LOVE OF DOMINION, the, grounded in the love of self, and the love of dominion grounded in the love of uses, [262]. The love of dominion grounded in the love of self, is the first universal love of hell; it is in the highest degree infernal, [262]. The love of dominion grounded in the love of uses is the universal love of heaven; it is in the highest degree celestial, [262], [266]. When the ruling love is touched, there ensues an emotion of the mind (animus), and if the touch hurts, there ensues wrath, [358].
LOVE OF THE NEIGHBOR, the, is also the love of doing uses, [269]. The love of the neighbor, or of doing uses, is a spiritual love, [269].
LOVE, polygamical, is connubial, and at the same time adulterous, [78]. It is the love of the sex, limited to a number, [345]. It is the love of the external or natural man, and thus is not conjugial love, [345]. It is inscribed on the natural man, [345].
LOVE OF SELF, the, is also the love of bearing rule over others, [269]. The love of self, or the love of bearing rule over others, is a corporeal love, [269].
LOVE OF THE SEX, the, is a love directed to several, and contracted with several of the sex, [48]. The love of the sex exists with the natural man, but conjugial love with the spiritual man, [38]. The love of the sex with man is not the origin of conjugial love, but is its first rudiment; thus it is like an external natural principle, in which an internal spiritual principle is implanted, [98]. It is the first in respect to time, but not in respect to end, [98]. The love of the sex is the universal of all loves, being implanted from creation in the heart of man, and is for the sake of the propagation of the human race, [46]. What the chaste love of the sex is, and whence derived, [55], [99]. The love of the sex belongs to the external of natural man, and hence is common to every animal, [94]. It is in itself natural, [141]. Origin of the love of the sex, [446]. It is at first corporeal, next it becomes sensual, afterwards it becomes natural, like the same love with other animals; but afterwards it may become natural-rational, and from natural-rational, spiritual, and lastly spiritual-natural, [447]. The nature of the love of the sex if it becomes active before marriage, [447]. The results of checking such love, [450]. The love of the sex remains with man after death, [37]. It remains such as it was in its interior quality, that is, such as it had been in his interior will and thought, [46].
LOVE OF USES, the, is from the Lord, [262], [266], [305]. So far as we do uses from the love thereof, so far that love increases, [266]. The love of doing uses is also neighborly love, [269].
LOVE OF THE WORLD, the, is also the love of possessing wealth, [269]. The love of the world, or the love of possessing wealth, is a material love, [269].
LOVE, the ruling, is the head of all the rest, [46]. The reason why this love remains with man to eternity, [46].
LOVES.—There are three universal loves which form the constituents of every man by creation, neighborly love, the love of the world, and the love of self, [269]. A man is a man if these loves are subordinate in that degree that the first constitutes the head, the second the body, and the third the feet, [269]. Natural, spiritual, and celestial loves; natural loves relate to the loves of self and the world, spiritual loves to love towards the neighbor, and celestial loves to love towards the Lord, [67]. When natural loves flow from spiritual loves, and spiritual from celestial; then the natural loves live from the spiritual, and the spiritual from the celestial; and all in this order live from the Lord, in whom they originate, [67]. Apparent loves between married partners are a consequence of the conjugial covenant being ratified for the term of life, [278]. The loves of animals are altogether united with their connate science, [96]. See [Beasts].
LOVE, adulterous.—Concerning the opposition of adulterous love to conjugial love, [423-443]. By adulterous love opposite to conjugial love, is meant the love of adultery, so long as it is such as not to be reputed as sin, nor as evil and dishonorable, contrary to reason, but as allowable with reason, [423]. The quality of adulterous love is not known, unless it be known what is the quality of conjugial love, [424]. The impurity of hell is from adulterous love, [430]. The delights of adulterous love commence from the flesh, and are of the flesh even in the spirit, [440]. The origin of adulterous love is from the connection (connubium) of what is evil and false, [427]. Of the imputation of adulterous love, [523-531].