DLW 421
. . . since if love is
not elevated,
it remains impure . . ..
And as long as it remains impure,
it loves things that are
impure,
such as the practices of vengeance, hatred,
deceit, blasphemy,
and adultery.
For these are then its affections,
which we call lusts,
and it rejects things having to do with charity,
justice, honesty,
truthfulness, and chastity.
As for the statement that love
is
defiled in and by the intellect,
it is defiled in the intellect
when
love is affected by those impure practices,
and it is defiled by the
intellect
when love causes matters of wisdom
to become its servants,
and
still more when it perverts,
falsifies and adulterates them.
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