Various things concerning the state of beasts (576 [CL 94-96, 133, 134]).

Love of the sex with men and with beasts (1194-1251 [CL 48, 94-96]).

Differences between beasts and men (1194, 1197, 1198 [CL 48, 94-96, 133, 134]).

Man acts from the will and from its freedom, and from the understanding and according to its reason: but the beast acts not from a will, thus not from freedom, neither from an understanding, thus not according to its reason; but from connate loves, through knowledges that promote them (1196-1199 [CL 133, 134]).

Because man has will and understanding, he knows the order according to which he ought to live; he knows this from the Divine laws which are those of the church, from the civil laws which are those of society, and from the laws of reason; but the beasts know not any order from those laws, but are carried along by knowledges that are born to their loves, and of which they are wholly ignorant, to do what they do (1200-1211 [CL 133, 134]). The influx into men and into beasts (n 1200 [CL 94, 137]).

Man is born with the faculty to become rational and spiritual, and the beast is born with no faculty for these things (1212-1218 [CL 96, 151-153]).

From these three considerations it follows, that in all which a man thinks, speaks, wills, and does, there is the rational and the spiritual, in their own way; but that in all that a beast expresses by sound or by act, there is not the rational nor the spiritual in any way (1219-1221 [CL 94, 133, 134]). In the love of the sex with men there consequently is the rational and the spiritual, and thence imputation; but in the love of the sex with beasts there are not those (1220-1235).

In everything that man does, there is imputation; but there is no imputation in anything done by a beast (1222-1227 [CL 96]).

Therefore if the love of the sex with men were as it is with beasts, man would not from this be as a beast, but viler than a beast (1234, 1235).

There are many other distinctions between the love of the sex with men and with beasts; but they can be seen by those only who are familiar with the differences between man and beast (1236-1238). Man is not born into the knowledge that pertains to love of the sex, but the beast is born into it all; but this knowledge is knowledge to man, but to the beast it is not knowledge (1239-1242 [CL 133, 134]). Since the knowledge into which the beast is born is void of reason, a beast cannot be said to have any love for the sex; but only something analogous thereto, which is nothing else than desire from the heat of the flesh (1243-1246). All things that have been said of marriages and whoredoms, have been said concerning men: they cannot be said of beasts, for these have neither marriages nor whoredoms (1247-1250).