such loves all things of hell are inscribed. Evidently,
then, he whose love is heavenly and spiritual enters heaven, and he
whose love is corporeal and worldly apart from heavenly and spiritual
love enters hell.
{Footnote 1} In the highest sense, the Lord is the neighbor,
because He is to be loved above all things; but loving the Lord
is loving what is from Him, because He Himself is in everything
that is from Him, thus it is loving what is good and true (n.
2425, 3419, 6706, 6711, 6819, 6823, 8123). Loving what is good
and true which is from the Lord is living in accordance with
good and truth, and this is loving the Lord (n. 10143, 10153,
10310, 10336, 10578, 10645). Every man and every society, also
one's country and the church, and in a universal sense the
Lord's kingdom, are the neighbor, and doing good to these from
a love of good in accord with their state is loving the
neighbor; that is, their good that should be consulted is the
neighbor (n. 6818-6824, 8123). Moral good also, which is
honesty, and civil good, which is justice, are the neighbor;
and to act honestly and justly from the love of honesty and
justice is loving the neighbor (n. 2915, 4730, 8120-8123). Thus
charity towards the neighbor extends to all things of the life
of man, and loving the neighbor is doing what is good and just,
and acting honestly from the heart, in every function and in
every work (n. 2417, 8121, 8124). The doctrine in the Ancient
Church was the doctrine of charity, and from that they had
wisdom (n. 2385, 2417, 3419, 3420, 4844, 6628).
482. (iv) Unless faith is from heavenly love it does not endure in
man. This has been made clear to me by so much experience that if
everything I have seen and heard respecting it were collected, it
would fill a volume. This I can testify, that those who are in
corporeal and worldly love apart from heavenly and spiritual love
have no faith whatever, and are incapable of having any; they have
nothing but knowledge or a persuasion that a thing is true because it
serves their love. Some of those who claimed that they had faith were
brought to those who had faith, and when they communicated with them
they perceived that they had no faith at all; and afterwards they
confessed that merely believing what is true and believing the Word
is not faith, but that faith is loving truth from heavenly love, and
willing and doing it from interior affection. Moreove
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