hell the will loves evil
and the understanding thinks falsity. The same is true of man in this
world when he is thinking from his spirit, as he does when alone; yet
many, so long as they are in the body, when they are not alone think
otherwise. They then think otherwise because they raise their
understanding above the proper love of their will, that is, of their
spirit. These things have been said, to make known that the will and
understanding are two distinct things, although created to act as one,
and that they are made to act as one after death, if not before.

398. Now since love and wisdom, and therefore will and understanding, are
what are called the soul, and how the soul acts upon the body, and effects
all its operations, is to be shown in what follows, and since this may be
known from the correspondence of the heart with the will, and of the lungs
with the understanding, by means of that correspondence what follows has
been disclosed:

(1) Love or the will is man's very life.

(2) Love or the will strives unceasingly towards the human form and all
things of that form.

(3) Love or the will is unable to effect anything by its human form
without a marriage with wisdom or the understanding.

(4) Love or the will prepares a house or bridal chamber for its future
wife, which is wisdom or the understanding.

(5) Love or the will also prepares all things in its human form, that it
may act conjointly with wisdom or the understanding.

(6) After the nuptials, the first conjunction is through affection for
knowing, from which springs affection for truth.

(7) The second conjunction is through affection for understanding, from
which springs perception of truth.

(8) The third conjunction is through affection for seeing truth, from
which springs thought.

(9) Through these three conjunctions love or the will is in its sensitive
life and in its active life.

(10) Love or the will introduces wisdom or the understanding into all
things of its house.

(11) Love or the will does nothing except in conjunction with wisdom or
the understanding.

(12) Love or the will conjoins itself to wisdom or the understanding,
and causes wisdom or the understanding to be reciprocally conjoined to it.

(13) Wisdom or the understanding, from the potency given to it by love
or the will, can be elevated, and can receive such things as are of light
out of heaven, and perceive them.

(14) Love or the will can in like manner be el