General Defense of the Honorable Women's Craft

so that the arrows of these combatants are directed toward their purpose, lest they fail upon earthly cliffs. For if they are not aimed at their innate height, for which reason they carry feathers instead of wings, no love can exist if a creature desires to love something else that the Creator hates. As a wise Tertullianus Tertullian, an early Christian author says in this case: If, finally, love is that queen of human virtues which despises all these temporal things and strives only for the eternal. As the Bride in the Song of Songs Chapter 8 says herself: If one wanted to give all the wealth in his house for love, it would count for nothing. While this dark earthly shadow only strives to delude the earthward-inclined human senses in order to hinder the divine soul from its purpose, woman, this