DLW 404 [4]
. . . these three elements -
an affection for truth,
a perception of truth,
and thought -
follow in succession from love,
and that they take form nowhere else
than in the intellect.
For when love enters the intellect,
which happens
when a conjunction of the two has taken place,
it then produces first an affection for truth,
then an affection for understanding what it knows,
and finally an affection for seeing
what in the thought of the body it understands -
thought being nothing other than an internal sight.
Thought, indeed, occurs first,
because it is a faculty of the natural mind.
But thought from a perception of truth
springing from an affection for truth occurs last.
This latter thought is the thought of wisdom,
while the first is a thought from memory
formed in consequence
of the sight of the natural mind.
All operations of love or the will
apart from the intellect have to do
not with affections for truth
but with affections for good.
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