834. As we have treated above concerning celestial love and spiritual love, it now remains to say something on spiritual natural love, in which are the angels of the first or ultimate heaven. This love is properly called charity towards the neighbour. These angels, because they are almost like men in the world as to understanding, and are also natural, have the understanding only a little elevated above what it was when they were in the world; therefore they do not see truths in the light as do the angels of the second heaven, but receive, acknowledge and believe them from doctrine, in which they are instructed before they are permitted to enter heaven. This is why only the more intelligent of them know what charity towards the neighbour is; there the simple believe, that every man is the neighbour, and that charity is to assist the needy, and to do good to the poor, the stranger, and so on. They chiefly consider persons and their conversation, and do not look to the interiors from which these proceed. The reason is that they are natural; and the natural man does not think abstractedly from those things that appear before his eyes, except so far as he admits light (lux) from heaven into his natural light (lumen). Nevertheless they are there taught that by neighbour, in the Word, is not meant a man merely as to his person, but as to the quality of his personality; that this quality causes him to be of a certain character, and that the character of a man is from his understanding and will - that of the understanding being from truths, and that of the will from goods and the quality of both, is from his love. Hence it is known that because every man is a neighbour, everyone is a neighbour from his quality; and, consequently, that the quality of a man, from which he is a man, is meant by neighbour, in the spiritual sense. Were it otherwise, a bad man would be a neighbour equally as a good man; and yet to do good to the evil is in some cases to do evil to the good. That this is the fact, any one may see from natural light (lumen). Suppose you had to make choice of an assistant or servant from amongst those who live in your vicinity, and for this purpose ten of them were brought before you, would you make your choice of one of them from the face merely, or would you not rather make it from some quality which you esteem, as sincerity, modesty, piety and uprightness? These things you would consider in your examination of them. The case is similar with respect to the neighbour. It is the quality of a man which is to be loved. It follows therefore that neighbour in the spiritual sense is that in a man which makes him what he is.