AC 1472 - the internal person regards nothing but the use

AC 1472
The internal person regards nothing but the use.
For the sake of this end also,
the Lord insinuates the delight
that childhood and youth perceives in memory-knowledges.
But when a person begins to make his delight
consist in memory-knowledge alone,
it is a bodily lust (cupidity) which carries him away,
and in proportion as he is carried away
(that is, makes his delight consist in mere memory-knowledge),
in the same proportion he removes himself from what is celestial,
and in the same proportion
do the memory-knowledges close themselves
toward the Lord, and become material.
But in proportion as the memory-knowledges are learned
with the end of use, - as for the sake of human society,
for the sake of the Lord's church on earth,
for the sake of the Lord's kingdom in the heavens,
and still more for the Lord's own sake,
- the more are they opened toward Him.
On this account also the angels,
who are in the memory-knowledge of all knowledges,
and indeed to such a degree that scarcely one part in ten thousand
can be presented to the full understanding of a person,
yet esteem such knowledge as nothing in comparison with use.