What Diotima Taught Socrates

The Five things that Diotima taught Socrates were (1) Not everything is of one thing or the opposite. (2) Love is in need of Good and Beauty therefore not Good or Beautiful but it is not moral or immortal but is a spirit. (3) Spirits are intermediaries between the gods and humans.  They bring the gods prayers and sacrifices from the humans and in return spirits bring gifts back to the humans.
(4) Where the spirit Love comes from and what gods Love was born from. (5) The spirit Love is a love of wisdom because, she is the daughter of Resource who was wise and resourceful and Poverty which has neither, of the mix of her parents she knows of wisdom but has not obtained it.

The one thing about Diotima that interests me about what she said was when she talks about the spirits bringing gifts from the gods because love is a gift from god and it is interesting to me that she believed that love brings a gift and is not in itself a gift.