241. It was said above that the three degrees of height are like end, cause and effect, and that according to these degrees, there follow in succession love, wisdom and use. Therefore a few things will here be said about love as being end, wisdom as being cause, and use as being effect. Whoever consults his reason, while it is enlightened, can see that his love is the end of all things of man, for what he loves that he thinks about, decides and does, consequently that he has as his end. One can also see from his reason that wisdom is cause, for man, or his love which is the end, searches in the understanding for a means through which to attain its end. Thus he consults his wisdom and these means provide the cause through which he [acts]. It is clear without explanation that use is effect. But one man's love is not the same as that of another, thus neither is one man's wisdom the same as that of another, neither is use. And because these three are homogeneous (as was shown above, n. 189-194), it follows that such as is the love in man, such is the wisdom in him, and such is the use. Wisdom is mentioned but that which pertains to man's understanding is understood.