The joys of scortatory love are the pleasures of folly, because it is only natural people who enjoy that love, and the natural man is foolish in spiritual matters, opposing them and therefore embracing only natural, sensual and bodily joys. We speak of natural, sensual and bodily joys, because the natural divides into three degrees. Those who are natural in the highest degree take a rational view of their follies, but are still carried away by their pleasures, like boats by the current of a river. Those who are natural in a lower degree see and judge only by the bodily senses, and dismiss rational arguments against appearances and fallacies, rejecting them as having no weight. Those who are natural in the lowest degree are those who, being devoid of judgment, are carried away by the enticing heats of their bodies. This last group are called the bodily natural, the second group the sensual natural, and the first group simply the natural. The scortatory love of these peoples, its follies and its pleasures, are distinguished by similar degrees.