419. (16) If they are elevated together, love or the will is purified in the intellect. A person from birth loves only himself and the world, for nothing else appears before his eyes, and therefore he considers nothing else in his heart; and this love is carnally natural, and can be called materialistic. Moreover, this love has also become impure owing to the separation of heavenly love from it in parents. [2] This love cannot be separated from its impurity unless the person has the ability to elevate his intellect into the light of heaven and to see how he should live in order that his love may be elevated together with his intellect into wisdom. Through the intellect love, which is to say, the person, sees what evils there are that defile and pollute the love, and sees, too, that if he refrains from those evils and turns away from them as sins, he loves such things as are opposed to those evils, all of which are heavenly. He also sees as well the means which enable him to refrain from those evils and turn away from them as sins. Love, which is to say, the person, sees this through use of his ability to elevate his intellect into the light of heaven and gain from it wisdom. Then in the measure that love puts heaven in first place and the world second, and in the measure that it at the same time puts the Lord in first place and self second, in the same measure the love is purged of its pollutions and purified. That is to say, in the same measure it is elevated into the warmth of heaven and united with the light of heaven in which the intellect is. A marriage is then formed, the marriage we call the marriage of goodness and truth, or of love and wisdom. [3] Everyone can intellectually comprehend and rationally see that to the extent someone refrains from practices of theft and fraud and turns away from them, to the same extent he loves honesty, integrity and justice. So, too, that to the extent someone refrains from acts of vengeance and hatred and turns away from them, to the same extent he loves his neighbor. Likewise, that to the extent someone refrains from adulterous affairs, to the same extent he loves chastity. And so on. [4] Indeed, scarcely anyone realizes what measure of heaven and of the Lord is present in honesty, integrity, justice, love for the neighbor, chastity, and other affections of heavenly love before he has put away their opposites. It is when he has put away their opposites that he then comes into these affections, and from the experience of them recognizes and sees them. In the meantime a kind of veil lies interposed, and although it does allow the light of heaven to shine through to the love, still, because the love does not love its partner wisdom in the same degree, it does not admit the light. Indeed it may reproach and scold its partner when it returns from its elevated state, but yet be soothed by the thought that the wisdom of its intellect may be made to serve it as a means to honor, glory and material gain. However, it then puts self and the world in first place, and the Lord and heaven second. And what it puts in second place it loves only in the measure that it serves; and if it does not serve, it disowns it and rejects it, after death if not before. From this it now follows as a truth that love or the will is purified in the intellect if they are elevated together.