307. All useful ends, which are the ends in creation, exist in forms, and they take their forms from such substances and materials as occur in the earth. All the things we have discussed so far, as in speaking of the sun, atmospheres and earth, are only means to ends. The ends in creation are those things which are produced by the Lord as the sun through the atmospheres out of the earth, and we call these ends useful ends. These are, in their progression, all constituents of the plant kingdom, all constituents of the animal kingdom, and finally the human race and from it the angelic heaven. [2] We call these useful ends because they are recipients of Divine love and wisdom, and because they look to God the Creator from whom they originated, thereby uniting Him with His grand work and by that union bringing to pass their continued existence from Him even as they came into existence from Him. We say that they look to God the Creator from whom they originated, uniting Him with His grand work, but we said this in accordance with the appearance. Rather we mean that God the Creator causes them seemingly of themselves to look to and unite themselves to Him. But how they look to and thereby unite themselves to Him will be explained in subsequent discussions. [3] We have already said something about these matters in their own places previously. As for instance, that Divine love and wisdom cannot but be and have expression in others created by them (nos. 47-51). That everything in the created universe is a recipient of Divine love and wisdom (nos. 55-60). And that the uses of all things that have been created ascend by degrees to mankind, and through mankind to God the Creator from whom they originate (nos. 65-68).