DP 199, 200 - The Affections of a Person's Life's Love Are Known to the Lord Alone

DP 199 [3]

The soul which directs the interior elements -
does it not also direct
the actions springing from them?
A person's soul is nothing other
than his will's love
and his consequent intellect's love.
Whatever the character of this love is,
such is the character of the whole person.
Moreover, he develops this character
according to his ordering of things
in his outward activities,
in which the person acts in conjunction with the Lord.
Consequently if he attributes
everything to himself and to nature,
a love of self becomes his soul,
while if he attributes everything to the Lord,
a love of the Lord becomes his soul.
This latter love is a heavenly love,
and the other a hellish love.

DP 200

. . . when he knows from the Word
that a person cannot of himself obtain anything
unless it has been given to him from heaven,
and when he knows from reason
that this appearance has been granted him
in order that he may live as a human being,
see what is good and what is evil,
choose one or the other,
and adopt as his own what he chooses,
so as to be capable
of being reciprocally conjoined with the Lord,
of being reformed, regenerated, and saved,
and of living to eternity.