every least or particular thing, and that these least things repeat in an image the greatest.  This comes from the fact that everyone is his own love, and is such as his ruling love is.  That which reigns flows into the particulars and arranges them, and every where induces a likeness of itself.{1} In the heavens love to the Lord is the ruling love, for there the Lord is loved above all things.  Hence the Lord there is the All-in-all, flowing into all and each, arranging them, clothing them with a likeness of Himself, and making it to be heaven wherever He is.  This is what makes an angel to be a heaven in the smallest form, a society to be a heaven in a larger form, and all the societies taken together a heaven in the largest form.  That the Divine of the Lord is what makes heaven, and that He is the All-in-all, may be seen above (n. 7-12).

{Footnote 1} The ruling or dominant love with everyone is in each thing and all things of his life, thus in each thing and all things of his thought and will (n. 6159, 7648, 8067, 8853).  Man is such as is the ruling quality of his life (n. 987, 1040, 1568, 3570, 6571, 6935, 6938, 8853-8858, 10076, 10109, 10110, 10284).  When love and faith rule they are in all the particulars of man’s life, although he does not know it (n. 8854, 8864, 8865).

59.  VIII.  All heaven in the aggregate reflects A single man.

That heaven in its whole complex reflects a single man is an arcanum hitherto unknown in the world, but fully recognized in the heavens.  To know this and the specific and particular things relating to it is the chief thing in the intelligence of the angels there, and on it many things depend which without it as their general principle would not enter distinctly and clearly into the ideas of their minds.  Knowing that all the heavens with their societies reflect a single man they call heaven the Greatest Man and the Divine Man;{1}—­Divine because it is the Divine of the Lord that makes heaven (see above, n. 7-12).

  {Footnote 1} Heaven in the whole complex appears in form like a
  man, and for this reason heaven is called the Greatest Man (n.
  2996, 2998, 3624-3649, 3741-3745, 4625).

60.  That into such a form and image celestial and spiritual things are arranged and joined cannot be seen by those who have no right idea of spiritual and heavenly things.  Such think that the earthy and material things of which man’s outmost nature is composed are what makes the man; and that apart from these man is not a man.  But let them know that it is not from these that man is a man, but from his ability to understand what is true and to will what is good.  Such understanding and willing are the spiritual and celestial things of which man is made.  Moreover, it is known that everyone’s quality is determined by the quality of his understanding and will; and it can also be known that his earthly