429. XXVII. LOVES OF THE SOUL, OR SPIRITUAL LOVES
To know what the affections and loves of the rational mind are, it is necessary that we consider not only the affections of the animus, of which we have already treated, but also the supereminent loves or affections of the soul. These are called superior loves, and the others inferior; these are spiritual, and the others purely natural or corporeal. And since the rational mind possesses no loves of its own, but suffers itself to be ruled and drawn away either by superior spiritual loves, being those of the soul, or by inferior corporeal loves, being those of the animus, it is necessary that we know what the loves of the soul are, or rather the loves of our spiritual mind, and what their nature, it being from them that those virtues and vices flow which are the essential determinations of the human mind.
