AC 10035 - Proprium, or One's Own or Ego or Self

AC 10035 [1-2]

For in a person there are two faculties
called understanding and will.
To the understanding pertain truths or falsities;
but to the will, goods or evils.
Thus to the understanding pertain the things of faith,
and to the will the things of love,
because the things of love are perceived as goods,
and the things of faith are perceived as truths.
Moreover, with those who are in falsities and evils,
falsities are of faith,
and evils are of love.

. . . Be it known further
that all the proprium of the will of a person is evil,
because from himself a person loves nothing
but himself and the world,
and if he loves his neighbor
it is for the sake of himself.
Therefore he must be regenerated,
and through regeneration receive a new will;
but the will which he receives through regeneration
is not of the person,
but of the Lord with the person.

. . . That the Lord's proprium denotes the Divine good,
and from this the good of love to Him
and toward the neighbor,
is because the Lord's proprium is that
which give the life of heaven to a person
when he is being regenerated.