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is done from heavenly love is done from the Lord, and whatever is done from the Lord is good. But the deeds and works of moral and civil life are infernal, if they are done from infernal love; for whatever is done from this love,—which is the love of self and the world,—is done from man himself, and whatever is done from man himself is in itself evil; because man, viewed in himself, or as to his proprium, is nothing but evil. (H. H. 470-484.)
