“Since these two loves—love for the Lord and love of controlling prompted by selflove—are absolute opposites, and since everyone who is caught up in love for the Lord turns toward the Lord as the sun, as explained in the preceding section, it stands to reason that everyone who is caught up in a love of controlling prompted by self-love turns away from the Lord. The reason people turn in opposite directions is that those who are caught up in love for the Lord love being led by the Lord more than anything else, and want the Lord alone to be in control. In contrast, if people are caught up in a love of controlling prompted by self-love, there is nothing they love more than leading themselves. They want to be the only ones who are in control.”
Perceiving the Spiritual in Contrasts
Insights for Worship Secrets of Heaven n. 5962.2 by Emanuel Swedenborg “It is part of God’s divine design that things proceed from beginning to end;