798. IT IS A UNIVERSAL RULE CONCERNING THE LIFE AFTER DEATH THAT EVERYONE IS ALLOTTED HIS LIFE ACCORDING TO HIS ENDS IN THE LIFE OF THE BODY It is known that the universe was created only as a complex of means to the end of ends, which is the Lord, because He is heaven. Mediate ends proceed through their series and degrees of order from the lowest to the higher, thus to the supreme. That disposition of means and of series is order.