Melachim A 7:14

Verse 14. For the love of interior knowledges is derived from the conjunction of the love of spiritual truth with the love of good, which love earnestly desires truth, and attains to conjunction with it by conflicts against evil and victories over it; but the love of truth itself is, at first, respectively external, grounded in natural good and natural intelligence, which delight in uses. And hence is the affection, on the natural plane, which agrees with celestial and spiritual love, and brings them into ultimates,