(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.