406. (ix) Love or the will comes into sensate and active life through these three conjunctions. Love without the understanding, or affection which is of love, without thought, which is of the understanding, can neither feel nor act in the body; because love without the understanding is as it were blind, while affection without thought is as it were in darkness, for the understanding is the light by which love sees. The wisdom of the understanding moreover is from the light which goes forth from the Lord as the Sun. Since therefore, the will's love sees nothing without the light of the understanding, and is blind, it follows that, without the light of the understanding, even the bodily senses also would be blind and bloated, not only sight and hearing, but the others also; the other senses also, because every perception of truth is of love in the understanding, as was shown above, and all the senses of the body derive their perception from the perception of its mind. It is the same with every bodily act. For an act from love without the understanding is like the action of a man in the night time, when he knows not what he is doing. Therefore there would be no intelligence and wisdom in the action, which cannot be called living action. Action also derives its esse from love and its quality from intelligence. Besides, all the power of goodness is by means of truth; on which account goodness acts in truth and thus by its means; and goodness is of love, and truth is of the understanding. From these things, it can be confirmed that love or the will comes into its sensate and active life through these three conjunctions, concerning which see above (n. 404).