order, that is, so far as he lives in good in accordance with
Divine truths, he is a man, and the church and heaven are in
him (n. 4839, 6605, 8513, [8547]).


58. Finally it should be said that he who has heaven in himself has
it not only in the largest or most general things pertaining to him
but also in every least or particular thing, and that these least
things repeat in an image the greatest. This comes from the fact that
everyone is his own love, and is such as his ruling love is. That
which reigns flows into the particulars and arranges them, and every
where induces a likeness of itself.{1} 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).

{Footnote 1} 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).