Heaven and Hell - Swedenborg Foundation

HEAVEN AND HELL 46
likeness of itself. 59
In the heavens love to the Lord is the ruling
love, for there the Lord is loved above all things. Hence the
Lord there is the All-in-all, flowing into all and each, arranging
them, clothing them with a likeness of himself, and making it
to be heaven wherever he is. This is what makes an angel to be
a heaven in the smallest form, a society to be a heaven in a
larger form, and all the societies taken together a heaven in the
largest form. That the Divine of the Lord is what makes
heaven, and that he is the All-in-all, may be seen above (n.
7–12).
59. The ruling or dominant love with everyone is in each thing and all
things of his life, thus in each thing and all things of his thought and will (n.
6159, 7648, 8067, 8853).
Man is such as is the ruling quality of his life (n. 987, 1040, 1568,
3570, 6571, 6935, 6938, 8853–8858, 10076, 10109, 10110, 10284).
When love and faith rule they are in all the particulars of man’s life,
although he does not know it (n. 8854, 8864, 8865).