but from love. Does not one who loves another fear to hurt him? And the
more he loves him, the more he fears hurting him? Lacking this fear, love
is insipid and superficial, of the mind only and not of the will. By
states of misfortune states of despair in danger are meant, in battles,
for example, duels, shipwreck, falls, fires, threatening or unexpected
loss of property, also of office or standing, and similar mishaps. To
think about God only then is not to think from God but from self. For
then the mind is as it were imprisoned in the body, so is not in freedom
nor possessed then of rationality, and without these reformation is
impossible.

141. No one is reformed in _a state of mental illness_ because such
illness takes away rationality and thus the liberty of acting in accord
with reason. The whole mind is sick and not sane; the sane mind is
rational, but not a sick one. Such disorders are melancholy, a spurious
or a false conscience, fantasies of different kinds, mental grief over
misfortune, anxiety and anguish of the mind over a bodily defect.
Sometimes these are regarded as temptations, but they are not. Genuine
temptations have spiritual objects in view and in them the mind is wise,
but these states are concerned with natural objects and in them the mind
is disordered.

142. No one is reformed in _a state of bodily sickness_ because his
reason is not then in a state of freedom; the state of the mind depends
on that of the body. When the body is sick, the mind is also, if for no
other reason because it is withdrawn from the world. Withdrawn from the
world it thinks indeed about God but not from Him, for it is not
possessed of freedom of the reason. Man has this freedom in being midway
between heaven and the world, thus can think from heaven and from the
world, likewise from heaven about the world and from the world about