TCR 400 - there are two types of power

TCR 400 [8]
There are two types of power,
one based on love towards the neighbor,
the other on self-love.
These two types of power are opposites.
A person who wields power as a result of love to the neighbor,
wishes the good of all,
and likes nothing better than performing uses,
or being of service to others.
(Being of service to others is doing good to others
because one wishes them well, and performing uses.)
This is his love, and this is the pleasure of his heart.
Also, in so far as he is advanced to high rank, he is pleased,
not because of his rank,
but because of the uses he is then better able to perform . . ..
Such is power in the heavens.
On the other hand,
the person who wields power as a result of self-love,
wishes no one well, only himself and his own people.
The services he performs are for his own honor and glory,
for these are the only uses he recognizes.
He is of service to others only for the sake of having services done to him,
of being honored and given power.
He seeks high rank not so as to be able to do good,
but so as to hold a leading position and be highly honored,
and so fulfill his heart's pleasure.