3701). Man's inherited evil consists in his loving himself more
than God, and the world more than heaven and in making his
neighbor, in comparison with himself, of no account, except for
the sake of self, that is, himself alone, thus it consists in
the love of self and of the world (n. 694, 731, 4317, 5660).
All evils are from the love of self and of the world, when
those loves rule (n. 1307, 1308, 1321, 1594, 1691, 3413, 7255,
7376, 7488, 7490, 8318, 9335, 9348, 10038, 10742). These evils
are contempt of others, enmity, hatred revenge, cruelty, deceit
(n. 6667, 7370-7374, 9348, 10038, 10742). And from these evils
comes all falsity (n. 1047, 10283, 10284, 10286). These loves,
so far as the reins are given them, rush headlong; and the love
of self aspires even to the throne of God (n. 7375, 8678).
343. Several times when a number of children that were in a purely
infantile state have been with me in choirs, they were heard as a
tender unarranged mass, that is, as not yet acting as one, as they do
later when they have become more mature. To my surprise the spirits
with me could not refrain from inducing them to talk.
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