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 church in particular, as of the church in general; namely, that the church is within him and not without him; and that every man in whom the Lord is present in the good of love and faith, is a church. The same may be said also of a man in whom the church is, as of an angel in whom heaven is; that he is a church in the least form as an angel is a heaven in the least form; and further, that a man in whom the church is, is a heaven equally with an angel; for man was created that he might go to heaven and become an angel. Therefore he who receives good from the Lord, is a man-angel.

Lastly, it is to be observed that whoever has heaven in himself, not only has heaven in his greatest or general principles, but also in his least or most particular ones; and that the least things in him are an image of the greatest. This results from the fact that every one is his own love, and is of the same quality as his ruling love. Whatever rules flows into and arranges all the particulars, and everywhere induces a likeness of itself.

The ruling love in heaven is love to the Lord, because the Lord is there loved above all things. Hence He is there the All in all. He flows into all and each of the angels, arranges them, and induces in them a likeness of Himself, and causes heaven to be wherever He is. Hence an angel is a heaven in the least form, a society in a greater, and all the societies taken together in the greatest. (H. H., n.. 51-58.)