AC 7750 - Love to the Lord and Love to the Neighbor

AC 7750 [2-3]

If man were in his own love,
which is love to God and toward the neighbor,
this being man's proper love
by which he is distinguished from the beasts,
he would then be not only in all requisite knowledge,
but also in all intelligence and wisdom;
neither would he have occasion to learn them,
for they would flow in from heaven into these loves,
that is, through heaven from the Divine.
But as man is not in these,
but in contrary loves, namely,
in the love of self and the love of the world,
therefore he must needs be born
into all ignorance and lack of skill;
yet by Divine means
he is brought to something of intelligence and wisdom,
but still not actually into anything
unless he removes the loves of self and of the world,
and thus opens the way
for love to the Lord and love toward the neighbor.

That love to the Lord and love toward the neighbor
have within them all intelligence and wisdom,
can be seen from those
who in the world
have been in these loves,
for when in the other life they come into heaven,
they there know and are wise in such things
as before they had never known;
indeed, they think and speak thereas do the rest of the angels
such things as the ear has never heard,
nor the mind known, which are unutterable.
The reason is that these loves have in them
the capacity to receive such things.