25. The same would be the case in the church extending throughout the entire world, in the church called the communion of saints, and this for the reason that it is as one body under one head. People know that the head directs the body under it to do its bidding; for in the head reside the intellect and will, and the body is impelled into action by the intellect and will, so much so that the body is simply an obedient servant. The body is incapable of doing anything unless impelled by the intellect and will in the head; so neither is a person of the church capable of doing anything unless impelled by God. It does appear as though the body acts of itself. For example, it appears as though the hands and feet in functioning move of themselves, and as though the mouth and tongue in speaking articulate of themselves. Yet in fact they do so not at all of themselves, but in response to an affection of the will and a consequent thought of the intellect in the head. Think then what it would be like if the same body were to have more than one head, and if each head were to operate independently in accord with its own intellect and its own will. Could the body survive? The heads could not possibly have between them the kind of unanimity possessed by a single head. As the case is in the church, so also in heaven, which consists of millions of angels. If each and every angel did not look to the same one God, they would fall away from one another and heaven would disintegrate. Consequently, if an angel in heaven merely thinks of more than one God, he immediately vanishes; for he is banished to the outmost perimeter of the heavens and falls downward.