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j. The ruling or controlling love in every individual is found in every single detail of that indi-
vidual’s life and therefore in every single detail of thought and intent: 6159 , 7648 , 8067 , 8853.
The quality of each of us depends on the dominant quality of our life: 918 , 1040 , 1568 , 1571 [?],
3570 , 6571 , 6934 [ 6935 ], 6938 , 8854 , 8856 , 8857 [ 8858 ], 10076 , 10109 , 10110 , 10284. When love and
faith rule, they are within the details of our lives, even though we are not aware of this: 8854 ,
8864 , 8865.them refl ect the largest. The reason for this is that as individuals we are
our love and have a quality that depends on the quality of the love that is
ruling. Whatever rules fl ows into the specifi cs and arranges them, and
imposes everywhere an image of itself.j In heaven, it is love for the Lord
that rules, because the Lord is loved there above all else. As a result, the
Lord is the sum and substance of everything there, fl owing into abso-
lutely everything, arranging everything, clothing everything with his like-
ness, and making heaven to be where he is. So an angel is a heaven in
least form, a community a heaven in greater form, and all the communi-
ties together a heaven in greatest form. On the Lord’s divine nature as
constituting heaven, and on his being the sum and substance of heaven,
see above, §§ 7 – 12.The Whole Heaven, Grasped as a Single Entity,
Refl ects a Single Individual
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T is a secret not yet known in this world that heaven, taken in a single
all-inclusive grasp, refl ects a single individual. In heaven, though,
nothing is better known. Knowing this, knowing particulars and details
about it, is the hallmark of angelic intelligence there. In fact, many other
things follow from it and do not come clearly and distinctly to mind
without this as their general principle. Since angels do know that all the