Pausanias, First Part.

We continue with the BANQUET: Pausanias is the second speaker, he presents us with love in a dual way. He tells us that there is no Eros without its complement, by natural law, and its complement is Venus or Aphrodite, however, that complement that is what we can perceive, has different origins, there is an Aphrodite Uranea, who is the daughter of Uranus, she comes only from him. It has a single principle that is masculine, that's why strong love is a masculine love, it has nothing to do with gender, when we say it is a masculine love, we refer to it as a love that always seeks strength, it looks for the similar, the gallantry and will, unlike the other love, that if it participates in a dual nature, that is the venus or Aphrodite Pandemu, daughter of Zeus and Dione. The Pandemu afrodita, by participating in female and male, its reflection, its expression, causes those who are influenced by it to seek love in that where those natures are reflected, where are they reflected? In the personality, you have a personality, you have an ego, masculine or feminine, ugly or beautiful, white or black, but in the divine or subtle part it is not distinguished, this triad does not possess a dual nature. Your "Higher Self" is not high or low, it is not male or female, it is not male or female, no, that is your personality. Then those influenced by the uranea afrodita seek the permanent, the immutable, the eternal. What is the eternal in you? It is the divine. Those who are influenced by the Pandemu aphrodite, seek the changeable, and he sets the example that it is noble to serve a virtuous man and it is unworthy to do so to a vicious person, because the service in virtue. What does it entail? It leads to virtue, service in vice leads to the satisfaction of pleasure, and that is temporary, does not remain. There is no love that lasts when it is based on the satisfaction of mere pleasure. What do you think of these two ways of loving? Should we love essence or matter? To the eternal and immutable or the changing?