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and his neighbor from the heart, in acting with sincerity in all his relations, and in performing duties prudently according to the nature of every one. These uses are principally the exercises of charity, and those whereby the Lord is principally worshipped.

Frequenting the temple, hearing sermons and saying prayers are also necessary; but without the above uses they avail nothing, for they are not of the life, but teach what the quality of the life should be. The angels in heaven have all their happiness from uses and according to uses, insomuch that uses are to them heaven.

That happiness is from divine order according to uses, may be manifest from those things appertaining to man which correspond to those that are in the grand man; as from the external senses, namely, sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch, which are correspondent. These senses have delights altogether according to the uses which they perform. The most delightful is the sense of conjugial love, by reason of its greatest use; for from this is the propagation of the human race, and from the human race, heaven. The delight of taste follows next, which sense has such delight because it serves for the nourishment and thereby the health of the body, according to which health the mind is sane in its operations. The delight of smell is less delightful, because it only serves for recreation and thus also for health. The delight of hearing and the delight of seeing are in the last place, because they are only the means of introducing those things which are to serve for uses, and