others, enmity, hatred, revenge, cruelty, deceit (n. 6667, 7370, 7373, 7374, 9348, 10038, 10742).  So far as what is man’s own rules, the good of love and the truth of faith are either rejected or suffocated or perverted (n. 2041, 7491, 7492, 7643, 8487, 10455, 10742).  What is man’s own is hell in him (n. 694, 8480).  The good that man does from what is his own is not good, but in itself is evil (n. 8480).

485.  L. The delights of every one’s life are changed after death into things that correspond.

It has been shown in the preceding chapter that the ruling affection or dominant love in everyone continues to eternity.  It shall now be explained how the delights of that affection or love are changed into things that correspond.  Being changed into corresponding things means into things spiritual that correspond to the natural.  That they are changed into things spiritual can be seen from this, that so long as man is in his earthly body he is in the natural world, but when he leaves that body he enters the spiritual world and is clothed with a spiritual body.  It has already been shown that angels, and men after death, are in a complete human form, and that the bodies with which they are clothed are spiritual bodies (n. 73-77 and 453-460); also what the correspondence is of spiritual things with natural (n. 87-115).

486.  All the delights that a man has are the delights of his ruling love, for he feels nothing to be delightful except what he loves, thus especially that which he loves above all things.  It means the same whether you say the ruling love or that which is loved above all things.  These delights are various.  In general, there are as many as there are ruling loves; consequently as many as there are men, spirits, and angels; for no one’s ruling love is in every respect like that of another.  For this reason no one has a face exactly like that of any other; for each one’s face is an image of his mind; and in the spiritual world it is an image of his ruling love.  In particular, everyone’s delights are of infinite variety.  It is impossible for any one delight to be exactly like another, or the same as another, either those that follow one after another or those that exist together at the same time, no one ever being the same as another.  Nevertheless, the particular delights in everyone have reference to his one love, which is his ruling love, for they compose it and thus make one with it.  Likewise all delights in general have reference to one universally ruling love, which in heaven is love to the Lord, and in hell is the love of self.