What Does Woman Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses

The voice that must be loud is the voice with nothing behind it. Folly is drawn here as a clamoring woman because the ego, having no truth to rest upon, can only insist, and its loudness is the measure of its emptiness rather than its strength.

It knows nothing because knowing belongs to the mind that is joined with love, while the ego can only guess and grasp and fear. Wherever the mind hears an urgent, demanding voice that promises much and proves nothing, it is listening to the part of itself that mistook separation for a self.

• Foolish woman: the ego's voice in the mind, loud because it has nothing true beneath it, promising much and able to know nothing

The woman is the emotional and receptive nature within a person, the feeling-side that takes in and reacts. To learn in silence with all subjection is the state in which this reactive nature grows still and comes under the governance of the higher mind rather than running ahead with its noise. The emotions are not silenced into nothing; they are quieted so they can receive instruction.

When the feeling nature stops clamoring and submits to the ordering intelligence above it, real learning begins. What was turbulent becomes teachable once it is placed under the mind's rule.

• Woman: the emotional, receptive nature within, the feeling-side that must be quieted to receive