Whosoever would become great among you let him be your minister; and whosoever would be first among you let him be your servant; as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto but to minister (Matt. 20:27, 28).

     He that is greatest among you let him be as the least, and
     he that is chief as he that doth minister (Luke 22:26).

219.  Also in each house there is a like government in a lesser form.  In every house there is a master and there are servants; the master loves the servants and the servants love the master, consequently they serve each other from love.  The master teaches how they ought to live, and tells what is to be done; the servants obey and perform their duties.  To perform use is the delight of everyone’s life.  This shows that the Lord’s kingdom is a kingdom of uses.

220.  Also in the hells there are governments, for without governments they could not be kept in restraint; but the governments there are opposite to the governments in the heavens; they are governments of the love of self.  Everyone there wishes to dictate to others and to be over others.  They hate those that do not favor them, and make them objects of their vengeance and fury, for such is the nature of the love of self.  Therefore the more malignant are set over them as governors, and these they obey from fear.{1} But of this below, where the hells are treated of.

{Footnote 1} There are two kinds of rule, one from love towards the neighbor the other from love of self (n. 10814).  From the rule that is from love towards the neighbor flow all goods and all happinesses (n. 10160, 10814).  In heaven no one desires to rule from the love of self, but all desire to minister, which means to rule from love to the neighbor; this is the source of their great power (n. 5732).  From rule from the love of self all evils flow in (n. 10038).  When the loves of self and the world had begun to prevail men were compelled to subject themselves to governments as a means of security (n. 7364, 10160, 10814).

221.  XXV.  Divine worship in heaven.

Divine worship in the heavens is not unlike in externals Divine worship on the earth, but in internals it is different.  In the heavens, as on the earth, there are doctrines, preachings, and church edifices.  In essentials the doctrines there are everywhere the same; but in the higher heavens they contain more interior wisdom than in the lower.  The preachings are in harmony with the doctrines; and as they have houses and palaces (n. 183-190), so they have also church edifices, in which there is preaching.  Such things exist in heaven, because the angels are being perfected continually in wisdom and love.  For they possess, as men do, understanding and will; and both their understanding and their will are capable of being continually perfected, the understanding by means of truths of intelligence, and the will by means of the goods of love.{1}