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fore the universe was so created and formed by the Divine, that uses may everywhere be clothed with such things as to be set forth in act or in effect, in heaven first, and then in the world; thus by degrees and successively even to the ultimates of nature. Hence it is manifest that the correspondence of natural things with spiritual, or of the world with heaven, is effected by uses, and that uses conjoin; and that the forms with which uses are clothed, are so far Correspondences, and so far conjunctions, as they are forms of uses. In the nature of the world, in its triple kingdom, all things which there exist according to order, are forms of uses, or effects formed from use for use; wherefore the things which are there, are Correspondences. With respect to man, as far as he lives according to divine order, thus as far as in love to the Lord and in charity towards the neighbor, so far his acts are uses in form, and are correspondences, by which he is conjoined to heaven: to love the Lord and the neighbor in general is to perform uses. Farther, it is to be known, that it is man by means of whom the natural world is conjoined with the spiritual, or that he is the medium of conjunction: for in him there is a natural world,