DLW 409
. . .what is it to act from love apart from the intellect?
It can
only be called irrational,
for it is the intellect that teaches
what
ought to be done
and how it ought to be done.
Love without the
intellect does not know this.
Therefore such a marriage exists
between love and the intellect
that although they are two distinct
entities,
they nevertheless operate as one.
A like marriage exists between good and truth,
for goodness is a
property of love,
and truth a matter of the intellect.
Such a marriage exists
in every single constituent of the
universe
that has been created by the Lord.
Their usefulness has
relation to good,
and the form of their usefulness to truth.
It is owing to this
marriage
that every single constituent of the body
has a right and
left side,
the right side having relation to good
from which
springs truth,
and the left side to truth springing from good,
thus [the two together] to their conjunction.
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