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 serve one another, and make the mind what it is. This is illustrated by the body with its organs and members. The eyes, the hands, the feet, the stomach, and all the organs and members of the body serve one another just as the mental faculties do, just as men in various offices do. They constitute a little kingdom of uses. So also of society; so of the human family. They are kingdoms of uses, each person being in some use, and exercising some particular faculty. So of the heavens. They constitute a kingdom of uses, each member being in his use. The use of one may be on the spiritual plane like that of the eye on the material plane, which is to discern truth in spiritual light. The use of another is that of doing on the spiritual plane as do the hands on the material plane. Another performs some function in the will, like that of directing; another is in some function of the understanding. Each one in the heavens is the incarnation as a ruling factor of some potency from the Divine Humanity, whereby the more that enter the heavens, the more perfectly do they represent as a unit the Divine Humanity. The heavens are before the Lord as one man, of which the individual members are the faculties. Or it may be said that all who are in the kingdom of the Lord are as one human body, each being in some organ. Since