General Defense of the Honorable Women's Craft

Which also in the grave seeks to mingle her bones with yours as a faithful spouse, to warm them, until you and she are awakened by the sound of the strong trumpet, both mingled, come forth from your bed of rest to enjoy true eternal rest. This hindrance of unity, blind heathen, you have not been able to ponder! You call woman a shipwreck of the lustful man, and in my understanding, it is so. For if man were a pure spirit, he would not be subject to the properties that are contrary within him, and there would not be an incessant struggle between flesh and spirit. But if, as long as we are shackled with the bonds of the flesh, it only seeks to suppress the spirit; if the lustful desire had not been imprinted upon the human essence by the wisest Creator, how would the divine command be able to stand: Be fruitful and multiply.