Verse 2. And this worship shall be acknowledged to be by truth from good, and shall be with full power as to pure truth, as to the good from which it flows; and as to grateful perception; being the consecration of the heart to the Lord, by the conjunction of truth with good from pure love, bringing joy and peace to the worshiper.

75. The evils characteristic of people devoted to self-love are, broadly speaking, contempt for others, envy, ill will toward those who do not agree with them, a consequent hostility, and various kinds of hatred, vengefulness, guile, trickery, ruthlessness, and cruelty; and wherever we find these evils we also find a contempt for the Divine and for the truths and the good practices from the Divine that are taught by the church. If such people do pay respect to these things, it is with the mouth only and not with the heart.

Further, since self-love is the source of these evils it is also the source of corresponding falsities, since evils give rise to falsities.