all things for the sake of self and consequently from self, and thus in
every least thing he does there is self and what is his own (proprium),
which regarded in itself is nothing but evil. But to give uses the first
place and self the second is to do good for the sake of the church, the
country, society, and the neighbor; and the goods that man does to these
for the sake of these are not from man but from the Lord. The
difference between these two is like the difference between heaven and
hell. Man does not know that there is such a difference, because from
birth and thus from nature he is in these loves, and because the delight
of these loves continually flatters and pleases him.

But let him consider that a love of ruling from delight in ruling, and
not from a delight in uses, is wholly devilish; and such a man may be
called an atheist; for so far as he is in that love he does not in his
heart believe in the existence of God, and to the same extent he derides
in his heart all things of the church, and he even hates and pursues
with hatred all who acknowledge God, and especially those who
acknowledge the Lord. The very delight of the life of such is to do
evil and to commit wicked and infamous deeds of every kind. In a word,
they are very devils.

This a man does not know so long as he lives in the world: but he will
know that it is so when he comes into the spiritual world, as he does
immediately after death. Hell is full of such, where instead of having
dominion they are in servitude.

Moreover, when they are looked at in the light of heaven they appear
inverted, with the head downward and the feet upward, since they gave
rule the first place and uses the second; and that which is in the first
place is the head, and that which is in the second is the feet; and that