DLW 422 - when love puts truth into practice

DLW 422

The intellect does not become spiritual and celestial,

but the love does,

and when the love does,

it makes the intellect, its partner,

spiritual and celestial also.

Love becomes spiritual and celestial by a life

in accordance with the truths of wisdom

that the intellect teaches and shows it.

Love learns these through its intellect,

and not on its own.

The fact is that love cannot elevate itself

unless it knows truths,

and it can know these only through an intellect

that has been elevated and enlightened.

In the measure that it then comes to love truths

by putting them into practice,

in the same measure the love, too, is elevated.

For it is one thing to understand and another to will,

or one thing to speak and another to do.

It is consequently

when love puts into practice

the truths of light which it understands and utters

that it is then elevated.