Know that if spiritual love is characterized by reason and knowledge, then with his mind he is wise and with his wisdom he is knowledgeable, so he arranges things in the order of wisdom and does not go beyond their levels. So he knows if he loves what love is, what the meaning of the lover is, what the truth of the beloved is, what he wants from the beloved, and whether his beloved has will and choice, so he loves what the beloved loves. Or does he not have a will, so he loves only for himself, or an existent who does not want his beloved to exist except in the eyes of that existent, then to this extent we say of the existent that he is loved, even if he is only in him, not in his essence. So that existent, if he is one of those characterized by will, can love him for himself, not for himself, even if he is not characterized. By will, the lover does not love his beloved except for himself, I mean for the lover’s own soul, not for his beloved, for his beloved is not described as ha