Arcana Coelestia #9984
9984. The actual delight that resides in the love of doing good without thought of benefit to oneself is a reward that lasts forever; for all love and affection inscribed on a person's life remains permanently. Into that good 1 heaven is introduced, and eternal happiness from the Lord.
Imibhalo yaphansi:
1. The meaning of the Latin here (in illum) is not certain. But in the small work De Nova Hierosolyma Et Ejus Doctrina Coelesti, published two years later, Swedenborg wrote in id bonum (into that good).
