416. (15) Otherwise love or the will draws wisdom or the intellect back from its elevated state into union with itself. Love may be natural, and love may be spiritual. A person who is prompted by a natural love and at the same time a spiritual love is a rational person. However, one who is prompted by a natural love only, although he is able to think rationally just as well as a spiritual person, still is not a rational person. For even if he elevates his intellect into the light of heaven, thus to wisdom, still such matters as are matters of wisdom or of the light of heaven are not ones of his love. It is his love, indeed, that prompts the elevation, but from an affection for honor, glory and material gain. But when he perceives that he does not receive anything of the kind from that elevation, which is the case when he thinks to himself in accord with his natural love, he then does not love those matters that are matters of the light of heaven or of wisdom, and he therefore draws his intellect back from its elevated state into union with itself. [2] So for example, when the intellect from being elevated is in a state of wisdom, love then sees what justice is, what honesty is, what chastity is, indeed what genuine love is. A natural love is capable of seeing this as a result of its ability to understand and view matters in the light of heaven. Indeed, it can speak, preach and describe them as moral and at the same time spiritual virtues. However, when the intellect is not in an elevated state, then, if the love is merely natural, it does not see those virtues, but sees, instead of justice, injustice; instead of honesty, deceit and deception; instead of chastity, lasciviousness; and so on. If it then thinks about the matters it spoke of when its intellect was in an elevated state, it may laugh at them and think of them only as means that serve it for captivating minds. It can be seen from this how the statement is to be interpreted that unless love loves its partner wisdom in the same degree, it draws it back from its elevated state into union with itself. (The fact that love can be elevated if it loves its partner in the same degree may be seen in no. 414 above.)