There is a compact....

Who is Athene?
The goddess, giver of wisdom.

Hera, spouse of Zeus, queen of the Celestials.
Aphrodite, mother of love....

You are not expected to understand.' Philammon did understand, however, so much as this, that Hypatia was a very unique and wonderful person in the mind of his little guide; and therefore asked the only further question by which he could as yet test any Alexandrian phenomenon-- 'And is she a friend of the patriarch ?' The porter opened his eyes very wide, put his middle finger in a careful and complicated fashion between his fore and third fingers, and extending it playfully towards Philammon, performed therewith certain mysterious signals, the effect whereof being totally lost on him, the little man stopped, took another look at Philammon's stately figure, and answered-- 'Of the human race in general, my young friend.

The philosopher must rise above the individual, to the contemplation of the universal....
Aha!-Here is something worth seeing, and the gates are open.' And he stopped at the portal of a vast building.
'Is this the patriarch's house ?' 'The patriarch's tastes are more plebeian.