by Emanuel Swedenborg, compiled by Julian Kennedy Smyth and William Frederic Wunsch, The Gist of Swedenborg — Hell (1920)
“ His delight is only that of self-love. And because the delight which springs from his love makes the life of a man, therefore his life is the life of self; and the life of self is life from man's proprium; and the proprium of man, viewed in itself, is nothing but evil. Love of self is of such a quality, too, that, as far as the reins are given it, it rushes on until at length it desires to rule not only over the whole earth, but over the whole heaven, too, and over the Divine Himself. —Heaven and Hell, nn. ”
