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             Neither immortal nor mortal, Love can spring to life in a day and then die before that day is over. He can come back to life again like his father Resource, but cannot hold onto the resources he has. Being between mortality and immortality, Diotima calls Love "a great spirit"(Gill, 202e). These great spirits are sort of mediators for the Gods and humanity. They suggest prayers and sacrifices from us to the Gods, as well as commands and gifts from the Gods to us. The Gods never communicate directly to humans, but always use these spirits to convey their commands. .

             Love is also between wisdom and ignorance, since neither the gods nor the ignorant love wisdom. The Gods already have it so they do not desire it; therefore love has no part in it. The ignorant don"t love wisdom or want it, because they are satisfied with themselves. Since they do not think they need wisdom, they do not desire or love it. Therefore Love lies between wisdom and ignorance. In fact the only ones who love wisdom are those between wisdom and ignorance, such as Love himself. Wisdom is beautiful, and Love is a lover of beauty, therefore Love is a lover of wisdom. Since Love is for things that Love does not yet have, this too proves that he is not wise. Yet it would not be right to call Love completely ignorant, or a great spirit so we again see that he falls between the two. The reason for this is his parents: "His father is wise and resourceful while his mother has neither quality"(Gill, 204c). .

             Diotima tells Socrates that Love is also between beautiful and ugly, since love must be of something that it does not have and Love is of beauty. Therefore Love cannot have beauty. However, one cannot call Love ugly, so he ends up between these two as well. Similarly Love is not good because love must be of good. Yet, one could hardly call love bad, and so again he falls between the two. I think this is definitely a plausible account of love.