em to the man to be from himself and to be as
completely his as though they really were; there is no difference; does
anyone perceive otherwise by any sense? See above (nn. 74-77) on the
appearance as of self, and (nn. 78-81) on appropriation as of oneself.
The only difference is the acknowledgment which a man ought to make, that
he does good and thinks truth not of himself but from the Lord, and hence
that the good he does and the truth he thinks are not his. So to think
from some love of the will because it is the truth makes conjunction; for
then a man looks to the Lord and the Lord looks on the man.

93. I have been granted both to hear and see in the spiritual world what
the difference is between those who believe that all good is from the
Lord and those who believe that good is from themselves. Those who
believe that good is from the Lord turn their faces to Him and receive
the enjoyment and blessedness of good. Those who think that good is from
themselves look to themselves and think they have merit. Looking to
themselves, they perceive only the enjoyment of their own good which is
the enjoyment not of good but of evil, for man's own is evil, and
enjoyment of evil perceived as good is hell. Those who have done good but
believed it was of themselves, and who after death do not receive the
truth that all good is from the Lord, mingle with infernal spirits and
finally join them. Those who receive that truth, however, are reformed,
though no others receive it than those who have looked to God in their
life. To look to God in one's life is nothing else than to shun evils as
sins.

94. The Lord's conjunction with man and man's reciprocal conjunction with
the Lord is effected by loving the neighbor as one's self and the Lord
above all. To love the neighbor as one's self consists simply in not
acting insincerely or unjustly with him, not hating him or avenging one's
self on him, not cursing and defaming him, not committing adultery with
his wife, and not doing other like things to him. Who cannot see that
those who do such things do not love the neighbor as themselves? Those,
however, who do not do such things because they are evils to the neighbor
and at the same time sins against the Lord, deal sincerely, justly,
amicably and faithfully by the neighbor; as the Lord does likewise,
reciprocal conjunction takes place. And when conjunction is reciprocal,
whatever a man does to the neighbor he does from the Lord, and what h