AC 2219 - the order of creation & the love of self

AC 2219 [2-3]
This is the order into which a person has been created;
consequently it is love to God and love toward the neighbor
that should be a person's life,
and by which he should be distinguished from brute animals.
This is also the order of heaven,
in which it was intended a person should be while he lives in the world;
thus in the Lord's kingdom;
and into this kingdom he would pass when he had put off the body
that had been of service to him upon the earth,
and there he would rise into a state
continually advancing in heavenly perfection.

But the love of self is the primary and indeed the only thing
that destroys all this; and not so much so the love of the world,
for this is indeed opposite to the spiritual things of faith,
but the love of self is diametrically opposite to the celestial things of love;
for he who loves himself loves no others,
but endeavors to destroy all persons whatever
that do not pay reverence to him;
nor does he will well and do well to anyone,
except to him who is a part of himself,
or can be captivated so as to be a part of himself,
like something inoculated as it were with his evil desires and fantasies.