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Some think the seed of Woman is not a power or origin, but only material and nurture of generation. Cf. Moralia, 651 c, and 905 c. To this thought we should eling fast and conceive that this Goddess also who participates always with the first God and is associated with him in the love Cf. 372 e, and 383 a, infra. of the fair and lovely things about him is not opposed to him, but, just as we say that an honourable and just man is in love if his relations are just, and a good woman who has a husband and consorts with him we say yearns for him; thus we may conceive of her as always clinging close to him and being importunate over him and constantly filled with the most dominant and purest principles.
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But where Typhon forces his way in and seizes upon the outermost areas, there we may conceive of her as seeming sad, and spoken of as mourning, and that she seeks for the remains and scattered members of Osiris and arrays them, receiving and hiding away the things perishable, from which she brings to light again the things that are created and sends them forth from herself.