70.  It must be understood that although all in a heavenly society when seen together as one appear in the likeness of a man; yet no one society is just such a man as another.  Societies differ from one another like the faces of different individuals of the same family, for the reason given above (n. 47), that is, they differ in accordance with the varieties of good in which they are and which determines their form.  The societies of the inmost or highest heaven, and in the center there, are those that appear in the most perfect and beautiful human form.

71.  It is worthy of mention that the greater the number in any society in heaven and the more these make a one, the more perfect is its human form, for variety arranged in a heavenly form is what constitutes perfection, as has been shown above (n. 56), and number gives variety.  Moreover, every society of heaven increases in number daily, and as it increases it becomes more perfect.  Thus not only the society becomes more perfect, but also heaven in general, because it is made up of societies.  As heaven gains in perfection by increase of numbers, it is evident how mistaken those are who believe that heaven may be closed by becoming full; for the opposite is true, that it will never be closed, but is perfected by greater and greater fullness.  Therefore, the angels desire nothing so much as to have new angel guests come to them.

72.  Each society, when it appears as one whole is in the form of a man, for the reason that heaven as a whole has that form (as has been shown in the preceding chapter); moreover, in the most perfect form, such as the form of heaven is, there is a likeness of the parts to the whole, and of lesser forms to the greatest.  The lesser forms and parts of heaven are the societies of which it consists, which are also heavens in lesser form (see 51-58).  This likeness is perpetual because in the heavens the goods of all are from a single love, that is, from a single origin.  The single love, which is the origin of the good of all in heaven, is love to the Lord from the Lord.  It is from this that the entire heaven in general, each society less generally, and each angel in particular, is a likeness of the Lord, as has been shown above (n. 58).

73.  X. Therefore every angel is in A complete human form.

In the two preceding chapters it has been shown that heaven in its whole complex, and likewise each society in heaven, reflects a single man.  From the sequence of reasons there set forth it follows that this is equally true of each angel.  As heaven is a man in largest form, and a society of heaven in a less form, so is an angel in least.  For in the most perfect form, such as the form of heaven is, there is a likeness of the whole in the part and of the part in the whole.  This is so for the reason that heaven is a common sharing, for it shares all it has with each one, and each one receives all he has from that sharing.  Because an angel is thus a recipient he is a heaven in least form, as shown above in its chapter; and a man also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel (see above, n. 57).  This is thus described in the Apocalypse: