With those who do good from an internal affection there is charity in everything that they think and say, and that they will and do. It then presents itself under some form or image by which it appears before the interior sight, for the thought that a thing is so in truth is called faith. Charity is from the Lord, and is also formed first in the spiritual mind. They both come into existence at the same moment. An idea of the good which is charity and the truth which is faith may be formed from the light and heat of the sun.
Spiritual light is the truth of faith and spiritual heat is love.
Those who are led by the Lord desire nothing more than to do good works, and they think of nothing less than of meriting by them. The Lord's kingdom is a kingdom of ends, which are uses, or what is the same thing, a kingdom of uses which are ends. Through these he is conjoined to heaven. To love the Lord and the neighbor means in general to perform uses. Love is not anything without wisdom, but in wisdom it is formed for something.