THERE IS A LOWER LOVE, CORRESPONDING TO THE WORLD-SOUL.
But as it was similarly necessary that beneath the celestial Soul there should exist the world-Soul,[128] there must exist with it another love, born of her desire, and being her eye.[129] As this Venus belongs to this world, and as it is not the pure soul, nor soul in an absolute sense, it has begotten the Love which reigns here below, and which, with her, presides over marriages. As far as this Love himself feels the desire for the intelligible, he turns towards the intelligible the souls of the young people, and he elevates the soul to which he may be united, as far as it is naturally disposed to have reminiscence of the intelligible. Every soul, indeed, aspires to the Good, even that soul that is mingled with matter, and that is the soul of some particular being; for it is attached to the superior Soul, and proceeds therefrom.