make one
dominion or kingdom as it were, in which the life's love is lord or king.
It was also shown that these subordinate loves or affections adjoin
consorts to themselves, each its own, the interior affections consorts
called perceptions, and the exterior consorts called knowledges, and each
cohabits with its consort and performs the functions of its life. In each
instance, it was shown, the union is like that of life's very being with
life's coming forth, which is such that the one is nothing without the
other; for what is life's being unless it is active and what is life's
activity if it is not from life's very being? The conjunction in life, it
was likewise shown, is like that of sound and harmony, of sound and
utterance, too, in general like that of the heart's pulsation and the
respiration of the lungs, a union, again, such that one without the other
is nothing and each becomes something in union with the other. Union must
either be in them or come about by them.

[2] Consider, for example, sound. One who thinks that sound is something
if there is nothing distinctive in it is much mistaken. It also
corresponds to affection in man, and as something distinctive is always
in it the affection of a person's love is known from the sound of his
voice in speaking, and his thought is known from the varied sounds which
speech is. Hence the wiser angels perceive just from the sound of his
voice a man's life's love together with some of the affections which are
its derivatives. This has been remarked that it may be known that no
affection is possible without its thought, and no thought without its
affection. More on the subject can be seen above in this treatise and in
_Angelic Wisdom about Divine Love and Wisdom._

195. Inasmuch as the life's love has its enjoyment, and its wisdom its
pleasure, and likewise every affection, which is essentially a lesser
love derived from the life's love like a stream from its source or a
branch from a tree or an artery from the heart, therefore every affection
has its enjoyment and the perception or thought from it its pleasure.
Consequently these enjoyments and pleasures make man's life. What is life
without joy and pleasure? It is not animated at all, but inanimate.
Reduce enjoyment and pleasure and you grow cold and torpid; take them
away and you expire and die. Vital heat comes from the enjoyments of the
affections and the pleasures of the perceptions and thoughts.

[2] As every aff