“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

He could not deny the intuitive self, so it became the self who wrote poetry. In his environment this however was an intellectual thing to do. The feminine image meant instability, intuitions that could lead into unrespectable by-ways, and emotions that were not intellectually restrained.

You, being a male, he felt, would be most alarmed at any undue emotionalisms. This aside from your own reaction to your mother’s emotionalism. So there was a good division set up between his intellectual-respectable-to-him masculine aspects, and his intuitive, feminine, private aspects.

He is saying “I do not run off half-cocked. I am not feminine, mystical, wild, given to fancies that will take you far from the world you know into unknown territory. I am not the unpredictable and therefore unreliable prophetess or mistress. My slow and deliberate movements should tell you this. They tell me this, and offer me then that security.” Thus he interprets these emotions to himself.