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 of life, both their own and others. These are in illustration and in the light of wisdom in heaven according to their love and desire of use; for they come into that light in heaven from the Word, which is not natural there as in the world, but spiritual. These perform the office of preachers.

"Civil affairs are administered by those who, while in the world, loved their country and its general good in preference to their own; and did what is just and right from the love of justice and rectitude. Such men possess capacity for administering offices in heaven in proportion as their love of rectitude has prompted them to inquire into the laws of justice, and thence to become intelligent. The offices which they administer correspond exactly to the degree of their intelligence; and their intelligence is then in like degree also with their love of use for the general good."—H. H. n. 387,'8, '93.

But employments in heaven are not the same as they are on earth. Here they are for the most part natural; but in heaven they are altogether spiritual. And between natural and spiritual employments there is a correspondence like that between body and soul.

"The correspondence of natural with spiritual things, or of the world with heaven, is effected by uses, and uses conjoin them; and the forms with which uses are clothed, are correspondences and mediums of conjunction in proportion as they are forms of use. . . The actions of man are uses in form, and are correspondences whereby he is conjoined to heaven, so far as he lives according to divine order.

"Every one in heaven is in his work according to correspondence; and the correspondence is not with the work, but with the use of every work. He in heaven who is in an employment or work corresponding to his