3518, 3701, 3812, 8480, 8550, 10283-10284, 10286, 10732).
From what is man's proprium not only every evil but also every falsity is derived (Arcana Coelestia 1047, 10283-10284, 10286).
The evils that are from man's proprium are contempt for others, emnity, hatred, revenge, cruelty, deceit (Arcana Coelestia 6667, 7370, 7373-7374, 9348, 10038, 10742).
So far as man's proprium rules, the good of love and the truth of faith are either rejected or suffocated or perverted (Arcana Coelestia 2041, 7491-7492, 7643, 8487, 10455, 10742).
Man's proprium is hell with him (Arcana Coelestia 694, 8480).
The good that man does from his proprium is not good, but in itself is evil (Arcana Coelestia 8480).
