AC 997 - With Regard to Use

AC 997

With regard to use:
those who are in charity,
that is, in love to the neighbor
(from which is the delight in pleasures that is alive),
pay no regard to the enjoyment of pleasures
except on account of the use.
For there is no charity apart from works of charity;
it is in its practice or use that charity consists.
He who loves the neighbor as himself
perceives no delight in charity
except in its exercise, or in use;
and therefore a life of charity is a life of uses.
Such is the life of the whole heaven;
for the kingdom of the Lord,
because it is a kingdom of mutual love,
is a kingdom of uses.
Every pleasure therefore which is from charity,
has its delight from use.
The more noble the use, the greater the delight.
Consequently the angels have happiness from the Lord
according to the essence and quality of their use.