486. THAT THERE CAN BY NO MEANS BE GENERAL AND PARTICULAR INFLUX UNLESS GOD MESSIAH GOVERNS THE UNIVERSE Unless God Messiah governs the whole heaven, both the angelic and the spiritual, all things in the heavens and beneath the heavens could by no means be so distributed into genera and species, that they could unanimously concur with all the lives of men, spirits and angels; for lives are affections, and unless they depend upon one only love, which is Divine and thus truly heavenly, the rest of the genera and species of affections could by no means exist and mutually regard each other, so that the general affections may constitute the general form, and be so ordered, that nothing better ordered can be conceived. Without such co- ordination and subordination of affections the life of no one would be possible, for affection is life. Thus all affections correspond, as all things mutually correspond one with the other in one body, in which all affections reign in like subordination. Wherefore, unless God Messiah had been made Man, so that all heaven refers itself to Him as to its own body, the universe could by no means be held together in such order, and from the universe, thus from God Messiah, each and every angel, spirit and man. 1748, Jan. 17. These things also [were written] with the agreement of the angels.