TCR 739 - Each Angel Is His Own Heaven, a Shared Community

TCR 739 [8]

'Everyone who becomes an angel 
carries within himself his own heaven, 
since he has a love for his own heaven. 
For a person is by creation 
a small-scale effigy, image and model 
of the great heaven. 
The human form is nothing else. 
Therefore each person 
comes into the community in heaven 
of which he is formed as a particular model. 
When therefore he comes into that community, 
he enters a form corresponding to himself, 
so passing from himself to himself in it, 
and from it to it in himself. 
He absorbs its life as if it were his own, 
and his own as if it were its. 
Each community there 
is as it were something shared, 
and the angels there are like similar parts 
combining to create the community.