Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.

No one's character is completely like another'sthis infinite variety is like a mirror in which we can see the infinity of God the Creator.

The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that is loving.

Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body.

Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.

Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.

That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.