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 that the Lord dwells in his own with the angels of heaven, and thus that He is the All in all of heaven. The reason is, that good from the Lord is the Lord with the angels, for what is from Him is Himself; consequently good from the Lord is heaven to the angels, and not anything proper to themselves.

The Divine in heaven which makes heaven, is love; for love is spiritual conjunction. Love conjoins the angels with the Lord and with each other; and it conjoins them in such a manner that they are all as one in the Lord's sight. Moreover, love is the very esse of every one's life; therefore both angels and men derive their life from it.

That the inmost vital principle of man is from love, must be obvious to every one who considers the subject; for he grows warm from its presence, cold from its absence, and from its privation he dies. But it is to be observed that the quality of every one's life is as the quality of his love.

There are two distinct loves in heaven, love to the Lord and love toward the neighbor. In the inmost or third heaven is love to the Lord; in the second or middle heaven, love toward the neighbor. Each proceeds from the Lord, and each makes heaven. How these two loves are distinguished, and how they are conjoined, appears very clearly in heaven, but only obscurely in the world.