AC 1055 - the eternal or everlasting covenant

AC 1055
That I may remember the eternal covenant.
(Genesis 9:16)
. . . there is no other "eternal covenant"
than love to the Lord and love toward the neighbor.
This is eternal, because from eternity to eternity.
The universal heaven is founded in love, and so is universal nature;
for in nature nothing whatever is possible -
in which there is any union and conjunction,
whether it be animate or inanimate -
that does not derive its origin from love.
. . . Consequently love, or a semblance of love,
has been implanted in all things in general and in particular;
with a person alone there is not love, but the contrary,
because a person has destroyed in himself the order of nature.
When however he can be regenerated,
or restored again to order, and can receive mutual love,
then there is "the covenant" or conjunction by charity . . ..