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 potency, but also in act; thus that it is his deeds or works, because these contain within themselves all things which belong to the man's love and faith.

It is his ruling love that remains with a man after death. Nor is this ever changed to eternity. Every one has many loves, but still they all have reference to his ruling love, and make one with it, or together compose it. All things of the will which agree with the ruling love are called loves, because they are loved. These loves are interior and exterior; some of them are immediately conjoined to the ruling love, and some mediately; some are nearer to it, and some more remote; but all are in some manner its servants. Taken together, they constitute as it were a kingdom; for although man is entirely ignorant of it, their arrangement within him resembles the subordinations of a kingdom. But something of this is manifested to him in the other life; for according to their arrangement he has extension of thought and affection there,—extension into heavenly societies if his ruling love consist of the loves of heaven, but into infernal societies if his ruling love consist of the loves of hell.

But the truths which have been hitherto advanced affect only the thought of the rational man. That they may also be presented in a form that the senses