AE 1193, 1194 - Uses and the Neighbor

AE 1193 [2,3,4], 1194

To love uses is nothing else than to love the neighbor,
for use in the spiritual sense is the neighbor.

Use is the neighbor,
because every man is valued and loved
not for his will and understanding alone,
but for the uses he performs
or is able to perform from these.

When man loves uses by doing them in the first place,
and loves the world and self in the second place,
the former constitutes his spiritual and the latter his natural;
and the spiritual rules,
and the natural serves.
. . . This is the meaning of the Lord's words in Matthew:

Seek ye first the kingdom of the heavens and its justice,
and all things shall be added unto you.
(Matthew 6:33)

"The kingdom of the heavens"
means the Lord and His church,
and "justice" means spiritual, moral, and civil good;
and every good that is done from the love of these is a use.
Then "all things shall be added,"
because when use is in the first place,
the Lord, from whom is all good,
is in the first place and rules,
and gives whatever contributes to eternal life and happiness;
for, as has been said,
all things of the Lord's Divine providence pertaining to man
look to what is eternal.
"All things that shall be added"
refer to food and raiment,
because food means everything internal
that nourishes the soul,
and raiment everything external
that like the body clothes it.
Everything internal has reference to love and wisdom,
and everything external to wealth and eminence.

As man was created to perform uses,
and this is to love the neighbor,
so all who come into heaven,
however many there are,
must do uses.
All the delight and blessedness of these
is according to uses and to the love of uses.
Heavenly joy is from no other source.
He who believes that such joy is possible in idleness
is much deceived.
. . . No idle person is tolerated even in hell. 
The difference is
that in hell uses are done from fear,
but in heaven from love;
and fear does not give joy,
but love does.