I spoke with spirits to the effect that even excretions in the human body carry out a use, such as the three biles, which are otherwise to be cast out, but still perform important uses to the intestines, and in digesting foods. Then when the remaining parts are expelled, they perform a use to the fields from which useful things [come]. Through barleys and like grains, they again perform a use in the body, and so further and further. Thence the conversation turned to those in the other life, to the effect that all must perform a use, so there must be no one who does not perform a use, to their own world, to the human race, to the world of spirits, to heaven; finally, that in heaven, their happiness consists in this, that everyone may perform a use so that they may be allotted happiness therefrom by the Lord. It is evident that happiness is from their performing a use, from the fact that they are granted by the Lord to love purposes, which are uses, etc. 1748, 13 Sept. This is illustrated in an army, in that there must be no one who does not carry out a use; likewise in general society, and in a kingdom, otherwise the person is a useless burden. How much more in the other life, in the Kingdom of the Lord, where nothing but uses and purposes are living! 1748, 13 Sept.