CL 55 [7]
. . . the love between a man and a woman
is a love between intellect and its affection,
and this enters deeply and unites them.
The union also is the love.
But a union of the minds
and not at the same time of the bodies,
or an effort to a union of the minds only,
is a spiritual love and therefore a chaste love.
This love is possible only in those
who are in a state of true married love
and who consequently
possess an elevated sexuality,
because men like this, out of chastity,
do not permit themselves to feel
an influx of love on account of the body
of any other woman than their wife.
And because they posses a highly elevated sexuality,
they cannot help but love the opposite sex
and at the same time
turn their backs on anything unchaste.
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