(1) Love or the will is a person's very life. (2) Love or the will continually strives toward the human form and toward all the elements that make up the human form. (3) Love or the will cannot do anything through its human form without a marriage with wisdom or the intellect. (4) Love or the will prepares a home or bridal chamber for its future spouse, which is wisdom or the intellect. (5) Love or the will also prepares all else in its human form in order to be able to operate conjointly with wisdom or the intellect. (6) When the wedding has taken place, the first conjunction occurs through an affection for knowing, from which springs an affection for truth. (7) The second conjunction occurs through an affection for understanding, from which springs a perception of truth. (8) The third conjunction occurs through an affection for seeing that truth, from which springs thought. (9) Through these three conjunctions love or the will is in the enjoyment of its sensory life and its active life. (10) Love or the will introduces wisdom or the intellect into all the constituents of its home. (11) Love or the will does nothing except in conjunction with wisdom or the intellect. (12) Love or the will joins itself to wisdom or the intellect, and causes wisdom or the intellect to be joined to it in return. (13) By a power imparted to it by love or the will, wisdom or the intellect can be elevated so as to admit from heaven such matters as are matters of light and perceive them. (14) Love or the will can be similarly elevated and admit from heaven such matters as are matters of warmth if it loves its partner in the same degree. (15) Otherwise love or the will draws wisdom or the intellect back from its elevated state into union with itself. (16) If they are elevated together, love or the will is purified by wisdom in the intellect. (17) If they are not elevated together, love or the will is defiled in and by the intellect. (18) Love purified by wisdom in the intellect becomes spiritual and celestial. (19) Love defiled in and by the intellect becomes natural and sensual. (20) Still there remains the faculty of understanding called rationality, and the faculty of acting called freedom. (21) Spiritual and celestial love is love for the neighbor and love toward the Lord, while natural and sensual love is love of the world and love of self. (22) The case is the same with charity and faith and their conjunction as with the will and intellect and their conjunction.