AC 1675 - Persuasions; AC 1676 - The Extent of the Lord's Salvation

AC 1675 [7]

There are persuasions of falsity
from the love of self,
and there are persuasions of falsity
from the love of the world;
the persuasions that are from the love of self
are most foul;
but the persuasions from the love of the world
are not so foul.
The persuasions of falsity
from the love of self
are opposite to the celestial things of love;
but the persuasions of falsity
from the love of the world
are opposite to the spiritual things of love.
Persuasions from the love of self carry with them
a desire to exercise command over all things;
and so far as restraints are relaxed to them,
they rush on,
even to desire to exercise command over the universe,
and even over Jehovah Himself,
as has been shown.
Therefore persuasions of this kind
are not tolerated in the other life.
But persuasions from the love of the world
do not rush on so far;
but only to the insanity
of not being contented with one's lot.
They vainly affect a heavenly joy,
and desire to appropriate the goods of others,
but not so much
with the disposition to exercise command.
But the differences that exist
among these persuasions are innumerable.

AC 1676 [3]

. . . it is sufficient for people to know,
and, because it is so, to believe,
that it is an eternal truth
that unless the Lord had come into the world
and subjugated and conquered the hells
by means of temptations admitted into Himself,
the human race would have perished;
and that otherwise
those who have been on this earth
even from the time of the Most Ancient Church
could not possibly have been saved.