A WORLD OF ACTION

All heaven's delights are united to uses and inhere in them, because

uses are the goods of love and charity, in which the angels are. The

angels find all their happiness in use, from use, and according to

use. There is the highest freedom in this because it proceeds from

interior affection, and is conjoined with ineffable delight. Uses

exist in the heavens in all variety and diversity. Never is the use of

one angel quite the same as that of another; nor the delight. What is

more, the delights of any one person's use are countless. These

countless and various delights are nevertheless united in an order so

that they mutually regard one another, as do the uses of every member,

organ and inner part of the body. They are even more like the uses of

each vessel and fibre in every member, organ and vital part; each and

all of which are so related that they regard each of its own good in

the other, and thus in all, and all in each. As a result of this

general and several regard they act as one.

--_Heaven and Hell, nn._ 402, 403, 404, 405

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