LIII. 1. For Isis is the feminine [principle] of Nature

and that which is capable of receiving the whole of genesis ; in virtue of which she has been called '' Nurse " and "All-receiving" by Plato,^ and, by the multitude, ** She of ten - thousand names/' through her being transformed by Season (Logos) and receiving all forms and ideas [or shapes].
2. And she hath an innate love of the First and Most Holy of all things (which is identical ¥dth the Gk)od), and longs after and pursues it But she flees from and repels the domain of the Bad, and though she is the field and matter of them both, yet doth she ever incline to the Better of herself, and offers [herself] for him to b^et and sow into herself emanations and likenesses, with which she joys and delights that she is pregnant and big with their generations.
3. For Generation is image of Essence in Matter and Becoming copy of Being.