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Footnotes: Sections 551-600

Footnotes

551-1 Before the evil are cast down into hell they are devastated of truths and goods, and when these have been taken away they are of themselves carried into hell (n. 6977, 7039, 7795, 8210, 8232, 9330).

The Lord does not devastate them, but they devastate themselves (n. 7643, 7926).

Every evil has in it what is false; therefore those who are in evil are also in falsity, although some do not know it (n. 7577, 8094).

Those who are in evil must needs think what is false when they think from themselves (n. 7437).

All who are in hell speak falsities from hell (n. 1695, 7351, 7352, 7357, 7392, 7689).

558-1 Evidently, then, the love of the neighbor that has its beginning in man is the opposite of the love to the neighbor that has its beginning in the Lord; and the former proceeds from evil because it proceeds from what is man’s own, while the latter proceeds from good because it proceeds from the Lord, who is good itself. Evidently, also, the love of the neighbor that proceeds from man and from what is his own is corporeal, while the love to the neighbor that proceeds from the Lord is heavenly. In a word, in the man in whom love of self prevails that love constitutes the head, and heavenly love constitutes the feet. On that love he stands; and if it does not serve him he tramples it under foot. This is the cause of the appearance that those who are cast down into hell fall with the head downward towards hell, and with the feet upwards towards heaven (see above, n. 548).

558-2 Those who do not know what it is to love the neighbor imagine every man to be a neighbor, and that good is to be done to everyone who is in need of help (n. 6704).

They also believe that everyone is neighbor to himself, and thus that love to the neighbor begins with self (n. 6933).

Those who love themselves above all things, that is, with whom self-love prevails, also make love to the neighbor to begin with themselves (n. 6710).

In what manner everyone is neighbor to himself, explained (n. 6933-6938).

But those who are Christians and who love God above all things make love to the neighbor to begin with the Lord, because He is to be loved above all things (n. 6706, 6711, 6819, 6824).

The distinctions of neighbor are as many as the distinctions of good from the Lord, and there should be distinction in doing good to everyone in accordance with the quality of his state, and this is a matter of Christian prudence (n. 6707, 6709, 6711, 6818).

These distinctions are innumerable, and for this reason the ancients, who knew what is meant by the neighbor, reduced the exercises of charity into classes, which they denoted by suitable names, and from this knew in what respect everyone was a neighbor, and in what manner good was to be done to everyone with prudence (n. 2417, 6628, 6705, 7259-7262).

The doctrine in the ancient churches was the doctrine of charity towards the neighbor, and from this they had wisdom (n. 2417, 2385, 3419, 3420, 4844, 6628).

561-1 “The sun of the world” signifies the love of self (n. 2441).

In this sense “to worship the sun” signifies to worship those things that are antagonistic to heavenly love and to the Lord (n. 2441, 10584).

“The sun’s growing hot” means an increasing lust of evil (n. 8487).

567-1 There is an influx from the spiritual world into the natural world (n. 6053-6058, 6189-6215, 6307-6327, 6466-6495, 6598-6626).

There is also an influx into the lives of animals (n. 5850).

And into the subjects of the vegetable kingdom (n. 3648).

This influx is a continual endeavor to act in accordance with the Divine order (n. 6211 at the end).

575-1 The correspondence of the teeth (n. 5565-5568).

Those who are purely sensual and have scarcely anything of spiritual light correspond to the teeth (n. 5565).

In the Word a tooth signifies the sensual, which is the outmost of the life of man (n. 9052, 9062).

Gnashing of teeth in the other life comes from those who believe that nature is everything and the Divine nothing (n. 5568).

590-1 In the word “to journey,” as well as “to go,” signifies progression of life (n. 3335, 4375, 4554, 4585, 4882, 5493, 5605, 5996, 8181, 8345, 8397, 8417, 8420, 8557).

“To go (and to walk) with the Lord” means to receive spiritual life, and to live with Him (n. 10567).

“To walk” means to live (n. 519, 1794, 8417, 8420).

591-1 A spiritual sphere, which is a sphere of life, flows forth and pours forth from every man, spirit, and angel, and encompasses him (n. 4464, 5179, 7454, 8630).

It flows forth from the life of their affections and thoughts (n. 2489, 4464, 6206). The quality of spirits is recognized at a distance from their spheres (n. 1048, 1053, 1316, 1504).

Spheres from the evil are the opposites of spheres from the good (n. 1695, 10187, 10312).

Such spheres extend far into angelic societies in accordance with the quality and quantity of good (n. 6598-6613, 8063, 8794, 8797).

And into infernal societies in accordance with the quality and quantity of evil (n. 8794).

591-2 Man’s self is nothing but evil (n. 210, 215, 731, 874-876, 987, 1047, 2307, 2308, 3518, 3701, 3812, 8480, 8550, 10283, 10284, 10286, 10732).

Man’s self is hell in him (n. 684, 8480).