4651. HOW INFERNAL THE LOVE OF SELF IS, IN THAT IT DESTROYS ORDER. Besides the innumerable evils which arise from self-love, it is also perceived by the angels, that, unless that was utterly trampled under foot by the Lord, no spirit and no man would have been able to think or to live. It inflows, from very many sources, into every particular of the thought, of spirit and of mad If one person should take up rule over another, he would take away all the influx round about: hence, there would be no thought. It was plainly perceived that the order of thought is ruled by the Lord, by means of angels and spirits, and they who wish to govern others are removed; otherwise, influx would come from them, and thought would utterly perish. This manifestly follows from influx.