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 also? and in proportion as the affection grows warm, do not these grow warm? Love is thus the heat of man's life, or his vital heat. The heat of the blood and also its redness are from nothing else. The fire of the angelic sun which is pure love, does this.

Every one has his own love, or a love distinct from that of another; that is, no one has a love similar to that of another, as may be seen from the infinite variety of faces, these being types of the loves. For it is known that these change according to the affections of love. The desires, too, which are of the love, and also its joys and sorrows, shine out from the face.

From this it is evident that man is his own love, yea, the form of his love. It is however to be known that the interior man which is the same with his spirit that lives after death, is the form of his love and not so the exterior man in this world, because this latter has learned from infancy to conceal the desires of his love, yea, to feign and pretend other desires than his own. That his own love remains with every one after death, is because the love is the man's life and hence is the man himself. Man also is his own thought, thus his own intelligence and wisdom; but these make one with his love. For man thinks from and according to his love; yea, if he is in freedom, he speaks and acts from it; from which it may be seen that love is the esse or essence of his life, and that thought is the existere or existence of his life thence. Therefore