AC 2657 - the first & second rational

AC 2657 [6]
The first rational, in the beginning,
knows no other love than that of self and the world;
and although it hears that heavenly love is altogether of another character,
it nevertheless does not comprehend it.
But then, when the man does any good,
he perceives no other delight from it than
that he may seem to himself to merit the favor of another,
or may hear himself called a Christian,
or may obtain from it the joy of eternal life.

The second rational, however,
with which he is gifted by the Lord through regeneration,
begins to feel some delight in good and truth itself,
and to be affected by this, not for the sake of anything of his own,
but for the sake of the good and truth;
and when he is led by this delight,
he disclaims merit, till at length he rejects it as an enormity.
This delight grows with him step by step, and becomes blessed;
and in the other life it becomes happiness,
and is itself his heaven.