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 subordinations in the heavens are; namely, that as every one loves, esteems and honors use, so also he loves, esteems and honors the person to whom that use is adjoined; and also that the person is loved, esteemed and honored in the degree that he does not ascribe the use to himself, but to the Lord; for in that degree he is wise, and the uses which he performs are performed from a principle of good.

"Spiritual love, esteem and honor are nothing else than the love, esteem and honor of use in the person who performs it; and the honor of the person is from the use, and not that of the use from the person. He also who regards men from spiritual truth, regards them in no other way; for he sees that one man is like another, whether he be in great dignity or in little; that they differ only in wisdom, and that wisdom consists in loving use, and thus in loving the good of a fellow-citizen, of society, of the country and of the church. In this also consists love to the Lord, because all good which is the good of use, is from the Lord; and love toward the neighbor also, because the neighbor is the good which is to be loved in a fellow-citizen, society, the country and the church, and which is to be done to them."—H. H. n. 389, '90.

Look, now, at the practical bearing of this teaching. What kind of influence is it calculated to exert on the lives of those who accept it? The teaching briefly summarized, is: That the kingdom of heaven is a kingdom of uses, and every dweller therein is a form of use; that no one can experience the delights of heaven, until there is developed in him a genuine love of use; that the heavenly inhabitants are all actively employed, each in that particular use which he loves and is constitutionally fitted to perform best; that their innumerable