AC 2321 - The Lord's Holy; AC 2327 - True Humiliation vs. the Love of Self

AC 2321

The human race could no longer have been saved
unless the Lord had come into the world and had united
the Divine Essence to the Human Essence;
for without the Lord's Human made Divine
salvation could no longer have reached to people.
The Holy Itself
that proceeds from the Lord's Divine Human
is that which separates the evil from the good;
for the evil so fear and shudder at the Lord's Holy
that they cannot approach it,
but flee far away from it into their hells,
each one according to the profaneness that is in him.

AC 2327 [2-3]

. . . the state of true humiliation,
which is possible to no one
unless they acknowledge that of themselves
they are profane and condemned,
and thus that they cannot of themselves look to the Lord,
where there is nothing but what is Divine and Holy;
on which account,
so far as a person is in self-acknowledgment,
so far he can be in true humiliation,
and in adoration when in worship.
For in all worship there must be humiliation;
and if this is separated therefrom,
there is nothing of adoration,
thus nothing of worship.

That the state of humiliation
is the essential state of worship itself,
comes from the fact
that so far as the heart is humbled,
so far the love of self and all the evil therefrom ceases;
and so far as this ceases,
so far good and truth, that is,
charity and faith,
flow in from the Lord;
for that which stands in the way
of the reception of these
is principally the love of self,
in which there is contempt for others
in comparison with one's self;
hatred and revenge if self is not treated with honor;
and also unmercifulness and cruelty;
thus the worst evils of all;
and into these
good and truth can in no wise be introduced,
for they are opposites.