m no function in heaven, because this is looking away backwards
from the Lord, and putting self in the first place and use in the
second. When use is spoken of the Lord also is meant, because, as has
just been said, use is good, and good is from the Lord.

390. From this it may be inferred what subordinations in the heavens
are, namely, that as any one loves, esteems, and honors the use he
also loves, esteems, and honors the person with whom the use is
connected; also that the person is loved, esteemed and honored in the
measure in which he ascribes the use to the Lord and not to himself;
for to that extent he is wise, and the uses he performs he performs
from good. Spiritual love, esteem, and honor are nothing else than
the love, esteem, and honor of the use in the person, together with
the honor to the person because of the use, and not honor to the use
because of the person. This is the way, moreover, in which men are
regarded when they are regarded from spiritual truth, for one man is
then seen to be like another, whether he be in great or in little
dignity, the only perceptible difference being a difference in
wisdom; and wisdom is loving use, that is, loving the good of a
fellow citizen, of society, of one's country, and of the church. It
is this that constitutes love to the Lord, because every good that is
a good of use is from the Lord; and it constitutes also love towards
the neighbor, because the neighbor means the good that is to be loved
in a fellow citizen, in society, in one's country, and in the church,
and that is to be done in their behalf.{1}

{Footnote 1} Loving the neighbor is not loving the person, but
loving that which is in him and which constitutes him (n. 5025,
10336). Those who love the person, and not that which is in
him, and which constitutes him, love equally an evil man and a
good man (n. 3820); and do good alike to the evil and to the
good; and yet to do good to the evil is to do evil to the good
and that is not loving the neighbor (n. 3820, 6703, 8120). The
judge who punishes the evil that they may be reformed, and may
not contaminate or injure the good, loves his neighbor (n.
3820, 8120, 8121). Every individual and every community also
one's country and the church, and in the most general sense the
kingdom of the Lord, are the neighbor, and to do good to these
from a love of good in accord with the quality of their state,
is loving the neighbor; that is,