UNIVERSE.—The universe, with all its created subjects, is from the divine love, by the divine wisdom, or what is the same thing, from the divine good, by the divine truth, [87]. All things which proceed from the Lord, or from the sun, which is from him, and in which he is, pervade the created universe, even to the last of all its principles, [389]. All thing in the universe have relation to good and truth, [60]. In every thing in the universe good is conjoined with truth, and truth with good, [60].
USE is essential good, [183], [77]. Use is doing good from love by wisdom, [183]. Creation can only be from divine love by divine wisdom, in divine use, [183]. All things in the universe are procreated and formed from use, in use, and for use, [183]. All use is from the Lord, and is effected by angels and men, as of themselves, [7]. Uses are the bonds of society; there are as many bonds as there are uses, and the number of uses is infinite, [18]. There are spiritual uses, such as regard love towards God, and love towards our neighbor, [18]. There are moral and civil uses, such as regard the love of the society and state to which a man belongs, and of his fellow-citizens among whom he lives, [18]. There are natural uses, which regard the love of the world and its necessities, [18]: and there are corporeal uses, such as regard the love of self-preservation with a view to superior uses, [18]. The delight of the love of uses is a heavenly delight, which enters into succeeding delights in their order, and according to the order of succession exalts them and makes them eternal, [18]. Delights follow use, and are also communicated to man according to the love thereof, [68]. The delight of being useful derives its essence from love, and its existence from wisdom, [5]. This delight, originating in love and operating by wisdom, is the very soul and life of all heavenly joys, [5]. Those who are only in natural and corporeal uses are satans, loving only the world and themselves, for the sake of the world; and those who are only in corporeal uses are devils, because they live to themselves alone, and to others only for the sake of themselves, [18]. Happiness is derived to every angel from the use he performs in his function, [6]. The public good requires that every individual, being a member of the common body, should be an instrument of use in the society to which he belongs, [7]. To such as faithfully perform uses, the Lord gives the love thereof, [7]. So far as uses are done from the love thereof, so far that love increases, [266]. The use of conjugial love is the most excellent of all uses, [183], [305]. Conjugial love is according to the love of growing wise, for the sake of uses from the Lord, [183]. How can any one know whether he performs uses from self-love, or from the love of uses? [266]. Every one who believes in the Lord, and shuns evils as sins, performs uses from the Lord; but every one who neither believes in the Lord, nor shuns evils as sins, does uses from self, and for the sake of self, [266]. All good uses in the heavens are splendid and refulgent, [266]. Blessed lot of those who are desirous to have dominion from the love of uses, [266].
Obs.—Use consists in fulfilling faithfully, sincerely, and carefully, the duties of our functions, T.C.R., 744. Those things are called uses which, proceeding from the Lord, are by creation in order, D.L. and W., 298.
USES of apparent love and friendship between married partners, for the sake of preserving order in domestic affairs, [271], and following, [283].
UTILITY of apparent love and apparent friendship between married partners, for the sake of preserving order in domestic affairs, [271], and following, [283].
VAPOR.—From reason it may be seen that the soul of man after death is not a mere vapor, [29].
VARIETY.—There is a perpetual variety, and there is not any thing the same with another thing, [524]. Heaven consists of perpetual varieties, [524]. Distinction between varieties and diversities, [324]. See [Diversities].
VEGETABLES.—Wonders in the productions of vegetables, [416].
VEIN.—There is a certain vein latent in the affection of the will of every angel which attracts his mind to the execution of some purpose, [6]. Vein of conjugial love, [44], [68], [183], [293], [313], [433], [482].
VENTRICLES of the brain, [315].