497. Every spirit can be governed by affections, and thus [led] to whatever is well-pleasing to the Savior. They are then carried whithersoever He pleases, but, nevertheless, they must be carried by intellectual things for several reasons, especially because the disposition and thus the will must be formed by things intellectual, in order that the man may at the same time have his part [in the formation], for without his intellectual man would not know that his proprium is present, besides very many other matters which have regard to the regeneration of man.