Continuation.- Since man was created to perform uses, which is to love the neighbour, therefore all those who come into heaven, however many they may be, must perform uses. According to uses, and the love of them, the inhabitants of heaven receive all their delight and blessedness, nor does heavenly joy come from any other source. He who believes that such joy can be imparted in a state of idleness is much deceived; for in fact no idle person is tolerated in hell, its inhabitants being in workhouses, and under a judge, who sets prisoners the work which they have to perform daily. To those who do not perform their tasks neither food nor raiment is given, but they stand hungry and naked, and so are compelled to work. The difference is, that in hell uses are performed from fear, but in heaven from love; and it is not fear but love that imparts joy.

Still it is permitted to intersperse occupations with various diversions in the company of others, and these are recreations, thus also uses. I have been permitted to see many things in heaven, as well as in the world, and in the human body, and at the same time to ponder over their uses, and it has been revealed to me that every thing in them, both great and small, was created from use, in use, and for use; and that the part in which the ultimate conducing to use ceases, is separated as noxious and is, as it were, condemned and cast out.