SD 5463
When a person thinks of self
he is in the love of self,
and of the world for the sake of self -
if he prefers himself before others,
and [considers] that he is abler and knows more than they,
and is superior to others;
but they who think of others,
are in charity towards the neighbor,
and in faith and love towards God.
Evil and infernal spirits know how, by various arts,
to turn the thoughts of another spirit upon himself,
and thus to lead him whithersoever they will.
SD 5464 [6, 8]
From the color around a spirit or person
- black, white, flesh-color, or yellow -
they conclude something about the person's state
as to his proprium, or self-love.
Where it is black, there is self-love:
such a one is led;
and it is according to the intensity of the black.
It is the sensual of person
where his self-love, or proprium, resides:
so far as he can be drawn up, or elevated,
out of that, as to the thoughts,
towards interiors,
so far he can be led away from his proprium.
A person's sensual, at this day, is, with most people,
wholly corporeal, and has not anything spiritual.
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