241. We said above that degrees of height are like end, cause and effect, and that love, wisdom and useful endeavor follow in sequence in accordance with these degrees. We will therefore say a few words here about love's being the end, about wisdom's being the cause, and about useful endeavor's being the effect. Everyone who consults his reason when it is in a state of light can see that a person's love is in all things his end, for what he loves he thinks about, resolves, and does. Consequently he has it as his end. A person can also see in the light of his reason that wisdom is the cause, for he, or rather his love, which is his end, seeks out in the intellect the means by which to achieve its end, thus consulting his wisdom, and these means form the cause by which the end is achieved. It is evident without explanation that useful endeavor is the effect. One person's love, however, is not the same as another's. Consequently neither is one person's wisdom the same as another's; nor, therefore, his useful endeavor. And because these three are homogeneous, as shown above in nos. 189-194, it follows that whatever the character of the love is in a person, such is the character of the wisdom in him, and such is the character of his useful endeavor. We say wisdom, but we mean whatever is a matter of his intellect.