LOVE IS BOTH MATERIAL AND A GUARDIAN.
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Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
That is why Love is both a being which participates in matter, and is also a Guardian born of the soul; it is the former, inasmuch as it does not completely possess the good; it is the latter, inasmuch as it desires the Good from the very moment of its birth.