Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

COURTEZAN, OR STRANGE WOMAN

A symbol of the lust or attractiveness of the lower nature, and the instability which attends attention directed to the objects of sense.

“To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; which forsaketh the friend of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God." - PROV. ii. 16, 17.

The lower attractiveness was once the higher (buddhic), and the "friend of her youth" is Love on the buddhic plane.

See Also

ADULTERY
HARLOT
WHOREDOM