AC 3570 - paying some attention to why we do what we do

AC 3570 [2,3,6]
The rational is in the internal person,
and what is there being transacted is unknown to the natural,
for it is above the sphere of its observation;
and for this reason the person who lives a merely natural life
cannot know anything of what is taking place with him
in his internal person, that is, in his rational;
for the Lord disposes all such things
entirely without the person's knowledge.
Consequently, it is that a person knows nothing
of how he is being regenerated,
and scarcely that he is being regenerated.
But if he is desirous to know this,
let him merely attend to the ends which he proposes to himself,
and which he rarely discloses to anyone.
If the ends are toward good, that is to say,
if he cares more for his neighbor and the Lord than for himself,
then he is in a state of regeneration;
but if the ends are toward evil, that is to say,
if he cares more for himself than for his neighbor and the Lord,
let him know that in this case he is in no state of regeneration.

Through his ends of life a person is in the other life;
through ends of good in heaven with the angels;
but through ends of evil in hell with devils.
The ends in a person are nothing else than his loves;
for that which a person loves he has for an end;
and inasmuch as his ends are his loves,
they are his inmost life.

. . . the rational disposes the natural,
in order that it may serve it as the soul or what is the same,
may serve the end, which is the soul,
to perfect itself,
that it may be of use in the Lord's kingdom.