557. The quality of the love of self can be confirmed from a comparison with heavenly love. Heavenly love is loving uses for the sake of uses, or goods for the sake of goods, which are done by man for the Church, his country, human society, and a fellow-citizen; for this is loving God and loving the neighbour, since all uses and all goods are from God, and are the neighbour who is to be loved. But he who loves these for the sake of himself loves them merely as servants, because they are serviceable to him; consequently, it is the will of one who is in self-love that the Church, his country, human societies, and his fellow- citizens, should serve him, and not he them, for he places himself above them and places them beneath himself. Therefore, so far as anyone is in the love of self he separates himself from heaven, because he removes himself from heavenly love.