564. There are two kinds of dominion, one of love towards the neighbour and the other of love of self. These two dominions in their essence are direct opposites. One who rules from love towards the neighbour wills good to all, and loves nothing so much as uses, that is, serving others; which is willing good to others and performing uses, either to the Church, or to the country, or to society, or to a fellow citizen. This is his love and the delight of his heart. Moreover, so far as he is exalted to dignities above others he rejoices, not for the sake of the dignities but for the sake of the uses he is then able to perform in greater abundance and of a higher order. Such is dominion in the heavens. [2] But one who rules from the love of self wills good to no one except himself; the uses he performs are for the sake of his own honor and glory, which to him are the only uses; his end in serving others is that he may himself be served, honoured, and permitted to rule; he seeks dignities not for the sake of the good offices he may render to his country and the Church, but that he may be in eminence and glory and thereby in the delight of his heart. [3] Moreover, this love of dominion continues with everyone after his life in the world. Those who have ruled from love towards the neighbour are entrusted with authority in the heavens; but then it is not they who rule, but the uses which they love; and when uses rule the Lord rules. But those who have ruled from love of self while in the world are, after their life in the world, in hell, and are there vile slaves. I have seen those who had power in the world, but who exercised dominion from love of self, cast out among the most vile, and some among those who are in excrementitious places.