Becoming spiritual is being raised from being natural, that is, from the light and heat of the world into the light and heat of heaven. No one who has not been so raised knows about this process. Yet the natural man who has not been raised still has no perception but that he has been raised. The reason is that he can, equally with the spiritual man, raise his intellect into the light of heaven, thinking and speaking in a spiritual fashion, as if he were spiritual.* But if at the same time his will does not reach the same height, he is still not raised; for he cannot stop at that height, but after a brief time comes back down to his will, and there takes up a firm stance. When I say will, I mean at the same time love, because the will is the receiver of love; for what a person loves, he wills. These few remarks will establish that so long as a polygamist remains a polygamist, or what is the same thing, so long as a natural man remains natural, he cannot become spiritual. * The original has 'as if he were natural', which makes no sense.