387. What Angels Do in Heaven

There is no way to list all the functions that people have in the heavens or to describe them in detail, though it is possible to say something on the subject in general terms; they are innumerable and vary depending on the roles of the communities as well. In fact, each community plays a unique role, since the communities differ depending on their virtues (see above, 41) and therefore on their function. This is because virtues for everyone in the heavens are virtues in act, which are functions. Everyone there does something specifically useful, for the Lord's kingdom is a kingdom of uses. ¹

Bilješke:

3645. The whole of the Lord's kingdom is a kingdom of ends and purposes, so that not even the least thing occurs there which does not have a purpose to achieve some end in view. I have been allowed to perceive clearly this Divine sphere of ends and purposes, some of which are beyond description. Every single thing flows from that sphere, and is governed by means of it. Insofar as his affections, thoughts, and actions have within them the end in view of doing good from the heart, man, spirit, or angel dwells in the Grand Man, that is, in heaven. But insofar as man's or spirit's end in view is to do evil from the heart, he dwells outside the Grand Man, that is, in hell.